AndrogynousBlackBox

He/they/it. Latine Artist, mostly writer. Minors DNI. +18
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[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

NO, you CANNOT walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is rubbısh. Free yourself from it.

[‎⧗ Art of Paige ‎➳ @Paiges_of_Art]

they’re very cute. thought that as a kid, still think so as an adult. and rewatching with more mature eyes i feel so bad and then relief for tarzan when he finally found someone “like” him

[𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐒.🧸🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @chelsznn]

To get any book you want on the internet, type the name of the book followed by doctype:pdf

E.g The Alchemist doctype:pdf

[Wizard of Barge @wizardofbarge]

the only thing between you and your dreams is a LOT of failures, go fail baby !!

[Descharth @Descharth]

As vezes eu me sinto tão burro. Por que eu não fazia assim antes?

[Pecori @Pecorire0g]

ヴィランらしい2人を描こうとしました！

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[Silvia Ceccato - Commissions Closed @morbid_lizard]

"Disgruntled princess."

#voxval #staticmoth #HazbinHotel #HazbinHotelFanart

[Smiles @Hat_Teeth]

romance

[embun @softy_queen05]

Finally I solved the mystery of the girls that wear mini skirt at -10 c°

[𝑳𝒖♡🦩*ੈ✩‧₊˚ @honeybreaths]

nothing tops the feeling of receiving ao3 comments on different fics from the same reader 🥹🩷 like omg you actually liked my fic sm that you decided to read another?? come here and let me give u a kiss

[Belchic @Belchic7]

❤️🥀薔薇の吸血姫になれちゃうゴシックドレス🥀❤️

[SHUN☆ @Shunsukecos]

Bunny booty 🐰🍑

[InkArtlab @InkArtlab]

When a brilliant new idea pops up

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

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Happy Pride Month!
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[✦🅚🅤🅡🅞✦ . ̫. @KiingKuro]

Mutual Gaslighting ☺️📺🦋💕

#VoxVal #StaticMoth