Screeching Parrot

they/he || bird nerd, enjoyer of punk, and Hermitcraft watcher || I tend to spam-reblog here, check out my other account @Byrdi-The-Bird

[oshacompliantmagicalgirl]

[pechuyu]

Got a silly idea for a comic while studying inuktitut

[businesstiramisu]

Mick Mallan's lessons available on the Internet Archive as a 1994 computer game? Sure, why not!

[redstonedust]

one day for april fools ethoslab should hire an editor to make him an episode with the production style of a tommyinnit video or something and then he just never acknowelgdes it and goes back to his normal style forever after.

[suigintou]

i just felt someone right click me

[superchat]

[lucdoodle]

"Thanks for walking me home."

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

[5th-place]

Yes!

Susie does this quite a lot. Some I remember are-

And obviously her letter to Alvin

[vraska-theunseen]

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

[vraska-theunseen]

i have no defense against this. you've got me

[birds-in-posts]

Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

Mealy Amazon (Amazona farinosa)

Chestnut-fronted macaw (Ara severus)

Blue-headed parrot (Pionus menstruus)

Orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi)

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[sevserez]

Soup incident

[impactings-deactivated20240405]

Jessie after dark

[impactings-deactivated20240405]

update i have concerns about where katherine is going 

[batwynn]

I’m a little more concerned about Roland at the moment.

[teashoesandhair]

Not to awaken the Katharine fandom or anything but, as of April 2020, she’s doing her absolute best

Oh to be a misunderstood sassy girl who disappears for a year and returns having gained 1,000 pounds

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was just looking at how Sally was doing and

[kenbuttshiro]

So, Thomas definitely is up to something

WHAT IS HE UP TO

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

He got the shark equivalent of the 2am zoomies.

[discommunicator]

Guess who was my favorite flower

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]

[itsdefinitely]

my 100% serious deltarune comic

[shamebats]

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

[shamebats]

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

[shamebats]

The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.

We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.

If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.

[shamebats]

Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.

Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.

So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.

[anarchistmemedistro]

see also family abolition, and youth liberation .

[applefae]

A knee-jerk response to neglectful parenting I see a lot is “people should have to get licenses and take rigorous tests to PROVE that they should be ALLOWED to have kids” which is eugenics. That’s just the starting line for eugenics.

We are at a point in humanity where there is no meaningful reason why we shouldn’t be structuring our societies around wellbeing for all instead of wellbeing for the “deserving”.

Assume some parents will fail. Build social infrastructure that is designed to support failed kids rather than punish would-be parents.

[queer-riot-dragon]

Parents do not have to be neglectful to fail!

They can be busy, tired, stressed about finances, ignorant, etc. They can want to do the best for their kid and Fail Anyways.

The best thing is to support the children and give them the tools they need to succeed even if the parents are already giving them those tools. Because you can never learn something too much.

[lessproblematical]

Also sometimes parents become disabled or die and family can't always be counted on, and sometimes there isn't other family

[sassycurse]

one of the best feelings tbh

[3liza]

Bra Fitting Graphics

 

[3liza]

fyi

[3liza]

this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it

[boxingcleverrr]

AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!

[naomiknight-17]

@aspect-rei

[enamega]

(with the intonation of a 45 year old detective who's picked up cigarettes after the fourth time he said he'd quit) so there's this annoying fictional blonde man.