I swear I wasn't always this full of feels.

I think I had something cleverer here initially, but let's be real: this is Tumblr. It's full of cute animal pictures and shouty gifsets and fandom flailing. Sometimes I write fic and sometimes I cosplay but mostly the flailing. Who can say? I'M UNPREDICTABLE.

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

[theresthesnitch]

Hold on, this is fascinating. Reblog this and tell me in the notes how old you are and if you ever had typing lessons.

[irishironclad]

What in God’s good name is a “typing lesson”

[intjint]

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not

[irishironclad]

I’m serious what is a typing lesson? What would they teach you? To type? My brother in Christ it is like writing with a pen but technically easier.

[intjint]

Before home computers were very common, people typically only typed for business-related things, so the only people that actually knew how to use typewriters and word processors were authors, secretaries, accountants, etc. These people would take classes for typing bc it was seen as a skill. This gradually fell out of fashion, much like teaching kids cursive

Typing is only intuitive to gen y & z bc most of us learned through computer games or had someone tell us where to rest our fingers. People who never learned to type use just their index fingers, hit one key, take a long time to find the next letter, hit it with an index finger, and repeat until finished

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

34 i played this:

[stilldickslappinthestate]

33 and i started with Mavis Beacon

24 and I had typing lessons all through school.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

34, had typing lessons in 3rd and 4th grade and Mavis Beacon as a kid and I’ve still never used home row except when I was forced to. I type everything with my left hand. The only thing my right is for is using the shift, backspace, and enter keys.

[deuceofgears-deactivated2022101]

43, first had typing lessons in 4th grade on some type of Mac, then my mother bought me a book and a manual typewriter and made me learn to touch-type, for which I am still grateful 30+ years later. I remember how excited we were when we upgraded to an electric typewriter.

Of course, I got hit by nostalgia so hard that I recently bought a manual typewriter and have been writing letters to people with it! I love it to pieces.

[zarohk]

28 and I learned to type through Type To Learn. I have severe dysgraphia to the point where I couldn’t keep up with writing in school early on, so the summer after second grade my parents trained me intensely on all the typing programs they could get, and found ways to help me learn to type fast.

I’m so nostalgic for those games.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“It is like writing with a pen but technically easier” my brother in Christ children also take writing lessons

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#LMAO yeah^#i had computer class in 2001 where we eventually had to put paper over our hands to take a test to see if we could type without looking#we also played games#i hated the paper thing at the time. i knew i just needed MORE practice. i dont think i got GOOD at typing until a few years after that#also.. when you have a pen. you can just create the letter you need. with a keyboard you have to FIND IT. and its NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER#how is that easier??#but i guess i dont know any kids whove grown up with computers and could probably type before they could write….????? 😳 

Modern kids can’t type before they can write. I mean, most kids understand how to use a keyboard, and pressing letters takes less coordination than writing them so can be started at a younger age for learning to spell, but I’ve worked a lot with kids in the 8-14 year age bracket and they’re usually FASCINATED by how fast I type. (My typing speed is… not impressive. If they made me take one of those speed/accuracy tests they used to do for admin or data entry jobs, I would NOT pass.) But many of the kids I’ve worked with take my comfort and familiarity with a keyboard (I’m a writer) as some impressive, magical skill, because an awful lot of them are letter-peckers.

[peregrineggsandham]

24, learned actual touch-typing when I was maybe 4 or 5 with this, the sound effects still live rent-free in my brain:

The shift keys on our computer were broken, so up until high school I would type capitals by turning caps lock on for a single key and then back off again.

[average-monster]

I’m 39. We had typing lessons every year throughout elementary school. I never really got good at it until I started playing mmos, though.

My kids are in 5th and 6th grade. They’ve never even seen a fingering chart. The 6th grader is expected to do nearly all of his schoolwork on a computer, and he doesn’t even know the term “home row”. I don’t know how they expect them to excel without giving them the skills they need to use the tools they have to use.

