Olympics Commentator Extraordinaire

she/her, 28, cooler than you can even imagine

[meat-church]

I'm gonna buy up a big ole shopping mall one day and all it's gonna be my new house. So I'll order something and the dude will come deliver it and only see a big ole shopping mall and be like "??????" and they'll have to walk up in the giant parking lot and the doors will

Whoosh

open and I'll be standing there in my comfy clothes to receive my delivery.

And I imagine that since all the doors just

Whoosh

open all the time for me, I know when the

Whoosh

happens and I just casually flick my wrist and the doors will

Whoosh

shut and then the delivery guy has to go back to work and explain how some kid lives in a shopping mall. But jokes on them, because I move around big ole shopping malls that I bought, and whenever I leave one, it goes to the community as a good homeless shelter.

Then once I buy up all the shopping malls, I leave one, and only one, left in each state of the US and they each have a whole store, which encompasses a large part of the big ole shopping mall, that is called "necessary" and it's all stuff every person needs for a reasonably low price. And no one can say anything about this store because I own the whole shopping mall, and all the other ones in the country, and what are they gonna do? Arrest me?

Jokes on you, buddy, I have built an elaborate tunnel system between all the big ole shopping malls and I can escape to any other big ole shopping mall I want in the country with speed and ease. You think I'm in Fresno, CA? Haha you wish. I'm in Grand Rapids, MI and you will never catch me.

[larkandkatydid]

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

[poodletrain]

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

[blackmosscupcakes]

When my daughter was getting close to school age, I remember walking past her future school with my mum and noting that all the little boys were wearing the uniform trousers and all the little girls were wearing skirts. And I mentioned that I hoped the uniform policy allowed for girls to wear trousers. My mum asked why, and I outlined several reasons, including "because kids fall over when they're running and playing, and skinned knees are more likely if she's only allowed to wear skirts."

And my mum said "well, maybe in that case she'd learn to be more careful."

Aaaaand I think my resulting reaction of horror at the idea of forcing 50% of children to play more carefully due to clothing requirements made her realise exactly what she'd just said.

(The uniform policy does indeed allow her to wear trousers. She's now 10 and still prefers them)

[the-haiku-bot]

And my mum said “well,

maybe in that case she’d learn

to be more careful.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[philosophykitten]

Okay, but, to add some nuance - it isn't always bad.

My parents, especially my mom, spent a lot of time teaching me to be more ladylike. This was the 80s and 90s, so it was different. And we had a lot of shows like Golden Girls and Designing Women that also told us it was okay to not be ladylike sometimes.

But I've also become more fond of the ladylike lessons as I've gotten older. I was diagnosed with autism when I was about 40. I'm high functioning, I also know my mother's lessons helped. Because she taught me how to sit while wearing a dress and how to be unfailingly polite and proper and acceptable dress codes for situations. And I have no idea or concept for how neurotypicals learn that stuff, but I actually really needed it.

To be fair, my parents also knew when to draw the line. My brother was forced to attend social lessons. I forget the exact term, but all the dances and debutant bs, when he was in middle school. My parents knew that was a step too far for me and I was allowed to skip the entire tradition.

[larkandkatydid]

No, I do not think there needs to be a nuanced view of enforcing a system of oppression that marks half of children as less human than other children and prepares them, at an extraordinarily young age to behave as members of the subhuman servant class whose bodies exist to be decorative.

I do not think there are positives to limiting a very young child’s ability to learn and grow because they were born into a class of people whom we believe don’t deserve to learn these things. And yet I find myself continually having to make this case on social media.

[kushblazer666]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

holy shit its for real

[guerrillatech]

[lostbutnotforgotten]

[pokemonarchive]

001 Bulbasaur (2022) Illustrator: HYOGONOSUKE

[bogleech]

Voting did matter. Even the worst democrat or in all honesty the next worst republican was not going to do all this exact same crazy shit. Voting cannot fix a broken system but if the system asks you to weigh in on how much more broken it wants to get, you can tell it "no, not that far please" instead of effectively "I don't care, go hog fucking wild"

So please vote in the midterms, for the least evil options on the ballots, instead of telling them you just don't mind who they put in charge of whatever the hell they want.

[bigmammallama5]

To back up OP’s post, democrats have won the majority of recent state elections (NPR link), and closed the gap on the few they didn’t. Dems also are notorious for getting stuck having to fix shit and get locked in a constant uphill battle (why it feels like they don’t get a lot done). As for the arguments of “lol we won’t have midterms” or “even if we do win midterms it won’t work so what’s the point”… that’s a form of voter suppression and weak ass defeatism.

The federal government cannot interfere with state’s voting and board of elections, it is unconstitutional and was defended as recently as a few days ago Jan 9 2026 (Politico link). The arguments that it’s not worth it or won’t happen will get louder and worse because the far right know that they are losing power.

Keep track of your local and state elections, check your voter registration status and make sure it’s active and correct, and make a plan to vote. That means all seats from federal down to city council. I get how tired y’all are bc I’m right there with you, but I want to get out of this. If you do too, stop doomscrolling and start being strategic with your attention. Pay attention to your local election boards, start giving yourself grace to learn and grow, if you can get involved do, if you can’t just make sure to get out and vote. Remember voting is not a magic button and it’s going to take decades to fix what has been undone, so pace yourself accordingly.

[iamwizzzzz]

[crabussy]

how come they make you reinvent the concept of dinner every evening. I have to make dinner come true every evening like some kind of unpaid genie intern

[annelidarchive]

the thing about that weird stuff americans call cheese is that if you heat it a little it becomes an excellent burger condiment despite its failings in every other area. such is the fate of the american cultural product

[lootpuppy-deactivated20260205]

the American 'cheese' slice was engineered by our best scientific minds (all borrowed from Germany ofc) to melt perfectly onto a burger and for nothing else. Its only purpose is to compliment the one true product of the American people. The hamburger. (also borrowed from Germany)

[annelidarchive]

reeling a little at the implication that the Kraft Single was a product of operation paperclip

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the plot of the last film you watched is reality now! how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

oh no

fuck yea

results

Voting ended onJan 30

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

are you popular in your fandom?

yes

no

kinda?

results

Voting ended onFeb 10

[iwoulddothatifiwereme]

[chamerionwrites]

“Crystalline Light,” reduction linocut, 2025. By William Hays

[testosterowned]

SCROLL UP THAT'S NOT A PHOTOGRAPH!!!!

[neonkarkki]

Okay but I don't think "that's not a photograph" is enough for this. That's a reduction linocut and I'm just going to assume a whole lot of the people here won't know what that means or google it. It means that the artist has had a linoleum block and has made this image by carving pieces out of it bit by bit, printing layers upon layers at different stages of carving to get the layered colours on the final print. Hypereaslistic paintings and pencil drawings and such are impressive, but I beg you all to look up how linocuts are done to get an idea of how this has been done.

[tlirsgender]

Yeah yeah yeah scroll back up it's-- LINOCUT?

[enchantingruinscandy]

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

[thirdpunch]

[paradise-sys]

stop signs were invented by octagons in order to have something to do

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day