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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
watching this hbo documentary on the horrorshow that was nickelodeon and will reiterate my position that child acting should be regulated out of existence if not made illegal outright
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Name?
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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪
@jongraywb.bsky.social
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How Dan Schneider has not been tossed under a jail or shamed into nothing more than white hot dust is flabbergasting.
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CodingOver40
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I'm watching it now and I can't. This is vile.
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Comrade Pancakes ☭🥞🔻
@callmepancakes.bsky.social
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That the one about how the head dude was obsessed with kids' feet? And then you can't unsee all the barefoot tweens in literally everything they produced for a decade???
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Barrett Madden
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Feels like you could count the number of child actors who *weren’t* wrecked by the experience on one hand. Child labor laws exist for a reason
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TheoRobArtist
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Honestly children in media should be aged up, and child actors allowed to make fun programming that other kids would like in a school environment. Not a capitalism destroyer of souls.
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Jeremy's... Iron 🍉🌻🌈
@bangatank.bsky.social
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Maya Erskine was almost 30 when she played a high school freshman in Pen15
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Richard Koenig
@rich-king.bsky.social
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Make a meme: those tiny children dressed up for work in the coal mines, sooty, along with Shirley Temple and Jackie Coogan.
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Marcelo Teson
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By most measures it already is heavily regulated, with strict hours and studio teachers, etc, but there's a lot more we can do for sure.
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Foodmancing
@foodmancing.bsky.social
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Listen just cast Ralph Fiennes as ever prepubescent boy and tell me the show isn’t better already
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Deadbeat Cat Dad
@dbeatcatdad.bsky.social
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If we could have 30 year olds playing high school students in 90210 we can have 18 year olds play middle schoolers, it's basic math.
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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠
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All kids from now on will be CGI and played by Andy Serkis
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art toast
@toasty.cx
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I have heard a lot of horror about the things in that doc
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JoyousPanther
@joyouspanther.bsky.social
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Should all be done with the Irishman de-aging technology.
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TeeJay Ach
@pragmaticleftist.bsky.social
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What’s the name of it?
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Megan Sawyer
@ghostgirl.bsky.social
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And for the love of god, there needs to be regulation on child “influencers” - YouTube, Twitch, etc, like YESTERDAY. We’re going to hear so many horror stories from YouTube kids once they grow up :(
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Mugsy McGill
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AI will cure all of this with simulated Steve Urkles from the day we’re born to the day we die!
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You wanna flense me, Barbara?
@septicshockingpink.bsky.social
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I've always said we should replace them with dwarves, who always say they don't get enough work.
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sludge⚠️
@notarealwolf.bsky.social
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This was also my position after watching The Rehearsal
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Martin Schneider
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Ahmad Childress
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"But being a child actor, I just know too much of the downside of what that can be like.”
pagesix.com/2017/04/24/b...
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Spica LeChat
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It would be incredibly funny if child acting was made illegal and Nickelodeon & Disney recast all the kids in their live action shows with adult dwarfs.
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luna 🌙
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I haven’t even seen the entire documentary yet bc I know how much it’ll hurt to watch. atp I think a majority of child actors have been abused in one way or another and it makes me incredibly fucking sad for them. hope they can heal.
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Phil Jeffries
@philliris.bsky.social
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Just get adult actors to play the part of kids in TV and film. It worked for that film Clifford.
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Timpanogos Slim
@timpanogosslim.bsky.social
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Your heart is in the right place but if we outlaw child actors how will we have sitcoms with little kids? AI video generation? I did say if. It wouldn't be a great loss.
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Tyler
@electriceden92.bsky.social
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At the very least, every financial and career incentive associated with it should be abolished - make it impossible for stage parents to support themselves with their child's labor
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amdiamanti
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Best use of CGI/AI would be to replace child actors entirely.
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Moderately Grouchy
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Tidbit: Having consensual sex under the age of 18 in California, under any circumstances, is illegal. I've always thought this was an entertaining fact to keep in mind while pondering teen oriented television created in California.
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MAJeff, God of Cookies
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Watched it earlier and I'm right there with you. Just awful.
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Matt Caulder
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I saw the trailer on tiktok and was just flipping STUNNED
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Dogs and Sobriety
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It's remarkable how every single example of institutionally-tolerated abuse always plays out in EXACTLY the same way, right down to the inexplicable and voluntarily offered voices of support for the accused individual/s.
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Mark Rice
@markriceny.bsky.social
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Have you read Jennette McCurdy’s memoir?
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Joey
@pnwzebra.bsky.social
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As a former child actor and performer in nothing you’ve ever seen, I do want to say it can be just a superb experience IF you’re surrounded by the right adults. I was very lucky and very protected and I look back fondly on those years. That said I don’t entirely disagree with you.
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Charter School Abolitionist
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The only use of cgi that I wanna talk about is getting rid of child actors. Don't care what it looks like. Kids should not be working and definitely shouldn't be working around the freaks and creeps in Hollywood.
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Justin Woo
@justinwoo.bsky.social
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My friends who were child actors agree with you.
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Lawyer, Almost an Attorney
@academicsaddict.bsky.social
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Goes to show you that if there's money to be made, the "less important people" will get hurt. See: R. Kelly, H Weinstein, etc.
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waingro v wade
@slandereddead.bsky.social
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Remember the Bruno skit where he's asking stage parents if they'd be chill with dangerous wild animals around their children?
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Cris (without an H)
@ambignostic.bsky.social
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I imagine you have Wil Wheaton’s sword
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Sarah Orsborn
@erniebufflo.bsky.social
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Did just read an article about how they are trying to do right by the kids on Abbott Elementary, so I do hope things are getting better in the kid actor world. But yeah, it’s still child labor.