I’ve gone what I can to help them learn how to type, but I’m not a teacher.

[iconuk01]

Mid 50′s.

Typing classes were only availble to those taking the secretarial class, which was not open to boys.

It should be noted that there is a distinction between typing as it used to mean and word processing. Typewriters were unforgiving machines, not only could you not cut, paste or delete (for obvious reasons) so your spelling had to be very, VERY good, but the legibiity of each letter produced depended on how hard you hit the key (unless you went to a fancy school which had electric typewriters, which were not the norm).

Those of us who were subversive enough to learn keybaord skills through computing had a MUCH easier time of it. Though it was often offset by the shitty keyboards some computers had, and YES, I’m calling you out ZX81!

If you can’t see any depth to those keys, you are correct, they have none because the ZX81 keyboard was a damned membrane!

But believe me, if you could learn to typeat a decent speed on of these, then NOTHING could stop you, expcet for the fact that the odds were good you were typing faster than it could process input.

It’s successor, the ZX Spectrum had spongey keys, which whilst not great, were better than nothing.

[physicist-pi]

Genuinely as a computing teacher in the 11-18 age group, I’m saying this now:

We need to bring back typing lessons to the curriculum. The kids will fly if you give them a tablet or smartphone but they have no clue on how to use a keyboard or keyboard shortcuts. If the senior PE class decides to be twats and pry up the keys and swap them round, I will still have 14/15 year olds unable to type because the keys are swapped. And I often don’t notice when helping them because I just.. touch type.

I legitimately broke a Higher Computing Science (so a 16 year old who had chosen to do computer stuff) by showing him how Ctrl+H let him find and replace because he’d made a consistent error in his code and I could see him going back and adding up all the time he’d spent trying to find all the incidences of a specific variable in his code and there I was showing him CTRL+F and all these things.

These kids might not pick a computer based subject after the age of 13 and half of them don’t understand file systems, version control, difference between cloud vs local storage, how to save, etc.

So many kids would just turn off the monitor and think that was the computer, usually leaving themselves logged in (to the point I locked the monitor power button and had multiple posters up reminding kids to press the spacebar on the keyboard to wake up the monitor first).

Basically, digital literacy is being fucking stolen by the appification of the digital platforms available to kids.

[doomhamster]

I’m in my 40s and I had typing classes in my second to last year of grade school, using some really ancient computers that took forever to boot and AFAIK only ran that one program. I still technically know how to touch type properly, though I never bother because my own hybrid system works well enough.

[rebels-cairn]

I’m 40 and I had to take a typing class in high school. I can still technically touch type, but I do it in a half-assed kind of way that isn’t very fast and results in a lot of mistakes.

[alienbooknose]

40s and typing class was one of the required ones in the middle school rotation. (We also had a basic cooking skills class, basic sewing, wood shop, metal shop and foreign languages. For the languages, you took each one that would be offered in HS so you could pick what you would take. Everyone took all of these and other specials in a rotation that meant you had about 8 weeks of each.)

My school was unusual because we had computers but they had a room full of actual typewriters for the typing class. So I learned to properly touch type on a typewriter even though it was the 90s. I happened to get involved in an online RP chat at the time that was on a website where it didn’t load what everyone else was saying until you hit send on your text or refreshed the page. So I had some incentive to learn to type fast and I did. (Steelsings I miss you!)

I’m a teacher now and kids still marvel at my ability to look at them and have a conversation and type something else. I also regularly teach high school seniors how to use things like CTRL F. I have been saying for pretty much my whole career that we need to stop assuming kids are naturally good at tech (fuck you concept of digital natives) and go back to teaching this stuff. It’s not better with the ipad generation- it’s worse. They only understand apps and not real computers.

Also, for the person upthread who mentioned the letters being not in order - there’s a reason for that! They invented the QWERTY keyboard arrangement to slow typists down because people were going too fast for the machines. There were other keyboard arrangements (DVORAK for example) that people can actually type faster at once they learn them but qwerty has stuck.

