Nothing to Offer

but too many expectations

[wizardsisananimal]

the procrastinator’s mind will invent distractions you’ve never conceived of in order to avoid tasks even a dog could do.

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[trinidemgyal-deactivated2026051]

[butchfriend]

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

[cognitiveinequality]

[sturionic]

For anyone unfamiliar with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the entire thesis is that traditional educational models promote oppression by removing students' agency in their own learning. Freire argues that currently education functions as a "banking model" - teachers are the holders of knowledge, and students are empty vessels, waiting to have that knowledge put into their heads like a piggy bank. This reinforces a passive attitude towards information, not seeking and understanding it on your own terms, but waiting for a "banker" to deposit it into your head.

Instead, Freire proposes that teachers and students act as co-creators of knowledge, where students become active participants in their own learning through questions and dialogue. Teachers are also open to changing their understanding of topics in the process of critical dialogue - the goal is not "student learns Fact A and memorizes it as presented," but instead the goal is the knowledge itself, discovered collaboratively by teacher and student, who are acting with empathy and respect towards each other. This also starts the process of the oppressed being able and empowered to question structures of power, take agency, and actively participate in the transformation of society.

So, the irony of writing an AI essay on critical pedagogy is actually insane; because it's essentially the extrapolated endpoint of Freire's arguments that our current educational system creates passive receptacles who not only can't think critically in an educational context, but also become the perfect citizens for a world that doesn't want us questioning structures of power, to view those in power as we viewed our teachers - deliverers of indisputable facts that must be memorized and regurgitated because they command it, and not co-creators of true understanding.

[animusbell]

you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.

[the-nyanguard-party]

as someone born on karl marx's birthday, here's some kin memories:

i was bisexual

engels was a chaser

jenny was into knifeplay

max stirner was engels' headmate

[the-nyanguard-party]

bakunin was transmasc

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[necromancelena]

*practising internet safety* Saw the world's longest or maybe shortest freight train or civilian train or bus or airplane or ferry go by either near or far from or of a middling distance from my apartment/house/duplex/mansion/yurt on a walk today.

[muttsys-deactivated20260425]

Anyone else noticing theres no websites anymore. You never go to website.com anymore its always some bullshit like "go to the smeeple app store and download the flubi app" i dont want toooo what ever happened to websites. I do not like it

[tall]

[throathole]

“I ate an edible last night” yeah I did too you dumb fuck it’s called food for dinner

[egberts]

I really can’t believe we all grew up together on this goddamn bitch of a website

[bibiopic]

[shamebats]

Half the people on the internet for some reason

[iwilleatyourenglish]

my partner and i have become fixated on this stupid comment left by a conspiracy theorist on instagram and we can't stop saying it and i just know i'm gonna slip up and say it to a normal person

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[theehorsepusssy]

[homunculus-argument]

Between the nothingburger and the everything bagel, there is the somewhat sandwich.

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[dogpuppy]