Even if she HAD stolen the diapers... Why are you shooting at someone over diapers. That wasn't because he cared about no damn theft. He wanted to shoot, and he killed a one year old over it.
What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go
letâs talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went âactually! these phone things arenât safe for kids but itâs magically ok once youâre eighteen. guess youâll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause weâre gonna take the devices away from you. ITâS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAININGâ
ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores donât accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I canât text and I canât email and I cant drive to them either and I canât even fucking get public transport without a phone either. canât order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that itâs not just about instagram?
The Bill hasn't passed yet; however it is very likely. Turkey just shut down the social media accounts of LGBT+ organizations, and quietly banned/"made not possible to see" multiple dating apps for LGBT people such as Taimi. These are small steps leading up to this. Just less than a year ago the distribution of Estrogen was made ten times harder and hormone replacement therapy laws upped the transitioning age from 18 to 21. Please speak for us.
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had âbrain damageâ from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldnât form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm itâs almost like thereâs supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly⊠certainly this isnât the result of neglect at the hands of her parentsâŠ
âThis 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad useâ
Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.
âChildren donât have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.â
Translation: Parents arenât making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.
When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they canât hold a pencil properly?
People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say itâs the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.
Itâs like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.
I see this so often in the wild, both as a portrait photographer and as a person who goes into physical shops to buy things: the toddler is getting fussy about being confined, probably because they're understimulated/bored or the thing they find stimulating is a Do Not Touch, and to stop the fussing the parent passes the kid the handheld idiot box. God forbid you interact with your own baby, or allow their brains to figure out what they should do when they're not getting dopamine. I firmly believe that this kind of neglect is actually causing more kids to develop lifelong dopamine disorders, including turning ADD into ADHD in some of them by adding a manic response to understimulation.
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
[More Like Grand-Ish: Part 11.75] Like a Love Song
Some Brook content, because heâs Bestieâs fave. Also, enjoy the mental image of Taz wrapping his tall ass koala-style around Mackenyuâs plush muscles. And the Selena Gomez reference because I am pop-music-consuming trash.
SFW, though the series as a whole is mature.
Set shortly after Thriller Bark.
My mans Brook has a British Caribbean accent, and so does his spelling.
Canon divergent/universe alterations, a little BrookYorki as a treat, magic/soul bonds, all our blorbos are emotionally damaged, no bad language for a change. Recognizeable characters belong to Netflix, Oda, Jump, etc.
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Like a Love Song
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Zoro watched Brookâs fingers on the neck of his fiddle with a meditative air. It was interesting, from the aspect of body mechanicsâbones moving without any of the usual necessary bells and whistles. Was it willpower? Memory? Obviously it was made possible by weird Devil Fruit magic, but he didnât fall apart when he sleptâŠÂ He had normal bodily functions despite having no organsâŠÂ Maybe it was all just his spirit, and possessing his skeleton gave him, like, a conduit to interact with the living world. There was no practical reason to wear clothes or take care of his hair, but those lingered in him as priorities, just like sunglasses and jewelry. Because spirits needed the things they used to have when they were alive (everybody knew that).
âYou were married, right?â Zoro asked.
The music paused for just a moment, then resumed. âWhat makes you say that, sir?â
âSaw the ring in your hair a while back. Simple and hidden. So, private and sentimental. Kinda wondered why you wore it there, but then I realized it definitely wonât stay on your finger and necklaces might get tangled up in your ribs.â
Brook tipped his hat politely. âCalico Brook, at your service. My husband was my dear captain.â
âDid you everâŠâ
Very slowly, Brook leaned closer. âDid I everâŠ?â
Zoro shrugged and looked away. âDid it ever feel like you were competing with everyone else for him, but they didnât even have to try to win?â
âAh, dear boy, youâre being terribly unfair to our cook. Donât think youâve realised thatâs how he feels.â
âThat doesnât make any sense. Heâs the one whoâs always fawning over every attractive person we meet.â
Brook flourished his bow and tapped the very end of it to Zoroâs nose. âExactly. Have you ever known a child who was constantly ignored by his family? Some of them grow up into people who clamour to do favours. They donât know how to be loved quietly, gently, steadily. They know only that gaining attention requires performance. It can take several years to teach us otherwise.â
Us.
Zoro looked away again.
âWe try to win over as many people as we can, so that the chances are good at least one of them will give back some little scrap of the sunshine we crave.â
Sunshine.
Ah.
âSo Iâm the problem,â Zoro concluded. âIâm tooâŠme. I donât laugh and smile and flutter around. I have too many bad days.â
âNow, now,â chided Brook. He started to play again. âI never said that, young man. I donât believe Sanji would have married you if he minded that terribly. Itâs simply why he continues to strive for the attention of others.â
âHow did your husband teach you? That heâd still love you the next day, and the next, and the next?â
Dull confusion bubbled across the match bond, followed by worry. Sanji must have been concerned about waking alone (they had gotten in the habit of waking each other when they went on watch).
Brook hummed thoughtfully. âBy loving me the next day, and the next, and the next. By loving me on his bad days, and on my bad days. By standing beside me when I was so sure heâd leave. By telling me on his deathbed that his greatest fear was not death itself, but the thought of leaving me.â
âSo he might never believe it while weâre alive, because Iâm notâŠâ Zoro gestured vaguely.
âDemonstrative?â Brook suggested.
âThat.â
âOh, but you are, my boy. In your own language, at least. Youâre youngâgive him time to learn the way you love.â
Sleep-mussed and barefoot, Sanji arrived on the lawn with them. He didnât complain about the time, or point out that Brook was the one with watch duty, or ask if Zoro couldnât sleep. He sat beside Zoro, hooked an arm around him, settled against his shoulder, and went back to sleep.
Brook might be a skeleton, but he still seemed to grin knowingly as he played on.
Gender reveals for newborns are so gross. There are only three answers to the question "why do you want people to know what's between your newborn's legs?": 1) the pedo answer, 2) the 'what kind of diaper should I buy' answer, and 3) the sexist answer. Just come out and say you want to know how much respect you should have for your baby's bodily autonomy.
âWhy donât you use aiâ idk man beyond the obvious environmental and âthis machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselvesâ thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.
Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.
Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.
Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us
forced upgrade is even more obnoxious than planned obsolescence
there is absolutely nothing wrong with my Windows 7 install. it runs great, i keep it clean with 3rd party security programs. my Chrome version does everything I need it to do (basic browsing, download and upload things).
and now fucking Google is refusing to run Drive (and a few other apps) with full features on old versions of Chrome, and their new versions won't run on old versions of Windows.
bitch, i did not ask for your upload/download security, or your AI features, or whatever other bullshit you want to cram down my throat with the newest version of Chrome. go fuck yourselves, Google. or tell Gemini to do it, since AI-lovers can't seem to do shit for themselves anymore.
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