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[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[penissociety]

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

Final update

We've officially moved out. Thanks to you guys and your donations, we were able to get the tyres we needed, and we managed to get everything out of the house by our exit date.

I doubt that we'll be getting our bond back, but I expected that outcome.

Thank you guys again for all of the help. I really appreciate all of you.

[ralfmaximus]

Younger folk are getting really good at spotting AI slop, to the consternation of marketing execs.

Found on Mastodon.

[sunderwight]

From what I remember of back when Millennials were outpacing Boomers at internet and tech stuff in general, this is going to cause a lot of issues for companies angling to use slop in marketing because the younger set are always going to be better at spotting it than the older, but the older are going to be the ones approving marketing campaigns and ads and etc. Meaning, the older people will not ever be able to tell what might actually convince the younger.

The good news is that if it persists and Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to scoff at the generated stuff, then marketing departments aiming at them will just have to give up on using it because they won't be able to figure out how to fool their targets with it.

The bad news is that this won't apply to scams and campaigns aimed at older people, so once again we're going to have a situation where the kids will be the ones lunging across the coffee table to stop Mom from giving her financial info to that really obvious fake scam mom oh my god do NOT buy that it isn't even a real thing.

Anyway godspeed to the younger generations.

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[lemonylemus]

This was reposted to YouTube shorts and I would like to point out some comments in the video

[flip-this-table]

Please give your children some damn playdoh and crayons and oversized bits of craft paper to color on. They need something more concrete and tactile than smooth glass.

[themainspoon]

Maybe they do need something tactile, but you've missed the point of the post. It's not the Ipad itself that's bad, it's the fact that the children are being neglected. You could hand a kid a whole library of books, several kilograms of play dough, a mountain of crayons, and all the craft paper in the world. But, if you don't spend time with them and you simply expect them to use those things to keep themselves busy so you don't have to deal with them, you're still neglecting the kid, and they're gonna end up with the same issues.

[angstandhappiness]

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[thebiscuiteternal]

Running across this post almost immediately after reading the article about how some parents are letting fucking ChatGPT tell their kids bedtime stories now feels serendipitous in a way.

[shamebats]

#so this is actually what i wrote my final thesis about for my bachelors in psychology #i ran an exeriment on kids below 5 that measured their social cognition levels (eg. understanding others emotions and needs etc) #and i also asked the parents about their kids screentime habits #and there was obviously a negative correlation between the two - so more screentime meant lower social cognition on average #BUT there were quite a few outliers with high amounts of screentime but also a higher level of social congition #and the explanation for that is that for these children screentime isn't there INSTEAD of interacting with the parents #screentime only affects the child negatively if parents use it as a distraction for the kids instead of interacting with them #so if a child watches some cartoon then the best a parent can do is sit with them and watch with them and talk about it with them #and then (limited) screentime can actually be beneficial for the development of other cognitive skills #so there is a large amount of scientific research out there that proves what ppl said in this post

That's really it. You'd probably have gotten similar results 30 years ago if you studied kids who are left to read books by themselves alone in their room for multiple hours a day vs kids whose parents read with them, or at least in the same room and talk to them about what they're reading. Because the former are most definitely also being neglected in other ways.

It's not as much about the tablets, it's about the fact that these children aren't being played with and talked to enough. Parents are using them as a get out of parenting tool instead of a parenting tool.

[ginny-lala]

Was at a middle of the road sea food place on the coast. The waitress told a mother that they did not have WiFi when she asked for the password for her child’s tablet. The child was just fine looking at all the cool signs. The mother was stricken, “what is she supposed to do without WiFi?” The waitress, the type of server who has seen it all and probably served the devil his fish and chips one December evening without batting an eyelash said, “We have placemats and crayons.” She pulled both out of the back of a stack of menus she was carrying. The mother scoffed. She poured the 5 color pack on the table and gave the girl the coloring sheet/placemat. She had to demonstrate how the crayons worked. I SHIT YOU NOT. A little girl maybe 4 did not know how to use crayons, also her manual dexterity was far below that of a near school age child. She had no outward disability but it is not out of the realm of possibility. One of the crayons rolled on to the floor, the mother slammed her palms against the table and decreed, “I knew this would not work!” She swiped away the crayons. Set up the iPad and had it just dumbly set up there. The kid pushed it away and made a valiant grab for the coloring materials. Mom told her to stop it. Mom by the by was trying to find a way to charge her phone. Leaving the kid ALONE in a crowded restaurant to find an outlet for her phone and charger. I looked at the kid in her high chair. Grabbed the plastic tray my food had arrived on, leaned over, placed the coloring materials in it and set it before her. She laughed and began to once again color fishes while the tray kept her 5 colors from rolling too far away. Mom returned, having not found a single outlet for her use. She was startled by her child sitting coloring happily. Her food arrived soon after. Her daughter ate her fish fingers dropping crumbs on to the placemat, “Look Mama I feed ‘em”. She did not engage with her, question her about her awesome fish, she did not color with her. She just pouted and sulked occasionally taking out her phone just to see it was once again dead and put it down. It was weird. It was a bleak look at parenting. It was sad.

