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[s. @toutestt]

I love how this feels like it’s from a reality show 😭

[Carrie Wittmer 👻 @carriesnotscary]

house of the dragon season 3 episode 3 bravely depicts what it is like to be asked a question while on your period

[dean 🏆 @DeanIsReal_]

Getting an entire ep dedicated to her POV on the challenges that come with ruling is exactly the type of stuff this franchise has missed since the early seasons of GoT

No flashy theatrics, no bombastic spectacles, just good ass television with great acting and incredible music

[Sgt Boots @luvrdom69]

Unpopular opinion maybe but I think this one instance really works for the show because them being similar in age really drives home the fact that her character birthed his very young

[Preemington 🇪🇬 @PREEM1E]

A Japanese studio accurately depicting the history of a minority group instead of stereotyping them feels like a fever dream

[loftileo @loftileo]

@ilustradomedi Nope.

This hearing is actually for the continuation of the recent Roblox issue where grooming and online radicalization happened

The shooting in Tacloban happens to have a relevance to the case

Risa is not going to blame the game developer here

[💌 @pipamobis]

rhaenyra and jace leaving each other on bad terms and doubt, vermax trying to fly up from the water, vermax and jace death scene…that was genuinely so devastating im in tears 😭😭😭😭😭 #HOTD

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“How did we go from paper straws to data centres?”

no one listened to the environmentalists who said unchecked corporate pollution was the bigger issue.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Zionism is a death cult

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Look at the date.

[𝓑ᥫ᭡ @quesadaaa_]

When Mamdani got in, my landlord started doing things he was supposed to be doing for years because he knew Mamdani was with the tenants, not the landlords. For example, monthly extermination hadn't happened in the 7 years I've been in my building until literally this year.

[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%.

[Deisine @TDeisine]

Ask him why he does not have a group chat or a therapist. Women are not born with these things, they put in effort to create all these for themselves.

[Nico The Lowly Tarnished @Nicosaesthetic]

The funniest part about the world rallying behind Zoran Mamdani is that he’s literally just doing his job, but by doing so shows us that every other politician is just lining their pockets & leaving us to rot 😭

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

He did this without cutting any social services,btw.

[Von Velasco @renceqv2]

I just checked the decree penalizing Obstruction of Justice (Pres. Decree 1829) and apparently when committed by public officers it carries the penalty of perpetual disqualification from public office…

[Jane Altoids @staticbluebat]

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. "
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

[👑 @kingebarrington]

the erasure of how much death occurred at the beginning of the pandemic is what i mean when i talk about the casual cruelty we're socialized to perpetuate. the level of denial folks have participated in about the level of loss we experienced has to be studied.