Meow?

Silly little kitty cat; nonbinary they/them, Late 20s. (Occasional NSFW; minors DNI)

[ceridreams]

top tip: if there's ever a lull in the conversation you can just start meowing

[miss-sagemoon]

[luulapants]

Might fuck around and paper my town with these. Feel free to join me.

[c4bl3fl4m3]

Would you be willing to post the files for these so we can have the best quality copy for printing purposes?

[luulapants]

Here's a folder with the files! I couldn't get the last one to PDF correctly with the image, so it's still text.

[dramatic-dolphin]

it's actually so funny that all you need to do as a female athlete to be immediately disqualified is being good, because everyone knows women suck ass at everything and if a woman is good at something that's unnatural. hashtag feminism hashtag protect women.

[storm-of-feathers]

a childs most likely abuser is their family or a family friend so no i dont think isolating children to only their families, including online, will protect them ever.

[cikero]

brother’s friend’s kid came up to me and asked if I’ve ever played smash bros. nah never let’s play it on your switch little guy

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to live with all of your mutuals for a year! can you do it? the catch is that you can't leave the house {the food is delivered though}

yes

no

results

Voting ended onJan 6

[subtextsays]

Only if we do @tzigane plan of renovating an old school building

[markovchaingang]

honestly it's an underrated move of tumblr to introduce a water filter that users can put over images and to then make it so that filter triggers their mature content identification system. you won't see any other social media websites making bold moves like that

[daeranilen]

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

[daeranilen]

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

[daeranilen]

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

[autumngracy]

“200 notes”

[SpongeBob Narrator voice] Ten Years Later

[tawked]

Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

[steviemcfly]

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

[reagan-was-a-horrible-president]

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

[problemnyatic]

oh my god this post is ten years old

[labelleizzy]

This argument is ninety years old if not older!

[pansyfemme]

*seductively* would you.. be interested in doing a unfunny bit with me sometime.. just the two of us..

[most-precious-garbage]

[guns-n-broses]

[macleod]

i knew this was going to fucking happen and i am so unbelievably pissed at this fuck this fuck all of you fuck no

[dzamie]

[Image ID: a cup of coffee with a spoonful of silver glitter being poured into it]

[guns-n-broses]

Friend: Dude wtf why did you put glitter in my coffee I was going to drink that?

Me: aesthetic

[macleod]

fuck no fuck no fuck no please no i dont want to see a photo of coffee with glitter in it fuck no

[the-real-gmail]

Ah, context

[junk-thunder]

adding a blank emoji to my discord server might be the best thing to ever happen to text communication. asynchronous digital equivalent of hanging out in a room with your friends in silence. let's all nothing together

[unyieldingsilence]

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[markrosewater]

Petition to start referring to nonbasic lands as acidic lands

: )

[strange-aeons]

They are sending my blood to Finland 🇫🇮🩸🇫🇮🩸🇫🇮🩸🇫🇮🩸🇫🇮🩸🇫🇮🩸

[strange-aeons]

yes. i'm ok though.

[cameronthecryptid]

Reblog to send all of your blood to Finland