Obviously this is an adorable bit but I'm so struck by how different this is from so many little kid shows today like.......the muted colors. no background noise. no sound effects. you can literally hear Jim Henson breathing between his lines. Ernie is talking very slowly, meandering, letting the kids digest the info. it's a full minute before you get the payoff of it all. man

We pretty much only watch Mr rogers for the same reason. The new shows are like brain damage.

I’m an Astronaut trying to handle my crew as we orbit the moon

I’m busting myths

I’m fucking up Hong Kong

Shit. I have your job now since I last watched Dune.

I’m not space hitler

I am a rancher in Montana (could be worse)

I’m the manager for AFC Richmond.

I’m superman

Dr house

LAPD SWAT commander

hey boopity boppity im da mafia boss i whacka da wiseguys

I get to be the sheriff of a dirt town run by grifters and murderers.

I’m the poster boy for the IBLP 😭

Busted back town to high school to ride herd on a bunch of teenage werewolf (and assorted other super) maniacs.

I’m drifting around the universe trying to survive.

I am hunting ghosts that only teenagers can see.

I am not a teenager.

I am so dead.

I’ve got to fight Voldemort.

Ive got to be your neighbor.

I like exulansic's content about the complications that arise from medical transistion but I can't stand reading the comments. It's always the same mean-spirited comments of "welp, that's what those idiots get for mutilating their bodies lmao".

I can't understand being gender critical and having such contempt for transitioners. My motivation for being gender critical is that I want to help these people. I don't want to see them suffer. How can any of them claim to support detransitioners when they literally mock and lack compassion for those who went through surgery and HRT? You can't talk about the lack of proper informed consent in "trans healthcare" but also deride trans people who get "neo-vaginas" or top surgery because "they should've known what they were getting into".

Do you actually want to see these people get better or do you just want to stick out your tongue and say "I told you so"?

Also a lot of trans people are mentally ill and they made the decisions they made out of a desperate desire to find happiness and self-acceptance.

Mocking them for their suffering, even if it is arguably self-inflicted, is not only petty and unhelpful, it is also extraordinarily cruel.

Don't kick people while they're down.

I couldn't give a single crap about militant in your face gender idiots.

But I do feel sorrow for the people who are being tricked and taken advantage of. They're victims of medical malpractice, medical abuse, and gaslighting by society at large. Atrocities are being committed by "doctors" and that's the area in which these people are actually victims as opposed to what they've been told.

How do you tell these two apart? I was "a militant in your face gender idiot". I am also a woman who was led to believe female masculinity is disgusting. I didn't know about the risks of medical transition. I couldn't imagine how it would affect my body image to cut off parts of myself. I was deep in a community that normalized all this and deemed all outsiders to be the enemy.

I'm now a detransitioner who feels like I was betrayed by our culture as whole and was unfortunate enough to experience discomfort about my gender during this time when medical community didn't know how to help me. I was too young and wasn't given enough information to make actual informed choices.

And at the same time I was preaching the gender stuff to everyone else, I was completely confident I understood gender better than those dumb cisgendered people. I spread the very ideas that hurt me.

My past self and my current self would have extreme disagreements: I'm now the "evil detrans terf", the past self is the "dumb crazy TRA". I was the perpetrator of harmful ideas, and I am the victim of those same ideas. So am I worthy of compassion? Am I now? Was I in the past? At which point I expressed enough regret to be considered someone you can empathize with?

There's a definite difference. I've had plenty of conversations with people who believe in gender ideology that were civil, normal people who just disagreed with my beliefs. I have no problem with people who don't believe what I believe as long as it isn't harming anyone but themselves. I'm glad to have conversations about it.

But screaming raving lunatics who insist on being catered to and pampered for their bull is a group I really don't have time for. People who push it on kids, wish violence on me and my family. Don't wish them harm, but I don't see any point in engaging, interacting with, or being around them. I don't particularly care what happens to them. Were they to sit down and be like oh crap I made a massive mistake, then I'd be glad to have a conversation. But there is a line at which i more or less will write off dealing with someone. Don't hate them. Just don't care.

@eldritchwritings

Society should indeed be ordered in such a way that childbirth and motherhood are as easy as possible on women, but it is a non sequitur to claim that we can only end abortion by first curing every societal ill plaguing mothers and young families. Abortion is always murder and it should be prohibited by law and moral abhorrence no matter the circumstances. Ending this anti-medical practice will go far further towards improving maternal care and outcomes than any combination of financial or labor policy changes.

Initially agreed. But I’m not just talking about legal abortions. Do not get me wrong, I want it prohibited, but we’re fooling ourselves if we act like desperate women will not pick up coat hangers or have significant others abuse them. There are ways to induce miscarriages that can and will be used when women genuinely fear for their safety and well-being due to pregnancy. No I’m not saying that makes it okay or right or that abortions should remain legal to be safer. I am saying we have no hope of creating a better society unless we have protective measures in place to prevent those circumstances. Illegalizing abortion is A goal. But it cannot be the ONLY goal or we end up with dangerous underground abortion procedures and more fear mongering than anything else

This!

We need both. We cant just ban abortion and call it a day. Abortion is a symptom. Women need other viable, safe options. Mothers shouldn't fear pregnancy. Safety nets are needes, aid is needed, better healthcare/maternal medicine should ve demanded.

Most things I am deeply conservative on but not this one. I wish there had been more resources and easily accesible information and help when I was younger. Help that all people are made aware of.

Ive seen improvements in this area since i was a pregnant teenager. But i truly think this is one area conservatives need to conceed on. Support mothers. The argument of people taking advantage is stupid because there are real living babies on the other end of that excuse and they need help that arent responsible for those decisions.

Better support for parents. Incentivize healthy families. Mental health and addiction support for parents who are in those situations. Access to good medical care for pregnant women and babies. Help establishing shelter and getting needs met. I even support helping with daycare so single parents can work and move away from needing support.

The church should be actively engaged in this, alongside pro life people voting and pushing for measures to be put in place. Our tax dollars would be spent aiding in creating more intact, healthy families. Which our society desperately needs.

Recently learned how high the butterfat content of goat milk can be and it has me questioning my preconceived goat notions

That's an impulse to resist - those square pupils are too freaky

Those creepy bitches can give you 10% milk

when I was a lad I spent the summer on an organic farm and they had goats

endearing little shits with an assload of mischief energy

Goats are friends, don't trust people Goats don't trust.

Goats are wonderful animals that give milk, meat and hide for a fraction of what a cow costs to feed and raise. Goat Cheese is amazing. Norwegian Jetost more so.

can you make goat butter?

Absolutely you can

Goats also make EXCELLENT pack animals, able to carry up to 50 pounds with minimal training, don't run away when scared, and require bare minimum supplies to be brought

And being a goat, they can go anywhere you can

I really want a goat to go deserting with me

My grocery delivery people just force bogo items on me against my will...which is like hard to be mad about because there's no loss..but...also...i didn't need 10 bagels.

Reblog and put in the tags what brought you to this hellsite and what managed to keep you here for so long

If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren’t virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.

I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there’s usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can’t get over how the internet “as intended” today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I’ve ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.

Beloveds, there is a wonderful website that gets rid of all that crap<3

OOOOH.

Another thing that's quick is most of these recipes have a print recipe link at the top that pulls up a printable version without all the extra crap on it.

I don’t get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist characters 

Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuries 

If you didn’t feel like talking to a man, you just “took up your sewing” and he’d have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended

Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each other’s work, and enjoy each other’s company in peace 

The skill the female character has doesn’t have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because there’s strength and power in any skill she has 

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms.

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms.