plants are weird but cool

1922 Radiophone garters were a real thing! From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

Another tip: caregivers like to teach signs like tired and hungry and diaper. Signs that they (the caregivers) find relevant. Make sure to also offer signs that are relevant to the child, like their favorite toys, more and done.

#‘more’ is a clutch sign #but it will help baby socially integrate if you frame it as ‘please’ #‘up’ is great for teaching self regulation — when they’re feeling bad they can request a snuggle #‘hot’ is also great because it covers both ‘don’t touch this it will hurt you’ and ‘I refuse to put this in my mouth (or get into the bath)’ #‘because it will hurt me (in my emotions)’ #oh! a good rule of thumb is that a baby needs to observe three people using a word or a sign before adopting it themselves #these guys believe everyone has an ideolect

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

Related: when conservatives say "no one wants to work anymore", what they mean is "no one wants to give up a substantial portion of the fruits of their labor in order to enrich an idle capital-holding class".

News reporting not providing adequate coverage? Shortage of news reporters - for some mysterious reason.

 Opened the parade with Dykes on Bikes, riding through thousands of people flying our own  little fuck you to  the military recruiters at SF pride this year. 

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way