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[sweetpeauserboxes]

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[brightstarrymoon]

This blog is 18+!

hint: these gifs change based on my mood & mental state!

[brightstarrymoon]

ohhh i wasn't forever fucked up and dead inside i just needed to start taking iron again

[luxiomahariel]

"im a misandrist but not in a terfy way"

theres no feminist way to be a misandrist that doesnt bleed into terf ideology.

[luxiomahariel]

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be racist towards men of color.

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be ableist towards disabled and/or neurodivergent men.

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be intersexist towards intersex men or intersex people that look like men.

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be transphobic towards trans women who don't want to pass or cant pass for whatever reason.

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be transphobic towards trans men.

if youre a misandrist, then i dont trust you not to be exorsexist towards nonbinary men or nonbinary people who might look like men.

if youre a misandrist, i dont fucking trust you. you are not an ally to me or to marginalized people.

[brightstarrymoon]

I personally feel like there's a lot of nuance to this, but I understand that's not the post's point. People who hate or harm men simply to hate them do spread negative rhetoric, but inherent idea of hating men or being scared of them isn't evil or shitty in my book. If you've gone through enough to feel a certain way towards men, it's absolutely ok to admit. Being misandrist isn't inherently phobic unless you go out of your way to spread hate, not protect yourself.

[rottingtrouble-child]

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm gonna cut off the whole long-ass pointless thread I saw talking about the finer points of taking iPads from babies because here's the thing:

"a doctor did an MRI and found that a kid had brain damage from iPad use" is a lie. that's not how MRIs work. that's not how brain damage works. if you're arguing about whose responsibility it was to prevent this from happening, you are starting from a premise that is not just unproven, it's impossible. you might as well be talking about whose responsibility it was to make sure the moon didn't get made out of pudding.

[plushypretzel]

This study found a link between higher rates of screen-based media use and "lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and emergent literacy skills in prekindergarten children". This study demonstrates real developmental harm associated with overuse of screens at a young age but OP was exaggerating the findings and admits their understanding of this paper came from a fear-mongering type reel/short video.

I have not read and assessed the quality of the study itself. I'm not a doctor and have only a small amount of familiarity with neuroscience through my linguistics postgrad. I'd be interested to hear a more qualified take on this study.

The take-away for most people should be: limit your child's screen time or it may seriously impact their early childhood development, including physical brain development. Read all uncited information on the internet with a grain of salt.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

kids & tech was my PhD area so I can give you a qualified take.

as with basically every study on the topic of "screens and kid brains", this one:

doesn't differentiate between types of screen-based activities

is correlational, not experimental, and doesn't control for obvious confounding variables

which makes it basically useless.

take, for example, the existence of tablet apps that are specifically meant for children and parents to use to read together. if "reading with parents" is the actual underlying variable impacting white matter growth, then the medium (screen vs paper) might not matter at all!

if "screen time" is a meaningful construct then so is "paper time", and it would be reasonable to collapse doing crossword puzzles, completing tax forms, writing personal letters, reading novels, and ordering from restaurant menus into one metric and try to measure its impact on brain development. but we don't do that because it's obviously stupid.

[topcommenter]

I don't know much about MRIs, but I find it crazy how this implies a simple brain scan can reveal the patients hidden sins, like screen time, when diagnosing and differentiating dementias is so difficult. Early diagnosis in a lot of physical brain illness still happens by symptoms, rather than looking at the brain scan, because the changes are not visible until the disease is severe and obvious.

Also kids brains are still growing and I'm kind of curious about how you'd compare them.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the "still growing" thing is a bit misleading since the human brain changes throughout the lifespan. but one of the coolest things about the extreme neuroplasticity of young brains is that there's some evidence they can shift which brain regions perform specific tasks - a finding that calls a huge portion of studies like this into question because a lot of them rely on measuring activity in certain areas of the brain.

[brightstarrymoon]

@dragon-in-a-fez how the FUCK do you have a PHD and yet are unable to understand clear sarcasm. He wasn't supporting the idea of "brain damage" in the child. The very word is in quotations because it's a sensationalist topic and article that probably isn't true. It's hinting at how people will blame children instead of parents for not developmentally taking care of their children and nursing them through critical stages in their lives. The deffered abuse. NOT the article. That's why the shits in quotation marks. I think you should consider heading back to school.

[pathologising]

Your life will end again and again and then people will get mad when you don't want to talk to or trust anyone

[saltoncity]

anyone else noticed that music is really good

[flowerbleedme]

you can have sex with music or abstract concepts but we still haven't found a way to have sex with people

[brightstarrymoon]

i needa bag of candy i think i keep craving something at night

[brightstarrymoon]

sorry for being weird and intense. i do possess the being weird and intense disorder so it will happen again

[brightstarrymoon]

im genuinely surprised i haven't seen many monika selfshippers?? there is nothing but confirmation/requited emotions here

[brightstarrymoon]

bi girl shatters stereotypes by being lame as fuck, autistic, and bad at putting on eyeliner

[rottingtrouble-child]

every man who talks about BPD women like they’re deranged objects they can take advantage of should be shot on sight

[brightstarrymoon]

we all got that one friend who is a crumpled shell of their former self

[petrichor--dreams]

౨ৎ 𝐽𝐼𝑅𝐴𝐼𝐵𝐿𝑅 𝐵𝐼𝑁𝐺𝑂 - 𝑇𝐴𝐺 𝐺𝐴𝑀𝐸 ౨ৎ

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[furinadefontaine22]

and i’m not even a jirai

@jirai-jayce @digitansdiaries @blackhole-enthusiast

[jirai-jayce]

open tags + @pienhoda @pearly-stargirl @hunterwoah @hpdamechan

b-bingo...! 🥹

[brightstarrymoon]

i MIGHT need help 💔

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your posts are really good today. you're my role model

thank you anonnn

[brightstarrymoon]

why are there so many misogynistic assholes in the world?? like it's so weird. why do you despise women so much despite them doing fucking nothing to you

[brightstarrymoon]

people in marriages be looking miserable as fuck like no baby i dont wanna be 20 w a mortgage