I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.
sorry for asking if you could help me with donation, i am currently living alone and unfortunately also dealing with cancer right now which make it impossible for me to be financially stable.
retweets is also appreciated, thank you
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At the age of 16, me and my best friend (who gave me the name 'rebulast'), picked up our midnight release editions of Halo 3, sped home, told our parents it was important, and played more Halo than you could imagine.
There is no Warframe without the legacy of Bungie games.
Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.
no fleets, no more circles, no more communities, block button now useless, likes hidden, site broken without logging in, dms worse than before, discoverability impossible without a blue check, bots everywhere
so cool that everything good about the site is gone and yet we remain
consider supporting his patreon! due to medical expenses, he and his wife have struggled a lot, including being homeless in the past. currently they’re in care homes but finances are still difficult.
https://t.co/8Ui5kl9jJS
For anyone in a position to help (or share), my good friend Bahaa still needs urgent help in Gaza, they need to secure enough food and resources to get his family through some very difficult times ❤️
(I’ve posted their most recent update in the link)
https://t.co/yURjFLWleo
We never needed governments to step in and de-anonymize the internet in order to protect children.
What we needed was education - 26 years ago - about responsible technology use and internet behavior. We needed parents to learn and understand what their children were doing with their tech and teach, monitor, and discipline. Not one class about "being nice on the internet". Year after year education about responsible use of technology.
We can build a better internet for tomorrow by starting today - by putting internet behavior and responsible technology use classes in every school, at every level. To understand how to behave, how to respect others, how to use digital devices responsibly, how to identify threats, scams and dangers. To spot misinformation and think for themselves. To stop spending hours and hours on infinite scroll applications that devour and degrade their attention spans and ability to process and create memories.
But that guidance needs to teach the why, not just tell us "this is bad!" Children should understand the costs of spending their lives in front of a screen just as they learn the dangers of smoking or why it's important to try to eat healthy foods. Teenagers should be guided and taught to make decisions about their activities for themselves and understand why social media is terrible for mental health, and why, as they become adults and learn to parent, they should monitor their own children's activities and share what they've learned with their own children. To learn to be there when their kids have questions, to understand before judging.
New parents need to understand how crucial it is not to just slap their kids in front of their phones to occupy them when they're busy. They need to understand when it's appropriate to set children up with different accounts of their own, and how to monitor their usage and ensure healthy limits. We need to rebuild the spaces in the Internet that are meant to be safe for children, giving them a place to safely express themselves and learn.
And we need to do this as a society, so we can improve the coming generations together.
When the internet was born, our governments failed to build the systems to help society learn it's responsible use. We let companies take over and social media run rampant and build worse and worse things that manipulated our base instincts, and now we're seeing the consequences of two decades of that.
We have to do better. We CAN do better.
Im down to my last £100, Ive signed on for work in warehouses/factories or whatever to keep the lights on but it takes a while to organise, if you'd like to support my artwork here is my Patreon, cheers! https://t.co/iheZEgBI3X