antler✧*:･ﾟ✧

my header is now in a comfortable pose

27 | ♒ | dp

[antler✧*:･ﾟ✧ @antler___]

Lots of stress demon doodles

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the fall of Roe v Wade. And I just wanna say…. a ROYAL FUCK YOU to all who said we were exaggerating....

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

she just won her election btw

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

I miss when kids had their own corner of the internet and adults weren’t part of it

[blauereiter @blauereiter]

VFX ! FILMMAKING !

[judy hilarious @sagebeatlove_]

I’m calling a team meeting because what the fuck?

[Drebae @Drebae_]

Juneteenth has passed, but the resilience of gay black men has not ❤️ we celebrating #Pride

[Hurize | waiting to dream… @Spielerliste]

He doesn‘t understand how much this really means to us seeing him happy and healthy 🥹💕

[She’s Fishy ➐ @ShesFishy]

The storytelling, the animation, the outfits, the set design… this might be one of the most creative COLORS performances I’ve seen 😭🔥

[saku 🌸📿 fujotuber (｀∀´)9 @sakumintsu]

ben thanh is real

[Huddy @huddybuggy]

Your friendly neighborhood Dakota

[Matt Braly @Radrappy]

✨I can't tell you how cool it is that MONK was allowed to share this piece - usually development stuff just gets lost FOREVER! Enjoy the A++ scratch dialogue by @justinfelbinger and some killer boards by @barkel_tom in the back half! Please visit the team at Annecy this weekend!

[Wokie D. Void 🇬🇭🇮🇹 @Voidsspace]

The only reason it took so long for this is because everyone kept treating it as the "you-cannot-have-kids-disease", instead of acknowledging that the condition was wrecking havoc in the entire body, and infertility was just a symptom

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— happy juneteenth! ❤️🤍💙✊🏾| a day of profound significant for black americans & a pivotal moment in our history. to commemorate the end of slavery in the u.s. here’s a compilation of juneteenth parades & events spanning from 1979 — 1991 in fort worth, texas.

[TyGuy 𓆈 @probably_ty]

😱

[kc @baldniggachange]

the people genuinely suggesting Her and Taimi going to hell in 7minutes

[curry queen @loookatmeimkiad]

day 4 no water in the colony and now they’re limiting how much water u can buy at the stores

[Jedi @dhe3g]

OnlyFans is the main funder of AIPAC. That is neither an exaggeration nor a joke.

[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%.

[riina ★ COMMS OPEN @riina_606]

I just looooove this fabric