Little Slices of Melon

🦋 having an existential crisis at any given moment 🦋

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[depsidase]

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

[sydneysageivashkov]

[venusish]

123movies & putlocker provide more for the people of this country than the army has ever

[kittenisajerk]

At least the army doesn’t take the money creators could have made. And is also not stealing anyone’s content. ^^

[uiruu]

they kill people

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[jewish-rock]

it should be socially acceptable to wear whatever type of clothes you want anywhere and i am not kidding

[jewish-rock]

dress is an indicator of status that poor people, people of color, disabled people, some religious people, and women consistently fail to meet due to social prejudice or barriers to acquiring the appropriate clothing

[jewish-rock]

obviously there are scenarios where specific clothing is required (like PPE at a job site)

but a person coming to an office job in sweatpants doesn't make them less qualified to do their work, it just means they're more comfortable while doing it

[jewish-rock]

"you're required to wear a face shield, an apron/coat, and closed toed shoes in this lab environment for your safety" awesome perfect, i love safety, and i can wear whatever i want under it.

"you're required to wear a suit to present your lab work" i do not become less intelligent wearing non-formal clothing, and this presentation has now become inaccessible to someone who cannot wear appropriate formal dress

[jewish-rock]

I FORGOT FAT PEOPLE IN MY ORIGINAL REBLOG, DONT REBLOG WITHOUT INCLUDING FAT PEOPLE

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[insomaniackills]

Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[rosecrystal]

This amount of individualism is exactly whats gonna kill us all btw

[ashintheairlikesnow]

"Going a couple hours without eating a single kind of food? No thanks, I would rather kill a child" is such a wildly horrifying take to see MULTIPLE people proudly stating.

[pinnipetal]

I do really think that the use of ChatGPT and genAI by students highlights the fundamental flaw of our education system focusing almost entirely on grades and test scores rather than generating curiosity and inquiry, which produces individuals who fundamentally do not understand that the purpose of an assignment is meant to be to learn *how* to do something, not simply to produce a product you can turn in to get an A+

[captain-price-returns]

You’re years too late to be recognizing the threat of US government mass surveillance, bud.

[duchessvongooseberg]

[notbecauseofvictories]

good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

[notbecauseofvictories]

fellas, they’ve done it again

[notbecauseofvictories]

me, weeping openly: potato

[notbecauseofvictories]

DEFECTOR HAS TAKEN UP THE MANTLE

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this ad has me so fucked up i can’t even decide what to be tired of

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

[teaboot]

Okay but I'm getting approximately 10 billion terrible AI old man pretty lady ads for "eighty percent of people were born in the wrong place" and "your energy belongs in X location" and I cannot for the life of me comprehend who could possibly be benefitting from this. Countries seeking additional labor? Travel agencies??? I'm so numb to the grifts I've stopped asking why

[10memes]

[mentholsmoker]

this person married a branch of bananas

[imfemalewarrior]

This is actually dangerous and neglectful bad parenting. 

Babies cannot stop eating, so the risk of overeating and vomiting is much higher for them, even when closely monitored (when I was a baby even if my mom fed me for 10 minutes it was too much and I would vomit as a result). This baby will keep eating until they vomit, and she is on her back with a bottle in her mouth, so she can’t even vomit properly and will run a much higher risk of asphyxiating. 

If my spouse did this I would seriously reconsider the marriage. And I wouldn’t leave them alone with the baby or any babies after them (actually I wouldn’t have any more children with them unless it was adopting an older child that did not need help eating) until they were old enough to communicate their needs and had the ability to eat unassisted (so basically elementary school). 

Don’t do this. You are putting your child at risk. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[reversetimelord]

“My husband is a horrible neglectful father putting our baby’s life at risk because he can’t be bothered to feed them for once, hahaha!”

Things like this are genuinely terrifying

[abitchistireddddd]

damn straight ppl are scary 

[ladycanuck-deactivated20221104]

Bottle feeding infants have no choice but to swallow to protect their airways. Bottles drip, sucking is a reflex. And they have no choice but to swallow the formula milk, and then there’s more.

