I’m going to seek the wild haunts of this world

And carve a place out all my own ~ Lydia - 31 - math teacher - she/her

[transgenderer]

Stairs are designed to make you disoriented and confused. All that turning around, what's it for? If they had any sense they'd just go straight up. Keep your bearings about you. We have a pin the tail on the donkey situation

[mossworm]

the Tour de France passed by a big structure that had its name written out on the grass, so I googled it. it's a former military fort now used to store cheese.

Fort des Rousses. yes, they do tours

[thetwilightgarden]

[playburo]

Brent Schoepf

[havingapoemwithyou]

The Suitor by Jane Kenyon

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

happy decade to the horrible beast i have wrought

[armadillorollup]

biology of a stapler

[armadillorollup]

some more speculative staplings

[knifeofvenus]

geneva l haley

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[maidslime]

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.

[effiecalvin]

eevee should have a normal type evolution called eeveevee and it's just an eevee but bigger and floofier

[javascript-official]

Oh you see the world in black and white? Fuck you get dithered

[foxes-in-love]

[junglejim4322]

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

[aidashakur]

[alcrego]

Centrifugal