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I had forgotten about this mom I had overheard during work bc it was a generally good & hectic day, but I just need to say, sincerely:

If you are a parent and your response to your child being a child is ever a cold, demeaning, repeated "shut up" and if you ever, ever tell them they're being "fucking annoying" and "fucking embarrassing" for expressing distress in public,

you need to sit down and evaluate why the fuck your first response to your child's vulnerability is to punish it and shame them, and you need to acknowledge you verbally abused someone in your care, and you need to put in the work to earn your child's trust.

you need to do better and be better, starting with a sincere apology you don't demand forgiveness for.

Parenthood is hard, its stressful, but that is never an excuse to hurt someone like that. You can always be a better parent– a better person– than you were in that moment. Always, always, always.

And you have to be.

If not for your child's wellbeing then for your guys' relationship as they grow up, because continuing this behavior is a one way ticket to your child avoiding you even on holidays, even when you miss them the most.

It's the person you raised going no-contact and blocking your number, and you not knowing if they're in the hospital or getting married or having their own child.

And it will not be your child's fault. You wouldn't have earned those privileges, because you taught them their existence was a burden. You wounded them in ways they could only heal if they escaped from you.

That shame and that sin will never be on your child's soul.

It will be on yours.

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There's a special place in hell for parents who record their sadistic punishments of their children and post it on the internet for the validation of other equally broken and cruel adults. I hope their children abandon them to die alone at a nursing home when they're old and frail.

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Talk about missing the point entirely.

Women aren’t going on a sex strike because they dislike Trump. They’re doing it because some of his most ardent right wing supporters tweet things like ‘your body, my choice,’ and aren’t even pretending to see women are human beings anymore.

Why should any woman have sex with somebody who sees them as nothing more than an incubator?

But what should I expect from a right wing trash rag?

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America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

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Updated today !

19/11/2024 Save my child, Mira, please

My beautiful baby Mira was suffering from a high temperature two weeks ago, so I took her to the doctor at Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat Camp, which is the only hospital covering the central region. The doctor told me: There is nothing wrong with your child without examination or tests.

He literally told me your child is spoiled

When I got out of the hospital, I told my wife that our baby girl was spoiled, just like the doctor said

Every time my child, Mira, complains of pain, I tell her there is nothing you need, and when her temperature rises, I give her a fever reducer and she just sleeps.

This morning, my wife was surprised while she was changing clothes for Mira that there was a large tumor under her armpit

My wife started screaming and crying at me. I took Mira to the hospital immediately and we were referred to a pediatric surgeon. She was examined and a television imaging was done. It was found that my child suffers from three masses in the lymph nodes, one of which is very large.

The doctor told me that she needed a gland removal operation As soon as possible within a week due to the rapid growth of the tumor

My child, Mira, is one of the most active and energetic children today. She is sick and cannot play. She's tired. I don't like to see her in this state.

Since we received the news, my wife and I have been crying. We do not know how to react. What will happen to us next in this damned war?

There are no hospitals, no electricity, no treatment, and not even anesthesia for surgical operations

I don't know how to act

My child, Mira, needs an operation and quick treatment

Please help me, my hands are tied 🙏😭

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for centuries black women have been like..

“WHITE WOMEN WILL CHOOSE THEIR RACE OVER THEIR GENDER WHEN PUSH COME TO SHOVE!!!!!”

but y’all didn’t want to listen. y’all called these women racist, over exaggerators and “angry black women” yet here we are. white women (ALL WHITE WOMEN) have tons of work to do within their own circles. BUT WHEN YOU DO DON’T COME ASKING BLACK WOMEN TO TEACH YOU SHIT!! THEY ARE NOT HERE TO TEACH YOU. YOU GOT BOOKS, MOVIES, TV SHOWS, DOCUMENTARIES, MUSIC, ART… TONS OF PLACES TO GET THE INFORMATION. DO THE FUCKING WORK WHITE WOMEN!!

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pretty guardian 🌙

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Junco Couple Chat!

Another iconic bird--this one of bird feeders and front yards, the dark-eyed junco! This little junco couple is having a cute conversation over some winter berries.

This is part of a weekly bird challenge with @elleskinner-justart and @elizabethpatricianart so check out theirs, too!

In my shop!

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Thanks to everyone who donated, shared and followed. Thanks to everyone.💐

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-sami-and-his-family

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During one semester of PE in high school I got put in a section called Team Sports. This was significantly better than a regular unit because the athletic kids were able to play and I largely got to sit and watch.

Months were devoted to what they called Pickle Ball but I’ve since learned was basically ping pong with larger than average paddles. The paddles had been through the absolute wringer, all padding had been rubbed and torn off by a relentless stream of bored adolescents like myself.

This presented me with a unique opportunity. I had a pencil, nominally used to keep score. I had a blank wooden panel. And I had large stretches of time sitting on the sidelines.

Every day I’d pick a blank paddle. I’d doodle little animals, bizarre monstrosities, and a bunch that were just a huge eye in the middle with the words “Big Brother is Watching”. What can I say; I was reading 1984 at the time.

When we finally finished with the paddles and moved on to badminton I completely forgot my dozens of illustrations.

It wasn’t until several years later that it got brought up again. I was hanging out with a friend and their younger sibling. We were listening to them lament their high school experience of the day. “But I won the Pegasus paddle, so that was cool.”

“Wait- what?”

“Yeah, most of them are just Big Brother, so they’re not exciting, but there’s only one Pegasus so we fight over it. Last week I had an elephant I really liked though.”

“You guys fight over the paddles with art on them…?”

“Yeah!”

My friend turned to me and asked, “Didn’t you make all those drawings?”

Their sibling lit up, “You made them?!”

I sat in silence as the complexity of the world and the waves we leave behind as we move through it washed over me. I contemplated how intertwined I was with the rest of existence to create such a beautiful moment.

I had made art on a whim out of boredom and it had an effect on someone else’s day, someone who through random happenstance years later was telling me about it all unknowing.

Their sibling was delighted when I drew them another pegasus on the spot and announced that they’d be the talk of PE now that they’d uncovered the mystery artist.

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The best cat bed

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[ID: an illustration of a brown striped fish from above. It is facing to the left and is surrounded by urchins and sea stars on a rocky green and purple background. End.]

#00196

TIDE POOL SCULPIN

Oligocottus maculosus

CLASS ACTINOPTERYGII

FAMILY COTTIDAE

A small fish that can survive out of water for a time, breathing air as it wriggles to elude predators or move between pools. It lays its eggs in rock crevices or empty barnacle shells.

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More than 200,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip and are facing a real famine and mass extermination. Also, more than a million and a half people are facing the same famine in the southern Gaza Strip.Speak up for them, your voice can make a difference in this unjust world.

Also save my families within these families

Save my families who are suffering from famine here 👈👈

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probably the biggest hacktivism news of the last few months

im excited to do some reporting based on the data coming out of this leak, i already have a few interesting angles i will be taking a look at this from

disclaimer: please read the article, i had no involvement in this hack (though i knew about it early as i helped some journalists in the background) i am posting this here to spread the news. this disclaimer is unfortunately necessary because people on here always assume ive done every hack i talk about.