the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
Oh I’m so sleepy… won’t you use !tuck to tuck me into bed?
!cursedoak
did anyone else have terrible dreams about a gnarled, twisted forest with one tree more terrible and hateful than all the rest
water doesn't make rocks smooth. they hired me to go down to the beach with a sander every night and smooth them myself. it's not much and it's not honest work.
my place of work has just restricted and forbidden the use of AI tools and any use will treated as a security and policy breach
it's crazy that sexism can even affect animals. the way people assume all dogs are boys. the simultaneous way people will get genuinely really mad if you dare mistake their pretty princess for a boy despite the fact all german shepherds look the same. the refusal to buy pink toys and accessories for male pets. i recently met someone who insisted they never adopt girl cats because they're always meaner than boy cats. i feel like im losing my mind. they're literally cats.
I’m convinced a lot of people who claim they love reading actually don’t even like reading. They just like taking pictures of their book hauls and seeming like a well read intellectual. Or maybe they enjoy reading but aren’t even genre aware (idk like expecting 200 year old horror books to be “unproblematic” by today’s standards) and can’t even handle a little bit of nuance
And I’m 100% talking about yanquis reading the same romcom with a clipart cover about enemies to lovers (but y'know, unproblematically) stepping a little bit outside of their comfort zone to claim that something has “so many red flags!” (Jane Eyre) “soo racist!” (Interview with the vampire) or “man that protagonist was an asshole! I wish he wasn’t like that!!” (Like… A lot of books)
Like ok it’s not your thing awesome but don’t come to the devil’s sacrament expecting a catholic mass








