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Seriously, just go follow my other blog @lazarusthirsting (formerly wishbonedean and formally thatsprettyillegalevenforus), it quickly became my main blog and I can't change it. Mostly Supernatural, while this blog is more miscellaneous and not as regularly updated.

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dailyrothko

Mark Rothko, No 10, 1958, Oil on canvas

#rothko #mark rothko

spirulin4

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

spirulin4

thanks for putting your wrong and bad commentary in the tags where i still have to read all of it. most of what you said is untrue.

imyselfamstrange

OP: giving children too young to process things so much access to ipads isn’t good for them maybe.

People in the notes: So you hate moms??? You’re ableist?? You think we should go back to the Dark Ages?? (My personal favorite because it makes no sense) you’re poor shaming??

Why is it so difficult to explain that children not developing fine motor skills and losing their attention spans is bad actually??

purplesweetpotatoes

also children can end up being entertained by just about anything. I remember building "bird nests" with sticks in the backyard when I was like 7 years old. That was it. It took up my whole afternoon and I was entertained the entire time.

atomicjellycat

I worked at a kindergarten for a year, and Jesus Christ these kids are falling behind on so many milestones

Everyone knows who the iPad kids are

I've seen it all from kids who don't know how to use scissors, and can't perform the motions right compared to other kids in that age group, to kids who can't write the alphabet or spell their names (the older ones)

And one of the most startling thing I encountered was every now and then we have a country day, where we choose a country, color in the country's flag in the colors and watch a little film about said country.

And I was overseeing the coloring, and one boy just refusing to color

It happens, stubbornness, bad days, 'just don't wanna' s happen, but I sit with him and continue to try and encourage him and figure out why he doesn't want to

And he keeps saying he doesn't know how to color

And I'm like ??? Just pick up the pencil and put it on the paper buddy, cmon

So I'm showing him how, and he refuses to try over and over

So then I try like, coloring while guiding his hand, and again this is a flag were coloring it's a giant rectangle, not much precision is needed

And I realize while I'm helping him, literally moving his hand to color for him, he's CLEARLY never colored before. He's 4, there is no excuse for this when kids start coloring at like, 2 maybe younger.

By 4-5 kids can generally color inside the lines well enough and draw recognizable figures like people and landscapes and pets

Eventually he got into it, understood how to do it and requested to continue on by himself, which was great! I told him I was proud of him and we continued on with our day but it absolutely shocked me that these iPad kids are so beyond stunted like jesus

He didn't know how to grip a pencil, he didn't know the wrist movements and motions, he didn't understand the pressure control, he had no control over where or how he was coloring like, these kids NEED TO learn these things it's STARTLING how many kids don't have these milestones and are just not developing these fine motor skills

Ask any kindergarten attendant and they'll tell you the same thing-

The best thing you can do for a kid is buy them a shitton of construction paper, decorative child-safe scissors, and coloring books

Please please please kids need to cut paper up and color. It helps them develop so many fine motor skils

Now don't be mistaken, the percentage of these kids are low, for now. It's definitely not every kid, and thankfully not the majority but it is still a problem

theclockwitch

What you're going to start seeing is a social class stratification of this.

I was at an MVA call--car into a powerline. Three kids, 9, 5, and 2 years old, trapped in the back of a car, crushed against a pole, live lines on the car. Meaning they were fine as long as they stayed inside but we couldn't cut the car open until the power company came and killed the line.

It took about a half an hour. We were all losing our MINDS thinking about three kids who had just been in a significant car accident, unknown injuries, trapped in a car without their mom, and all these strange noises and people around them. We thought these kids would be terrified.

Nope. All three of them were on devices watching videos. Like they didn't even register what had happened or the danger they'd been in or why people were so worried, or even THAT we were worried.

The most distress I saw the kids in as we drove the 30 minutes to the peds hospital? Was when the 2 year old's device's battery died. She went from sitting unnaturally quietly staring at Cocomelon to SCREAMING and throwing things and biting anyone. She only calmed down when her older brother agreed to share his device with her.

It was spooky af, man.

