mamoru:

This entire Switch disaster has a recipe for a perfect horrible failure. The Switch does not allow you to backup saves to SD or cloud and worked fine with most 3rd party devices until now. A new update from a few days ago causes the system to brick when attached to any number of things (power bricks, unofficial docks, USB-C cables) and we have no details or full list of things that can completely destroy everything.

People have over a year of saves that are often completely unrecoverable because the Switch masqueraded as a true USB-C device. Now Switches are breaking because the peripherals people attach assume the Switch…does what it implies. That it works with USB-C and is a USB-C compliant device. The Switch is actually just a Nintendo device with a port shaped like USB-C.

I love Nintendo and have forever and risked my health and safety to purchase this product on launch and will play Nintendo until I die but YIKES

Switches have been bricking widespread for the past few days. Prevent this by ONLY charging using the Nintendo official charger, and ONLY docking using the official Switch dock.

Warn folks you know before it is too late.

airagorncharda:

herbertbillings:

100 Reasons (Why I’m Not Out To My Family)” pt. 2

(in which members of the lgbtq community speak out about why they’re not open about their sexuality with their families.)

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Shari Heck, 2014.

The notions that LGBT people MUST be out or else they don’t respect themselves, or they’re harboring internalized homophobia, or they’re not being TRUE to themselves are SO harmful and SO problematic because there are people like this in situations where the choice between staying in the closet and coming out is often the choice between safety and very real danger.

everyendeavor:

westafricanbaby:

diaryofakanemem:

This father consoling his baby son at the doctor’s office is SO CUTE 😍😍😍

Awwwww😂😂😂

This father is doing SO much more than consoling his infant son …

• this father is showing up as a pillar of safety; he’s told his son he acknowledges and believes in the boy’s strength.

• the father is completely present and accepting of his son’s story and helps him tell it. When the son recognizes that his father was fully present and heard the story of his experience of pain, the boy calms completely.

This piece of video will now be at the very top of my teaching tools when training parents and caretakers to work with shock and trauma in infants. It’s one of the finest examples of exemplary parenting I have ever seen in my 35-year healing career. ❤️

kropotkhristian:

Hey if you haven’t noticed, nothing scares the bad guys more than solidarity. Like literally nothing. That’s why all they ever do is try and split us up. They try and turn the LGBT community against the Muslim community. They try and turn lesbians against trans women. Lauren Southern was just caught spreading Islamophobic pamphlets that were blatantly attempting to paint the Muslim community as homophobic and transphobic. TERFs are constantly trying to paint lesbians who support trans women as somehow fake or less than.

Every time you show solidarity and stand with your neighbors and friends, you do a serious frighten to the folks trying to kill us all. So always stand up for each other.