"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”

Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.

Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

new update to MAPQVEST

@plante.bsky.social honestly i can’t remember if it was you or russ who asked about californian lake monsters on The Besties, but can you spread the news that Tahoe Tessie is real

it’s giving Friday

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

yay, glad it works for you!! i use it so much haha. super excited to see the paintings you’re planning :)

really embarrassing how much i like tonic water. constantly wandering the earth begging random men to please give me
quinine

Figjam doesn’t have the discovery/autolinks element of Pinterest, but I use it pretty often when I have some
visuals to save with a bunch of notes

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

My sustaining donor spiel: If you have a enough money to keep forgetting to unsubscribe to something, I highly recommend becoming a sustaining donor at the food bank (or other org) of your choice.

yikes, unfollowing now.....i didn't realize i'd been walking 6 steps directly behind you for several years and i realize that could be sort of unnerving

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

waffle jacket

i think this would fix me

i only know Z from his time on the sharks but that seems like the randomest line you could possibly put him on

met a new coworker today who signed off on our meeting by saying “live, laugh, corporate structure 🙂”

it’s like watching your dumbest friend play pinball on the worst machine ever invented

the other day he dropped it while running down and it landed on top of his head and then in trying to wiggle it off his neck he shook it into the wall and then it hit him in the head again

you havent really lived until you’ve watched my dog try to carry a ball down the stairs

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

you can’t buy anything anymore and if you get really lucky it’s in stock but there’s no price tag and the cashier just makes up a number. the only way you can buy things now is to get shit you don’t want for $150

girl they turned shopping into the worst experience ever

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

she’s a gorgeous older woman.. great skin. hunchback. one hair. eats fish. RAW 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

forced to frantically dm my friends saying shit like have you seen the guy doing an impression of bad bunny if bad bunny was cast in lord of the rings and he thinks that gollum is hot?

it’s always below deck and it’s always like exclusively season 9 episodes 15 and 16 or whatever. i dont even know any of these people

how on gods green earth do airlines decide which episodes of below deck they’ll show on the inflight