johannestevans:

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, “Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don’t just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops.” and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there’s far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don’t hear it more often.

swarnpert:

unwritten by natasha bedingfield is how allergy medicine is supposed to make you feel

girlnephew:

ruby-white-rabbit:

ambroseandmox:

ambroseandmox:

ambroseandmox:

forustothinkistobealive:

artisanjelly:

reminder for all hockey fans:

netflix is making a hockey show called “the sticks” that is based on a very real tragedy that occured in canada in 2018.

the show follows a minnesota high school team after their bus crashes and coming back to hockey afterwards.

in 2018, the humboldt broncos’ (a junior A team made up of 18-22 year olds) bus was hit by a tractor trailer on a highway intersection. 16 people (10 players, 2 coaches, and 4 team staff members) were killed, along with 13 other players severely injured.

the memory of the humboldt broncos crash is an incredibly sensitive subject carrying a lot of trauma to both the survivors, their families, and deceased’s families. the trajectory of hockey in canada was changed significantly after this tragedy.

despite this, netflix has decided to make a show using the death of young hockey players for profit. they did not consult the survivors, nor the deceased’s families. they stole a canadian story for a feel-good cash grab.

i understand wanting to watch shows about hockey, but this is not the show to watch. do not give it attention, as the humboldt broncos’ memories deserve to be theirs and theirs alone to share.

This is how Netflix advertises the show btw… They’re calling it “your new hockey obsession”. It’s disgusting.

One of the kids on the Broncos lived on my block. A coworker lost her brother in law. This tragedy was widely felt in Canada as a whole - flags at half-mast level.

None of the families even knew about this show until the media started asking how they felt.

It is taking a tragedy and turning it into a cash cow.

This was such a deeply-felt issue that even the truck driver pleaded guilty and has tried to make amends. (And as he is facing deportation after his sentence, some of the families have even started supporting him being allowed to stay in the country.) There is a real story you could be telling about community and resilience that is not just turning one of the worst days for THE NATION into cheap thrills and sensationalism.

Don’t watch. Don’t tweet. Pretend this show does not exist.

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Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when a truck driver went through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team's bu

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Real life human being are NOT fictional characters you can play dolls with.

Especially when they’re dead and their loved ones have no say AND no clue

This is GHOULISH

despazito:

despazito:

Why am I being shown tweets from this republican senator with an old vacuum fixation

themanedwolf:

athenadark:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

airplanned:

We all agree, right?

• AI to write your novel is wrong
• A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can’t use chat-GPT

I’ve been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of “couldn’t remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute”, and the song he wrote down made him “Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil’s trill” it’s usually played by 2 violinists because it’s evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day…. 150k of the best prose and plot you’ve ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that’s just mean

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

lokaror:

lokaror:

lokaror:

Casting lightning magic alone in the parking lot

Cops are here.

Casting lightning magic alone in the parking lot

kedreeva:

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist:

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist:

may you one day soon find the courage to open the tubberware container in the back of the fridge inshallah

@abx5 how does it feel to have single handedly saved the lives of thousands?

#put it in the deepest and coldest part of the freezer for a few days before dealing with it #it wont save you but it will minimize the stench

#if it’s plastic throw it away#the mould is in the plastic now I’m sorry it’s ok just throw it out#if it’s glass do the freezer trick and clean it (via @sleepymccoy)

I feel like this will save a few more people.

snowluvvie:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

wizardarchetypes:

crabussy:

hi everyone. do yourself a favour and go create a beautiful horse for me

Everyone do this RIGHT now.

Oh my horse is NOT good at running

anarchopuppy:

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn’t have to read a subtitle that’s obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what’s going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren’t perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished

ammnontet:

my nothing

memories-of-ancients:

Earthenware figurine of a dog, Nayarit culture, Mexico, 300 BC-400 AD

from The San Antonio Museum of Art