A newborn or young infant can be forced to drink far more than their tiny stomach can hold. Cue the puking.

Never prop bottles. Pay attention to baby’s cues. Look up paced bottle feeding. Respect natural feeding rhythms.

It’s why medical professionals now recommend paced feeding (to prevent over feeding, vomiting and in the case of combination feeding - breast refusal).

http://www.peelregion.ca/parenting/feeding-baby/paced.asp

Paced bottle feeding - parenting - Region of Peel

I should note, generally breastfed babies have more control. They have to be latched and suckling to trigger the milk ejection reflex. In cases of oversupply ( yes this is a thing, I had it) babies will release the breast spluttering and choking and often clamp down to stop the flow (as painful as it sounds).

[fieldbears]

Related risk: Leaving a bottle unattended in a baby’s mouth for long enough can give the infant ‘bottle mouth’ if they have even the beginnings of cut teeth. Do Not Do This.

[jenroses]

As a longtime parenting educator, can confirm, do not ever. 

[star-anise]

Also, a lot of the health benefits of breastfeeding aren’t actually about the milk—they’re about the positive physical and emotional effects of skin-to-skin contact. Babies need physical touch, and lots of it, for their autonomic nervous system to release the hormones that allow them to grow and thrive.

Being held by another human and soothed by the rhythm of their breath, heartbeat, and movement is essential to creating future emotional stability and mental health. It isn’t important to be The Mother or even the one who’s lactating to provide that kind of closeness—you just have to put in the work and hold the damn baby.

Boys almost never get taught the basics of childcare the way girls do, and we think it’s adorable when men don’t know what they’re doing with their infant children. But it’s harmful to the babies, robs those men of positive relationships with their kids, and is preventable with education.

[oodlenoodleroodle]

(I’m AFAB and was never taught anything about babies either.)

[star-anise]

I mean, most people aren’t. We have a general cultural illiteracy about early childhood development. It’s incredibly rare to find, for example, jurisdictions where public schools offer courses in childcare the same way they might offer Spanish or Art. You’re just supposed to “pick it up” (usually by being a young woman in a family with babies and getting tasked with childcare, which is happening less and less these days).

(And when schools say they’re teaching “what it’s like to be a parent” they’re usually not teaching useful parenting skills, just trying to scare kids into not having sex.)

But for what routes there are, most boys are totally excluded–many girls begin babysitting strangers’ children to earn an extra income as young as ten, a practice which boys have typically been considered too dangerous to participate in. When public schools do teach classes about childcare, they’re generally aimed at teen moms, not all students in general. A lot of parent education and bonding programs are specifically aimed at “moms” and act like cats with boots on when dads show up. 

This is something I care about a lot because I care about preventing child abuse, and the no 1 way to do that is to educate parents about basic child care, like “It’s not good to just prop a baby up with a bottle all the time” or “Yes they WILL scream for no fucking reason for the first three months, learn to live with it” or “3-to-5-year-olds don’t lie to your face because they’re bad kids, they’re just learning how reality works”. 

These are the kind of things a lot of parents simply don’t know, because nobody tells them and trying to look for good parenting advice on your own today is like walking with pizza into a room that’s on fire. But men, especially, are put at a disadvantage when it comes to learning them.

[lynati]

If you want to have kids, please make sure you and your partner(s) learn about having kids first, so you’re not trying to wade through figuring out what is bad advice and misinformation after your child is already here and benefitting (or not) from you knowing those things.

[captain-price-returns]

This appears to be the president’s "proof" that vandals are sabotaging the Reflecting Pool.

[lastoneout]

honestly the discourse on this site is so bad that I have a new hot take: if you use tumblr at all fuck you

[i-wanna-be-cute]

Checked their account: turns out op is a fucking tumblr user themselves so????? Idk :/

[lastoneout]