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I have forgotten what it is to be âhumanâ because I have a tiny human here who absolutely curses his flesh prison, especially when he has gas/has to poop, and frankly, Iâve never been so frustrated but also I think this is the human condition as described in all literature classes/analyses, so thereâs that. Also Iâve watched a lot of Arrested Development and The West Wing and also not slept a lot and now Iâm shouting into the void so weâre doing well I think.
mash + reductressÂ
Listen, there's no secret mankind won't one day know and perhaps regret knowing
any australians in the crowd tonight, the national libraryâs fabulous online resource trove is losing funding next year and if nothing happens to change that it will likely cease to exist. trove is not only a valuable resource for historians like me, it is a national cultural archive that is of great importance to australian society today. it is also completely accessible and free of charge to anyone with the internet; how fucking rare is that! we canât lose it. i canât even imagine the consequences.
if youâre as emotional about this as i am, or even if youâre not but love pestering people in power for any reason whatsoever, please contact your local mp and ask them to save trove and commit to funding this invaluable resource beyond july 2023. you can find your local member here. please also contact susan templeman mp, the special envoy for the arts, and tony burke mp, the arts minister.
non-australians, i would really appreciate a reblog. funding needs to be secured for trove and it needs to happen now.

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fwiw that kind of âomg they totally should not have made me read lord of the flies in middle schoolâ rhetoric is very close cousins with âchildren should not be exposed to books about racism and trans people.â youâre coming from the same basic ideology that books written for children are somehow also unsafe for children, that books intended to educate will actually traumatize, and that what children should read should be heavily restricted and censored. itâs anti-intellectualism babes.
like i get that you think youâre just talking about old yeller or whatever book you must of read where an animal dies and it made you sad when you were 9 and for some reason as an adult you canât let go of that, but this is word for word the same exact argument people will make for demanding libraries pull books like juliĂĄn is a mermaid. i am not exaggerating.
teaching children how to navigate upsetting and challenging stories is excellent, actually. fiction is a great tool in learning resilience as it helps us take as many practice runs as we like at things that upset us.
I dont just mean reading issues-based fiction either where the whole point is to learn about idk eating disorders or addiction or something. Getting upset about a story is a safe and healthy way to practice getting upset, whether itâs about teen pregnancy or gay hobbits.
If a child is distressed by a story, you can talk to them about it. teach them how to tell someone that theyâre upset, how to articulate distress, how to navigate those feelings. teach them that things can be upsetting and its ok, theyre still safe. they can be upset and safe at the same time and that doesnât make either of those things untrue. teach them that feelings arenât always things you need to act on - its ok to just be upset for a while, or to process that in other ways and then let it go.
everything is new to a child. the more we can introduce them to in safe, controlled, communicative contexts, where they can ask questions and explore their feelings, the better prepared theyâll be when those things come at the unexpectedly. this is true of positive things like representation and diversity, and its true of upsetting things like grief, fear and uncertainty.
I read a lot of coming-of-age stories years before I was ready for them. I was not traumatized, just a little bewildered. I did, however, flash back to them years later and go âoh.â
This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:
"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"
Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.
No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.
see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles
International cooperation is actually so effective that most people donât even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it canât solve anything.
*struggling w/ writing an email* they didn't have to deal with this shit in ancient babylon
ancient babylonian: *struggling to compose a cuneiform tablet* by god i wish i could do this shit with a computer
Every year my mom vandalizes a reflection calendar with pictures of Keanu to make a âwith Keanuâ calendar for her friend. These are some highlights:
This is Artâ˘ď¸.
Things are dire in Britain huh

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@pangur-and-grim wikihow drew pre-op Pangur!
âŚ. whyâŚ. why does this cat have 23 upper incisors??????
The legacies people leave behind in you.
My handwriting is the same style as the teacherâs who I had when I was nine. Iâm now twenty one and heâs been dead eight years but my iâs still curve the same way as his.
I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We havenât spoken in four years.
I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.
I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.
I learned to love books because my father loved them first.
How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I donât know it. How beautiful.
absolutely obsessed with these tags
Agreed, and the popcorn thread is just excellent. (Three flavors!) Do I want to see it all the time? Nah. But we all deserve to be petty when itâs warranted. đ¤ˇđźââď¸ďżźďżź
âgrad student shantiesâ is probably an enormous untapped market. people whose lives are miserable slogs, and are educated/pretentious enough to enjoy dated music styles
"Soon may the Ombudsman come, to tell our advisors to move it along. One day, when the bench work's done, we'll take our thesis and go."
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Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that itâs because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally⌠why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
i will never shut up about maned wolves
just look at it
look at this
one of the animals for sure
wretched beast
If itâs neither wolf nor fox, then itâs cat software running on giraffe hardware.
I think y'all should know that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog which looks like this.

