Silly

[vermilionstarlight]

age regressing to 2 years old but i was an especially erudite and articulate baby so you don't even notice

[hotgirlmeg]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.

[sandsvendor100]

I Always Smiled Darkly When I Saw The Thieves Attack The Palace

[witchofanguish]

There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up

[not100bees]

Yeah sorry I can't come into work today. I accidentally heard Primadonna by Marina formerly of and the Diamonds. So I need the day to be a primadonna girl. Yeah it's going to be the whole day.

[nixpunk]

[mtsodie]

genuinely so obsessed with this twitter post

[evilnermal]

there was another update

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

couldn't find a thread with both the followups together

Not on purpose!

[envihn]

Void

[always-a-mad-comet]

Happy ending? by Shel Silverstein / The Beatles

[jecsssck]

I drink soda I eat pizza

[daisy124]

John Lennon Questionnaire, 1960’s

(From a British teen magazine in the 60’s when John was still a Beatle. Magazine’s name unknown, but could possibly have been RAVE. John filled in the answers by hand.)

MARRIAGE: “Just a name.”

‘IN’ CROWDS: “Do me a favour!”

WAR: “Terrible. No excuse for it.”

POWER: “I haven’t used mine fully yet.”

CLOTHES: “Useful for taking off.”

TELEVISION: “Love it. Sometimes great, sometimes a joke, but I like it.”

DEATH: “The end, daddy-o.”

PAUL McCARTNEY: “Just Paul. Just our Paul..”

ANIMALS: “I love.”

SWIMMING: “Keeps you clean.”

SKY: “That’s where I belong, baby.”

JOURNALISTS: “Fruitcake.”

FANS: “Harmless.”

CIGARETTES: “Cancer.”

VEGETARIANISM: “I’ve not come across it. If people want to eat nuts that’s okay with me. I wish I could do it, the way I feel about animals.”

THE BOMB: “Should be bombed.”

JAGGER: “A good nut.”

AMERICA: “Great possibilities.”

LIFE & DEATH: “Time I was on stage.”

[deffania]

[brummelliana]

Hear me out

[brummelliana]

Snippets from a Beatles Illustration I will not post.

I did the drawing back in February. It is a redraw of the pony drawing above. That pony drawing? I drew that when I was about ~10. I was in a pony instagram drawing competition, and the prompt was "Draw your oc with a band." Well, I only listened to the classic rock radio, so I didn't know any band names, but I did play the Beatles rock band.

In a nearly tragic, prophetic way, Paul is the one to speak up. Who let her in? I did not know the Beatles by name, or had any thoughts about them at that age. I just looked up the sgt pepper cover so I'd know how to draw their uniforms. Until I was 15, I had assumed John was the leader, and he wrote and sang every single song. Did I know? Did I know at age 10 what would happen to me, and I knew that Paul should be the one to speak?

Then February, I redraw it. Things are very different between Paul and I this time. Very different indeed.

[th0rns]

What is this?

[fairycosmos]

the way money unlocks literal life experiences and longevity

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[jaronofthebored]

they love doing this so much

[ot3]