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i took it for granted when freema agyeman was on my tv every week
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멋징온리전 포스터 원본 쩜오온에 재고판매합니다❤️
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Netanyahu will break this peace between the USA and Iran within the next few days and nobody will blame Israel but act like Iran has done something wrong. Everyone knows this is going to happen.
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Good Morning Paperwork has taken over today so not as many posts BUT This is the fabulous Olga Gromova with her star sign ladies. Starting with Aries and following through with a detailed look at personalities eg. the Gemini lady with two on her bike ( the twins)
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This is true. People were very chill. You could get chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs. Folks would feed you peas on a little spoon while making airplane noises. You could even dump a whole bowl of spaghetti on your head if you wanted. Totally fine. Not sure what happened.
One of my favorite parts about the 90s is we just ate whatever food we wanted. Food was food. No one argued about what food was bad and what food was healthy. We just minded our business in general. At least that’s how I remember it
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Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
We didn’t realize it then, but kids’ shows used to be this calm on purpose.
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Growing up and finding out that david tennant voiced a bunch of characters from my favourite childhood shows and movies
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I don't mind at all having to pay taxes when the poor can't. What really pisses me off is having to pay taxes when the rich won't.
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"When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed." ~ William Butler Yeats
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Happy birthday to Me! Ineffablehusbands 🐍👼 (Good omens season3 ver.)
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The Clock Tower. Chien Chung We
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RT @Akisuki: Desde antes de conocer de feminismo, yo ya notaba que los hombres no ven a las Mujeres como personas. Solo que no sabia nombr…
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What if five different incarnations of the Master had been brought to the Death Zone under the same circumstances as the Doctors in “The Five Doctors”? Would they have made it out? Unlike most people, I actually think they could have worked together and escaped #DoctorWho
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The tulip staircase 📸 By: adam hliva
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“All four rape charges involved women who had been either asleep or incapacitated at the time.” The amount of men willing to drug and rape unconscious women is truly terrifying. Sleep porn. Group rape chats. Gisele Pelicot’s ten year ordeal. We are not angry enough.
Norwegian crown princess's son found guilty of two counts of rape and jailed for four years bbc.in/43EVPzZ
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Looking out to sea, by Italian painter Vittorio Matteo Corcos (19th century). In private collection.
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What is supposed to be our reaction to the mainstream media about the coverage of Biden’s age versus Trump’s, other than raging contempt?
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As a female collector, here’s a quick tip: if I’m standing at your table flipping through boxes and you don’t acknowledge me, but immediately greet the man who walks up after me, you’ve probably lost a sale. We’re in the hobby too. #thehobby
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