January 11- Not saying babysitting is a job that one gets stuck with, but one that can be quite a lucrative pursuit. What will you do to entertain the child? As a 'sitter' one must observe the child to see what interests them. I was a babysitter and my go to activities were mainly arts and crafts, board games, reading books as well as playing games outside. Babysitting depending on circumstances that you are confronted with is really not too bad of a deal to make some money or to see if you have the fortitude to become a sitter.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Dork Drabbles #2
Here's a good question for any age. January 9- Someone just left a huge package on your doorstep with your name on it! What do you hope is inside? Believe it or not I would really like if someone would send me a collection of vintage books of various authors or even a collection of vintage textbooks for, I have one complete series of The McGuffey Readers and would like to get more. Another thing that I would like would be as Nikki's wish for various art supplies for I like to draw, paint and color with several sketch pads.
By Mark Graham9 months ago in Critique
Who Is Clavicular? The Looksmaxxing Streamer Who Ran Over A Stalker In His Cybertruck
What is so damaging to this current culture is the ant-intellectualism which pervades nearly every element of it. Clavicular, real name, Braden Peters equivocates physical form with getting women, making money, and overall being a strong “man.”
By Skyler Saunders19 days ago in Critique
Angry People Click More: The Economics of Manufactured Dissent
(Ideas from the book The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent, Routledge, 2024) Abstract This article examines the formula ‘angry people click more’ as a core logic of contemporary online media and as a structural transformation of propaganda in the digital age. It argues that the defining feature of the current attention economy is not only the circulation of misinformation, but the systematic deployment of openly implausible claims designed to provoke moral outrage and sustain profitable engagement cycles. The analysis links Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year ‘rage bait’ to earlier lexical markers of epistemic crisis such as ‘truthiness’ and ‘post-truth’, and situates this trajectory against the older ‘manufacture of consent’ model of Herman and Chomsky. While classical propaganda in totalitarian and mass-media systems sought ideological unity through censorship and the Big Lie, the emerging Propaganda 2.0 model, articulated by Peter Ayolov, monetises anger by manufacturing dissent and deliberately populating the public sphere with absurd, polarising narratives. The article interprets this dynamic through the allegories of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and Václav Havel’s greengrocer, showing how the move from fearful silence to permanent online rage changes both the psychology and political economy of propaganda. Drawing on Evgeny Morozov’s critique of fake-news moral panics, Frances Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook, and the documentary The Social Dilemma, it concludes that anger has become a tradable asset and that blatant lying has shifted from an authoritarian instrument of control to a market mechanism in a global ‘free trade in slogans’.
By Peter Ayolov6 days ago in Critique
Comments (5)
I made some good money starting at age 12 between babysitting and doing yardwork. I always had a blast playing dress up with the kiddos.
Def the artsy stuff, but I am a nature lover, so outside a lot too. Walks in nature gathering wildflowers.
You are fantastic, and a very interesting article
I would get the Uke out and sing to the child. Maybe twinkle twinkle or Elmo’s ducks lol or get crayons and paper out and draw with them, or even bake a cake, letting them mix and ice
Very good work 🙏👏