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just an exhausted mom's side blog about her gen alpha kid

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

[gastronauticsyd]

The Screenshot (2014)

[fredersen]

The Reblog (2014)

[toratiger-deactivated20211204]

Bahahahaha love this

[processintegrated]

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

[grumpygreenwitch]

The Revival (2026)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[tired-adhd-mom]

One time when the Child™️ was about 8 or 9, they had one of those rainbow loom kits in a bead box like this. I found it in a corner of their room EMPTY and UPSIDE DOWN 😭 took me like an hour to clean it up and get everything out of the carpet

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[tparadox]

This is the anti-AI site, the results will be skewed. They'll be correct, but also skewed.

[terryxsi]

Overheard a 13 yr old explaining how jax was a trans lesbian to his dad at amc today

[tired-adhd-mom]

This is going to be my child and me after our showing tomorrow night

Except I'm a Mom (duh) and the child's Dad will be bitching about the source material (which he already did for episodes 1-8 😒)

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[00000000000000z-deactivated2022]

happy Mother’s Day to these two queens

[grumfy]

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

[ankle-beez]

'The Amazing Digital Circus' Finale Sets Ticket Presale Records for Fathom | Exclusive

The finale to the hit Glitch animated series is becoming the next "Iron Lung" with $5 million in presales

This past Friday, indie animation distributor Glitch, which produces “The Amazing Digital Circus,” announced that Episode 8 and the soon-to-be-released finale would be combined into a theatrical event distributed by Fathom in theaters in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Japan on June 5, two weeks before the finale’s YouTube release.

In the four days since the trailer’s release, Fathom tells TheWrap that “The Amazing Digital Circus” has shattered the company’s presale records, with $5 million in tickets already sold more than seven weeks before the release date. Fathom’s previous presale record holder, “Christmas With The Chosen,” earned $3 million in presales in 2023.

But that alone wouldn’t be enough to make “Circus” an “Iron Lung”-esque phenomenon. Fathom CEO Ray Nutt told TheWrap that over the weekend, theater owners have called his company asking to book the film for their screens. The demand has been fueled by a wave of outreach from fans who want to see the final episode with others and support the series, as well as a fear of being spoiled on what happens in the episode before its YouTube release.

Now, instead of a four-day limited engagement in 900 theaters, Fathom will be screening “The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act” for two weeks right up to the YouTube release on a minimum of 1,800 theaters. With theater owners gathered in Las Vegas for CinemaCon this week, at least two exhibitors have told TheWrap they are looking into adding “Circus” to their summer schedule for their screens, so that theater count will only grow in the weeks ahead.

[tired-adhd-mom]

I am not the biggest fan of this show (pretty much hate all of it except for gummigoo) but I have A TEEN so ofc they love it & I bought tickets for all 3 of us to go so we can support our little weirdo and their fandom

Even as a hater, I am delighted to see the surge of attention/news stories this is giving indie animation in general and TADC in particular.

[true-bluesargent]

the thing is is that you'll be like. 11 years old and someone will tell you that you have to shave your legs. either it will be your mum or a friend or a mean girl in the p.e. changing rooms telling you how gross it is that you have hair on your legs. so then you ask your mum about it and she says yep you have to take this razor blade and drag it across your skin under running water and just hope you don't cut yourself too badly and you have to do this every single week and maybe more frequently than that and you have to do that for fucking ever. the rest of your fucking life. because the hair that grows naturally on your legs is gross and ugly and people will laugh and boys won't like you! of course boys have hair on THEIR legs. but that's normal and even attractive and it's just not the same for you. and a few years later they'll say well you obviously should also be shaving your armpits. and then it's your arms and then it's that you have to wax your upper lip and pluck your eyebrows and ewww why do you have hair on your fingers and your toes.. you need to shave that too. and then suddenly you need to buy spray that will make invisible hairs on your face visible so that you can shave that too! and it's expensive and time consuming and difficult and it HURTS but they just say beauty is pain babe! and you're not allowed to say that maybe if beauty is pain then you don't actually want to be beautiful

