Well that's pretty rude. Kathy Bates is an attractive person and doesn't deserve this kind of slander.

Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.

But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.

If you use language like "beta" unironically, you may already be a beta.

It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.

Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and... just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.

At the very least, OP, dumping garbage by the road is against the law, so even if it's just regular garbage, you are reporting a crime regardless. Bonus: a cop has to deal with someone else's garbage.

It looks like Kelley's head photoshopped onto a stock image of a magician.

Edit: Yup, found the magician. Now to see if I can find where that headshot is from. It's definitely TOS era.

Edit 2: Couldn't find it with a simple reverse image search, so I looked for "DeForest Kelley smiling" and found the original image of him on this delightfully old-school web page dating back to 2001. (Bless him, the page is still active and has a counter and everything.) The image makes it clear that it is indeed from Star Trek, but he has on a unique formal looking tunic with a split collar, which should make it easy to narrow down to a specific episode.

Edit 3: Some reverse image searching on the full image led me to the ever-useful site getyarn.io, which provided a clip of the exact moment of this image, in which Bones is saying "a teddy bear?" It's from TOS S02E10, "Journey to Babel". Here's a longer clip with the amusing context:

https://youtu.be/TvT-hWOt63w?si=TZenf1cKA36E3xiA

The truth is he can't control what pops out of his mouth and he knows that.

Untreated mental illness supplemented by fame-induced yes-men syndrome.

What he needs is a good slap and a kick to the groin.

Dax would beat the ass of anyone putting dumbass words like that in her mouth.

What do you want to bet that the code for "female students" is at least three times as long and contains the words "leg skin"?

Groomers hate sex ed, because it eliminates the ignorance they need to exploit in order to lure in their victims.

If kids don't know they're being abused, they can't tell on their abusers. Gotta ask why the right wing is so vehemently against empowering children.

Bringing up AOC every time Boebert shits the bed is unfair and degrading to AOC.