I have no idea what I'm doing

Hello there, I'm Dylan, they/them, 28

[frickomode]

they sell items at tjmaxx that even God is not aware of

[caudachroma]

cow triangles

[axicus]

we’re up all night to get denny’s

[kittydealer]

u/cheese_resurrection

[hbmmaster]

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

[hbmmaster]

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[dilffussy]

just saw the funniest thing on twitter where someone was broken up with bc they ate 7 croissants im CRYINGGGG

[dilffussy]

[ssave-baby-life]

SADLY, THE TIME WE HAD TO SAVE MY BABY QAIS HAS RUN OUT.

Today, Qais was placed on a ventilator after his oxygen levels dropped to a dangerously low 25%. He is now under constant monitoring in the intensive care unit, and I am terrified of what comes next.

[ssave-baby-life]

The doctors have warned me that his condition is becoming more critical, and he urgently needs continued treatment. I feel helpless because every day brings new medical costs that I simply cannot afford.

[ssave-baby-life]

I am not asking for a miracle; I am desperately begging for one chance to keep my child alive. Please donate if you can, or share Qais's story. It may reach someone who can save him before I lose him forever.

Please donate now Gofundme

[ssave-baby-life]

I am begging you not to let poverty decide my child's fate. Please donate, even a small amount, to help baby Qais receive the treatment he needs. If you cannot donate, please share his story—someone may see it in time.

[cute-catts]

Every few steps she looks back to check on her little kitty cat 🐈🥺

[violentoffender]

You still there?

yeah

You still there?

yeah

You still there?

yeah

[aww-cute-animals]

Rabbit vs. Hare

[yancakes]

one of them is bigger by uh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh by a hare

[ungezieferwerden]

we need swimmable cities 

[pharaohamunsadji]

Fantastic news for you about the year 3000.

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[beanytuesday]

Animal Crackers for Zoologists

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[shamebats]

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

[shamebats]

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

[shamebats]

The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.

We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.

If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.

[shamebats]

Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.

Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.

So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.

[anarchistmemedistro]

see also family abolition, and youth liberation .

[applefae]

A knee-jerk response to neglectful parenting I see a lot is “people should have to get licenses and take rigorous tests to PROVE that they should be ALLOWED to have kids” which is eugenics. That’s just the starting line for eugenics.

We are at a point in humanity where there is no meaningful reason why we shouldn’t be structuring our societies around wellbeing for all instead of wellbeing for the “deserving”.

Assume some parents will fail. Build social infrastructure that is designed to support failed kids rather than punish would-be parents.

[queer-riot-dragon]

Parents do not have to be neglectful to fail!

They can be busy, tired, stressed about finances, ignorant, etc. They can want to do the best for their kid and Fail Anyways.

The best thing is to support the children and give them the tools they need to succeed even if the parents are already giving them those tools. Because you can never learn something too much.

[lessproblematical]

Also sometimes parents become disabled or die and family can't always be counted on, and sometimes there isn't other family

[kaity--did]

So sick of the "protect the children" rhetoric literally kids are receptive to anything

For example:

Penny: But do daddies carry babies?

Me: Well, some daddies can decide to carry and have babies. You usually see mommies do that but some daddies can, and that's not really any of our business.

Penny: cause it's their body? And they get to decide?

Husband: yes! Like in our family mommy carried you and I went and got soft pretzels whenever mommy wanted

Penny: oh I love pretzels. And I've decided to be a which mermaid

That's it that was the whole discussion

[radicalideal]

It all comes down to children as property instead of people, doesn’t it? They’re trying to protect their kids from being damaged not in the sense of “afraid and confused”, but in the sense of “my property disagrees with me and might be less willing to submit”.

[kaity--did]

I've never thought of it that way but you're so right! Never even occurred to me because I do in fact see my child for what she is, a human being with thoughts and feelings and opinions

[tamamita]

I'm so glad this man is living in fear now

[gulyas069]

it is insanely funny that he's so mad with fear and decadence that he's deploying missile defense systems to his golfing

[hagiomoto]

[closet-keys]

These are quotes from Refaat Ibrahim's piece "Green and Yellow: Two lines that separate me from my land." The placement of the military bases on the map are taken from the Al Jazeera article published August 13, 2026, "Israel trucks out Gaza’s rubble to ‘hide genocide’ and ‘redraw the map’" Zionism is a genocidal settler-colonial project, and they will not cease until defeated. The people of Gaza are surrounded. They need our support to survive.

[closet-keys]

My friend Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) lives in Gaza with her family. She takes care of her elderly parents, and relies on donations to her campaign for survival. Please donate. My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts her family's fundraiser (vetted by @90-ghost, shared by fairuzfan), and sends wire transfers directly to her. This is her family's sole lifeline.

[closet-keys]

Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) wrote yesterday, "The reality here is far worse than anything I can write. Words cannot convey the scale of what we are experiencing, and no single photograph can show what it is like to watch an entire city collapse before our eyes." Please read her full post. Then, donate.