Huh… apparently that’s a myth! It was designed to speed up typing? TIL

QWERTY - Wikipedia

QWERTY - Wikipedia

“Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down,[4]: 162  but rather to speed up typing. Indeed, there is evidence that to place often-used letter pairs farther apart increases typing speed, because it encourages alternation between the hands.”

Well there’s still a reason for it.

[digitaldiscipline]

In my 50’s; typing was an elective in high school into which my parents forced me, rather than let me stay in small engine maintenance shop class I enrolled in because it was more fun and interesting.

This was doubly offensive, since I already knew how to type from writing school papers since second or third grade (ie: the early 80’s).

[idiomagic]

I’m 56. Took typing in school, twice. Took computer programming classes on a TRS 80. I’m a whiz at Basic. My typing speed has slowed down considerably, what with the hEDS and other Horrors, but on my good days I still manage a respectable 68 wpm with zero errors.

[chandri]

43. My dad taught me to type when I was around 5, so I already had the basics down when they started teaching it to us in computer class in grade 1. The amount of time devoted to Typing Class increased gradually until high school, and the last time I had to do typing class in school was grade 8 (most of the time between grades 4-8 I was actually testing out and then playing computer games in those classes, but you had to take a test at the beginning of the year and at the end). My fastest time is around 120wpm, but I average around 90. In my 20s most jobs required a minimum of 45. No idea what it is now.

To clarify, and stating this with no implied judgment, but I'm talking about touch-typing, here, which is to the best of my knowledge is what most people mean when they say "I know how to type." Touch-typing is not intuitive and must be taught, so I do wonder whether the people upthread expressing astonishment at the idea of typing lessons are actually hunt-and-peck typing. Through most of my life, professional and otherwise, that's been considered more in the category of "someone who can't type, actually." But then I regularly commit typos when using my phone keyboard despite almost never doing it on a traditional keyboard, so. Skills. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[erotically-co-dependent]

won’t yap about this a lot, but I don’t like DNIs. I think they’re ridiculously childish. If you want to block me, you have every right and if my content upsets you, I genuinely encourage you to hit that block button. block me, block the tags you don’t like, whatever you need.

but it’s your job to control your experience on the internet, not mine. and I am not taking the time to check your pinned or bio before I like some post that came across my dash. who cares.

[chandri]

Can't wait to see how Primus's "Einfasen trickery" theory - that Yanessa utterly panned for being too stupid - will fare when he gets home and finds two dead burglars and wanted criminal associates of Thjazi Fang, and the literal torn banner of The Torn Banner, with a massive heirloom greataxe from the main line of House Einfasen lying on the floor beside them. What wild-ass conspiracy theories might he spin from that combination? I'm so excited.

[chandri]

At some point since the last time I flew with them, WestJet (one of our only two remaining major airlines) decided to make it so that if you want any kind of special meal, you have to call them on the telephone. Our flight leaves in a week, so I decided to try to call WestJet about our meals.

I have now been on the phone with them for 22 minutes, 11 of which were spent talking to the fake LLM agent, who took me through alllll the steps of collecting the flight and my account info (frequently requiring repetitions when either it misunderstood me - it didn't understand the phonetic Alphabet - or the audio quality of the bot was so bad I couldn't tell if it got it wrong or not), only to say at the end that it couldn't verify the info and throw me in the hold queue anyway, where the incessant interruption ads keep reminding me that whatever I'm bothering them about with a phone call, I can definitely do on their website.

I will burn down the world.

[fidget-sinner]

En Anglais, on ne dit pas “quatre vingt dix neuf”, on dit “ninety nine” qu'on pourrait traduire comme “Hurr durr, regardez mois, j'ai un système de numérotation fonctionnel” et je crois que c'est magnifique.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Rent-lowering gunshots:

QUEER IS NOT A SLUR

We reclaimed it way back in the 1980's. It is the accepted term used in academia, in colleges and universities ALL OVER THE PLACE.

I can't believe we have to have this discussion AGAIN. During PRIDE month.

