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Sometimes I think of listing my diagnoses in my bio because people seem to think doing that gives them more authority in disability conversations

@IM_YARA4 If you or the other parent don't tell the kids it's your birthday then it's unfair to be hurt by them not knowing

My husband and kids forgot my birthday one year. Like most moms/wives, I was always the planner for their parties and dinners. So no acknowledgement kind of killed something in me. It was 4 years ago, and now I just put in the bare minimum effort - last minute gift. Last minute cake. I just don’t care anymore. It’s still one of the most hurtful things that I’d ever experienced in my marriage.Follow up: I talked to them about how much it hurt and how unappreciated and sad I felt. I told them why I would do nothing to celebrate their birthdays that year. My kids got it. He did not. Our divorce is final in 19 days.

@strwbrry258 And twitter

there is too much tomodachi life discourse, this is a fun silly game & if you are making it that serious i suggest having some time away from the switch

I got blocked for this

@ArachnidDolls Is chapel roan or tow mater the lesbian

"It's funnier bc what if Chappell Roan dates Tow Mater!" What if she dated Ms Piggy WHAT if she dated Flo, also from Cars

They're going to pelt me with rocks and tomatoes for saying it but the phenomena of making all of your miis (including lesbians) in your Tomodachi Life pansexual (is lesbophobic) is an expression of how none of y'all are capable of thinking of or liking silly fun women

@sinead_ian Do you know if kongregate is still running? The service for a game I play was shut down and is doesn't work

I’m a woman who’s an occasional gamer. I was a volunteer mod on Kongregate for about a year. The female mods discussed on the private mod board about the problems they had with constant pornography links in chat (often disguised with url shortening software). I even talked about it with two mods outside Kongregate, it was such a problem for us. We had to check if the websites were ok, which made me nervous because I had no idea if it was porn or not. The kicker? Nearly no male mods got porn links. It’s only because they found out we were women that male users tried to harass us. Some female mods quit because of this constant harassment. These girls know how much males (including transwomen) are arseholes and you, Matty, are proving how much a dick you are. Let these female gamers have their own space.

@michaelbomb_ I don't think that thought is inherently sexualising the tweet. Posting about anyone's genitals is weird, but especially your own kid's. How is he gonna teach his son the importance of consent and privacy after this?

I did like a woke double take on this because i was gonna qrt saying "kinda weird that you're tweeting about your newborn son's penis" then i like qrt'd myself in my head saying "what makes you view a penis as inherently sexualised"

@anishmoonka What if I stared at a red screen on my phone

Harvard scientists ran a simple test. They put adults under blue light for 6 hours one night, then under green light at the same brightness the next. Blue light pushed their bedtimes back by 3 hours. Green pushed them back by 1.5. And in kids, the same lights hit about twice as hard. The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep. Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work. Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time. Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01. Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime. The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.

@stancyhater Tofu kills worms

Can you people at least TRY to eat less meat? Tofu is really yummy when you get the hang of cooking it. Same with beans and lentils. Try ordering a tofu pad thai instead of chicken, or a veggie burger instead of beef. It’s better for your health to eat less meat too!!

Shower and bathroom light broke last night so I'm about to have a bath in the dark. If I don't come back, I was sucked down the plughole.

@strwbrry258 HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY OMG

i had a meh birthday, i’ve been in a funny mood and my pain flared up bad. But i’ve got some cool new books and more moneyy so life could be a lot worse & has been a lot worse :) here’s to making it to 25 ( has my frontal lobe developed? ) :0

@_celia_bedelia_ My most woke take is that men should wear pasties in the cold

My most boomer take (I guess) is that you need to wear proper undergarments (like a bra) to work.

@paleoblink @Riamus01 Is it not like having a dog sized cat

@Riamus01 i get its nice to think that cuddling a cheetah would be fun and cute please do NOT say theyre "begging to be domesticated" when the pet trade is genuinely one of their biggest threats. they ARE NOT PETS and shouldnt ever BE PETS. theyre wild animals!!!

It's a genuine shame cheetahs are so badly endangered and bottlenecked, cuz of all the wild cats out there they're basically begging to be domesticated and generally are very gentle and friendly with humans.

@dykericci How does that work

@GoAwayCaroline he him lesbian 👍

sometimes i think being a lesbian is a humiliation ritual. and then i see some bullshit a straight woman posts on tiktok and it’s like Oh i’m fine actually

@dykericci Your bio says he

@GoAwayCaroline What else would i be qube

@Shrink_at_Large No vitamin d

A new 2026 OECD analysis found that 28% of Britons suffer from mental health disorders—such as depression, anxiety, or addiction—the highest rate among 44 wealthy nations. This figures exceeds other countries like France (23%) and Germany (19%). Something is wrong but what is it?

@radfemma My mum works at a GP and had to ask her manager to put something in place to tell her which way someone was transitioning because she couldnt ask without offending them. She now gets a note on people's files that says "identifies as [x]".

imagine you’re in the process of saving someones life & they chastise you for “misgendering” them…..

@crescentmoontea Are you disrespecting the identity of the pole

who is posting transphobic stickers (they say "adult human female" in case my camera sucks) outside of a bunch of bloody furniture shops

@freganmitts Less abortions and more infanticide

One of my more radical positions that I don’t *totally* hold 100% but almost do is that people shouldn’t be allowed to find out the sex of their baby before the child is born.

@Drakesnarl Why not? Sounds good

Finding out that antihistamines help *tremendously* with a lot of my problems... Don't Like That.