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hollis-art

let's be pebbles and misbehave on our field trip to mr. grace's habitat :D

redlipstickresurrected

Gabrielle Garland (American, b. 1968, New York, NY, USA) - 1-3: Untitled, 2023, Paintings: Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

amphigories

on craigslist you can find jobs offering the same benefits as the army of ancient rome

identitty-dickruption

hey so if you have secret prejudiced thoughts about an oppressed group. and you feel guilty about those thoughts. to be honest it isn’t very swagilicious when you go out of your way to turn a member of that oppressed group into your own personal confessional booth. I don’t need to know that you were secretly ableist about your wheelchair using coworker, actually. I don’t need to know that you used to hate trans people. you don’t need to make that my problem please

identitty-dickruption

people in the notes keep saying “don’t do this to an internet stranger” and that’s true. but I need to be clear that I wrote this post after a close(ish) friend confessed her secret ableisms to my face. so also don’t go out into the offline world and do this either

parkchanwoohoo

Had my suspicions but I have finally confirmed it this morning: The rival Pokémon Go team I have been beefing with, whose gym's total annihilation I have incorporated into my morning routine, is actually a group of local elementary school students

parkchanwoohoo

I always wondered why the Pokémon at this gym were so weak but today I left the house before the local students get picked up by the schoolbus and I saw a group of kids congregating around the gym pokestop and I was like "Oh no"

undeadentropy

Congrats on being promoted to pokemon villain

beardedmrbean

thingsthatcannotsaveyou

THE IDEAS YOU RECEIVE FROM CHEESE CANNOT SAVE YOU

waffilicious

@theshitpostcalligrapher

theshitpostcalligrapher

cheeeeeeeeeese

ink: blend of various golds and ferris wheel press’s freshly squeezed sunshine

catchymemes

bro im gonna CRY i didnt know this 🥺

viss-and-pinegar

carriesthewind

On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

parkchanwoohoo

Josh Johnson's delivery is so funny 😭

derinthescarletpescatarian

I really love this thing that Josh Johnson always does, where he tells you the setup for the joke, then digresses with a long story that provides context, then reminds you of the setup of the joke in a single line and waits for you to tell the punchline to yourself before he says it. It gets the audience (and me) howling with laughter very single time. A very "we're all in on the joke" style of comedy.