Kittie Brick

| Kate | 20 years old | she/her | Sander Sides, musicals, fandoms, random art, and random funny stuff

[biglawbear]

Really concerned that anti capitalism Discourse has developed into “if you have any money at all, you’re evil and part of the problem”

Like someone who spends $200 on a practical purse is not the problem with capitalism

John Boyega having a net worth of $6 mil after multiple high profile years in the film industry is not the problem with capitalism

The enemy is the billionaires that hoard wealth and banks and companies that control entire swaths of the economy

Don’t let the guy with $200 billion convince you, who makes less than $30k a year, that the doctor making $150k a year is the enemy

The enemy is like a few dozen people and a few dozen huge banks and companies

[yourbigsisnissi]

When people tell stories about how their parents beat them, it’s always interesting to see their face change because they expected me to say “me too lol” but I instead say “I’m really sorry. You didn’t deserve that” Last time a co worker who also has West Indian parents was telling me in a joking way how he remembers being beaten with a belt because lied about his report card. As he was laughing it off and saying he deserved it, I just said “wow that’s awful hun. You didn’t deserve that.” And his whole face changed. Like it hadn’t occurred to him that it’s messed up that a part of remembering his childhood is remembering how badly it hurt to be beaten so badly at such a young age. Another time I had a friend, non West Indian parents, who talked about how she made a mess on a dress that her parents got her. It was really expensive apparently and she spilled red juice on it. She talked about how she was ordered to take the dress of and was beaten with a belt too without any clothes on. And she was laughing and said “I was a bad ass kid lol” and I said “no hun you were just a kid”. And she looked at me and immediately stopped laughing and just sat there like “yea…I was just a kid. I don’t know why they did that to me” My mom was raised in a household where she was beaten so badly….I just don’t understand how she is so loving now growing up in a home where she got so little love. They called it discipline, but once she became a social worker she began to see that it was abuse. That she grew up terrified of her parents, although they thought it was respect that my mom felt. It was fear. We have to get comfortable challenging what is often seen as cultural norms. We have to be a generation of people who are not ashamed to say “I would never beat my child”.

[carnival-phantasm]

We have numerous studies linking physical punishment on children, some far less drastic than the ones mentioned, to behavior/aggressivity issues and mental disorders in the long term, but it’s so normalized that most people think kids will become “spoiled” if they don’t ever get spanked – something far more related to parents being absent and not participating in their education than “lack of punishment”.

Beating children is just the lazy, ignorant way out and a sign of failure as a parent. Hitting some defenseless kid when you are angry is far easier and quicker than calming yourself down and having a conversation where you have to adapt your words so your kid can understand, but the latter is proper parenting and teaching while the former is just giving your children a risk factor for social and psychiatric disorders.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[ohwait-shesinspace]

@spiritspodcast

[medstudentblues]

Ghibli meets avatar by @amaramation. ✨

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

if you ever feel stupid remember that kodak used to hold almost 90% of all camera sales in the US but fell off the face of the earth because in 1975 they created the first self-contained digital camera which would have been market-breaking but decided to trash the project because they figured that digital photography was a phase that people would grow out of, only to go out of business because they were the only company that wouldn’t commericalize on digital cameras

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

@iamoutofideas “capitalism promotes innovation!”

[thetyrannosaur]

Kinda similar to how 3D printing is 40 year old technology, but the reason it’s big now is because the patent finally expired

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

yes sir! see also: wireless charging

[objetocotidiano]

Society if capitalism didnt exist

[everythingstarstuff]

[cracklet]

The dude reacting in the background kills me

[aniki-price]

Enemies to lovers

[emilx311]

Enemies to lovers speed run

[thenatsdorf]

Billi speaks. (via billispeaks)

[noctomania]

billi want food

billi get food later?

billi want food!

billi mad.

billi want drugs.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

[tevivinter]

Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.  Let me know which autor you got! 