[true-bluesargent]

and i'm so fucking tired of girls who do shave being defensive when this topic comes up because then i have to say well of COURSE it's your personal choice whether you want to shave or not! no offense! maybe it makes you feel empowered! you do it for YOURSELF! because that's bullshit and i actually DO think you should stop shaving your legs because it's not fucking empowering it's insane. if you give it more than a minute of thought it can't possibly be empowering. you're in a PRISON!!!!! and i was in the prison too okay and i know it seems hard to break out but i promise you it's not. and the more people we can break out of the prison the easier it gets for everyone else i swear to god. please

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning tutorial

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning walkthrough

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning tips and tricks

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[molluskmagus]

[whitefireprincess]

Blcksmth

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[renthony]

It's darkly amusing to me that some people thought my mom didn't "discipline" me enough as a kid, were not shy about making sure both she AND I knew it, and now as an adult I'm one of the only people in my friend group who still wants anything to do with their parents. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

When I was a kid, I broke a ceramic soap dispenser. I burst into tears and was terrified that I was going to be in trouble. My mom told me that it was okay, because accidents happen sometimes, and the important thing was that I didn't do it on purpose and apologized.

When someone else I know was a kid, they broke a dish on accident and got screamed at and guilt tripped. To this day, they have to push down a panic attack at the sound of broken glass, and have had to actively work on healing from that trauma. They will always have to carry that.

I think maybe it's not MY mom who fucked up in the "how to discipline your child" department. Quite frankly, I think the idea of "disciplining children" is fucked up and deeply harmful on a fundamental level.

When a kid does something wrong, you have to teach them how to fix it and do better. Humans are messy and complicated and we don't know everything there is to know just by being born. Children are learning how to be human beings, and that's a really hard thing to learn.

Kids question and fight back against authority that mistreats them, but someone treating them like a human being with human emotions is usually going to have a lot of success. Kids just want to be respected, and it's our job as adults to give them that basic human dignity. The world is utterly terrifying, and made scarier when all the grown-ups seem to hate you and wish you would just shut up and go away, even the ones that claim they want you around.

Kids can be mean, because they're still learning how to socialize and communicate and collaborate. Sometimes you have to give them time to cool off, and sometimes you have to redirect them. Sometimes you have to be firm. Sometimes you have to be an adult, and hone your conflict de-escalation and resolution skills. None of that requires punishment.

And if a child does something truly cruel and fucked up and shitty, and it hurts someone in a big way? My first question isn't "what should their punishment be," my first question is always, "who taught this kid that, and is this child in active danger from them?"

[tired-adhd-mom]

We have my 10 mo old niece staying with us for a week and half and it's great but HARD. She is a total Velcro baby and normally is on mom (my SIL) all the time, but since that's no longer an option she chose my husband as the mom replacement. The issue is we have a totally different parenting style & if she's safe and being looked after by another person (either me or my 12 yr old) we're not gonna make husband stop what he's doing just so he can be with niece.

Also I am being proven right in having only 1 child, 2 children (even w/ a 12 year age gap) is super hard and I don't think I would like that life 24/7/365 😬😬

[tired-adhd-mom]

I will say I TRY not to judge other people's parenting styles because we're all different and our kids are different, so who am I to say anybody else is doing things wrong when I'm not in their shoes...BUT (c'mon you knew I had an opinion) my BIL always hands the niece to my SIL the second she starts to fuss and he always says "oh no, she wants her mama" even when my SIL tells him niece is fine and to just hold her.

Which 1) feels like weaponized incompetence and 2) probably guilt trips the hell out of my SIL into taking her even when she doesn't want to and I kind of hate him for it

Anyways niece is in hog heaven rn, bc my husband works from home so he's on niece-sitting duty until I get home around 6 pm

[tired-adhd-mom]

We have my 10 mo old niece staying with us for a week and half and it's great but HARD. She is a total Velcro baby and normally is on mom (my SIL) all the time, but since that's no longer an option she chose my husband as the mom replacement. The issue is we have a totally different parenting style & if she's safe and being looked after by another person (either me or my 12 yr old) we're not gonna make husband stop what he's doing just so he can be with niece.

Also I am being proven right in having only 1 child, 2 children (even w/ a 12 year age gap) is super hard and I don't think I would like that life 24/7/365 😬😬

[tired-adhd-mom]

they're about to turn 13 next month and fully being a teenager already and ITS SO ANNOYING