Posters celebrating the worldwide release of The Marvels. Art by Tracie Ching, Diego Candia, Jem Ward, Diela Maharanie, Ryepe, Mike Sandoval, Jeyce Nunes, and Thouchapon Singhavejsakul.
Sometimes when people on the Internet are like “ADULTS CAN NEVER INTERACT WITH MINORS IT’S CREEPY” I remember how, at 12, back in 1997, I was on the Witchvox forums with people ranging from me to people in at least their 50s, and no one there was ever a creep to me, no one ever made me feel uncomfortable or asked for my personal info, and when I finally broke down after a particularly brutal day of bullying at school and posted about it they were the first adults I’d ever met in my entire life who told me the bullies were the problem and it was okay to be angry about it.
Kids need to interact with adults who will listen to them.
I was practically raised by sixty year old scientists I’d never met on random science forums. I’d show up and talk about evolution with them for hours. When I got accepted into university, they helped me go through how to find a place to live and the basics of living alone (my family didn’t want me to go to uni so didn’t help with any of this, figuring that if I couldn’t find accommodation I’d have to stay home). You’re supposed to have friends outside your age group; I’d argue that it’s psychologically unhealthy not to. And no, your parents and grandparents don’t count.
It takes a village to raise a child. Not a village of other 6 year olds.
Yeah. In particular, note that the goal here is not to have one person you trust intensely and you have no way of sanity-checking them; the goal is to have a handful of people, who are independent of each other, so that if one of them is making you uncomfortable you can tell someone else “hey this person I know is doing a thing which sorta creeps me out” and get feedback.
In an ideal world, you could rely on your parents to perform that function. We’re not in an ideal world.
When people say “humans are social creatures” that doesn’t just mean we like to gossip, it means we rely on a community of diverse and interconnected friends, neighbors, and allies to operate at peak performance.
Okay, this made me pause and literally write out every letter that ‘fell’ in order (‘oomngouuhhrsrtutpntnue’), then make sure they were all contained in ‘turntomushuponthergroun’.
They are, and it’s very satisfying.
coincidentally, “oomngouuhhrsrtutpntnue” is the sound I make when it’s autumn
You know once upon a time the pornbots had class. They stuck to their own little corners of Tumblr and only sometimes weirded people out, as you do.
Now I’m playing wack-a-mole every time I open Tumblr because they’re spamming tags NO PORNBOT I DON’T WANT TO SEE SOMEONE’S COUCHIE I AM TRYING to look at pictures of Spider-Man TO HAVE A NORMAL TIME ON TUMBLR.
This headline says that “dozens” of far-right “counter-protesters” were arrested at the London pro-Palestine march, but I feel like describing that number as “dozens” is really downplaying how bad the far-right violence was. This headline reads as though there was a small number of neo-nazis causing trouble in comparison to a large number of pro-Palestine marchers causing trouble, but according to The Standard, “Some 126 people were arrested throughout the day, with at least 92 of them being counter-protesters.” Think of “dozens of” and you think of 12 people, maybe a little more, but not 92. Of all the people arrested at the march, most of them were far-right agitators. (I know plenty of marchers were detained, but a detain is different to an arrest, so the point still stands I think.) If Sky News can put in the article that there were 82 arrests of the far-right at the time the post was published, why not put that in the actual headline?
