Coral

In Stars And Time hyperfixation going STRONG

[sturionic]

still not over the encounter i had yesterday

so I'm like. sitting at a table in public, very, very obviously working on my laptop. This guy sits down next to me and apologizes for having a loud phone convo but...doesn't move

then he starts looking at my screen, asking what i'm doing. Wants me to explain what I'm coding, he thinks green is a nice colour on me, blah blah, will NOT go away. So I cut my losses and stand up: "I have to head out, I'm going to a concert, bye!"

"What concert, can I come?"

"Uh...Beethoven string quartets."

"Who? Can you spell that so i can google him"

Considering just fucking booking it but also at this point kind of enthralled in trainwreck sort of way, I spell out, B-E-E-T-H-O-V-E-N

He googles.

"...Oh! He's dead."

"Yeah..."

"Dead for a long time..."

"....yeah"

He then asks me if i want to see a selfie from the concert he went to last week, i politely decline, he tries AGAIN to invite himself to this concert because he "thinks it might be fun," I debate whether to explain that it's going to be approximately forty minutes per string quartet & we're going to be the youngest people in the audience by about sixty years. in the end pragmatism won out and i just turned and left mid sentence, but now i'm thinking it would have been the WAY funnier move to just let him come without any advance explanation and make him sit in a church pew for two and a half hours while a bunch of old guys played period-accurate musical instruments from the 1700s

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[biceratops7]

“Self censorship”, no babes it’s just actual censorship

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[pagecommando]

IMO? Covid supply squeeze, plus GLP-1 Agonists are annihilating the snack food market AND the 'name brand' snack companies fucking around with shrinkflation in a recession where people are already incentivized to buy store brand stuff that at this point tastes the same because flavor science has exploded in the last 10 ish years. Pepsico's just been particularly stupid about it. Like really fucking stupid.

Doritos at $7 a bag ended up costing PepsiCo billions

But now that a plan to bring prices down is in motion, new challenges have emerged that threaten to blunt its impact.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I remember when Doritos were $3-4 a bag

They seriously doubled the cost of a non-necessity and were surprised that people stopped buying as much?

[the-library-alcove]

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit. -Robert Heinlein

(When Heinlein is the one making the point...)

[jen-iii]

Some doodles for my headcanon that Toph attracts animals because she's steady and strong like the Earth and they feel super comfortable and safe around her. Kinda like basking in the sun on a steady mountain top Also a sadder one on how she bonds with Appa over a shared experience :)

[larkandkatydid]

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

[poodletrain]

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

[blackmosscupcakes]

When my daughter was getting close to school age, I remember walking past her future school with my mum and noting that all the little boys were wearing the uniform trousers and all the little girls were wearing skirts. And I mentioned that I hoped the uniform policy allowed for girls to wear trousers. My mum asked why, and I outlined several reasons, including "because kids fall over when they're running and playing, and skinned knees are more likely if she's only allowed to wear skirts."

And my mum said "well, maybe in that case she'd learn to be more careful."

Aaaaand I think my resulting reaction of horror at the idea of forcing 50% of children to play more carefully due to clothing requirements made her realise exactly what she'd just said.

(The uniform policy does indeed allow her to wear trousers. She's now 10 and still prefers them)

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[octonerd]

Isat artists HOW do ya'll draw loop's head? genuinely asking because I've been struggling.

[octonerd]

thanks for all the replies here my notes from generally what I heard! plus an example I made free handing this guide (hope this will help other loop strugglers)

[coralotltalksalotl]

OMG THANK YOU

I have been redrawing their head like 3 times every time to get something acceptable

[dozydawn]

[lew-basnight]

Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

[qsatisfaction]

@your-dewey-decimal-number-is what's the number for paredolia? Is it under optional illusions, or would it be more like an instinctual behavior?

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

153.758

perception of faces

[world-beauty]

The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

Credits: R. Kennicutt, Steward Obs., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA

[this-is-orientalism]

my college had a “cringe club” that celebrated unconventional interests, scene fashion, etc but also on there was jfashion and anime and like why is an entire country’s cultural outputs being bundled under cringe

this is orientalism.

[adhdoofenshmirtz]

Yearning for someone who doesn't exist

[adhdoofenshmirtz]

Or giving a monkey a shower

[adhdoofenshmirtz]

[napoleononthebellerophon]

the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it

[prospitianescapee]

Source is Instagram user thatmodernlife. Per Reddit, this post was deleted quickly, and was captioned:

[ahighlyfunctionalfangirl]

content team? does she mean her kids? i hate mom creators already but oh my god

[largemandrill]

“More non-binary characters should be TMA” explain what you mean by that without once mentioning the character’s assigned gender at birth or otherwise inserting them into a binary. Quickly.

[straightboyfriend]

if it’s your birthday: happy birthday

if it’s not your birthday: reflect on why that is. 👆🏽

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

[acutelathos]

Some clarifications and an update

[biglawbear]

This person has more emotional intelligence and healthier skills in navigating relationships than most people

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

I really need to know what rights children have in other countries, because it's genuinely so bad here, I physically cannot concieve what that can look like.

Its so bad, sometimes the abuse carries over into adulthood when kids GET rights. Because yeah ^ children are considered property of the parent here in the US. Everything the child does falls onto the parent's heads but also the child can't do anything or make important life decisions to their own person without their parent's explicit permission and often times, they need to be there anyway to oversee the procedure

[hmantegazzi]

Convention on the Rights of the Child text

Read and download the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

I really need to know what rights children have in other countries, because it's genuinely so bad here, I physically cannot concieve what that can look like.

Its so bad, sometimes the abuse carries over into adulthood when kids GET rights. Because yeah ^ children are considered property of the parent here in the US. Everything the child does falls onto the parent's heads but also the child can't do anything or make important life decisions to their own person without their parent's explicit permission and often times, they need to be there anyway to oversee the procedure

[hmantegazzi]

Convention on the Rights of the Child text

Read and download the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty