that time in malta

Ebroiderers are to be feared, for their precision, dedication, and patience to stab something many MANY times.

what is the point of oscar the grouch on sesame street?

It’s okay to not like things and it’s okay to be unhappy. He was created from the idea that “non-destructive deviance” would go over well with kids.

“what is the point of oscar the grouch” who even made you

This is a wonderful series of texts post that needs to be shared with all of you

#i also think it’s really important that oscar is#a beloved member of the sesame street community#kids often internalize the lesson that No One Loves You When You Misbehave#and seeing all the nice people of the Street consistently be like#aw yeah that’s oscar he’s a little difficult sometimes#but he’s part of the neighborhood and we always include him#yeah i think that matters a lot

Ich hasse es so wie wir als Community immer nur relevant für die Politik sind wenn wir für deren Fremdenhass instrumentalisiert werden können. Wie sollen wir vernünftig trauern wenn man gleichzeitig weiß, dass in ein paar Wochen wahrscheinlich wieder mehr Leute abgeschoben werden um uns zu "schützen"? Als wären die queere Community und Vielfalt Gegensätze. Als wäre es nicht die Union selber die den meisten Hass gegen uns schürt. Als wären wir letztes Jahr von Merz nicht noch als Zirkuszelt bezeichnet worden.

being a queer german person and seeing the news fail to verbalise that the CSD attack in berlin was motivated by homophobia feels really crazy. i don't give a fuck where this person is from, the person who did this was homophobic and wanted us dead, and that is what we should be talking about. extremism has become far too normalised in this country and beyond. for one fucking second, talk about how normalised homophobia and is, talk about what a sad day it is for queer folks, about how we deserve to feel safe and that homophobia has no place in this country. can you actually care about us for once. stop using us to fuel your islamophobia or hatred of immigrants.

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing

The “Thunk” will always kill me.

14/10 doing his best

I was five years old when Sesame Street first aired in 1969. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching the show in the afternoon, and then, the next day, kids talking about what Oscar had said over snack time (he was the first character for children I saw that was allowed to be grouchy and not be “bad”).

Sesame Street celebrated a neighborhood that was multiracial and multicultural. When I was in preschool, that was my reality, too. Though I did and still do have a lot of cultural racism to unlearn, the extent to which I was able to learn how to be friends and neighbors with a diverse peer group was supported by Sesame Street. To be clear, this is why conservatives have wanted to destroy it from the beginning.

The Mississippi State Commission for Educational Television briefly banned Sesame Street in 1970 with the flimsy excuse that Mississippians weren’t ready to see racially integrated neighborhoods. And that happened in a few other Southern states, including one where the owner of a local NBC affiliate chose to air it, for free, no ad revenue, because he thought people were ready for it — or needed to get comfortable with it. And these state ETV commissions eventually relented after getting a lot of negative publicity.

I'm only one person removed from someone who died because chat gpt told him to kill himself...this was a husband of a friend. My friend is still going through hellish circumstances because people don't believe them, or think that their husband should have been stronger, or smarter somehow. But, he was an intelligent, sensitive person, who listened to what his "friend" the chatbot told him, and my actual real human friend now suffers the consequences and the world lost an artist. This shit is frightening, and I think too many folks discount it as "well it would never happen to me/my family/my friends" but, well, you don't know.

Really appreciating the pivot this game is taking from "Plucky kid solving fun puzzles in a crazy magic house to win his eccentric old great-uncle's inheritance" to "We live in a fascist state and my family is a member of the aristocracy, the history books in the library are redacted, my mother wrote thinly veiled politically charged children's books under a pseudonym to distance herself from her family but she has since gone missing, which in hindsight makes sense as to why I, this like 10-15 year old boy, am the sole beneficiary of this old man's will. There's also a bunker in the yard so we apparently live under threat of nuclear annihilation"

Okay has anyone played Blue Prince (and thus I do not need to be wary of spoiling anything for them) and is good at logic puzzles????

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.