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A holy site
Nah nah nah, you ainât hiding this in the tags
The two year-old is now a solid two and a half. Just now, he was sitting on the couch playing with his pretend flip phone and he frowned and said âfor gods sake. My battery is empty.â
The other day at breakfast I asked him if he was going to eat any more of his oatmeal and he said âno, I think Iâm just gonna move on with my life.â
Today we were walking along and he asked me âHow many Octobers is it today?â I told him it was the 21st.Â
He tried a bite of his hot soup at dinner and made a face and said âMama, my soup is a little too temperature for me.â
Upon being served 1% milk for the first time, instead of his regular 2%: âis this water?â
Me: âno, itâs milkâ
Kid: âbut are you sure?â
Came up to me the other day, the middle of his pants totally soaked, and said âmama, Iâm having a situation called âI peed in my pants.ââ
I donât think I even told you guys about the six months he spent saying âfuckâ instead of âtruck.â
I have to laugh at the folks in the notes claiming this is fake because âno 2-yr old is that advancedâ. My guys, I work at a daycare almost exclusively with 2-3 year olds and let me tell you some of the wild shit I heard this last week alone,
âUhhh, i ASSUME weâre going to the playground soon??â -2.5 year old girl
â[3 year old boy] pushed me because he doesnât have a manners.â -2 yr old girl
âDid you spill your water?â âNo no no no itâs not a concernâ -2 yr old boy (while running away, dripping wet)
Kids are hilarious and smarter than you think
If you donât have a lot of interactions with young children:
Kids are smarter than you think
Six months makes a really big difference when that is 1/5 of the total time youâve been alive
All this, and also, they can tell you lots about their favorite things. My 2 year old nephew can tell you all about Star Wars (the 8 movies heâs seen at least) and loves going out of his way to bring up how Anakin was good and bad and good again when he died. Trust me, little kids learn and mimic and reenact all the things they get attached to. Also, he named his first fish Jengo Fett, and all following fish Boba Fett, so juries still out on how much he understands clones.
Kids pick up the language thatâs used around and to them. Mannerisms too. They are tiny, efficient mimics and it will come out at the WEIRDEST times. Young kids will ABSOLUTELY say all the stuff listed here.
My cousin was somewhere between two and three, and Iâd just arrived at her house, and sheâs animatedly telling me a story of some kind, and I listen as I make my way through the house, get to the couch, and kick my shoes off. She stops dead in the middle of her sentence, puts her hands on her hips, levels me with a glare the likes of which I havenât seen since, and goes, âWHAT are they doing there? Do you think the box at the front door is for DECORATION?â
Her mum, standing in the kitchen and watching all this, was GOBSMACKED. Apparently she said that exact phrase more often than she realised, and her kid had picked it up verbatim and started using it on unsuspecting guests (me).
(I got up and put my shoes in the box at the front door immediately)
My familyâs lore includes the time my mother offhandedly said to Cousinâs sonâwho was maybe fiveâthat Cousinâs wife certainly did have strong opinions about some minor thing, and the kid let out a sigh and said, in the driest and flattest and most world-weary tone youâve ever heard, âTell me about it.â
once i was helping with a class of 3 year olds and during drawing time one girl asked for a lion, specifically a lioness. i drew it and she just looked in silence so thinking she wanted a more liony lion i was like âdo you want me to draw a boy lion next?â and she gives me this đ¤¨ass affronted look and says âumm she doesnât NEED a man.â
Kids will do three things reliably:
Repeat what theyâve heard, incorrectly and/or in the wrong context, to comic effect
Repeat what theyâve heard in exactly the correct context, which is somehow even funnier
Casually knock you on your ass with some offhand, but utterly profound, original statement