The mom thought she was doing a great job bc her kids were 'so well behaved'. To this day I wonder about kids who cannot process anything other than visual dopamine. How are they going to do in school? Sure? But how about their social development? How are they going to have friends? Boyfriends? Girlfriends? Anything?

jovialjuggernaut

mothnem

The Dollar Store exists. An etch-a-sketch costs a dollar from there. They have more than that too. And while not being name brand stuff, a lot of Dollar store toys are pretty good. Particularly their stuffed animals.

uncontrollablequeerentity

Im going to piggyback on this post to add that in 2022 (Trump admin), the CDC changed the childhood development milestones. This is BAD FUCKING NEWS - changing the goalposts this way does several things:

- Problems will get overlooked past critical development windows where help is MOST beneficial for children, which creates problems that various industries will then sell us solutions to

- Insurance companies may deny support based on these guidelines and force you to wait until after critical support windows, increasing the likelihood that your child may struggle at least somewhat for life or at least impact their abilities as compared to their peers in school (and we know what not keeping up with our peers feels like and can do to a person)

- We cannot point to bad policies to blame them for falling childhood development stats if the guidelines say your kid is "normal"

Tech companies NEED your money to pay back all their investors, they are so in the hole right now over all of this AI garbage and they WILL lobby against your child's health and more for their own survival and tell you how benefical and easy it is to give your kid an ipad, and they'll even promote this as saving you the shame of having a "misbehaved" child, all the while they are spending a LOT of money to induce your kid with a screen/dopamine addiction (and i mean addiction, replace the word "drug" with "ipad" or "youtube" on any resource describing signs of addiction. It's one way to guarantee a market, that's for sure).

Health insurance and big pharma companies are also invested in making sure we are all sick or stunted enough to depend on them for lifelong treatments so it is on their best interests for your kid to miss crucial development windows so they acquire a learning disability or mobility issues that will make them lifelong cash machines.

I could say more, but the point of this is to say that childhood development milestones are no joke. They are not made up numbers (pre-2022, please please please follow pre-2022 guidelines if you have a child and make sure your doctor does too). This can be the difference between making your child's life as accessible as is possible for them to very very difficult for the simplest of tasks. And reducing the bar for what does or doesn't qualify as a red flag only hurts our kids.

Also, calling all parents, LISTEN TO TEACHERS. Seriously, check out the #teaching or #education tags every once in a while and you will get a front row seat to what kids are *really* like and what is *actually* happening from the people with the most face-time with a wide of array of children from various backgrounds. Students today are NOT like students 30 years ago who had much less solo access to screens and much fewer restrictions when it came to getting out of the house or making noise/disruptions at the community/societal level. Your kids are under attack but too many parents are focused on convenience and appearances. I get that youre tired and under attack too, we all are, so get mad and do the very least and call your local representatives every once in a while and tell them to fight for your kids! Theyre not even getting LUNCH anymore and we're not rioting in the streets? I can see how easy it is to dismiss a kid not holding a pencil as minor when we don't even make a move to fight for the food we all know we need to survive. Get up and get out. 5calls.org is a great resource for finding your local and federal representatives, i called my rep today and got ahold of a real live person on the line to gripe, but if not, there are voicemail scripts available. This is not just a social issue, it is critically a politicial issue as well. Our reps have sold us out to the investor class, we need to make some noise for our kids and our teachers.

#and if you have any problems making kids “fend for themselves” reasonably to acquire life skills #then you are taking your own skills for granted entirely #i used to teach pre-2020 and it was bad enough then #and this was in south korea and they are having the same issue with screens messing with their kids development #i dont have stats but i saw it and so did all of my teaching peers #i have a friend still teaching there who regularly reports poor emotional regulation and poor fine motor skills #some cant even hold a fork or chopsticks bc grandma thinks shes being kind by feeding the kid every single meal #but your 5yo needs to learn how to hold a fork!!!#if it's possible for them then you make them do it!#also seriously get your young children tons of toys that do DIFFERENT THINGS and require DIFFERENT MODES of playing with them #if youre worried about sustainability first of all NO! your kid NEEDS a variety of toys this is NOT spoiled or privileged behavior #if youre that concerned then buy secondhand and donate when done your very young child will literally not care at all consumerism is learned #your kid needs to make a mess and shred and spill and break and spin and plug and roll and squish and throw and bite and you get the picture #otherwise theyre gonna learn the hard way (or worse theyll become avoidant and not enjoy life)#im rambling now i could obviously go on but seriously please dont take developmental windows lightly #the pit you feel in your gut when you realize a parent has *completely* ignored their child's developmental milestones is... indescribable #teachers are feeling it every single day and really want to say something but everyone is so defensive and wont listen to a literal expert #your child's teacher is possibly the single best ally you have in your child's healthy development #they know more than you and have more experience with children your child's age than you do #and they often are passion driven and give a damn about these things enough to be proactive #but they are not a replacement for solo or one-on-one at that is only possible at home #please dear god listen to your kids teachers/day care staff

