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lets be slinkies with mama

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Working on a dataset of roadkill reports. state agency personnel CANNOT spell

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Source: Yotsuba&! | よつばと!

by Kiyohiko Azuma

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this guy

reblog if you agree

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hold on something just happened

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when people tell me my characters look like them it gives me more power to keep drawing and keep making art even when things are hard

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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When I am appointed to represent a child, my first action is to separate them from their parents and tell them the following things:

1. I am their attorney. I do not work for their parent or the judge or the cops. I don’t care what any of those people want.

2. My job is to listen to them and try and make what they want happen in court. (At this point I make a joke about how most people want me to get them out of trouble but if someone wanted to be in trouble I would do my best.)

3. What they tell me is confidential. It goes nowhere unless they agree to it. (If old enough, I talk to them about mandatory reporters, and how I’m a mandatory non reporter.)

4. I will give them lots of advice because I’ve been doing court for a while and I know a lot about it, and they don’t. It’s all really complicated, and if they don’t understand what’s happening it’s my job to help them figure it out.

5. They will make the decisions. (At this point I usually have to reassure them that I’ll help, I’ll speak for them in front of the judge, and I’ve got their back. It’s scary to have an adult say you’re in charge, most of the time.)

6. I tell them I know it’s absolutely wild to have some stranger come in here and say “hey, you can trust me!” and that I get if they don’t believe everything right away, because I plan to show them through my actions and my words that I’ll fight for them.

7. But nonetheless, I will treat them like a person who can make decisions, because they are living their life and I am not.

I do not:

Pretend to be cool.

Try to be their BFF.

Overwhelm them with detail.

Let their parents in the room until the kid asks for them. (I provide openings for this, and ask if the kid wants their parent to help them remember and understand.)

I want to emphasize I went into this job knowing nothing about how to interact with vulnerable populations, especially children. The training was minimal, and my role means that I can literally walk into a facility and get an unmonitored visit with a minor client one on one.

In my years of practice I have never felt threatened by a child, even one that was “violent” and “unstable.” It turns out just saying “hi, I think you’re a person with thoughts” is wildly successful? Now people treat me like I have special Child Whisperer powers. My powers are that I ask the child what’s up and I’m not scared to say things that are objectively awkward. I know nothing about anything.

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looking back at that “if your partner turned into a dog” poll and theres a pretty significant number of comments like “so y’all just wanna fuck dogs huh” and like

maybe im just therianpilled but i’m so befuddled by the sentiment that if your partner turned into a dog but retained their intelligence and communication ability that you wouldn’t stay with them? like thats still your partner their body is just different now

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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All kobolds can hold the ZL button to crouch and then shake the joycons to roll around in a little ball

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Real talk

Stop using subscriptions

Go to a thrift store and start buying those $1 Dvds that are going to end up in a landfill

Take a friend with you. It'll be fun. Get a cd case that was gonna go in the trash anyway

Fill it with your new DVD collection

Now you OWN those and many even have digital codes so you can download the movie in case the disc breaks

Cancel your Spotify

Start burning your own cd mixes. Draw on the cd.

Remove yourself from digital reliance. Take back having power over what you experience without needing to subscribe monthly

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Jerking off is incest

Sometimes I feel like you guys say things because you're bored

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I may lose followers for this but it needs to be said;

Marriage must follow traditional Christian values. I know that back when I was an emo witch, I did not believe this, but times have changed; I am different. I don't even listen to MCR anymore.

What do I mean by traditional Christian values in a marriage? I mean that the marriage must begin in a blood ritual between a lesbian and a gender ambiguous ex-muppet and end in a suprise crucifixion.

If you cannot accept my beliefs please simply unfollow unless you wish to be blocked.