not gonna lie, when i saw that a cybertruck had exploded i legit didn't realize it was some sort of premeditated thing, i just thought it was just another extreme flaw in it's design. i had no idea fireworks were involved, i honest to god thought it just did that on its own
"i just feel like boys are easier" -- parent who is going to emotionally neglect their amab kids
"my daughter is hard because i have to micromanage all her emotions to make sure they're correct. my son is easier because i just pretend he has no interior emotional life whatsoever. i'm such a good parent"
glad we're all feeling completely normal about this one in the tags
Playing terraria with some friends and referring to going and getting ores and materials as "getting goodies and yum yums." I also caught myself saying "I'm getting boo-boos and owies" upon taking a lot of damage at once
last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the choices she and my father had made about raising me and my brother and she agreed that just listening to the child and taking them seriously was the One Weird Trick to cutting out like 60% of conflicts between parents and children. and she said one time I was about three or four years old and we were all going to the grocery store, and at the threshold of the store I just had a meltdown. i was overwhelmed, I was crying, I was just at the end of my rope like kids get sometimes. and instead of dragging me through the store my mom and dad stopped what we were doing and just asked me what the problem was. and I was able to say I didn't want to be there, I couldn't do it, I wanted to go home. and she says she and my father just looked at each other and back at me and said "okay" and we all went home that day instead of forcing the grocery store trip. and I had so few public meltdowns as a kid despite being pretty autistic because, I think, I knew that if I ever really needed to leave, my parents would understand and back me up. and that was the case throughout my childhood. which paradoxically (one might think) resulted in me having fewer incidents of being overwhelmed in the first place, which then made me better able to handle increasing amounts of stress and so on. it also taught me that expressing feelings and communicating them to my caretakers wasn't going to be punished or ignored or called weird, so unlike many other autistic kids who get judged or rebuked for expressing sensitivity or opposition, I didn't need to constantly blockade everyone and internalize everything all the time.
it's a pretty simple concept whether your kids are autistic or not, but most parents don't seem to get it. their parents taught them to just force everything and let the child deal with it alone so they just repeat the cycle even though they know how it feels.
Zootopia kills me as an allegory enjoyer because I do think animals as representative of different people can work, it just didn't that time because it was copaganda. And in order to be copaganda it has to be racist
Like the implications could have been so much less weird if they just didn't make predators the oppressed class. For starters. Second mistake was making the main protagonist a cop
On a scale from zootopia to maus how well was the animal allegory handled
[ID: a tag from @aztatine219 that reads, "#bringing maus into this ok you really want zootopia dead and buried. i respect that" /end ID]
I'm flaying that rabbit alive
opens door of the confessional and sits down. hi there. um.. bishop? sir? ma'am..? gender non-conforming saint practioner? sorry. im not sure what to address you. I dont usually do this sort of thing but I have something I need to get off my consciousness. spam emails scare me. really...really scare me. but I still click them. yeah. yeah...i hear you shaking your head it's ok. yeah. I dont ever open the links or download anything but I still read the email. something something about making sure I'm not getting rid of an important email. I know. they still scare me. I know they are fake but man they sure do their job well of making me want to check my bank account... I dont even have one to check too. which is like double confirmation they are fake. but what if... ok. please don't sigh like that at me. am I using this confessional wrong? ok. should I do ten hail marys or something? what do you mean this isnt that kind of confessional. what is this then. where am i
All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance
It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse
HUGE thank you to Robert Vernon for accepting my silly meme request. It's finally real.
Driving my girl to work on our tandem bicycle. Takes me 15 minutes to drop her off and 45 minutes to get back home
This stupid joke was so funny to me I tried to translate it into Korean to tell my family and when none of them laughed I was like "Oh my translation must not have been very good" and I tried rewording it like 90 times before my mom was like "No, no. The problem isn't lack of understanding"
"Why is it 45 min and not 30"
1) This isn't a math problem man I get tired and slow down after a bit
2) Maybe we live at the top of a hill and I have to bike up to get back. You don't know. You don't know my life
2) When people work together, their combined efforts go beyond simple arithmetics. Two people holding each other up will go more than twice the distance they could alone. Three will go farther than thrice the distance. When all of us work together, the sky is our limit
3) my girl's strong as fuck she's got thighs like cannons