shamebats

"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

Agates carved into orange slices by wutong_crystal_carvings.

Source: x

tiny-pebble

shadowisi

urpdurp

My Eyes at the Time of Revelation, 1911-13

August Natterer also known as Neter

#art #august natterer

artpornmagazine

Jenna Barton

Artporn Magazine is on Facebook

#art #dogs

weepingwidar

Monika Marchewka (Polish, 1988) - The Visit (2024)

#art #monika marchewka #polish art #painting

moonchild-77777777777

- Janusz Grabiański (Polish, 1929-1976) Illustration from Poetry for Kaya, 1969.

Moonlight

“Are you really different?” He looked at her in the rearview mirror. “From whom?” “You know.” He didn’t answer immediately. Then he said in dialect, “Do you want me to tell you the truth?” “Yes.” “The intention is there, but I don’t know how it will end up.” - Elena Ferrante

#my brilliant friend #this scene was a ton of bricks

sarawaybourne

L'amica Geniale, The New Name

#my brilliant friend

tafkarfanfic

Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

uncontrollablequeerentity

For a visual, I'd advise everyone to take a look at this website that demonstrates wealth inequality quite well. Brian Thompson was merely a symptom of a much, much larger problem. Even he didn't have a meaningfully impactful salary. We literally have TRILLIONAIRES, the definition of obscene wealth, which we *know* comes from the pain and suffering of *countless* people.

As we the conversation around class consciousness is taking hold these days, we have to be clear here about what the point of our arguments are, what the point of our actions are, and what are the actual changes that would lead to the most *meaningful* change that we would fight for. We are all working with much, much less than we labor for, so we have to be smart about where we apply our resources (or not!). We have had successful movements in the past and we can do it again, we are doing it now. Learn from our own and others' revolutionary histories, work on your propoganda literacy and biases, join organizations, participate in strikes/boycotts in unison, we have plenty of methods at our disposal and plenty of successes behind us - industries, kingdoms, and empires are toppled all the time! We can destroy wealth inequality! The best time to start is always TODAY!

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

#the wealthy with be the scapegoats for the ultrawealthy #this is why you shouldnt feel safer amongst those richer than you or because you make more than others #there's always a bigger fish and they WILL NOT HESITATE #to eat you. the poor wont eat the rich #the ultrarich will serve up the rich to save themselves #all that said there is risk in delaying momentum so we need to pearn quickly how to maximize opportunities for change like these #we first and foremost need to unequivocally define the root of our problems and that is the ultra-rich specifically #the rich are a symptom because the ultra rich need a patsy #to throw in front of us to tear apart when we've had enough a la french revolution #politicians are part of the rich class as well they are not often also ultra rich or they wouldnt be so public facing which is a risk #not to say we must go out of our way to protect the rich but to make sure we are always oriented towards *meaningful* progress #and as long as the ultra rich exist as a class theres nothing we could do to the rich class that wont result in a full recovery for empire #this is a marathon not a sprint but we need to take advantage of events like these to spark engagement with newcomers #dont shame anyone for taking this long to get to this point dont shame anyone for not being perfectly aligned this is harmful long term #but also be wary of bad actors and have a protocol personally and communally for how to identify bad actors and minimize their influence #the ultra rich are always organized so we should be too.

emmastory

alla mingalёva

#painting #mash up #alla mingalëva

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