Sarah

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-A-Bear.

[stace 🐞 @staystaystace]

I think it’s normal and healthy to admit that sometimes your partner is frustrating or annoying and that babies are sometimes frustrating and annoying and that life is sometimes frustrating and annoying and I don’t know why it got so normalized to pretend that everything is perfect and amazing 100% of the time lol

[Helen S Fields @Helen_Fields]

I read a comment on this thread yesterday (no credit to me) that said…why does the male relative have enough cash to buy the child bride but not enough decency to help out financially to stop his relatives from starving. Whoever made that comment should be replacing the journalist who wrote this piece.

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

I watched this with similar concerns - the normalisation of the selling girls to be raped and the positioning of it as a tragedy for the father, not a crime against the child, in a society where men have all the political rights and girls are banned from education.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

BBC report and documentary, on the plight of poor Afghan fathers forced to sell their children to survive.

Except you have to read some way into the article - which is around 2,500 words long - before it becomes clear they are specifically selling their daughters into child marriage and domestic slavery.

“If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,” says one father.

Another father, pictured in the article, sold his five-year-old little girl. The framing is extraordinary.

Not only because the fact only female children are being sold is presented as unremarkable.

But also because the fathers making the decision are presented as the victims - rather than the girls who will actually live with the consequences of it.

The fathers’ desperation is real and tragic. But so is the reality that these girls are being treated as commodities.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

Not once does this article ask "who is buying children and why?"

Nor does it ask "why are they selling their girls, not boys?"

Is a lack of basic curiosity a requirement for the BBC now?

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Why doesn’t this BBC story examine why there’s a market for fathers selling their young daughters to other men in the first place? What a strange omission - it’s like the reality that these girls are being sold as child brides to be raped by adult men is invisible or something.

[🌶️ @meatypepper]

for those that dont know:

toddlers come with this really cool feature where they calculate what task youre doing, where youre doing it, and how you'll need to move during it so that way they can ensure they are always in the exact worst spot for them to be in at every step of the way. dogs have a similar feature.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I haven’t yet been able to bring myself to read this, but if we’re gonna do this insane thing where we do not live in a society and instead allow “personal choice” in things like vaccination and owning guns then it needs to come with personal responsibility. Your unvaccinated kid infects a baby, you can pay the medical bills and emotional damages to that baby’s parents (and your own health insurance should take vaccination status into account). You want to own a gun, ok, if you don’t secure it and a kid gets ahold of it, you bear the legal burdens. Jail, bankruptcy, there are may options commensurate with the damage you’ve chosen to cause.

[half empty girl @meowingabyss]

It's actually really easy to ruminate about your problems at 3am when you're feeding a baby alone in dark silence

[armoire @armoirearmoirie]

quel gâchis quand on aura tué tous les riches on pourra même pas les manger

[delia @delia_cai]

now that we know about perimenopause do you guys ever stop and think about how crazy it is that that's why your poor mom and your puberty age self were trying to kill each other for like a few years there

[user @user84829272]

There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

This past August, we were flying cross‑country with our 8‑month‑old son after his sixth round of chemo. His stomach hurt, his little body was exhausted, and he kept letting out that soft, broken whine babies make when they’re uncomfortable but trying so hard to settle. Not screaming. Not throwing a fit. Just hurting in the only way he knew how.

In front of us was a family taking their daughter to SMU’s freshman welcome week. Their biggest stress was how she was going to fit all her clothes in her dorm room — and she was the one who kept turning around. Every few minutes, this privileged freshman would glare at my wife like our son was ruining her trip and her wardrobe planning.

It lasted maybe 30 minutes before he fell asleep. But the way those looks made my wife feel… man. I’ll be honest — I was praying she got a nightmare roommate who “borrowed” every outfit she brought.

That flight reminded me of something important:
you never know what that baby is going through,
you never know what those parents are carrying,
and you never know what that tiny cry is coming from.

So yeah, maybe a baby whining on a plane is annoying. But sometimes that sound is coming from a kid fighting battles you can’t see — and parents doing everything they can just to make it through the day.

A little grace goes a long way.

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

[ijbol adjani @onbeinganangel]

seeing so many people complimenting gorgeous but clearly very skinny women for representing “normal bodies” on the red carpet. i have seen it about elle fanning and chase infiniti and eva victor among others. have we really fallen this far like is there actually any hope left

[antifa🔻girlfriend @lllliatttt]

i’m so tired of people acting like there’s some “her body her choice” eating disorder prerogative that makes it bad feminism to criticize public figures for the profound societal and medical sicknesses that they are, yes ok, victims of, but also verrry much helping to normalize

[antifa🔻girlfriend @lllliatttt]

every already-always-thin famous woman’s shoulders suddenly have decorative finials sticking out but if you say anything about it you’re doing Body Policing and Health Moralizing and Remember, You Never Know What Someone Is Going Through

[Nathan Cai @Nathanccai]

@Variety The point of the sketch is “these celebrities are lying and know they are lying” — it’s very much not an attack on Tourette’s. The joke only works if you know how Tourette’s works. They even trotted out 2 rapists to make this point clear.

[Sarah @MsJaxx]

Literally we are all going to die and none of us know when, so eat the pasta drink the wine & enjoy the bread, good lord what are you even doing?!

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 SKELETAL DEMI MOORE TREMBLING ON THE RED CARPET — FANS PANICKING OVER “OZEMPIC TREMORS”

Actress Demi Moore stepped out at the Actors Awards and within minutes the alarming clips started circulating.

Her mouth appeared to be frozen.
Her body visibly trembling under the lights.
Her frame looked extremely lean — ribs and bones sharply defined from certain angles.
Almost skeletal with her veins pronounced.

Now timelines are exploding with people connecting it to Hollywood’s GLP-1 era and the relentless pressure to stay razor thin.

No confirmation. Just viral footage and a comment section full of fans dissecting every second.

Is this harsh lighting and red carpet nerves… or are we watching the physical cost of an industry that rewards shrinking?

What do you see?