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Lillie ✦ she\her ✦ 29 ✦ Ace ✦ Freelance Artist from the United States ✦ COMMISSIONS OPEN:

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

SERIOUS QUESTION: Why is it that actual human jobs like baker, florist, teacher, and childcare worker barely pay a livable wage, while fakė jobs like AI specialist bootlicker, marketing campaign parasite, and synergy consultant are pulling six figures ??

[jezz @JezziiB]

I will never understand how so many of y'all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money YOU PAY IN TAXES to create a social safety net that benefits YOU.

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

Désolée mais je pense que dépenser de l’argent pour rendre la vie impossible aux SDF plutôt que pour les aider c’est le symbole parfait d’un système dépourvu d’humanité

[sandwich @sandwicchhh]

Applies to every form of art btw

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.

[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%.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

A protestor is holding a sign outside of Auschwitz that says:

“Israel exploits the memory of the Holocaust to carry out genocide.”

Being the victims of a Holocaust does not give you license to commit one yourself.

NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR EVERYONE.

[🇵🇸 nope @nnnnnnxox]

You can tell they wish this was true. Idky they're so sadistic about artists just because they have no talent

[ඞ @lifeinchaos_]

how it feels explaining morals & principles to a grown adult

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Robots cleaning rivers > robots writing screenplays

[Atheistboi @athiestboi]

I repeat if you need religion to have morals you’re a bad person.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

The entire wooden design is built from Palestinian olive trees by Palestinian carpenters from Bethlehem