just a little bit of tenderness

If you ever have an issue that you want to complain about or seek help for on the internet you will be "helpfully" bombarded with random pieces of US legislation no matter how explicitly and clearly you state which country you live in.

Hey u/croatianwholivesincroatia, I'm pretty sure what they're doing is illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act??

The writer's barely disguised longing for a soft life shared with someone who loves them

the guy you made up to get mad at does exist btw you just haven't spent enough time in the reddit comments section

opened my wip and didnt immediately write a thousand new beautiful and perfect words so i'm going to smash my laptop with a hammer

Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.

I think it's crazy that there is no corner of the internet that isn't infected with ads and bots or trying to steal your data in some way

and that is like the oldest trick in the book it doesn't even work, even my grandpa knows that vicky with the bikini isn't real

i love "coyote time" as a phrase. I wish it was time for coyotoes all of the time.

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"