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don’t even want to talk about the el*ction today but, regardless of what happens today, please keep me and others you know in red/swing states in your thoughts because there will be an uptick of violence and me and others like me will very much be the targets/victims.... please donate to mutual aids, bail funds, donation chains, or even directly to ppl’s Venmo/CashApp because this fallout will be long withstanding and people WILL need support

doghokage

here we go with y’all bashing on red and swing states again completely ignoring the fact that a majority of them are occupied by poor, gay, black and brown people like y’all really can’t call yourselves progressive if you’re campaigning on protecting these marginalized lives but bashing on these states in the same breath.... either step back and analyze your elitism or shut your mouth

hypokeimena

can you imagine being 26 years old and in marketing and you want to settle down with a rich stupid man who’s crazy about you and you FIND a divorcee who hasn’t talked to his ex in over a decade and has a very forgiving custody arrangement that would easily enable boarding school and is willing to MARRY you after a SIX TO EIGHT WEEK SUMMER ROMANCE with NO PRENUP and then his brat kid comes back from summer camp and it turns out his ESTRANGED OTHER TWIN DAUGHTER came back from camp and they hijack your entire life and put a lizard on you and then your hot old man ditches you for his hot mess of an ex WHO DESIGNED… THE CUSTOM WEDDING DRESS YOU HAD ALREADY PAID FOR. truly. a roller coaster summer…. all that scheming WASTED

woulddieforperrytheplatypus

supreme-leader-stoat

I…

supreme-leader-stoat

urbanfantasyinspiration

I’m so happy for Dan

glumshoe

The other day I watched a little boy get knocked to the ground by an older kid who was running by. He burst into tears as his mother hurried over.

“Here’s a bandaid for ya,” I said, producing one from my vest pocket.

“Oh, he’s not bleeding, thank you though!”

I lowered my voice and leaned in. “Kids think bandaids are health magic,” I said. “Ask him where it hurts and exploit that placebo effect.”

She did just that, and instantly the kid stopped crying and thanked her. “I’ll have to remember that,” she said.

Children: #HACKED

tinyqueenusagi-chan

Also if you have a crying kid give them a cup of water. You can’t cry and drink at the same time and it gives them a chance to calm down.

Tell them their going to run out of tears so they drink the water.

My mom does this at her preschool after awhile the other children start offering the crying child little cups of water.

maxanaxam

Stuff like this is also a great test to see if the kid is actually seriously injured! Because with how much some kids cry over tiny bumps and scrapes, it can be hard to tell. But if you slap a Band-Aid on it or give them a cup of water or a piece of candy and they stop crying, they’re fine. If they keep crying despite whatever little placebo or distraction you’ve given them, you might wanna look a little closer at that injury or seek medical attention.

raincloudsandsunbeams

With my two’s class we ask them “more hurt or more scary?” It takes a bit of practice but after a few times they can answer without more prompting. More scary gets a hug and more hurt gets a look over.

markingatlightspeed

That last one is so important because it validates the child’s feelings and tells them it’s okay to have these feelings and lets them learn how to deal with them, rather than just distracting them from them. I also helps teach the child to both communicate their feelings more readily and communicate when they’re hurt more clearly. All really important skills for a child to develop young.

everythingfox

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

(via)

wakandamama

This us the most peace I will ever have this year

left-reminders

They still do exploit literal children in colonized countries

astrodidact

katakulio

Transcription:

[Colour photograph of Winona LaDuk speaking. She is wearing traditional clothing and there is another indigenous person sitting next to her.]

“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.” ~ WInona LaDuk

yekkes

It cuts off her full last name, which is LaDuke. She is Jewish, Ojibwe, and an indigenous activist.

caroldanversenthusiast

LOOK at Rina Sawayama !!

intensional

luxlightly

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present.

luxlightly

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??”

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist.

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them.