This bus company in my area has taken to giving its vehicles names. This one could have used a bit more constructive criticism.

sex education is both necessary for and can be adapted to any age range of children who are able to understand complete sentences.

Sex education should be some thing that begins in early childhood and grows with the child becoming more expansive as far as what they are being taught.

A five year-old should know the anatomical names for their parts and basic hygiene

An 8-year-old should know where babies come from and what a period is.

12-year-olds should be talked to about coercive sexual assault.

The idea that keeping important information from our children keeps them more “innocent” and somehow that “innocence” keeps them safe from sexual violence or exploitation is causing us as a society to neglect our children and leave them without the tools that they need to navigate a world where that kind of sexual violence does still exist

Certified Sex Ed Post!

i was at a little park fest thing today and someone was there with their cats who were trained to hang out in a stroller?? like they were SO chill it was amazing. the cats were obviously enjoying themselves and were very well trained to stay right in or under their catmobile.

until, that is, i rolled up in my wheelchair and one of them turned and saw my vaguely stroller-like contraption and *immediately* jumped out of his cat-approved-stroller to climb around on my chair like OH WOW WHEN DID WE GET ANOTHER WHEELEY THING YAY! :D

i was like sir you are not supposed to be here and he just looked up at me like oh yes i am ! i must stay in wheeled contraption !!! and he was wearing a lil bowtie so i could not argue with him

[id: the Is This a Bird meme edited so that a stock photo of a gray tabby cat with a bowtie is the one gesturing at the It's Free Real Estate meme that has a disability symbol of a person in a wheelchair edited on to it. end id]

#cat: wow a new stroller just for me! and there’s even a warm lap to sit on!! #clearly a superior mode of transportation #omg once i saw a woman in joann fabrics and she had a stroller with her #and inside was a single white duck that she kept showing different fabrics to #like some kind of tiny textile king (via @arwcn )

the U-turn these tags took just punched me in the face i NEED a fabric duck in my life to help me make shopping decisions ALL HAIL THE TINY TEXTILE KING

I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.

I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.

https://www.darkpattern.games/

It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this

There's also

Some are one-time payments for the games, some are 100% free.

I think I found these on another version of this post, but I really enjoy Simon Tatham's Puzzles:

No ads, simple and straightforward, around 40 types of classic and obscure puzzle games with various difficulties.

you might think every day in november is just a day in november. however, there are some days in november that are significantly More than others. if you know you know

this is some sort of mood

everyone shut up. 4 year anniversary of the stupidest episode of television.

“Lol we’re gonna be worse than game of thrones” is a weird way to talk up your show’s final season but whatever

Weird flex but okay

I appreciate honesty

they really weren't kidding huh

Solar chimneys are dark-painted shafts attached to the sides of buildings. The chimney absorbs heat, and when that hot air rises, the suction forces cooler air to ventilate through the house. Combined with other passive cooling strategies, solar chimneys can reduce indoor temperatures up to 14F.

Solar chimneys have been used for centuries in the Middle East, and started being used in the US around the 1960s, said Corey Saft, an architecture professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2018, Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities installed a solar chimney on its headquarters as part of retrofit aimed at making the building require almost no energy for heating, cooling, ventilation or daytime electric lighting.

i love when large dogs are picked up and they’re so absolutely confused as to how this could happen that they just sorta

I found another

Giggling insanely over “Stay fresh, cheese bags!”

whatever man. check this out 👇🏽

so true

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Happy "Not Only Is It Not Friday, It's Not Even Thursday, Official Wednesday, It's Tuesday" Monday, everyone