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It’s for U.S. Cellular, specifically advertising how great their streaming service is. You can even , the guy in the ad says, stream hours of grass mowing.
And I go… “wait a minute…that sounds weird…why hasn’t this ad ended yet?”
And I look at the bottom.
the ad is seven hours long.
UPDATE
i’m half an hour in
the guy’s come back a couple times. his mower broke down and he went to get more gas. he came back and started it up again, drove around a few more times making comments about it being fun and “you still watchin? weird.” After a bit he took out a ruler and started measuring the grass.
He pulled out a book and a lawn chair and started reading, but he just left and said he’ll be back soon
he brought out an umbrella but it fell over so he left and came back and tried to fix it but it completely broke so he stalked off, dragging the chair behind him. i’m loving this.
HE BROUGHT OUT A HAND-HELD UMBRELLA
he’s really getting into the book
He put away the umbrella and book and stuff and now he’s measuring the grass again.
HE’S GONNA PLAY CROQUET
the sprinklers turned on…i’m two hours into this thing
“When I was growing up, my parents spoke to each other in Spanish, but they didn’t speak to us in Spanish because they were told not to. In school we weren’t allowed to speak it.”
and also???
“… But America is the only country that promotes monolingualism. Here it’s English, English, English. Every other country makes their children learn a second language very early on. So as my political and social activism grew, I was like, ‘I really need to learn Spanish.’ So I did.“
idk how many people i’ve known growing up in texas whose parents speak fluent spanish but they don’t speak a lick solely because their parents were afraid or told not to teach their children. it’s unspeakably common and doesn’t in any way shape or form diminish someone’s claim to or pride in their heritage.
fuck that guy. you go eva.
lack of intergenerational language exchange is one of the leading causes of language death for endangered and indigenous languages because of this culture of shame attached to “lesser” coded languages so frankly if yr mocking people for not speaking their mother tongue without taking the colonial reasons for this into account, you’re an ignorant prick and you can go fuck yourself like
I mean, genocide is also a factor, as are people trying to shield their kids from the violent repercussions & structural social inequalities they would face being marked as other, so it’s not always a matter of shame or even ambition, either— there’s body counts associated with speaking the “wrong” language, and thousands of worn out tales of being forced to give up every shred of dignity you have just in order to find work or survive once you’ve been flagged as foreign… shame can be a factor, but “culture of shame” is an understatement.
All of this (sans @dabeatnik’s commentary, ofc) is still accurate, but sometimes pride & shame have nothing to do with these choices that are all about making sure your kids are alive, safe, and more successful than you could be because of limits placed on you or violence targeted towards you based on language.
“Attorneys for Kansas militia members who conspired to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali immigrants have asked the court to take into account at a sentencing hearing next month what they called President Donald Trump’s rhetoric encouraging violence.”
yeah i don’t know if anyone tried to go to any of my blogs yesterday but tumblr terminated my account. obviously they restored it for me, which i am grateful for, and the team was polite.
do you want to know why i was terminated?
this post. this post wherein a bot added a malicious or suspicious link and OP made a joke back at said bot.
posts like this are really funny and clearly are not meant to spread the malicious link. however, tumblr’s automatic flagging system doesn’t seem to know the difference.
so for the safety of your account, please refrain from making or reblogging posts that bots have added links to, even if it’s a joke on said bot, bc you’ll probably get terminated on accident.
So they can delete people reblogging bots, but not the bots themselves.
(2) none of these mentors ever did anything
remotely inappropriate to me, neither did any of their male colleagues
they helped me consult with, i got support for my disability and as an
academic and a human being from mentors that i was not getting at
school, many of them disabled themselves. mentorship is CRUCIAL for
people like me, who are often denied academic opportunities and benefit
from support and it upsets me to see it written off as “basically
pedophilia”
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I haven’t seen that post, and I’m fucking grateful because what the fuck, holy shit that is the worst fucking concept I’ve ever seen, and it’s horrible that it’s finally translating from subtext to just plain fucking text.
Mentorship is absolutely and especially necessary for disabled people, as well as for people who are denied opportunities for other reasons, such as being queer or brown, but like fuck, it’s also just necessary for fucking everyone.
Do these people think that all teachers are child predators? All parents? Girl scout leaders? Big brother/big sisters? Fucking training managers?
Do they think that everyone just magically learns all possible skills without any kind of guidance at all?
The second one of these kids tries to replace a busted electric socket without help, they’re going to have a nasty time of it. Or make a fucking pancake. Or do some public transit transfers in an unfamiliar city. Or literally fucking anything.
Holy shit.
Holy fuck.
You know, If these people actually cared about mentors behaving inappropriately, they’d be doing things like listing tips for how to tell if your mentor is shady, and reminding you to trust your gut and leave if you aren’t comfortable with something. But they never do that.
Yeah, that. No one is immune to being targeted by a predator. NO ONE. And you can’t tell if someone is or isn’t a predator just by how old they are. There isn’t an age at which the “predator” switch just flips and a perfectly nice and helpful non-predatory individual suddenly gets the urge to groom children for abuse. And there isn’t an age at which an individual magically becomes unattractive to any and all predatory individuals – elder abuse is also a thing.
Learn about red flags so you know what to be on alert for. Learn to set and enforce healthy boundaries in ALL your relationships (this limits the ability of predators to harm you, and also good people generally appreciate knowing where your boundaries are and being able to trust that you’ll speak up if you feel uncomfortable about something). And then go live your life with the understanding that really, most people are pretty basically decent most of the time. Doesn’t mean you have to like, get along with, or agree with everyone who’s not Actually An Abuser, but just… know that “personality conflicts”, “incompatible lifestyles” and “bad days” are interpersonal sticky points that exist and aren’t necessarily even red flags.
If internet discoursers actually cared about children, they would express support for children having more legal rights, for resources that help children escape abusive homes, for all kinds of, idk, community support (which means OMG ADULT strangers helping any children that need help).
But no, they just keep repeating age old “think of the children” conservative talking points, with new awful twists added. They seem to think that
all people under 18 are tiny snowflakes that have no agency and need overbearing protection exclusively by the Approved™ classes of adults (parents, teachers… idk, fuckin cops too?)
(what if these supposed protectors are actually abusers?? uhhhhhhhhh… ummmm…)
and when someone turns 18 they SUDDENLY turn into a fully responsible adult that also can and will abuse others and MUST NOT talk to anyone under that arbitrary number of 18 because of that
It’s really bad that this idea has infected Tumblr discourse.
Theory: they want to isolate potential victims, so they insist up and down that any adult outside their weirdo internet communities is a threat. That’s why they include people who are over 18 as being, effectively, minors – they don’t care about protecting minors from pedophiles so much as having a steady supply of vulnerable, naive people joining their grimy little cults.
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