Yes exactly this! M. plays airplane all the time (one of her favorite books is Angela's Airplane), and loves to be the pilot. But is nervous around new people, (and I think nervous that she might accidentally make the airplane go, like Angela does).
EXACTLY
lol
I’ve taken 4 flights with my 3yo in the last 2 months.
Each flight, she peeks in the cockpit and exclaims “Mama! Dere’s de pilots!”
Each flight, the pilot offers to let her take a picture in their seat
& she says no
& I employ enormous willpower to not pressure her bc OMG IT WOULD BE SO CUTE
some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
K sorry I thought I was done with qs but: what.. kind of creature has a tentacle? Are tentacles real?
Haha amazing no more questions 10/10
I would’ve died from cancer and been broke from the reconstruction without rules saying insurance had to cover it. Actually, I would’ve died from asthma as a child without insurance covering my $500/month inhalers. These dudes as the definition of ungrateful and short-sighted.
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
Trinidadian!
What the fuck kind of crab is Sebastian supposed to be
Okay yeah I was just going to say: I have eyeballs on him right now and there are only 8 legs BUT I also heard King Triton call him a crab wtf
Okay this is EXACTLY the level of detail I was looking for
Okay but are her tentacles octopus tentacles or squid? (Do squid have 8 also?)
Is Ursula an octopus or a squid? Relatedly, is Sebastian a crab or a lobster?
To finish the fucking thing.
A pink tulip
A yellow dandelion
Some purple grape hyacinths
A bee friend on the weeping cherry (I think) blossoms! Very tricky to see the bee.
🌺 Spring!!! 🌼
I'm a little verklempt at how diversity enriches us in unexpected ways.
As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free
Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.
When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states. n.pr/4chq6J5
lol M (3;7) is code switching past tense between me and the baby:
“Mama, my phone broke!”
“Look [baby], my phone breaked!”
🐦 #linguistbabyphotos
Tax invisibility is a scourge in our politics
> Public childcare isn't free, it's tax-funded.
> People buying $34 burgers pay taxes.
> Believe $34 burger eaters should pay more? wait until you hear about this idea "progressive taxation"
Wow, problem solved, thanks taxes! 😀
Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.
Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York. Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue. We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
Well. just saw a video of Palestinian kids in a refugee camp playing
The had a doll on a stretcher and were carrying it in a funeral procession.
Idk if I want to vomit or cry.
HOO boy.
That no language is better or more expressive than another.
Dialect is not the absence of grammar or deficient.
Language use is not correlated with intelligence.
Language change is the norm, not a reason for panic.
Dell Hymes is a foundational scholar in linguistic anthropology who sexually harassed his students and colleagues at Penn for many years before he was finally removed. I don’t cite Hymes’ work in my research and I don’t teach it, and I’m very open about why I don’t.
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities