The Daddy Complex

Hey, Parents. Good News! The Government Finally Acknowledges You’re Stressed To The Motherfucking Gills.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued 36-page advisory warning that the extreme stress of being a parent is a public health concern.

Yeah… well… NO FUCKING SHIT!

The advisory references a 2023 study on parental burnout from 2023. Murthy went on to say, “Parents who feel pushed to the brink deserve more than platitudes. They need tangible support.”

CNN reports “The advisory calls for a national paid family and medical leave program and paid sick time for all workers and bolstered support for child care financial assistance, universal preschool and programs such as Head Start.”

All of that is awesome. Of course, advisories simply bring awareness to an issue. They don’t actually make any of the important things happen. So, enjoy your stress for a while longer, I guess.

Wyatt and Boone on the first day of 10th grade. 🥹

May the path you walk be full of rakes.

Boone’s band, The Infinity Project, absolutely slaughtered their recent gig. Here’s a little clip of them doing Bullet For My Valentine’s “Tears Don’t Fall” with an epic solo by Boone. (Sound up, people!)

Next up, The Whisky. (Yes, that Whisky.)

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Some of you are longtime Tumblr users who watched Boone grow up.

Some of you are metalcore fans.

Some are both.

This video of Boone’s band, The Infinity Project, from a recent gig in Ventura will be fun for any and all of you. (Boone’s the guitarist with purple hair. And at 15yo, he’s the oldest member.)

Sound up.

I saw this reply from @kandoros and, people, I cackled like a forest witch…

I’m not blindsided by much, I’m not easily shocked or rattled. But after seeing that Walmart now sells Misfits T-shirts, I had to go breathe into a paper bag for a bit.

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

404 Media

I’ve been a Tumblr user for a long time and enjoy the platform’s various clumsy attempts at being a real business, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this.

If Alabama can declare all embryos are children, I’m declaring all streetlamps are lemurs.