A Real Soup Sandwich

Blink fast it's a Wink. Blink slow and it'll still be in your eye. Amore.

[anaftafiat]

you'll never guess my kavat's name

[yaldabaothadeez]

(sources: 1, 2, - ocatg on bsky)

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[charlesoberonn]

I like this meme because the stock photos make it seem like the same woman but 10 years older.

[bungcar]

[deareadersmanuscript-deactivate]

This is the cutest and you will not convince me otherwise.

[hellenhighwater]

Water goblin

[hellenhighwater]

Wet Beast Wednesday

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[color-palettes]

The Time Traveler Whose Entire Job is Showing Me My Past Faults - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#f97080 #fd5433 #f8bc4e #83a147 #3e7788 #102e4a

[waitgn]

[hyumjim]

Starting a collection

[hyumjim]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is really clever. I wonder how long it took her to find all of these.

[catdotwav]

for folks concerned its AI, i'm pleased to report its not only legit, she has a whole ass burger coord to go with it and its delightful

check out more of her work on her reddit !!

[triplehamburgerjack]

THIS IS WHAT I'M ABOUT

[prettycolors]

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[mi-ciudad]

first we do a Lego sesh then we do each other

[palmonn-deactivated20251117]

[seattledaddyintraining]

Reminds me of one I made…

[elnerdo19v2]

[go-go-devil]

The entire 3-minute city ambiance scene from Ghost in the Shell (1995) is already one of the best moments in all of cinema imo, but I NEED to talk about my absolute favorite part from it:

That brief moment when Major Kusanagi and a stranger with her exact same body model catch a glance at one another. How quickly the initial curiosity of seeing the doppelgänger turns into a feeling of unease as the boat carries her away.

She will never meet this stranger. She'll never know anything about her other than the simple reminder that every piece of her cybernetic body is not unique to her. There is no part of her other than her brain and all its memories that she has any true ownership of, and even that isn't immune to being hacked and potentially erased by outside forces. Despite being a part of a bustling city, all she can do is reflect on how utterly isolated she feels as a living being.

How can she possibly define her humanity when she herself is confined in the form of what is essentially a highly modified weapon? How can she relate to others when she has more in common with the mannequins on display in a shopping mall than with the any of the people walking the streets?

All of this inner turmoil at one’s own existence conveyed without a SINGLE word of dialogue spoken. Now that's the power of cinema if I've ever seen it!

[memeclassheroes]

[greywrenn]

#‘el pastel promedio tiene tres leches’ es en realidad un error estadístico. El pastel promedio tiene 0 leches. Leches Georg#quien vive en una cueva y absorbe 10.000 leches al día#es un valor atípico qeu no debería haberse contado (via @deathbycoldopen)

[triplehamburgerjack]

I think at the end of the day, warframe is very fun

There are some unfun parts of it

And that has to do with my motor skills mostly (I hate the wave rider quests and am stuck and it's my last quest and I can't go see Quincy/make my base in the mall/I'm dying)

But I want to play something else and that's why single player non live/non mmo games are important

Get a little break, enjoy a lil story

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[lemonylemus]

This was reposted to YouTube shorts and I would like to point out some comments in the video

[flip-this-table]

Please give your children some damn playdoh and crayons and oversized bits of craft paper to color on. They need something more concrete and tactile than smooth glass.

[themainspoon]

Maybe they do need something tactile, but you've missed the point of the post. It's not the Ipad itself that's bad, it's the fact that the children are being neglected. You could hand a kid a whole library of books, several kilograms of play dough, a mountain of crayons, and all the craft paper in the world. But, if you don't spend time with them and you simply expect them to use those things to keep themselves busy so you don't have to deal with them, you're still neglecting the kid, and they're gonna end up with the same issues.

[angstandhappiness]

IMPORTANT

[thebiscuiteternal]

Running across this post almost immediately after reading the article about how some parents are letting fucking ChatGPT tell their kids bedtime stories now feels serendipitous in a way.

[shamebats]

#so this is actually what i wrote my final thesis about for my bachelors in psychology #i ran an exeriment on kids below 5 that measured their social cognition levels (eg. understanding others emotions and needs etc) #and i also asked the parents about their kids screentime habits #and there was obviously a negative correlation between the two - so more screentime meant lower social cognition on average #BUT there were quite a few outliers with high amounts of screentime but also a higher level of social congition #and the explanation for that is that for these children screentime isn't there INSTEAD of interacting with the parents #screentime only affects the child negatively if parents use it as a distraction for the kids instead of interacting with them #so if a child watches some cartoon then the best a parent can do is sit with them and watch with them and talk about it with them #and then (limited) screentime can actually be beneficial for the development of other cognitive skills #so there is a large amount of scientific research out there that proves what ppl said in this post

That's really it. You'd probably have gotten similar results 30 years ago if you studied kids who are left to read books by themselves alone in their room for multiple hours a day vs kids whose parents read with them, or at least in the same room and talk to them about what they're reading. Because the former are most definitely also being neglected in other ways.

It's not as much about the tablets, it's about the fact that these children aren't being played with and talked to enough. Parents are using them as a get out of parenting tool instead of a parenting tool.