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i can't believe i have to fucking say it because i'm an educator so like how is it possible nobody else has said this.

unless a person is actively making materials/etc for children, they do not need to worry about your kid.

your child gets respect as a human. that's it. nobody's private life/artistic endeavors/unrelated interests must be controlled for the sake of your kid.

educators and athletes and artists do not have to live in chastity because your kid might see us on our days off. we do not owe it to your kid to only write poems about bunnies and only sing songs about tying your shoes. i do not care how much a person has given to children, if they are acting as an adult in adult spheres, they are allowed to. they are adults. it is your job as a caregiver to raise your kid and keep them out of adult spheres, not our job to keep ourselves out of those spheres just in case.

guess what! adult role models are going to bars and hooking up and dancing and being adults! this is so they have the mental energy to do all the child-centric things.

"it makes me feel weird to picture them like that!" i don't know how to tell you this but actors aren't actually their roles. the customer-service personality your waitress has is probably not her actual personality. the way teachers interact with students is not the way that they interact with their private lives, and it shouldn't be.

"this tells kids this kind of behavior is okay!" actually it's showing kids a normal and natural progression of a person's life, boundaries, and bodily autonomy. it's showing kids that adults are dynamic human beings. kids already know this. they know there's places they're not allowed and things they don't understand yet. it's just that you have icky feelings because you were raised in a society with black-and-white morality.

celebrities don't owe your children perfection, modesty, sobriety. and you know something? it's way healthier when they don't. "this is a person, who gets up every morning and does their job - but also has adult interests, which you'll learn about later" is way healthier as a role model than "you should be perfect like the curated image of this person and if you're not perfect you should be deeply ashamed."

anyway. idk why "think of the children!!!!" is making a comeback as a popular stance. but to be clear? it's a way of saying "this makes me feel uncomfortable, but i don't know why, and i don't feel like untangling it, so i'll blame you for it and hope you feel guilty about my children."

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this literally made me laugh so hard it shooke my BRAIN

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the biggest lie the weight loss industry ever sold us was the idea that the lower body fat % you have, the stronger and fitter you are. think about how stupid that is for a second. imagine explaining this concept to a caveman. he‘d just eat you for protein

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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Meanwhile...

At the moment of writing this blog post, the occupation is still firing thousands of bullets that stumble everywhere, killing everyone in their path.

We live under a daily barrage of bombing, bullets, and massacres, with death looming around us at every moment.

Unfortunately, after the current events in the Middle East, we have almost been forgotten. The media no longer talks about us, as if we have become old news.

The Israeli occupation commits dozens of massacres daily, claiming the lives of hundreds of innocents, including children, women, and the elderly.

Please, do not forget me and my family.

We need every helping hand, every heart that feels for us.

Share this blog post and donate. Your donation might save our lives.

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I love that folks are being more accepting of autism, but I don't love that autism is being sanitized into a quirk.

There's a cute and acceptable form of autism on social media, and I don't see any indication that folks are remotely ready for discussing the rest of it, which contains all the uncomfortable things that impede a person's everyday life, require support, and make acceptance almost impossible—where the hygiene struggles, inappropriate social behaviors, involuntary movements and outbursts, meltdowns, and emotional dependence issues live. And the cuter and more sanitized the "good" autism gets, the more unacceptable the "bad" autism becomes.

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because the other post about this got the advice slightly wrong: person with OCD, that moral reblog bait may or may not be about you, people may or may not be keeping track of what you reblog, you may or may not be evil & bigoted, practice sitting with this feeling and refrain from doing whatever you think will help resolve that uncertainty because it will come back worse every time

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should’ve tried skipping lineart before

anyway

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i like being a lesbian and all, but holy shit, men are so cool. i hope all men reading this have a wonderful day.

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"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

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mood board for today

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Sebastian, after seeing ghosts

This got created after my friend, who just got into pressure, asked me if Sebastian is schizophrenic after seeing the ghost bullets bit on TikTok

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Ehehehehehehehhehhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaauuughhhhh cries sobs screams

Do the pressure devs have any remorse for naming the action “rescue”,,,, I’m so sorry pAInter 💔 anyways go play this stupid game, I’m in love with it also listen to the new soundtracks on Spotify cause DAMN that shit slaps

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DaGOI sketchdump