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Spent tonight at a local short film festival. One of the shorts was made by two 12 year olds in their backyard and it was the best short of the entire night

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today's warm up: If it's too hot for you, it's too hot for the demons and creatures that hide in the shadows!!

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in conversations about sex education for children many people fall back on teaching children to recognize and, hopefully, report predatory behavior as the primary reason why this education is good, and obviously I don't disagree with that! when I educate my 4th-6th students, we spend a significant amount of time talking about boundaries and consent and drilling in to the kids' brains that they do NOT need to tolerate inappropriate touching or other behavior from anyone, not even adults who might try to pressure them into thinking otherwise.

BUT! but but but! I think it's also really important to remember that preparing for the worst case scenario isn't the only reason to educate kids about sexuality and their bodies! kids deserve to enter puberty understanding all of the changes they'll experience, and not just the growing and sweating. it's good for kids to understand the new desires they might start experiencing! it's good to know about intense new crushes and erections and wet dreams and sexual fantasies and masturbation! those things can be really, really scary and confusing for young people who don't have any framework to understand them, and it's really easy to feel like you're doing something dirty and inappropriate if no one has told you that sexual pleasure and curiosity is normal, healthy, and good.

good sex ed should help students feel comfortable and safe expressing their sexuality! that's crucial!

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sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

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every time you see a youtube video or editorial article titled something like "Why Are There No women in [typically male profession/specialty/hobby]", this is the reason. those articles are for the education of cis men, every woman or anyone who has been perceived as female will eventually acquire a roster of these stories. a lot of young boys as well, but not to the same extent. this comment was left below a video from Girl With the Dogs (youtube dog grooming channel) in which she discusses a situation where she was being stalked on a playground (she's 4'11") by a man who appeared to be deterred only by the fact that she had her large german shepherd with her, which i have also experienced since getting my own large german shepherd. not a single man on the street has been rude to me since my dog became an adult, as long as the dog was physically with me. i genuinely think large dog handling confidence and skill is a feminist issue that should be discussed more in this context, and i think more women should have medium sized or large, capable dogs that, importantly, they actually know how to handle. i just dont have to be constantly monitoring my surroundings anymore, because the dog is doing it for me and he knows that's his job. all i have to do now is monitor the dog. one weird trick, trauma-informed therapists hate her etc

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I've reached enlightenment

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Customer started yelling at me because I was 1 minute late to open the shop so I banned him from shopping with us and locked the door on him. Play stupid games.

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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

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Today's Walrus Is: Mysterious Ronin

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Yeah this is my wet hay perfume. this one’s my wet forest soil one then this other one is just plain wet soil. This one’s my rotten citrus wet soil one. That’s my fresh tennis ball one. Oh and that one is supposed to represent the horrors of war lol