I wonder as I wander...

Ya'll remember how online games made specifically for children were programmed in a way that made it practically impossible to share your personal info?

The reason all that was done is because the FCC had the 1990 Kid Vid laws. The reason none of that is done now is because Michael ORielly gutted them in 2019 while calling it "updating" and saying that streaming made the rules irrelevant. Btw he's gone but the FCC still hasn't done anything to protect children with those rules, even though they can change and update them at ANY TIME.

also this is part of a disturbing but sadly not uncommon attitude that progress = women (specifically women most of the time) showing more skin. because not showing skin is "following irrational religious modesty mandates" like the man on twitter says

doyle’s huge potato chips

Excuse me, I think you mean RORY's huge potato chips! 😤 See! It has her name written on the bag right there, in big letters!

Well, that was a short, slightly embarrassing search. Slightly embarrassing in the fact that I temporarily forgot I co-authored it. Definitely not my best work, but kind of funny. I think my subconscious went rooting around for it because of the title, taking into account recent conversations about the song (and because of a post someone made asking whether Jess or Logan would win in a fight). If anyone's interested (it's just a bit of silliness, really):

There's also ANOTHER fic along those lines, haha! But a bit less humorous.

right person, wrong time.

This is a telephone/gossip table/bench/chair. Like computer armoires of the 1990s and early 2000s and the typewriter desks/stands that preceeded them, they were a piece of furniture designed around an every-day technology that has now become obsolete, largely due to miniaturization.

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.