perhaps i have never even seen a beach

key, 30+. a shame for the people of the community

[holyferal]

as soon as shitpost bots get juicy dumptruck asses it's over for me cus any well-programmed AI could probably run my blog at this point

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[kingwuko]

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[magnoliamyrrh]

the year is 2035. the new beauty standard is for women to cut their ears off, as ears are a masculine trait which make the face look too big and hearing isnt necessary as it doesnt align with being demure. evil feminists say perhaps this is unnecessary and ears are natural. women are agressively proclaiming they are cutting their ears off due to sensory issues

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

[deleted20211121]

My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[masterofbirds]

OH SHIT SHE’S THREE

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

the two year old bean is now 11, that’s how long this post has been going around, and I STILL bust out laughing like a maniac whenever I read ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’

[elodieunderglass]

Yeah, I’m not ready for foz’s kid to be a teen….

[fozmeadows]

@elodieunderglass I’m going to hold your hand when I say this -

[marzipanandminutiae]

when I was very small, I used to get scared by the car going fast on the highway and shout, “don’t run, don’t run!” at my parents

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[baejax-the-great]

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

[infizero-draws]

internet tgirl support group

[gertritude-art]

Original fanart of Jax from the Amazing Digital Circus.

[gertritude-art]

Jax...

is a highly divisive female character

is abusive to her fellow troll/circusgoer

is responsible for 90% of discourse in the fanbase

has author's pet allegations

has fans who either defend her every action or want her dead

has a bad relationship with mommy

has a "funny bully" personality type

is responsible for at least one death

The only thing differentiating them is that Vriska does divisive things in the actual plot of the story, whereas Jax mostly has panic attacks and then implodes. For Jax to REALLY be Vriska, she should have done something awful to completely alter the course of the story, which never really happens. But, who can truly come close to the power a Vriska, except for Vriska herself?

[sophie-frm-mars]

Seeing people detransitioning or deciding not to come out explicitly because of how scary it is for trans people right now makes me want to just go apeshit, like actually start killing and not stop until I am put down. Fuck this hateful evil society

oh shittttt

[jennelikejennay]

I love Universal Basic Income but I need people to promote it in addition to other solutions and not as a substitute for them.

"Corporation stole your life's work? Well if there were UBI you wouldn't mind!"

"Robot stole your job? With UBI you wouldn't need your job!"

"Not enough help for disabled people? If we all had UBI that would replace disability payments!"

"Corporations conglomerating into a few huge unregulatable cartels which hike up the prices of everything forever? Just tax them and do UBI!"

Like, yes UBI would certainly help those problems. I'm not at all saying it wouldn't.

But if we do not actually fix society in a few key ways, we're going to end up right back where we are now.

For instance, if we had UBI nationally (instead of just in test areas), these big colluding megacorporations would simply raise the prices of everything to recapture the money. The only limit in the money they extract from us right now is how much we have. If we had more, they'd take more, and monopoly gives them the ability to do that efficiently.

UBI isn't going to hire a special ed teacher in my kid's school or make your apartment ADA compliant.

UBI shouldn't be a consolation prize for destroying a job someone loved. Humans like to work, and we like to benefit from our own work. I do not want to have my industry demolished to be done worse by a word salad machine, and be compensated by a check.

And of course, with corporations so huge they can buy politicians, they will soon vote the taxes down and UBI back out.

We need, for starters:

robust anti trust

money out of politics

regulations that protect ordinary people without a lawyer

I could go on and on but I think I've made my point. UBI and other laws and systems that promote justice, not just one or the other.

[oneheadtoanother]

The reason technocrats are often weirdly okay with promoting UBI is it has the potential to be the entitlement equivalent of a flat tax, which is less corrective of inequality than progressive taxation. They're looking at UBI as a way to control per capita spending on us. Some of those savings would come from cutting out the layers of bureaucracy that currently means-test and gatekeep access to benefits like disability and food stamps, but a simplistic UBI system could leave the most expensive care cases in the cold to make up the difference on their own. UBI needs to be additional to other safety nets (or be sophisticated enough to adjust individual income payments to cover disparate living costs e.g. medical expenses, regional variations in cost of living, etc.) in order to be a real concession to the working class.

[effemimaniac]

add me to your discord server so I can do the online equivalent of arriving at a party saying hi to the people I know then standing awkwardly in the corner for the rest of the night

[smoke-in-the-winds]

It can be useful to bring how different cultures produce different gendered norms to resist any kind of “naturalistic” arguments, but also sometimes I wanna shake my fellow leftists by the shoulders and tell them that “normalized homosexuality only via widespread pederasty” or “third genders only allowed to exist as cultic prostitutes” are just as reactionary as “Western Homophobia”, they’re just operating under a different system.

[caspercryptid]

The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"

[caspercryptid]

On the one hand it's a bit of a pick me up in a dark place to know that this will pass because it has passed before on the other hand sometimes it isn't entirely a pleasant thought to go "wow, I used to feel like this all the time. That was pretty fucking bad. It's pretty bad right now too also."

[caspercryptid]

Someday your current baseline will be the sort of thing you consider A Really Bad Day. It does get better.

[feldfrog]

I shoved a nerd in my locker. so nobody steals my precious nerd

[lokaror]

i eat your grandads clothes

[flyingsquidzeez]

Macklemoth