a mutually understood relevance to one another

if nobody told you they loved you today remember i do and i always will

[mamoru]

one really important thing you can do to help disabled people everywhere is to make sure your medical office has pokemon stickers. whatever specialty your office is, it should have pokemon stickers. you should have pokemon stickers. there should be pokemon stickers at every medical location. and more than just pikachu if you can help it.

[maykitz]

protecting children is when they can be made into unrestricted content for their parents' kidfluencer instagram or family vlogs but they can't go online and watch the videos they themselves are in, for their own safety

[maykitz]

what a lot of people don't understand, and what leads to them falling for conspiracy(-like) pizzagate style narratives even if they think they're above that due to not being lowly right wing qanoners, is that buying underage kids for sex is not difficult or expensive. at all. i say this brutally because it is brutal.

[maykitz]

most people can reach children through family and friends "for free" anyway, but paying for it isn't a wealthy people business in the slightest.

countless major cities have areas that are known for teen prostitution and the prices there are low because the kids are desperate; poor, often addicted to something, possibly homeless. and i mean really low. in an article i've translated and posted here before, one previously affected child said a handjob in the car from a 13-year-old would go for 20€ and their street was always busy. quick oral sex with a 15-year-old for 30€, vaginal for 40€. a couple hundred if you want to take them somewhere with you for multiple hours. one girl was bought from her parents for 100€ and later sold by her trafficker to the client who impregnated her for 400€. these are the price ranges.

if you want younger than that still, you wouldn't believe how many parents or legal guardians pimp out their kids and how cheap it is. just recently a woman in indiana sent men photos of her 7-month-old daughter through snapchat with "u can fuck her for $400" and that only made the news because she got caught. the price matches what i've read in similar stories. "even" in the first world raping a baby is affordable for less than a month's rent and only requires not getting automatically flagged by snapchat's policy against sex solicitation.

and if you do go abroad, sex tourism only costs you an average solo vacation. when i was in mombasa on the beach at night to buy weed, a woman propositioned to me and, upon being turned down, informed me that they had girls starting at age 8 available if that's what i was after. no hesitation or pretense. she herself seemed barely in her 20s. being a foreigner on your own is all it takes. you don't need a secret password or special connections. for those who want to, it's painfully easy, cheap and safe.

the world of underage prostitution and trafficking doesn't look like children being sold as precious commodities to handpicked clienteles. they're sold dirt cheap to whatever average joe bastard happens to show up because there are millions of kids in shit life circumstances with no one looking out for them. they're treated as a dime a dozen. poor and neglected children are literally mass produced goods. child labour is used precisely because it's so cheap, why would sexual exploitation be any different?

point being: rich and famous people don't need to do all that to get access to a child. in fact, celebrities probably have a somewhat harder time with the anonymity that makes it so safe, being in the public eye and all. whenever you're reading something about sex trafficking in general or children in particular, pay attention to if it's being suggested that one needs to be part of the elite or some other secret club to be granted access. that'll tell you it's someone's make-believe saucy crime fiction / political thriller.

[iamaine]

Hate Hate Hate stories that reward characters for refusing to do triage. 'I refuse to choose only one to survive even if it means both die' [plot contrives for this to be the only way both survive] is so weak. Making difficult decisions with no good outcome is not a moral failing

[segamascott]

[xenosagaepisodeone]

hey man i see the projector in your mind's eye casting the image of a beautiful self indulgent fantasy over my silhouette so i just wanted to remind you before you try any funny business that when its battery dies it's just going to be me here

[shadowbrightshine]

I think this is going to change something in my brain and I'm not sure how.

[bottlehawk]

i love rose lalonde so much she is like "i want to play this game because i want to see my dead cat. not that he's that important to me but i'm going to try using a time machine in my mom's lab to teleport my cat. i ended up cloning my cat. i only knew him when i was five and i am thirteen now so i don't really care. the lab is on fire now. i'm going to take one of the clones and name it mutie. last year i made a snowman of my cat in my yard. my cat is dead now in my backyard. after i heard his last words i've been scrawling them in my journal ever since. i don't think much about my cat though. i found my cat's body in my mom's room and grabbed it. the world is about to be destroyed by meteors. i'm going to put my cat in this glowing orb now so i can revive my cat. now i am in a new world and my house is gone. my cat is here. i'm telling him i love him. i missed him so much."

[just-shower-thoughts]

Humanity spent most of its existence desperately seeking enough food to survive, then all of a sudden we’ve got so much we’re killing ourselves with it.

[fuck-you-showerthoughts]

Very very few people die from overeating and very few people die from obesity. Many more people die from being underweight.

[gatheringbones]

everything I did to connect my cptsd to sociopolitical historical forces made me feel better stronger safer more settled and best of all not even remotely special

[mamoru]

every now and then I make a post about food safety and someone says "[other food company] would NEVER" and then I look them up and they sell products containing a fuckload of lead

[mamoru]

bob's red mill

[mamoru]

they should not be allowed to sell that. literally the highest lead level out of all the cassava flour tested. not only does bob's red mill sell lead, they are really really really good at it too.

[sanctus-ingenium]

bury your maze

[sea-critter]

found in a squat in an abandoned housing development, 2023

[klapollo]

like the fact that PrEP and PEP just kinda became a normal part of life one day without fanfare is something I think about a lot. Thousands of people died gruesome horrible deaths and now when I go on Reddit or ride the subway I see dinky little ads like "start this medication today so you don't contract/spread HIV! and if you get accidentally exposed there's a different medication for that to keep yourself from contracting!" and it's just an everyday thing. all those people who died fought for it to be this way.

[ot3]

it's maddening that if your political position is "i don't want good things if they come at the expense of other people" people will treat you like you are the stupidest person on the planet

[ot3]

i don't waaaaaant domestic protections for lgbt people that comes from backing candidates that advocate for genocide and mass incarceration i don't want social welfare that comes from imperial profits i don't want affordable goods that come from sweatshop labor I don't want year round access to all types of produce that comes from climate-destroying agricultural and import processes i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it! ! ! ! ! and somehow this is an extreme fringe position

[klaasje]

brings me great comfort that DE was made by people who are still using the same weird little universe they came up with as kids

[redlipstickresurrected]

Relja Penezić (Serbian, b. 1950, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, based Navarre, FL, USA) - California Road Chronicles #81, 2019, Paintings: Oil on Wood

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

This (from Cornell Labs via Merlin) is the pic I was looking at. It's just a little baby but it's so much bigger than its "parent"!!!! Do baby cowbirds feel isolated? Do they understand they're a different bird, or are they just a really bad sparrow?

[raiasintended]

hey, good news! ecologists have been studying this very thing! it seems young cowbirds have some kind of innate sense that leads them to sneak out of their foster nest at night to hang out in grasslands where they—more often than not—meet other cowbirds and learn more about what they really are.

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Thanks I am going to cry so hard I throw up ;-;