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The Crocodile Mom

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nighttime is going to be fucked up under the trump administration, as he plans to get rid of the weird bug appointed by joe biden to be in charge of it. "the bug is too weird it freaks me out yucky", said the president-elect when asked about the nighttime department. insider sources say he plans to appoint an obscure youtuber known only as "gamer rickey" to the position.

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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the worst thing that could possibly happen to ao3 is it being put on the app store so please stop asking for it because you don't understand what would happen if that went through. ao3's whole deal is it archives EVERYTHING, while the apple app store's whole deal is keeping everything clean and safe. so if ao3 were to have an app all of the 'bad' stuff, including nsfw in general, would have to be censored at best or would be purged at worse. the google play store is more lax but who fucking knows what GOOGLE would police if they got their hands on the archive. do not ask for an app. do not use third party apps. it's on mobile browser functioning perfectly, just fucking use that before you ruin everything for everyone please.

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "vewn" you'll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i really like it here. i wish i didn't have to leave.

my buddy pacing the city: ☹︎♓︎⧫︎⧫︎●︎♏︎ 👌︎◆︎■︎■︎⍓︎ ☞︎□︎□︎ ☞︎□︎□︎ ✋︎ ♎︎□︎■︎’⧫︎ ⬥︎♋︎■︎⧫︎ ⧫︎□︎ ⬧︎♏︎♏︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ 💧︎♍︎□︎□︎◻︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ◆︎◻︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♐︎♓︎♏︎●︎♎︎ ❍︎♓︎♍︎♏︎ ✌︎■︎♎︎ ♌︎□︎◻︎◻︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎❍︎ □︎■︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♒︎♏︎♋︎♎︎

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Compliment them. That person you think has their shit together and wouldn't need it or want to hear it. They do. They absolutely do. Their shit is dispersed. I promise you. It is a shambles.

I've had someone tell me to my face that they would compliment me, but for the fact that I already know this or that about myself. Huh???? No. Sorry.

No I don't. In my weaker moments I become an ungrateful mud monkey that has never once internalized a compliment

I adore being told you like me or something I've done. It sustains me, and in my weaker moments when I forget that life is good and happy, you might catch me before I fall.

You ever had someone catch you like that? You can do it too. The ones that catch you have been you in that moment before and know they will be again.

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So what makes a butcher knife more butch than other knives?

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I met a girl when I was fresh out of high school in undergrad who frankly, annoyed me quite a bit, but I also had an inkling to continue to be compassionate to her given a few things about her life/background/family

I ran into her two years ago. Last week, her daughter turned 1. This girl, let’s called her “P”, is a really good example of why I never feel comfortable mocking trad wives

Her perfect trad husband, who was a shining young figure in the local religious community, volunteered in all sorts of groups, well loved in his workplace and everything else, beat her up at 1 month post-partum. I reached out to her after seeing her desperately asking for a stroller on a page, confused and slightly concerned knowing both of them came from wealthy backgrounds.

The reality for lots of tradwives living “perfect lives” is this: P was immediately ostracised. All the wealth of her husband and her family meant absolutely nothing if she wasn’t in favour and doing what she was told. Her child and her well-being didn’t matter. P, at 25 years old, was basically deemed an oopsie, and left on her own to figure out how to pay for herself, a baby, find housing, and every other task you can think of.

Having known many of these women (and supported many of these women), another factor most people don’t consider is this: they are intentionally raised to be helpless. When I immediately offered my support to P, she really needed it. This young woman needed to be guided through how to apply for government assistance, how to weigh up rentals and apply for them, how to apply for jobs, how to sign up for childcare. How to sign up for your own power and internet, and how to connect them.

It wasn’t that she was “stupid”, or incapable, or spoiled. While it looks like they’re being sheltered, in reality, these women are practically being held hostage. Sure, they might be allowed to learn things that are expected of them (see: basic cooking, baking, cleaning, child rearing, women’s bible studies, hosting, and so forth) but they are heavily controlled from family life into marriage life, and they are never given the opportunity or the reality of what many of us would consider basic adult tasks.

She’s doing okay now. Her daughter turned 1, is happy and healthy. They live frugally, but they have a roof over their heads and the essentials. I often babysit for her so she can attend counselling, or go to a woman’s support group. She is painfully aware that she has so much to learn about how to live as an adult.

I don’t envy tradwives, but I don’t find any joy in mocking them either. Even when they live the most picturesque lives, they’re also practically living a real life Jenga game. If (and often, when) it comes tumbling down, they’re screwed too, and they often have 0 skills to help themselves or find community (that again, isn’t carefully curated).

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Larry Sultan, Los Angeles, Early Evening, 1986

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Facetuned Jerma: 𝓪𝓷𝓼𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝔂 𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓴𝓮𝔂! 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮’𝓼 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓭𝓮

I tried to order a print of Jerma and this is what they delivered to me.

He looks like his favorite food is cottage cheese and questionable beef. It's almost better than the original.

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Crazy how, time and time again, fundraising posts get the least amount of notes. A random errant thought I had during the day will, on average, accumulate more notes than a fundraiser that I actually push for engagement. Why is that? Are other human lives not worth a millisecond of your effort? Are they not even worth your spare change? What makes my humanity (or yours) more compelling than theirs?

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Little Nas Are You Working On Your Raps

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criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

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ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.