[tevivinter]

…I guess that’s it then 😂

[quiiescenza]

[twastheplague-deactivated202002]

Oh my god

[vaudevillianpersona]

I will never shut up about this

[vanilla-bean-buttercream]

I am Logan Sanders approved OuO

[sweetest-honeybee]

Stephen King!

[kittiebrick]

The name’s Bond. James Bond.

[eggtempest]

comic sans

[dankmemeuniversity]

[geopsych]

Guilty as charged.

[thepowerwithin]

When the eyes are tired, we cannot see. When the mind is tired, we cannot think. But when the heart is tired, we cannot anything.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

[dankmemeuniversity]

[moonybyte]

Sanyo ICC-0081 "Mini Calculator": You can carry a calculator with you now, you never have to make big math in your head ever again!

Math teachers: We will multiply 14,762 times 2,853,654 among others in this test, no calculators allowed

Sanyo ICC-0081 "Mini Calculator":

[tracing-rivers]

Linguists throughout the ages: We have spent lifetimes gathering the significations of words and phrases in various language so everyone can appreciate them as well as possible.

Language teachers: Translate this text, no dictionaries allowed.

Linguists:

[drtanner]

Literally thousands of artists, engineers and scientists over the years: Look at all of these awesome tools we made to help artists make more art more quickly and more easily! Now art is much more accessible to everyone!

Art snobs: If you use anything more than a pencil and ink and these specific paints and brushes you’re cheating and not a real artist. Especially if you draw digitally. That’s double cheating.  

Artists, engineers and scientists:

[rohirric-hunter]

I was always told in math class that I wouldn't be able to carry a calculator with me everywhere I went.

I'm writing this from my smartphone.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

Fuck all my math teachers from 2000-2010 who said this

[priboltao]

You know what I always remember?

That post where someone said that the most broken thing ab the current education system is how we are conditioned to work alone and never look for help. This person was telling how they held a seminar for people in a company and there was a task like, to test what hey remembered, and everyone sat in silence and alone until this person was like “uh... you guys realize you can ask for help and consult the material right?”

And like, it’s so dumb. When you’re in a work place, you can do these things. You can (and sometimes must) work with others. You can refer back to manuals and materials, you don’t have to memorize everything and work by yourself.

The education system is dumb as fuck.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

👏👏👏

[emeraldmercury]

Don’t forget IT majors who are forced to use NOTEPAD or even MS-DOS to program during tests because all the modern IDEs have autocorrect features and drop down menus to help you with your syntax and for header files.

Bitch nobody in the IT industry memorises syntaxes, everyone goes to Stack Overflow for reference even experienced engineers. Why are we forced to mug up this stuff and not actually learn how to think like a programmer?

[catsbeaversandducks]

By Pet Disneyfication

[silv3rclouds-with-graylining]

@thelittleredheadedmusician

[tenkaichibudokai]

[alannamode]

A fun reminder that Aang was a terrifyingly powerful Avatar.

Most Avatars are informed of their newfound destinies at the age of 16 to begin their training. Because of the approaching war Aang was told of his status at the age of 12. He had already mastered airbending, and in the span of a year he mastered the other three elements, the avatar state, and energybending. He also learned lightning redirection and seismic sense (a technique no previous Avatar had even encountered). In the span of a year.

This child was a terrifying force of nature.

[relados-deactivated20160902]

[zenpencils]

KEVIN SMITH: It costs nothing to encourage an artist

[jadehansen]

hahahahahaha

[officialmacgyver2-deactivated20]

As funny as this is some teenagers actually did this shit one day. They were bicycling around the neighborhood and got an alert. Looked up, saw a car fitting the description. Mother fucking kids BOOKED it after the car on their bikes like Lance Armstrong on steroids. The kidnapper freaked out and ditched the vehicle and the kids rescued the baby. Best part was the kid they interviewed was wearing a Batman t-shirt and he was like “Well, Sir….This is my neighborhood.”

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Not all heroes can fly; sometimes they ride bikes.