[chandri]

I don't hold out much genuine hope for this because, y'know, feudalism, but wouldn't it be funny if Otto and/or Harondus Einfasen managed just enough self-restraint to not smash in Primus Tachonis's head with a hammer in the middle of a meeting when first learning he was a filthy oathbreaker but like... really wanted to. Imagine how cool it would be later if an Einfasen, at the climax of a very grim-looking "mwa ha ha now the Sundered Houses will kill you all" moment, some crucial Tachonis's skull explodes and there's an Einfasen standing behind them with a gore-spattered Giant-sized hammer, all "withholding the desire to do that since the moment their treachery was revealed has been extremely difficult and I am glad the necessity for restraint has passed."

[chandri]

Damn the Sundered Houses sure do unsubtly lampoon the whole concept of a moneyed elite, huh. Purely a corrosive parasite latched on to the neck of literally any society. Like sure, we're familicidal murderers and what in this context should be worse, oathbreakers, but hey, we all suck, right? We all want to be murderers and oathbreakers, right? I just got there first. And as an apology for this minor breach of etiquette, listen, we brought a sheet cake, so you can't be mad at us anymore! Definitely don't pay attention to the inescapable fact that if you're willing to massacre one ally, there's absolutely no reason you wouldn't massacre the rest the moment it becomes expedient!

And the rest of the Sundered Houses all look at each other and are like... I mean, you know, he's got a point. And he brought a sheet cake!

Just.

[chandri]

Boy oh boy are the three different Dol'makjar Teams having extremely different evenings. Like they are in three entirely different movies.

[chandri]

That was beautiful and I cried and making a trinity of bridges and freeing the trapped souls of the Runjani by telling a good story and I loved it but can you imagine how much easier that would have been, how much more guaranteed to succeed, if Thjazi had just like, written an explanatory letter or something lol

[kaioty-summer]

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today,we have 83 days left until Google rolld out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out thwir full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements ut we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends,family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[kaioty-summer]

Also, I wanted to add the wikipage and EFF statements about Keep Android Open Org so people can have a better understanding and more resources because I didn't give enough earlier and I will take that critique.

Google's Mandatory Android Dev Registration Rule Faces Revolt

EFF and F-Droid have led 37 organizations in demanding Google rescind its mandatory Android developer registration policy set to take effect

Keep Android Open - Wikipedia

[chandri]

Please please please let KoTher'ai be written in Early Modern English please please please...

[trailertrashgrog]

pick a convergence plot twist (bad)

thjazi's a god now

aranessa was working with the tachonis the WHOLE TIME

primus and yanessa make out sloppy style flipping everyone off

ethrand is a nice guy now he didn't wanna do all that stuff

sundered houses WERE doing a ritual whoops

oops the paint was lead-based the whole time

plot relevant secret love child revealed

Voting ended onJun 11

who's ready for the beginning of the end (of this arc)

runner up theories: katteor secret love child. marienna's back from the dead and she wants revenge. the hallowed round fully explodes.

[moniquill]

[chandri]

My 2 weeks of medical leave are over tomorrow, which means I get to find out how much drastically worse my garbage boss has managed to make things in my absence. Can't wait! Arm hurts worse today than it has in about a week. Coincidence? 🙃

[chandri]

Now, the answer is probably the first thing, given that this whole campaign centres on the afterlife and the control thereof, but: did Brennan have "Thjazi's soul is MIA" locked and loaded, or did he improv that on the spot?

Cool either way, but sometimes - naming no names and definitely not talking about anybody I know - DMs forget about spells. Like Speak with Dead. Like fully forget specific spells exist and fail to account for them. Until critical moments where the players realize they can absolutely wreck your shit with toys you just handed to them. And suddenly, surprise! New lore. Nah, it's always been like that! Works for cool setting-spanning stuff as well as stuff invented in a storytelling emergency to frustrate players. For their own good. And the story. And stuff.

There are just. A lot of spells, guys. 🤣