Tumblr notified me of a handful of images that were deemed against community guidelines. They were all images from ~8 years ago.
I spent a long time posting images of women I felt were beautiful to try and come to terms with my sexuality as well as the internalized shame I felt about my body. I’ve posted soft bodies to try to better appreciate my own.
I’m sure we’ve all had feelings about these guidelines. I’m trying not to let it impact me. My body, my socks, my shoulders, are not adult content. Half of the children you are protecting will grow up to have a body like mine, what message of shame does this send?
movies about apocalypses: it’s every man for himself!! you can’t trust anyone, it’s a wasteland of solo travelers and sad families, we’re alone out here
humans irl: *pack bond with strangers*
*pack bond with large carnivores*
*pack bond with robots in space thousands of miles away*
Apocalypse preppers who fantasise about all our artificial rules and governments falling away in times of chaos seem to forget that we invented those rules and governments. Over and over. When you put humans near each other, they group up and make a society; that’s why those governments exist. Do they think we magically stop doing that in dangerous situations? Because… we don’t.
And like, do people forget basic human nature? We are not solitary animals. Science has proven again and again how much healthier, emotionally, humans are if we have regular interaction and affection from other people, and the benefits caring for a pet has on our psyche.
Even if shit hits the fan, and the society as we know it ends, it won’t change our instincts to take in strays, humans and otherwise, and just make the best with what we have together. Helping other people isn’t a weakness like modern day ideals try to frame it to be, it’s actually our strongest attribute, along with problem solving. And probably the only reasons we haven’t gone exitinct.
Whoever’s out there trying to push the message that human nature is selfishness and survival of the fittest is trying to sell you some shit.
Toddlers are so pure. She doesn’t understand that we help her with certain things because she’s little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.
i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no it’s ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldn’t budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol
I don’t think I’d realised how many casual compliments we pay to our toddler until she started casually complimenting us back, because experience has taught her that’s How Social Interaction Is Done, and there’s nothing quite like a very earnest three-year-old solemnly and sincerely informing you that you look wonderful and smell nice to make you feel really good about yourself
I tell her she’s my best girl. She tells me I’m her best auntie. Then we both feel good about the world!
More photos of Mongolia’s reindeer-herding minority ethnic group, the Tsaatan, by Joel Santos.
Children are responsible for training reindeer for riding, because the reindeer are not strong enough to carry an adult until they are fully grown, and it works best to introduce them to the idea early. A two year old reindeer, old enough for a child to ride, is called dongor; an adult reindeer is a hoodai.
As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one we’d typically recognize - bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society.
As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society.
As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to America’s 76%.
It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who can’t function well in society, and then…help them do that?…they….do. Without the crime-ing.
