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I'm asking this in good faith so please engage respectfully.

Does anyone else think that the "audiobooks count as reading" debate is an attempt to villainise the people who disagree because they want to normalise the fact that the a lot of US adults are functionally illiterate and an illiterate population is easier to oppress?

I'm not saying people who read physical media are somehow morally superior to those who consume audiobooks at all, but to say they are equivalent is insincere imo when we need to acknowledge the political importance of a population being able to read policies and laws.

#booktok #bookstagram #reading #literacy #books and reading #audio books #oppression #politics

loveridden1999

swan2swan

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

As per my last clay tablet,

lurking-latinist

CCing Ibbi-Ilabrat on this one just to make sure we’re all on the same page!

ariaste

“The sesame is visibly dying” makes me lose it every time. My sesame #mysesame

dragongirlsweetie

i do think oil executives should be considered mass murderers and treated as such. they knew this was going to happen

covid-safer-hotties

newsmutproject

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

beatrice-otter

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

how does it feel to be the funniest person on earth

captain-price-returns

A real page on the White House website

marisatomay

Happy Pride

robertreich

Inequality Isn't Just Unfair. It's Dangerous! https://robertreich.substack.com/p/inequality-isnt-just-unfair-its-dangerous

covid-safer-hotties

Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after wi

thelaurenshippen

prokopetz

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

backofthebookshelf

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.