Sir Viscount

once again reading bostock's footnotes on pliny the elder and i think this is maybe the funniest way he could have ever conveyed the notion that he thinks pliny's peeled and boiled honey-vinegar-oil cucumber recipe is bad

Rooney, out.

This one’s for the tumblrinas

Steal me treasure? Perish

baseball: japan and cuba have, together, managed to derive some pleasure from the horrific tormentor that is the united states. can we blame them for that? can we blame them for romance and love in this world

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.