History Has Its Eyes on You

Jesse. 20s. Trans boy. Bi. Had a description but decided I didn't like it. Ummmm yeah im just hanging out here tbh

[tiredkitchenwitch]

[sci-fi-gifs]

Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro | 2013

[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…

[rottingtrouble-child]

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

[rottingtrouble-child]

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

[rottingtrouble-child]

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.

[blumineck]

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[cervinesatyr]

Shad literally used to make videos like this (not a compliment).

[blumineck]

Hey look I’m fully on board with Shad hate, but this comment is really unhelpful unless you tell me what the actual problem is

[brokeshibe]

@freakpatrol:

Since the OP has helpfully turned off replies to ensure his presented victimhood remains pristine and cannot be argued against: do you think driving a basically unknown blog to deactivate due to death threats and threats of doxxing as a good thing?

Do you think the blog you're following with thousands of followers could not have reached out individually for clarification if it was an important concern he had, or if it was so unimportant as to not be worth DMing someone over, that it was not a conscious choice to expose the blog that criticised him to his followers to enable that kind of harassment.

The deactivated blog actually reblogged and apologised for the slightly snarky post and expanded on the specific issue (that shadiversity's early videos did not reference any literature and passed off a lot of speculation and downright factually incorrect information as factual @idrawtooslow fyi this was the issue referenced which was only outlined separately).

However rather than reblog THAT post which would demonstrate a constructive engagement with the issue, he simply allowed his followers such as yourself to drive a queer person off Tumblr for the sin of criticising a pobular blogger.

The OP having "good politics" doesn't change this is basically Elon Musk level social media behaviour.

[vimmie-vexes-1212]

. there's. there's no way blumineck is practically elon musk because people sent someone who was slightly rude to him death threats. like yeah they shouldn't have to have resorted to deactivation to avoid the swarmed of death threats, that's a bad thing that happened and it could have been better. but but there's NO way that makes blumineck as bad as a nazi trillionare. he just can't have the.blame for that.

blumineck didn't like. call for that to happen. this isn't a thing normal people think would happen. maybe he should like- not do it again, or something, but he's not Modern Day Satan for responding to a thing in a really polite and normal way with very clearly no harm intended and then Other People deciding in their own to send death threats. that's those peoples faults. undoubtedly. what is this

[blumineck]

OK folks, this has gone WAY too far.

This is the first I’m hearing of this harassment because I don’t monitor my Tumblr NEARLY enough to see everything as it comes through. (I’m currently travelling, and it’s pretty much luck of the draw which notifications come through at the top when I open them). I still haven’t seen the response from the commenter because I wanted to address this before I went looking for it.

But I just want to say that I’m really sorry that this has happened. I did not expect that my followers will go after criticism in this way, and I’m incredibly disappointed to hear that people have been sending DEATH THREATS just because someone was a bit snarky to me.

To be clear, I NEVER either need or want any of my followers to send threats on my behalf. It’s not helpful, and it’s not acceptable.

I received a comment that left me feeling confused, and sought clarification. I did so publicly because the original comment was public and I wanted to see if others had the same or similar concern. (I honestly thought it would be more likely to end up with me getting barraged with criticism) There was no malice in my intent, and if I’d realised people would react the way they did then I absolutely would not have posted this. I will learn from this, but DAMN it shouldn’t have to come at this kind of cost.

I don’t really have the words for this right now, but I’m sad, I’m disappointed, and I’m extremely sorry.

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[ovur]

I won't ever get over the removal of headphone jacks, or micro sd slots, or cd drives. I won't. Fuck everyone and everything

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[charlesoberonn]

I like this meme because the stock photos make it seem like the same woman but 10 years older.

[godlessondheimite]

“ice water makes you sick” “ice water gives you stomach cramps” i’m sorry if i have a hardy and oxlike american constitution but unless you have underlying health issues, the only water temperature that should cause adverse health effects is if you chug a gallon of boiling hot water that has also been laced with nefarious chemicals

[theclockwitch]

AH, this person has never been on a forced 10k run in 90 degree heat 90 % humidity and then forced to slam a liter of ice water.

You will cramp. You will throw up. It will not rehydrate you at all. The medic will get to practice his large bore IVs.

[godlessondheimite]

Yeah, most people haven’t and never will so this won’t actually happen to me.

[rhulyon]

This misinformation is actually dangerous. If you drink ice cold water after workout, you can freeze and crack your gut mucus that protects you from your own digestión acids and could create an ulcer.

[bunjywunjy]

in drinking ice water, you are functionally adding several ounces of 32° f water into a solid body of 100+ lbs at 98° f.

that water is not doing jack shit to your stomach lining, your body is simply too much of a thermal reservoir. the water is already increased significantly in temperature by the time it reaches your stomach.

in order to actually freeze anything inside your body you have to be drinking liquid nitrogen. ice water is fine!

it might make your stomach nerves uncomfy if you're super sensitive or not used to it, but it's not actually doing you physical harm

[bunjywunjy]

also note for everyone under extreme heat this summer who has access safe to ice: you can just hold an ice cube in your mouth to cool yourself down. it's good for you

[missyfrs]

to be a fly on the wall for a conversation between these two

[setulose]

Not to sound like a broken record but does it make anyone else viscerally angry how we realized in the very recent past that we can successfully eradicate devastating human-specific diseases (smallpox) yet now there's a million people telling you not to vaccinate your kids against measles. I know I know "everyone will not just" but also for real we could never have measles again if everyone would just be cool

[newtid]

terrible comic day terrible comic

[actuallysara]

According to The Nation, Heated Rivalry is now the most-watched, non-animated, show on HBO Max since the streaming platform launched in 2020

[proziac]

Sugar We’re Going Down - Fall Out Boy

[skygenders]

NYC politics right now makes me feel like a starved dog that just smelt a juicy steak.

[skygenders]

He froze the rent last night holy fuck, him and his team don’t sleep

[despazito]

Another one for "objectively funny crimes should not be punished"

[redstonedust]

being too warm during the day: well, this sucks, but this temperature makes sense because the sun is up, and the sun is making me warm. i am unhappy but logically i can deal with it for now.

being too warm at night: what if i kill everybody.