Mad Bigfoot

Not young, not cool, not trendy

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

How quickly we forget the dangerous crow boy who’s job it is to destroy plastic

[ginny-lala]

Forever in our hearts 🐦‍⬛🤴

[archipithecus]

softshell and hardshell books

paperback and hardcover turtles

[ginny-lala]

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[ginny-lala]

My best friend was diagnosed with Lupus after I paid for the cascade test. Having 42 food allergies and 60 environmental was my tip off that something was desperately wrong. When she got her diagnosis she had no idea what it was, except for on “House” it was never Lupus. She had a hard time understanding it, so I told her. Your immune system knows who to attack because all you cells are like players in uniform, the immune system never attacks someone in the same uniform. Well, Lupus is what happens when your immune system wakes up color blind. So they attack everything, aggressively.

[epileptiform]

if you see hardware on yhe ground like a washer or a hex nut you have to pick it up because it’s lonely and scared. if you see any metal on the ground you have to pick it up because it’s alone and scared and lonely.

[epileptiform]

they are deserving of love

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[slay-a-lil-longer]

I made this MONTHS ago but someone on TT asked if I had a tumblr and I was like... yes??? I actually do and I'm not using it to its full potential😭

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[ginny-lala]

Kick

[zendayamybabe]

🐞 a ladybug for everyone who needs good luck

[gaygoatshane]

[ragsandfeathers]

Applause! Applause! 😂

[parkayquarts]

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[parkayquarts]

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

[theheroheart]

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

[team-thickness12]

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

[lucarleigho]

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

[mctreeleth]

ol' Zachary Zoetrope is back in business!

[dogpuppy]

[ginny-lala]

I hear this as Seymour Krelborn singing on skid row.

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[lemonylemus]

This was reposted to YouTube shorts and I would like to point out some comments in the video

[flip-this-table]

Please give your children some damn playdoh and crayons and oversized bits of craft paper to color on. They need something more concrete and tactile than smooth glass.

[themainspoon]

Maybe they do need something tactile, but you've missed the point of the post. It's not the Ipad itself that's bad, it's the fact that the children are being neglected. You could hand a kid a whole library of books, several kilograms of play dough, a mountain of crayons, and all the craft paper in the world. But, if you don't spend time with them and you simply expect them to use those things to keep themselves busy so you don't have to deal with them, you're still neglecting the kid, and they're gonna end up with the same issues.

[angstandhappiness]

IMPORTANT

[thebiscuiteternal]

Running across this post almost immediately after reading the article about how some parents are letting fucking ChatGPT tell their kids bedtime stories now feels serendipitous in a way.

[shamebats]

#so this is actually what i wrote my final thesis about for my bachelors in psychology #i ran an exeriment on kids below 5 that measured their social cognition levels (eg. understanding others emotions and needs etc) #and i also asked the parents about their kids screentime habits #and there was obviously a negative correlation between the two - so more screentime meant lower social cognition on average #BUT there were quite a few outliers with high amounts of screentime but also a higher level of social congition #and the explanation for that is that for these children screentime isn't there INSTEAD of interacting with the parents #screentime only affects the child negatively if parents use it as a distraction for the kids instead of interacting with them #so if a child watches some cartoon then the best a parent can do is sit with them and watch with them and talk about it with them #and then (limited) screentime can actually be beneficial for the development of other cognitive skills #so there is a large amount of scientific research out there that proves what ppl said in this post

That's really it. You'd probably have gotten similar results 30 years ago if you studied kids who are left to read books by themselves alone in their room for multiple hours a day vs kids whose parents read with them, or at least in the same room and talk to them about what they're reading. Because the former are most definitely also being neglected in other ways.

It's not as much about the tablets, it's about the fact that these children aren't being played with and talked to enough. Parents are using them as a get out of parenting tool instead of a parenting tool.

[ginny-lala]

Was at a middle of the road sea food place on the coast. The waitress told a mother that they did not have WiFi when she asked for the password for her child’s tablet. The child was just fine looking at all the cool signs. The mother was stricken, “what is she supposed to do without WiFi?” The waitress, the type of server who has seen it all and probably served the devil his fish and chips one December evening without batting an eyelash said, “We have placemats and crayons.” She pulled both out of the back of a stack of menus she was carrying. The mother scoffed. She poured the 5 color pack on the table and gave the girl the coloring sheet/placemat. She had to demonstrate how the crayons worked. I SHIT YOU NOT. A little girl maybe 4 did not know how to use crayons, also her manual dexterity was far below that of a near school age child. She had no outward disability but it is not out of the realm of possibility. One of the crayons rolled on to the floor, the mother slammed her palms against the table and decreed, “I knew this would not work!” She swiped away the crayons. Set up the iPad and had it just dumbly set up there. The kid pushed it away and made a valiant grab for the coloring materials. Mom told her to stop it. Mom by the by was trying to find a way to charge her phone. Leaving the kid ALONE in a crowded restaurant to find an outlet for her phone and charger. I looked at the kid in her high chair. Grabbed the plastic tray my food had arrived on, leaned over, placed the coloring materials in it and set it before her. She laughed and began to once again color fishes while the tray kept her 5 colors from rolling too far away. Mom returned, having not found a single outlet for her use. She was startled by her child sitting coloring happily. Her food arrived soon after. Her daughter ate her fish fingers dropping crumbs on to the placemat, “Look Mama I feed ‘em”. She did not engage with her, question her about her awesome fish, she did not color with her. She just pouted and sulked occasionally taking out her phone just to see it was once again dead and put it down. It was weird. It was a bleak look at parenting. It was sad.

Now we can make excuses for her. Pretend that this was not the norm for her. But I do not think so. In my country around 2010 we had to put in these PSAs that told parents they needed to talk to their children, that they needed to interact with the a as much as possible. In high school, we are now seeing why those PSAs were necessary and the problem is now worse.

[db-v0id-deactivated20260530]

sheltered by the boughs...

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[comebackali]

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

[ginny-lala]

Nope, guys it is just “The Wizard of Oz” in space.

[eyeoftheeagle]

Some people walk. Some people fly.

Limits are only real if you believe in them.

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful