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Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?
Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.
Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?
Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.
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For When Not Even God Can Help You!
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Problem #1 regarding child abuse is that a lot of people seem to struggle to imagine normal, respectable-looking parents and other authority figures ever doing it despite the statistics so instead they do the stranger danger panic and completely overlook some of the greatest threats.
Problem #2 is that even when people understand, even if in an abstract way, that parents can be abusive they just... don't seem to actually register that as something that can apply to real life. It's just hypothetical to them and doesn't actually guide their ideas of how to prevent child abuse.
Problem #3 is that even after overcoming the above biases a lot of people have a very narrow image of what abusive parenting is where they imagine like... people doing violent things basically out of sadism and without provocation. They don't seem to think it's "real" abuse if the victim did something that "justifies" punitive violence, like disobeying the parents.
In fact, most people think parents have a right to do a whole lot of awful things to their children beyond just hitting them, like violating their privacy, controlling their access to information, and deciding what/when/if they eat, among other things.
Only the countries in red have banned child corporal punishment.
You might notice that for starters not a single one of the top 5 most populous countries in the world (representing 45% of the world population just by themselves) has a ban.
Globally speaking, most of the children in the world live in places where it is legal to hit them (up to 86% are not protected by law as of last year, according to UNICEF) and even where they have legal protections there is the matter of social acceptance and enforcement.
We can't even get people to stop making "cute" memes about how "la chancla" and "el cincho" ostensibly fix children.
We are not even close to escaping this hole.
i remember there being a couple of posts on here that got fairly popular presenting not hitting your kids as like a "white people thing (derogatory)". Literally woke apologia for hitting kids.
as someone living in a country where it is in fact forbidden to physically punish your children the first thing my mum taught me was that it is not only important that the parents know it is illegal but also that the CHILDREN know. as a small child or even as an older child who gets punished physically the chances that you actually know that what's happening isn't just Wrong but also Officially Illegal are slim to none. so i've been witness to her going up to parents who were threatening or hitting their children more than once. every time she told them very politely "hi sorry, i hope you're aware that it is illegal to hit your children. should i call the police or will you stop doing that on your own?" and the parents would look super pissed off but the kids would look very suddenly very interested. especially older sisters always seem to take the information that it is in fact okay to call the police if being hit by their parents very seriously. and one time my mum did call the cops. on our neighbour. never saw that guy again but his son to this day comes over to say hello every time he's in town. so be kind to your children. protect other people's children and help them protect themselves too.
protecting children from violence: much more radical than it really ought to be at this point
Actually yknow what. WTNV should be considered revolutionary and significant gay media that played an important role in the growth of gay representation in media especially in podcasts. When people talk about important gay media in the early 2000s I want wtnv to be one of the ones people talk about. No if ands or buts about it.
Actually I cant shut up about this. In 2012, people did not even think about putting gay representation in popular media. Gay representation wasn’t considered profitable yet. Gay marriage would not be legalized for another three years. The Legend of Korra, a show that fought to the death to have their main lead hold hands with another woman, just released their first episode earlier that spring. Steven Universe, a show well known for its gay representation, including having the first gay proposal + marriage on a kids cartoon tv show, would begin a year later in 2013, but wouldn’t show their gay representation hand until 2015 with the episode Jail Break. The Adventure Zone, a podcast currently well known for it LGBTQ+ representation, wouldn’t begin until 2014, and didn’t show their hand until 2015. In my young queer experience, representation was covert, secretive, only implied or dead.
and then in the summer of 2012, wtnv introduced itself to the world, proclaimed its main character gay in the first episode, and played it gay (pun intended) for years. Being gay wasn’t a trope, or a goof, it was normal. Cecil Gershwin Palmer was just a canon, gay character who fell in love and stayed in love and was happy. and that was that.
if we talk about revolutionary queer media, we talk about Welcome to Nightvale. No exceptions.
I think it’s really important Cecil Baldwin credit for this. I’m not saying Fink and Cranor and later Dylan Marron have nothing to do with it, because of course they do. But Cecil being gay was not something the writers intended. Because initially, Carlos was not intended to be a love interest for Cecil. He was just meant to be a character that showed up occasionally to be a tongue-in-cheek goof on scientist characters in shows like Fringe or the X-Files. But Cecil Baldwin made the decision to make his character utterly in love with Carlos, because he was gay, and wanted his character to be as well.
For those who don’t know Cecil Baldwin is HIV+, and he’s openly discussed his struggle with it. This is a large part of why his playing a man who is openly gay and sexually active is also really important. The importance I think of having LGBT people playing LGBT people really shines through with both Cecil and Dylan’s characters. They can be authentic, they can be a source of hope and representation. Behind the scenes, Night Vale is just as diverse as the show itself. Cecil Baldwin’s pretty incredible and it’s worth it to read what he’s had to say on WTNV if you have the time.
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Currently need $500. If that goes well, I may raise it to also try to cover the wages I've been out on since I rely on this car for my only income.