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Walter Katz
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We took our tween at the time daughter to many Disney Channel and Nick auditions during that era. They had very different vibes and I’m glad we never let her go in alone.
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Wonkish
@wonkish.bsky.social
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There's always a CXG song.
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☭yberized
@cyberized.bsky.social
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So who is going to play the kids in movies and TV shows? AI?
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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did you read the cosmo piece on parent influencers who milk their kids for $$
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Paula Dixon
@peoplepaula.bsky.social
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I have said, ever since I was a young celeb’s personal assistant 2 decades ago, that fame is the worst thing that can EVER happen to a child. Yes, worse than all the other horrible things you can think of.
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JP
@insfl.bsky.social
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Do you propose that they have adults play the kids roles?
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First Amendment Girl
@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social
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I never really considered how the studios benefit from child stars gaining emancipation from their parents until I watched that. At the end of it, I said out loud, "Now do Disney."
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James Sanford
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My Dad made TV commercials and he refused to even let me audition, even though I begged. I was furious and thought he was denying me a brilliant career, but now I realize he was protecting me. He knew firsthand how some kids were (mis)treated on film sets by demented directors and producers.
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@milinkalap.bsky.social
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Honestly makes me really anxious about what AI filmography will do. We’ve already seen it in animated form.
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OSMOTE
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meanwhile we have child influencers 🙃
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Kip Williams sort of
@kipwilliams.bsky.social
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A Met simulcast of Madame Butterfly used a marionette for the silent part of the child. Would work in person, but they went for close-ups that killed the illusion. Up to then, a pretty good idea.
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Zeroisanumber
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Add 'em in in post like they do with gunfire now.
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@rscottp.bsky.social
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I’m watching now. Sick and disturbing to say the least.
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/gen
@genna.bsky.social
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yes. *and* there was a casting director on the slate culture gabfest the other day who said half the work in that trade now is scouting on social media for promising influencers—a space where there's no protection for kids. Fortesa Latifi did an amazing piece on this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqhd...
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@smoketypething.bsky.social
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Viola Smart
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We started it two nights ago and the footage of Ariana Grande in episode one made me so uncomfortable. How did adults greenlight this?
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Kevin Tripp
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50 years ago, my dad made a TV commercial for Formost Ice Cream. They had the food artist rig the cones so the ice cream fell off and the kid looked genuinely surprised on camera. Later my dad thought "oh fuck, I should have told those awful stage parents that their kid didn't fuck up".
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Mary50shadesofWTF
@kapdoll.bsky.social
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Maybe the children should be watched over by an outside group or anyone actually?
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Jensorcelled
@jensorcelled.bsky.social
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Another less-shitty use for generative AI. Let kids license their images to studios, but spare them the exploitation and trauma
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Jennifer Romig
@jennifermromig.bsky.social
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This is going to be another #GenX devastation experience — not as bad as Michael Jackson, but significant
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Mach⚙️
@sfaccountant.bsky.social
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Really if there's one good, highly ethical use of AI, it would be replacing the stunted, uncanny performances of young children with stunted, uncanny performances by a child-shaped blob with too many fingers.
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@bbctol.bsky.social
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there is already a medium good for entertaining children and it is animation!
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Hannibal Tabu Dot Com (he/him/his)
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Yes. True. Very sad. However, as the parent of two pretty well cared for child actors (their idea, not mine), 1: I know that conditions are WAAAAY better these days for one, 2: for kids to see kids who look like them on screen does have value & 3: no Eve's Bayou? No Home Alone? Woof.
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Micah
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I read the recent article on Dan Schneider and man I’m right there with you, the whole thing made me tremendously sad
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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I haven't even gotten out of the first episode and I want to pukescream.
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Facetiously Esoteric
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My buddy says that all the time. I'll tell you the same I tell him, until we no longer have tens of thousands of children working in meat packing plants and similar life threatening jobs I'm not as concerned about a handful of child actors.
penncapital-star.com/agriculture-...
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Brown Thumb Having Scientist
@chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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I have been radicalized about it over the last couple of years. Children can now be played by adults in pigtails and overalls until such time as studios can be trusted with their well being (i.e. never).
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Kelly Cornax
@cornax.bsky.social
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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle proved we don’t need them anyway
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RainSurname
@rainsurname.bsky.social
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They need to set up multiple layers of protection beyond just parents or guardians on set. Surveillance cameras, no socializing with adult co-workers off set, majority of money put into trusts, mandated therapy, etc.
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Dr. M.A. Davis
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When Dean Stockwell died, Scott Bakula remembered how helpful he’d been to child actors - because he’d been one back in the 40s and remembered what it was like.
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the bat 🏳️🌈
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In the middle of episode 3 and experiencing such nausea and disgust and anger at what transpired for all those poor kids. 💔
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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fresh off a Clifford watch and I'm now certain men in their 40s can play a child boy in a movie
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phusion
@phusion.bsky.social
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I've been holding off on watching it because I grew up on Nickelodeon in the 90s and knew it was going to be grim.
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Taco Bell's Cannon
@jamtoday.bsky.social
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I do not know how Dan Schneider wasn't sent to prison a decade ago.
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Kevin OMalley
@holyshitimfucked.com
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Some of these people need to be blowtorched.
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Eva Whitley
@wouldyoueva.bsky.social
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Yes! This! So many kids fucked up for life.
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Mary Kasprzak
@marykasprzak.bsky.social
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The Abbott Elementary model is the only remotely ethical one
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