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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Oh yeah I’ve put some mice out of their misery after getting mortally maimed by my cats.

    But I’m thankful that the worst police encounter I’ve had was some idiot officer investigating my house because I have playground equipment in my yard and they found a nonverbal toddler unaccompanied across town (smallish town) so therefore I must be connected in some way because I’m clearly a parent? Idk what their thought process was but when the town’s elementary school has about 300 students (I did a rough count at the last event they ran out of curiosity), spending an hour investigating the first parent you see seems like a very inefficient use of police resources


  • Does ACAB include former-detective Monk and Shawn Spencer?

    self-indulgent answer

    First of all, a police force hiring a former member as a contractor who’s now on medical disability for having a mental break and severe regression in his OCD is super problematic but also the lousy portrayal of what OCD is definitely pushed back public understanding of OCD by at least a decade

    Shawn Spencer is an even worse example. He literally was trained by his detective dad to be an amazing detective, he then ends up contracting with the police force to do detective work while actively damaging evidence in his wacky “psychic visions” he causes members of the police force to believe in mystic pseudoscience because “this psychic detective is amazing, obviously other mystical workers are just as incredible at what they do!”, he causes the police force to directly pay a psychic contractor. And let’s be real, his motive is primarily trying to get with Detective Lassator’s partner who at worst puts up with his antics and at best is vaguely amused by him


  • Seriously if anyone has kids, have them watch some of the shows on PBS Kids. Most are far less annoying than the slop Disney’s been producing for the 2-6 age group, and all are far more educational.

    Like, Daniel tiger is annoying but at least teaches good stuff (I’ve literally referenced it while teaching my kids something to help reinforce), but there’s some really good shows on there like Molly from Denali, Alma’s Way, Hero Elementary, Wild Krats, and Carl the Collector. Better paced, better animation and a million times better writing, plus they all happen to be shows from different human perspectives than just a random talking mouse or talking dog teaching a corporate-approved malaise


  • The entire show is written so lazily it’s just another form of slop. I have a paw patrol book we got at a garage sale where one windmill at a windmill farm stops spinning because one of the blades broke causing a power outage, so they use a surf board as a replacement blade and the day is saved. Literally not how any of this works and they could’ve spent 5 minutes researching windmills and made an actually educational story but instead they went for slop.

    Y’know how they could’ve written it to be more educational? Maybe one of the windmills had a motor issue and the power flickered due to the frequency being off, so they first go to the substation and switch off the power flow from the wind farm to just pull in from other sources, then they repair the windmill motor then restore the connection from the wind farm. Its still lazy, it doesn’t teach much but it at least doesn’t teach kids that if they see a stopped windmill to panic that there will be a power outage.

    There’s also literally an episode where the paw patrol gang influences an election. The villain was set to win the local election so the paw patrol gang goes into an advertising blitz to drown out the bad guy’s underdog (hehe) campaign but it’s all okay because the Right Person won the election! I saw this one while my kids were spending time with their trump voting grandparents

    Every time my daughter asks for Paw Patrol I say “nope we’re not watching copaganda” and I look forward to whenever she repeats that to people. When the kids are older I’ll probably explain to them about slop vs quality shows. Like, I’ve learned things from the kids watching Curious George, like what should and shouldn’t go into compost bin or to just use a pair of pliers when driving a nail so you don’t risk hitting your fingers. I want my kids watching shows that actually help them understand the real world, not just slop that’s made to mesmerize them with pretty colors and catchy lines then turns around to sell them a line of merch







  • I think women have the wherewithal to use, or have easier access to, proper tapered toys. Men see a tube shaped object and go “yep, that’ll do”

    Some of this definitely comes from stigma, it’s relatively normal for women to have sex toys, regardless of relationship status, but it’s seen as sad and loser/gooner behavior if a man has sex toys. Add in inconvenience of penetrative sex toys really only being effective for prostate play for men (whereas women can use penetrative sex toys both to simulate vanilla PIV sex and for any amount of increasingly kinky fantasies) and you have the perfect recipe for horny men curious about ringing that male G-spot using whatever seems relatively safe and appropriately sized