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✤ medieval inspired tattoo flash i made for pride ✤
Hi! If you can please reblog this version as well. Since I get a lot of requests about it, I'm issuing a digital tattoo ticket. 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻. Please remember that flash is repeatable so it means other people can get it too. If it’s possible and you live/stay somewhere in Europe - you can come and visit and get a tattoo directly from me. I do travel and do guest spots in different countries besides Poland. It's avaiable to purchase on my kofi page (LINK)
All income from tattoo ticket goes to my partners gender affirming surgery fund < 3 (LINK)
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artfight attack on Yelena, @lyanachaan's gorgeous inquisitor <3
i want to see some absolutely dogshit, piss-poor renaissance paintings.
ik the masters were great and everything, but not everyone back then could have been a master. i need some frame of reference over here.
May I introduce you to "The Ricotta Eaters" (1585), a painting I could only describe as Ontologically Evil:
I know it's technically competent, but it just has a horrid aura surrounding it. I don't even care about disrespecting the Italian master Vincenzo Campi anymore, he should have looked at this painting and destroyed it like a sick beast.
MR PRESIDENT ANOTHER VINCENZO CAMPI HAS HIT THE TIMELINE
THE LADY IS BACK TOO. EVIL
This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years.
If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life.
I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.
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Let women speak. Edinburgh Pride, 2025.
Buildings around the world illuminated with the rainbow for Pride
Buildings around the
world illuminated with
the rainbow for Pride
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
United Healthcare getting sued by its investors, because it didn't warn them that the CEO getting murdered (by the tendrils of their unmitigated greed) was going to lead to them approving more claims (for covered services that they had no right to deny) is a cartoonish example of exactly why their CEO got murdered.
Their argument is essentially "You promised us a specific profit margin that is not possible to achieve under this increased public scrutiny of your unethical practices. We only agreed to invest because of those unethical practices. So we demand compensation because you didn't warn us that you'd be behaving more ethically"
And idk. Satire isn't just dead. We've pissed on its corpse and now it's dissolving in lye.
this is one of those little details that jumped out and stuck with me since hearing about this.
crazy to take a business to court because they need to take “aggressive, anti-consumer” tactics. like right, making life increasingly harder and worse for everyone in the pursuit of short term profits is very intentional, and sometimes someone will just come right out and say it.
you ask tigger what his gender is and he's like "i'm a tigger" and you're like "ok but what are your pronouns" and he's like "t/i/double-guh/er"
you ask pooh what his gender is and he's like "i am a bear of very little brain <3"
you ask piglet what his gender is and he has a panic attack
you ask eeyore what his gender is and he's like "guess they forgot to give me one :("
you ask rabbit and he's like "we need to Prepare for Winter"
you ask kanga and she has like a full discussion with you on gender norms and the gender binary that leaves with you feeling strangely fulfilled. you ask roo and he's like "lumpy what is that" and lumpy's like "idk" and then they go stare at the clouds
dont ask owl
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When I was little I had an irrational fear of when you tried to turn off your Windows XP and the screen would gradually turn Grey as you choose which power option to enter
That shit was SCARY!!!
Me: ok, sleep time!
Windows XP:
I would argue the Windows 95 one is scarier, because it's basically the same thing, right? it just dims the whole screen?
BUT NO! Windows 95 doesn't know that it's running at high enough color depth to even DO that, and calculating that would be slow anyway, this is an OS that can run on a 25mhz 486. So it cheats.
It's "screendoor transparency". It's a checkerboard of black squares. It's relying on the human eye to see that as dimming and not a grid. And it works! mostly. Especially on a relatively blurry CRT, since you wouldn't really have an LCD in 1995.
But it really messes up with text. Thin pixel fonts were all the rage on windows 95, which had a default resolution of 640x480. And a pixel font + a checkerboard grid?
The text bleeds. It becomes a blurred mess of difficult to read random pixels. On a nice photo background, it's just dimmed. On text, it feels like you're losing your mind and your literacy. Your ability to read is going away.
And Windows 95 just wants to know...
what scared me as a kid was this:
The thought of this spontaneously appearing on a computer screen in my bedroom in the middle of the night was horrifying.
(I was an anxious kid.)
I think the ambiguity of what "safe" means in this context did it for me. Does this mean that there are unsafe times to turn off your computer? Would turning off the computer when this image wasn't on the display hurt me??
You'd really hate my customized version, then.
What- what year is all this from? That’s terrifying
The XP in the OP is from 2001, and Windows 95 is from, barely, 1995
Here's the cartoon:
According to Telnaes, "The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner."
For those of you too young to know, the Washington Post is the paper that broke the Watergate Scandal.
This is the paper that won a Pulitzer for its coverage of Jan6.
For this paper's owner to refuse to publish a political cartoon (specifically because it makes the owner and the President elect look bad) is a harbinger of deep and absolute facism, where the government controls the press.
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VERY well put, and right on the money. This betrayal to their history and calibre of reporting should have everyone angry, disgusted, and terrified.
