shoe/clothing size you check in the store, but it's evidence that they haven't taken their child shoe/clothing shopping recently if they aren't in the right ballpark.

how are you going to 'love and provide' for your child if you don't know their likes/dislikes and basic safety information? You don't love your child if you don't know anything about them. Providing for them doesn't just mean money it means making sure they are safe, healthy, and secure.

And going to add that with all of these, it's not that you necessarily have to have a specific, one-word answer, but that you should have *some* thought process behind it indicating on-going attention to your child. Maybe you don't know your child's shoe size because they're growing so much, or because shoe brands all have different sizing systems, but you know how to check what your child's current shoe-size is. Maybe you're not sure who their pediatrician is because health insurance is a nightmare, but you know the doctors who've treated them before and have an idea of who you would go to if they needed treatment now. You might not know who is your child's best friend, but you should know about at least some of their friends. (Willingness to cooperate in areas you are less familiar with can also be a major contributing factor in how custody agreements shake out. My parents' divorce was messy af, but my mom's willingness to defer to my dad on my education and my dad's willingness to defer to my mom on my health played a huge role in making sure they both remained a major part of my life. They didn't have to know everything, but they did have to know who they would go to for those specific things -- even if that meant the person they hated most at the time. Putting their love for their child over their hate for the ex-partner was a statement, in and of itself, to the custody court.)

Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now

The invincible Susan Crawford:

NBC news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

there has been another homophobic mod incident in the balatro subreddit i repeat there has been another homophobic mod incident in the balatro subreddit

2. someone replies with this image

3. mods delete the comment for "low effort"

3.5 all this takes place in the subreddit where people find increasingly more creative/weirder/hornier way to ask for seed on posts about good runs

4. mods give a here's nothing explanation

5. gay jokes flood the entire subreddit

update: the subreddit is getting a new mod team

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

I feel as if studio ghibli films being reduced to their 'cozyness' would be tragic if not for the fact that it is a deliberate branding thing for them. from the ghibli museum to the revolving door of hot topic collabs, miyazaki and/or the people he puts in charge of these things are aware of how desirable the worlds within ghibli films are. even at that, how meaningful is the politics of howl's moving castle being motivated by miyazaki's outrage at the 2003 iraq invasion when you examine it alongside the actual text of the wind rises? what does the environmentalism of ponyo mean when faced with the massive amounts of waste generated by ghibli merch you can get at wal mart? i'm straying from the point here but

this was an officially licensed product that was released to promote grave of fireflies

i finally got clothes for my nendoroids and now im feeling inspired for the first time in months. i think this is fixing me

My train was late. AGAIN.