Mandaleee

32. Aro/Ace. Fanfiction obsessed. Will look for spoilers about anything and everything. #asexual #acepride #fanfiction

[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%.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

These are the four college girls, including one American citizen, the IDF kidnapped in the middle of the night from their homes and threw into their torture dungeons.

Jolan Abu Awwad, Natali Abu Dayya, Laila Nael Khalil, Sama Safi

Israel has a policy called “administrative detention” that allows them to kidnap Palestinians and imprison them for 6 month increments without any charges whatsoever. These holdings can drag out for years.

Over 3,000 Palestinians were being held on administrative detention in Israeli prisons on October 7. That’s why Hamas took all those Israelis back to Gaza. To exchange for their release.

But do you see how that works? When Israel kidnaps people and holds them for months and years on end, they are simply “prisoners on administrative detention.” But when Hamas does it, they are “hostages.”

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

8 billion people in the world, yet no one hears their screams.

No one even speaks of our genocide in Gaza.

[goma @soigomaa]

This morning I woke up to videos of women begging for their lives in Ozoro
Last week I woke up to photos of children taped to tables and hog tied while dressed like princesses for our president
Last month I woke up to reports of 70,000 men group chats in Germany where men discussed how to 🍇 their family members
Last year I woke up to stories of firefighters, journalists, and nurses who all collaborated to Gisele Pelicot because her husband wanted to break an unbreakable woman.
I burn with rage for all of the women TODAY who have to live in this world with men
And yet it's feminism that has gone too far and I am the offensive one for my anger?

[shego 🔻 @shegoisback]

paramedics in south lebanon are now filming their rescue missions to debunk israeli claims and documents israeli war crimes yet the WHO and HRW are still silent about the deliberate attacks medics are facing on daily basis.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.

And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

It’s so crazy that we’re watching a real genocide on our phones and nothing is being done about it

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇵🇸🇮🇱Shocking CCTV footage from Gaza shows the moment Israel bombed innocent people, including women and kids, while shopping for the first day of Eid al-Adha

[Aymeric Caron @CaronAymericoff]

Images insupportables de la barbarie israélienne, avec une nouvelle fois pour victimes des enfants.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

this should hurt to look at. this should make you feel sick. this is one of the worst tragedies in human history and you can see it from space.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

This is genocide

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

to whomever made this: thank you from the wells of history and farthest echoes of indigenous screams for justice for this labor of love and justice.
their terror will not be whitewashed.

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

Settler violence in the West Bank is at unprecedented levels. Together with the United Kingdom, France and Italy, we call on the Government of Israel to end its expansion of settlements. For a comprehensive and just peace based on a two-state solution.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

ONLY ISRAEL CAN KIDNAP, ABUSE & TORTURE FOREIGN CITIZENS AND GET AWAY WITH IT

IMAGINE THIS WAS ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD

[✨️Madds✨️ @madds_wurld]

Repost this and make sure everyone sees this man's face until they find him. Anyone who kills one of our sisters should never know peace again.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Report from Nabatieh where two more paramedics were killed today in a targeted attacked as they attempted to rescue and injured man who also died.

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

I’ve just learned of the killing by Israel of one of the most courageous people I knew: rescuer Hussein Jaber from the Lebanese Civil Defence in Nabatieh.

I had known him for three years and met him many times. He was always inspiring, brave and endlessly helpful for many reporters.

We will not forget what Israel has done to Lebanon’s rescuers.
We will not forget Hussein.