[beet1sm]

Never split a switch into the top and bottom or else both will eventually die.

[kuttithevangu]

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

[sparklenaut]

clingy...

[cheaphalloweencostume]

good morning to horror fans, fat bitches, people with psychosis, they/thems, people who can’t drive, trans women, witches, and single dads. the rest of you... you’re on your own

[owollene]

Behold Digitan The Ultimate Umajoshi 🌈🩷✨

[depsidase]

[highhappyhog]

I made a Zine about this! If anyone ever wants to print and hand it out, please do!

[corantus]

i wanted to try out making some bases! floating furry heads you can color/edit to ur heart's content

get them for free / pay what you want:

Icon Base Pack - Ted "corantus" Kaufman's Ko-fi Shop

Some floating animal heads, intended for use as PFPs! Edit them as much as you like, use for adopts, whatever, I'm not a cop Species: dog,

[mollyjames]

Very nice trans gal working the counter at the weed store today. She saw my ID and very quickly asked if I had a preferred name and also complimented my top. Truly a blessed 4/20

[mollyjames]

[ikimaru]

more human Gangle for the enjoyers! 💖

[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.

[shamebats]

It's a nice thought that with the proper support and resources, all parents could do a good job, but that kind of fails to account for all those who are essentially overgrown school bullies who despise their children, think they're subhuman and/or mostly only had them because they wanted to have complete power over someone who can't escape.

If children born to people like that can't still turn out ok, the system just isn't good enough.

[chomplicated]

[froggycakes]

paul dano i have the role of a lifetime for you

[ammnontet]

“it’s okay, lil fella! c’mere! it’s just us, the limp bizkits!”

[puzzler00m]

Taste

[frogteether]

i started making this for valentine’s day wdym it’s march

[pointnclick]

hello male writer. before you is a typewriter. you have one day to write a novella with a woman as the protagonist without describing her breasts. the timer begins now

[yebisu]

Her ass was like a peach, and brother I’m in her pit.

[pointnclick]

well. that one’s on me

[heathcliffgirl1847]

when people are named baker or fuller or tanner or something its like HA 🫵 I KNOW WHAT YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDPA DID 🫵🫵