Gage

Gage i can be bug sometimes

[enbysean]

thought this would be a banger on tumblr

[spelldealer]

these are also animals

[itchywedgie]

this is an apex predator

[peppermintsticks]

“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed

[whitepeopletwitter]

[aurumacadicus]

Tumblr: Don’t scroll past this! Don’t ignore this! No one’s talking about this!

I’m an adult who reads three different newspapers. This is Tumblr, where I go to get away from the news. If I don’t want to read something on Tumblr, I don’t have to. If I don’t reblog something, that doesn’t mean I’m ignoring it. I’m not talking about it here because I’m talking about it to people in my real life.

Tumblr is not where I come to get news, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t be.

[succubusboyfriend]

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

[succubusboyfriend]

ranibow sprimkle……..

[cr0wswithknives]

kepchup.

[cosmicyeehaw]

SPINCH

[oli-nerd]

B A N C H

[scoobertdoobertlove]

chichen nuggest

[yondus-wife]

b R o G L e

[borzboy]

strawbebbies..

[sprayed-cheese]

this post almost moved me to tears

[snrends-with-portia]

why is this post my brain all the time

[totaljenisland]

WHO is still making total drama sadboy edits in 2019

[verygayandverytired]

damn the world health organization is wild

[awfulkiwi]

i was confused cause i thought this was a real screenshot but then i remembered you cant say bitch on cartoon network

[nyctosaurid]

who else is in the “didn’t realize sheep have long tails until i was like 20″ club

[dimetrodone]

Undocked unrestrained

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The reason most farmers dock (cut off) the tails is to prevent fly strike, an often lethal infection of fly larvae in the rear of the sheep. Without a (VERY FLUFFY) tail for fecal matter to accumulate on, fly strike is almost completely eliminated!

[brunhiddensmusings]

there is a wide variety of similar treatments for farm animals that are entirely for the animals well being pigs get their tail curled and tusks removed as babies so they dont accidentally nip each other while playing or stab each other just walking around- even a small tail nip might be fatal once the other pigs react to the scent of blood goats/cows often have their horns removed as babies as well both for obvious reasons to prevent stabbings but also to prevent them from growing in weird that can cause pain and infection for the animal chickens and other poultry, especially pet ones or hobby farms, might have their flight feathers clipped to prevent them from flying over fences, where their life expectancy is nill outside the farm/owners enclosure

[pancakeke]

me: *pulls into gas station* just a quick stop :)

GPS: what the FUCK did you do

[serpentwife-deactivated20200820]

Remember, birdwatching goes both ways

that’s vaguely threatening. thank you

[exidtual]

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

[courgette96]

Don t forget this added gem!

[defjamvendetta]

[rainnecassidy]

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.

“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

[mhalachai]

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

[drst]

I hate this entire concept so much.

[kelssiel]

the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

(source)

[thunderthightning-deactivated20]

i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

[lifewasted]

one time I played the word “am” and I thought, they can totally let that slide because of AM radio and A.M time.

then i remembered 

[undefindatawsome]

Scrabble does things to your mind that you can never come back from.

[bettedavisgf]

my cat after i come home and immediately pick him up and swing him around calling him a fat little baby

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I hate this

[diorpaint]

[klngly]

Subs are so fun to play with. All you have to do is hint at what you might do, or back them into a corner with a look, or grab their wrist in a certain way and they’re a wide-eyed mess.

[mamasoygay]

fuck kinda subway are u going to?

[bakugo-sucks]

Substitute teachers deal with so much shit