"People aren't having kids because they can't afford them..."

WRONG

The real reason is because you're not allowed to be a kinda shitty parent any more. There's too much pressure to be a really present parent. Throughout most of human history people just popped out a load of kids and apart from feeding them and sorta making sure they have some clothes you didn't really have to do anything. This is still the case in places where people actually have kids.

You think MFs in the 1900s were taking their kids to soccer practice 3 times a week? after school clubs? You think they even knew where there kids were 90% of the time.

Sure we may loose a couple in freak accidents or whatever but that will be massively offset by increased births. And the kids won't even turn out shitty they will learn to fend for themselves, unlike a lot of kids today who are honestly losers.

Discuss...

Thai is a close second

I love this album fuck the haters and doubters 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

Every time one of these anti-trump protests pop up, half the signs are like “orange man bad but my graphic design is worse” or “i made a cute lil pun about fascism :).” Liberals are so concerned with the approval of their online friends when they make their insta post smiling ear to ear at what is supposedly a protest about the end of American democracy that these protests will never accomplish anything.

Not everything needs to be a personality contest. Sometimes you can just be angry and call Elon regarded.

Seriously I'll entertain any theories. My dad has fallen victim and there's only so many loops around the same 12 bars I can take. Oh cool they made it minor this time... cmon

is it a perfectly normal response for them to insult you over the most benign things. i made a pretty harmless statement and had tons of them attacking my personal appearance

It was her trying on a black jacket and in the caption she complained that she got fat(even though she thankfully isn’t). Someone in the comments wrote that they were glad she doesn’t have a teenage daughter but that’s all I remember.

Please help me I only have 2 months left before summer starts and I still have some pounds to lose </3

Just pondering

Me and my best friend got married by the beach just before the sunset.

The Make America Healthy Again stuff stands in stark contrast to what used to be the common sentiment on the right. Like yeah maybe right wing men were always into working out, but caring too much about your health, counting calories, obsessing over macros, eating salads over carbs, worrying about organic, forgoing fast food...during the Bush years they would call you gay for that.

What's funny is the average middle aged right wing guy is still obese, but it's interesting there's been such a shift to this focus on health.

I see a yearling deer across the yard
Young enough to still be growing into its skin
With the youthful kind of nervousness
Which was taught but not yet practiced.

My instinct is to leave it part of the landscape view, a focal point to draw the eye and put to mind the special holidays when the animals also celebrate Fertility.
But dog(fixed, so she does not observe) is selectively deaf when filled with the joy of pursuit, so deer vaults off with unfamiliar ease, disturbed.
Is it that hunting is totalizing, or is that prerequisite?
What’s on your mind, deer? To alleviate the weight of nerves, do you also practice gratitude? Or will they be passed on as inheritance when you get knocked up way too early in just one more of a lifetime of brief, meaningless encounters?

I feel worry for a deer that I feel nothing for
Somehow I think that there is some greater order
It was as a little boy that I was taught not to bother the busy cows
But it was only later that I came to understand why I shouldn't bother.(I still don't quite get it)

sort of an L post but he spoils me so….

went through a rough breakup with my bf last month so i (26m) downloaded grindr again and have had some nice dates with a wealthy (think tens of millions) yet rather portly 52 year old man- here are some lifestyle habits i’ve noticed:

for one, he doesn’t do any laundry or iron his clothes yet also doesn’t hire a cleaner of any sort- he just donates or simply throws away dirty clothes & orders new ones with overnight delivery off amazon… not to mention he’s got frankly horrible taste in fashion, think of a dc guy wearing patagonia, polyester polos, & leather “dress” sneakers or hokas. last night, after we had sex he doordashed two birria tacos & a large torta at 1:30am & ate all of it in the living room as i laid in bed, my thoughts shrouded in a mix of moderate disgust & post-fuck clarity. also, he’s somewhat of an oaf- he’ll sometimes belch loudly after habitually eating his food too fast (when we’re out in public no less!), fart & snore when we’re in bed, & sneeze without covering his mouth.

ik! i should have more standards & self-respect even being a 🚬 but he spoils me (he bought me some stuff from rick owens & watanabe the other day, among other examples lol) and he’s really sweet & funny, kind of like a fruity john candy… all things considered should i really be with this man any longer?

Burnt out on my playlist

I want love. I want to love, I want to be loved, I want to be one with someone. I just went to the theatre, the programm was an interesting sonata for violin and piano by Leos Janacek (I especially liked the 2nd movement), Mozart k376 (nice), Scherzo in Dmin by Bhrams (really funny), some other pieces and Ravel Tzigane, which was crazy good. There were also 3 encore! Again very good music by Ravel, the violinist was so delicate, everyone was captivated.

But there is no one I can look into the eyes and feel even more connected to just because we experienced that same beautiful music. It was still nice, but a bit for its own sake.

Should I go back to the apps? I read some time ago something here about falling in love by chance vs meeting someone from the apps, and I agree with that post about the second method being pretty much an impossible way to find true love (especially maybe for a guy), for the very reason that love can't be chosen like you choose your favourite cereal brand at the grocery store. But I feel lonely, and with the apps seems so much easier.

Anyway, anyone else in Milan?

Photos by Sage Adams. Loooved her styling here

My affections for you are as obvious and plain as the immutable truths of the world. Is the sky not blue, vast and indifferent? Is the grass not green, stubbornly alive? Do I not love you, plainly and without mercy?

Love is an structural necessity in the anatomy of the human condition, a divine defect even, a curse pierced into our veins at Eden’s gate. Maybe He, in His quiet cruelty, pronged it in us the moment Eve tasted the apple, just as I, unashamed, wish for you to consume me with that same reckless hunger.

I tell you stories, fragments really, of artisans from distant, and sun worn places, who sculpt imperfection and whisper that perfection belongs only to Him. If we are made in His image, crafted not out of utility, but out of desire, then even His omnipotence is only a yearning to be seen.

I don’t know. I only know that I want to love you, and be loved by you, as naturally as the sea reaches for the shore, as inevitably as the sky turns its face to the sun.