Now we can make excuses for her. Pretend that this was not the norm for her. But I do not think so. In my country around 2010 we had to put in these PSAs that told parents they needed to talk to their children, that they needed to interact with the a as much as possible. In high school, we are now seeing why those PSAs were necessary and the problem is now worse.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

[mintedwitcher]

yall I am so exhausted.

we got another power bill this week. I haven't even opened it yet because I know if I have to look at that expense right now I'll have a full on meltdown.

we have five days.

my sister has nowhere to go. she's been living with me and my partner for over a year now, and her social worker was supposed to be helping her find and apply for housing on her own, but we haven't heard from her in two weeks. there are no available beds at the local shelters, and emergency housing in my state has a ten-year-long waitlist. the best I can do right now is hope like hell that one of her friends will be kind enough to let her move in with them, because there's literally nothing else I can do.

my initial plan - to travel ahead of my partner and spend some time with my mother and my friend interstate, while my partner goes to a car event that his best friends are hosting for the last time - has been delayed indefinitely because we can't afford the rent, plus the trailer tires, plus my plane ticket, plus the power bill. my partner won't even get his final paycheck until next Thursday because of payroll issues, so the extra income we were banking on - no pun intended - is no longer an option.

my mother is being evicted as well, so she has just under three months now to vacate and find somewhere else to live, as if that's easy to do.

I'm just. so. fucking. tired.

I wish my grandmother was here.

[leonkennedysprostate]

do you reblog?

i don't reblog anything

i don't know how to reblog

"aesthetic" reblogs only

i reblog *everything*

i only don't reblog things i don't like/aren't in my fandoms/niches/spheres

reblogging is what keeps this site alive and functional and should be practiced

also please talk in the tags!!! it's fun!!! talk!! scream even!! add additions

contribute to the conversation!!! to the fandom or niche!!!

and REBLOG ART AND GIF SETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Voting ended onMay 30

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[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[mintedwitcher]

it's been two hours and my goal is almost at 50% already??!?!?!?!? THANK YOU

guys seriously, I am SO thankful to you all right now. thank you so much to everyone donating and sharing.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[mintedwitcher]

it's been two hours and my goal is almost at 50% already??!?!?!?!? THANK YOU

guys seriously, I am SO thankful to you all right now. thank you so much to everyone donating and sharing.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[mintedwitcher]

started a goal on my kofi (HERE) for the amount I need to raise for these tires.

to the wonderful people who have donated already, either recently or in the past few weeks, THANK YOU. you have no idea how much your support has helped, and I am so unbelievably grateful to all of you.

to everyone who has shared my posts, THANK YOU. I'm genuinely so grateful. even if you can't donate, getting the word out and sharing this post is so helpful.

I want to reiterate, I don't expect donations. anything I get, I am so incredibly grateful for and humbled by. I hope someday that I can be able to pay some of this kindness forward to others who need it.

thank you all again, and please, share this post. we're down to our last week in this situation and I would really like to be able to help my partner with this last obstacle.

[mintedwitcher]

So my partner and I are being evicted at the end of May. We still have to pay rent for that whole month despite our lease ending this week. We just got a power bill for nearly $500 due on May 6th. We have a water bill for $110 due on the 29th of April. I have no clue how we're going to afford the tow trailer we need to move out of this house, and I can't even begin to think about how much the fuel price hike is going to royally fuck us because we're planning to move interstate.

Basically, I am treading water at this point. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Unfortunately, due to the moving situation, I won't be able to commit to any editing or proofing jobs until well into June.

My kofi is here. I don't expect anything, but even just $50 to get something other than noodles for dinner would help a lot.

[mintedwitcher]

We have one week left.

We need tires for the trailer. That is going to run us around $550.

My partner is no longer employed. I don't get paid until the 29th. We have to be out completely by the 31st.

I am desperate.

Please. If you can help, my kofi is linked above.

[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]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[halcyonhue]

I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you