doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.
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doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.
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I've been noticing myself doing this recently, so I figured I'd put it out there in case someone else needs the reminder too:
You don't need to diminish yourself in order to make others feel good about themselves.
You can compliment someone else without insulting yourself. In fact, demeaning yourself will probably make it more difficult for the other person to accept the compliment.
You also don't need to disparage your own abilities in order to give someone else confidence. You can be a capable person and support other capable people.
Don't tear yourself down to build someone else up.
Just going to put some examples here, in case anyone needs them:
Compliment: You write such great angst! I was in tears after that last chapter. Compliment + self-insult: I could never write angst like you. Mine never has that gut-punch that yours does.
Compliment: You look gorgeous! That's such a pretty colour on you. Compliment + self-insult: I wish I had your fashion sense. I just wear whatever smells clean.
Compliment: This piece is awe-inspiringly good! How long did it take you?? Compliment + self-insult: Your art is so much better than mine. I could practice for a million years and never get close to this.
The thing about insulting yourself while complimenting someone else is that you might think that you're making your compliment sound that much better because you're increasing the distance between their level and yours. But what you're actually doing is refocusing your compliment away from them and onto you and your insecurities.
Maybe they'll notice and maybe they won't, but you will. Eventually, all of the insults you've given yourself will make you feel bad about that other person's skills and now, instead of a mentor or a colleague you have someone you're jealous of. Or at least, that's how it tends to go for me.
Keep the compliment focused on that person and their skills or presentation or process etc. And if you want to learn from them, ask them for advice. It can be hard to notice when you're falling into this kind of habit - I thought I'd gotten past it but here I am again - so just do the best you can ❤️
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I go to youtube. Cute animal videos are AI now. I go to instagram. There are AI influencers. I go to spotify. It's flooded with AI bands and music. I go to ebay. Every product is AI. I open netflix. Every movie has AI. I watch TV. All commercials are AI. I cancel all my suscriptions. The customer support is AI. I buy a book. It is written by AI. I talk to my friends. They tell me that AI is their new therapist. I take the subway. Some dude is talking to his AI girlfriend next to me. I go to the beach. The sunset is real. I take a pic and upload it. The photo is enhanced with AI. You can't opt out.
a graph based on my observations
I would like to apply a Dolly Parton quote to this most excellent graph.
autumn/winter affirmations:
7 p.m. is not late
your day is not over at 7 p.m.
you are allowed to leave your house after it gets dark
7 p.m. is so early
5 p.m. is not late
your day is not over at 5 p.m.
you are allowed to leave your house after it gets dark
5 p.m. is so early
i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU
Feminists should be alarmed too. The anti-hormonal birth control is part of the same regressive anti-science, religious extremism, misogynistic miasma that is trying to take away women’s rights across the country.
This is a gift link. Every other line holds a new horror. This is one of the scariest things I’ve read recently (and in this political climate that’s saying something)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/style/birth-control-skepticism-wellness-tiktok.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.b2tR.Jpicc0Qk7gPw&smid=url-share
This section at the beginning of the article (minus a paragraph between image 2 and 3) really got me.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/lifestyle/who-am-i-without-birth-control/article_afa272fe-da79-4abc-96da-79d511069a95.html
Here is a readable libk if you get bloxked by the NYT log in page
This is such an interesting and complex and alarming issue, because its several issues colliding in a terrible way.
Hormonal birth control is vital for people who cannot afford/manage a baby AND especially people with hormonal illnesses like PCOS (meee), endometriosis, some chronic illnesses, etc etc. This is very true.
Hormonal birth control has many unwanted side effects and can really mess people up- also ABSOLUTELY true. I've really struggled to find a sort that doesn't turn my anxiety machine into overdrive!! So much of hormones, especially of menstruating people, is underresearched and often underplayed. Leading into the next point:
Hormonal birth control is often thrown at people by uncaring/awful doctors who then proceed to dismiss any and all concerns about side effects. Especially if you're AFAB, doctors are notoriously awful and will speak over you. A lot of these women HAVE felt the frustration of being spoken over, having their questions ignored, being told their Real Physical Sicknesses are just hormonal and they need to suck it up. Its no wonder they'd turn to influencers who at least pretend to care more about them.
ALSO! The birth rate is very awful in the US right now! Restricting access to birth control is absolutely a goal to force more unwanted pregnancies! There are constant pushes to make people have babies while simultaneously denying them the money needed to care for the kids!
Its like a horrible perfect storm of conditions leading to women hearing of the bad side effects some people have (very real, because hormones are a wild beast we don't know enough of) seeing other women Like Them talk about it lifting their malaise (instead of a doctor who can often be dismissive, fostering a sense of a fellow giving you advice) and then getting hit with an unexpected baby (benefits the capitalistic hellscape that probably caused the malaise in the first place)
Stay on your birth control if it's not harming you at all! Or if you must go off it, use other reliable forms of contraception (period tracking is NOT reliable!!! sperm can stay alive and workable inside you for up to 5-7 days, and ovulation can sometimes come early or late and mess everything up!)
“They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke…. What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it … What was it like? […] It’s like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents … if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, … the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child. But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses … the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met … I would have been an “unwed mother” of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents…. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldn’t borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldn’t even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldn’t tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? – because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist. You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
more than our families.
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Highly recommend parents sign kids up for things they’ve never tried before so they can try a variety of things.
Highly don’t recommend parents continue to force their kids to stay in activities after the kid has given it a proper try and said they don’t like it.
I work for a youth theatre. A lot of kids have never tried theatre before and come in very hesitant or doubtful but actually enjoy it once they’ve had a chance to try it in a positive environment.
There are also a lot of parents who continue to force their kid to attend despite the kid literally not enjoying their time onstage, and it’s a huge drag on enthusiastic kids who are enjoying their time.
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I'm not seeing any naked adults in that screenshot...
...There's something deeply messed up about how breasts, which are used by our species to feed babies, are considered to be so perverse and obscene that a child should never see them.
There aren't any naked people in the entire video clip. There's some people that you'd probably see less of their skin on a beach, but only because on a beach they'd probably be wearing a bikini top as well as whatever else they have on. And this is New York City, where toplessness is legal regardless of gender or assigned sex.
Toplessness for breasts is legal in most places in the US, unlegislated in almost all that remain, and only illegal in two states: Ohio and Tennessee.
This is because topless equality has been a basic push from feminists for literally decades, until Radfems and NeoCons bonded over wanting a trans genocide less than a decade ago.
It's literally why the "no tits on tumblr" and other lesser SESTA/FOSTA consequences* like it were so jarring. It set back FORTY. YEARS. OF PROGRESS in the rights of people with breasts or perceived as women to wear the same clothes as people without.
Do not let conservatives lie to you about this. The majority of people in the us and the VAST majority of States recognize the right of people to not wear a damn shirt. It isn't obscenity, it isn't even nudity, it's just something pericis men are allowed that everyone else isn't.
Y'know.
Basic sexual discrimination.
*Y'all aren't still on that "it was the Apple app store that caused the tit ban" shit, right? It was the literal US federal government. To be fucking clear.
The children were playing with inflatable anatomical models you guys! Clutch your pearls!!!!
Is it too on-point to notice that the dude in question said they're supposed to be clitorises, implying he doesn't know what a clitoris looks like?