Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year
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me: hey, we don’t throw fruits. fruit bruises, like people. we don’t bruise fruit, we don’t bruise people.
2 year old girl: we cut fruit, we cut people
me: … … no.
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[read about what’s happening with AI]
ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad.
[go outside]
ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew.
[read more about what’s happening with AI]
ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble.
[go outside]
ME: Wait...
Blah de Vivre retweeted
When I was a production assistant, I had to walk William Shatner from a parking lot to the studio where the set was located, and we had to ride an elevator between the two locations. It was just Mr. Shatner and I by ourselves, not saying anything to each other, and the elevator was quiet. He was focused on the work at hand, and I thought it was just cool being in his presence. During the ride, I finally got the courage to say something to him, so I thought what the heck, and said, "You were great in Kingdom of Spiders." Shatner didn't respond at all. I thought oh boy, I've really annoyed him.
The elevator doors finally opened where the producer was waiting for him. I politely waited for Shatner to step out first, but he didn't. Instead he turned to me, and without even smiling said, "I showed those little bastards who was boss didn't I." and walked out.
Blah de Vivre retweeted
The Making Of has a phenomenal follow-up where they bring back the original actors and give them jive subtitles while they talk plain english
Blah de Vivre retweeted
there’s something psychologically terroristic about these kids books that are full of adult platitudes. “there’s nothing wrong with asking for help”. yeah. my 5 year old never would have thought there was. “you don’t have to be extraordinary to be loved”. do not tell my kid that
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OK, I’ll try to explain now that I have a second. So I teach a very short story called “The Sniper” that is about the Irish Civil War. You might be shocked to know that it features a sniper. In fact, it features two dueling snipers.
So I teach the story and the boys love it. They love it from the second that the sniper comes out. They enjoy the description of when he gets shot in the arm and has to deal with the bullet. They love the moral question of was it honorable to shoot the civilian who informed on him, etc.
The girls are over there making faces like “ewww what is this??”
Then we get to the end, where the epiphany happens. All of a sudden the story has real people consequences, because this dude just discovered he sniped HIS OWN BROTHER and suddenly it becomes real to the girls as well as the boys.
Someone who has been teaching for 20 years might be surprised by this.
The girls didn’t care until there were people and relarionships they could hang it on and the boys cared from the beginning because of the guy with the gun.
This is adolescent psychology 101.
Railing against this is to be Cuchulainn fighting the invulnerable tide. For every exception there are 30 kids that prove the rule.
Okay, I'll explain:
Boys don't like weapons. They like tools. This is one of the largest gaps between men and women, and incredibly well-established. Boys are interested in "things" and conceptualize them as tools. Girls are interested in people and conceptualize them as relationships.
She thinks that we're "socially conditioning boys to be violent" which is why they're "fascinated by weapons." No. They're learning how to use tools, and hitting something with another object is about the earliest "tool using behavior" possible. Even some birds do it. Boys fascinated by UTILITY; the idea that an object has undiscovered potential to do things.
Her concerns and analysis could easily be resolved if she would bother to familiarize herself with the century of scientific literature on the subject.
This is a good example of why journalists should report instead of comment: if they actually understood things (or had the capacity to do so), they'd be doing them instead of reporting on them.
Blah de Vivre retweeted
Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
Blah de Vivre retweeted
8yo sees me chopping up some celery:
Can I have some?
Me: Sure!
8yo: *chewing*
Me: *watches hopefully*
8yo: That celery really brought my mood down.
Me: Yeah……Yeah it will do that.
Blah de Vivre retweeted
When we say that school isn't great for boys, it's in part because they are increasingly taught by people who hate them.
A pipeline of young women has been brainwashed into despising males—so much so that some are comfortable saying publicly that we should abort all boys. She teaches special ed in MD.
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There's a double standard at the core of the "books for boys" discourse that's so severe yet unchallenged that it's making me feel crazy.
When mostly boys like a book, that means the book is bad/oppressive to girls. When mostly girls like a book, the fact that boys don't like it is proof that something is wrong with the boys.
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100% of children want ice cream for dinner
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I remember a discussion I had with a friend a long time ago. They disagreed with me when I called feminism a women’s advocacy movement. They insisted it was a women’s rights movement. I said that’s silly. I said when women win equality in places the feminist activism doesn’t stop. They continue to advocate and push for more women. And since men’s advocacy is basically illegal, the spaces end up becoming fully female.
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
My contribution to the current discourse: In elementary school the teacher once held me up as a (positive) example to the class because I (male) was reading Nancy Drew.
I didn't know it was unusual. I didn't like being called out though
What very popular comedian have you never really "gotten"?
For me, it's Martin Short. Occasionally funny, but generally not for me. And if I had to pick a second... Steve Martin. More often funny, but still not for me. Needlessly to say I don't watch their current show.
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My favorite line in all of literature is from a book almost no one has read-- The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- and no I'm not telling you the line because it requires context sorry for wasting your time today
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Blah de Vivre retweeted
Why the fuck would I ever step out of my comfort zone it's literally called the comfort zone
