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this is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

#god #just #fucking hell #her voiceeee #it’s so beautiful omfg #yknow they might be 6 inches taller than me #but she’s still my little lady <3 #i would literally die for them #i would die if i were there #god i’m about to die halfway across the country #anyway #she’s my little lady and i love her very much #wife <3

sosaysdean

his beautiful editing job

omegasmileyface

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

HOLY SHIT

definite-human

"The Montana court separately declared that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has historically faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive—the same standard applied to laws that discriminate on the basis of race. [...] The practical effect is sweeping: any Montana law that singles out transgender people will now face strict scrutiny, meaning the state must prove the law serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve it—a standard that laws almost never survive.

"Because the decision rests entirely on the Montana Constitution, it is insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the principle of adequate and independent state grounds, the federal Supreme Court cannot review a state court's interpretation of its own constitution, so long as that constitution provides more protection than the federal one. [...] What this means in practice is that Montana's transgender residents now have a constitutional shield completely independent of the Supreme Court of the United State’s decisions."

(emphases mine)

powerbottombrucespringsteen

There was a movie called Juno and the songs featured on that movie were compiled into an official soundtrack. This is generally regarded as major historical event from the 2000’s.

anti-parent

people make a lot of flippant jokes about the literacy crisis but like. learning to read isn't an automatic neurodevelopmental process the same way learning to walk or talk is for most people. it takes explicit and systematic instruction for the vast majority of people to be able to do it at all. if someone doesn't know how to read, that is a systemic failure, not their individual fault.

in cognitive science, there are a lot of different ways to think about reading. but the various models for the most part hinge on two specific processes: word recognition and comprehension. word recognition means the way people recognize and break down words, and comprehension means how people understand the words they read. some of the dominant literacy models in cognitive science include

The Simple View of Reading (Gough and Tumner 1986)

Scarborough's Rope (Scarborough 2001)

The Active View of Reading (Duke and Cartwright 2021)

all of these involve some combination/exploration of recognition and comprehension.

unfortunately! in the US starting the 90s, phonics instruction was increasingly abandoned in favor of the three-cueing method. basically, instead of learning how to break down the sound chunks (phonemes) that make up words, kids were encouraged to learn to read by looking at the pictures or guessing via context clues. so the word recognition aspect of reading took a big hit. many kids grew up with functional learning disabilities because of that style of instruction alone.

reading comprehension is also really, really culturally dependent. the way you understand (or whether you can understand) what you're reading relies on the body of background knowledge you have access to, which in turn depends on your socioeconomic position. there's also the matter of what kinds of knowledge and analysis are valued/prioritized by society. critical thinking is a key part of comprehension, and schools are actively invested in not facilitating that skill because their overall objective is to produce a compliant labor force that will ensure the reproduction of capitalism. critical thinking is emphasized in imperial core education only to the extent that it's absolutely necessary: for developing decision-making capacity for postindustrial knowledge workers, managerial types, politicians, lawyers, doctors, and so on.

so. basically. both recognition and comprehension are core to literacy development, and they've both been fucked with heavily in the US (and a lot of other countries). breaking the literacy crisis down this way also helps with figuring out how to fix it. teaching more kids phonics will help them decode words more effectively, but it won't help them comprehend new material. and when we talk about the "media literacy crisis" we're mostly talking about a comprehension problem, which can't be fixed just by having people read more. each issue needs targeted intervention.

so! recommended reading list:

my full essay on the literacy crisis, of course. there's more analysis of structural interventions that would actually work to address children's literacy issues.

Let's talk (and read!) about the US literacy crisis - what the real causes are & how to fix them.

the podcast Sold a Story by APM Reports. it has a lot of good information about the shift from phonics to three-cueing. the narrative is a little oversimplified and they weirdly keep praising the bush administration while ignoring how it contributed to the problem, but i still recommend the podcast for understanding the basic facts of the situation

Schooling in Capitalist America (1968) by Bowles and Gintis on how the US school system developed to meet the needs of the capitalist economy

Making Workers (2018) by Katharyne Mitchell for a more recent analysis covering more western countries besides just the US

jaylovesmychem

Uh my photo of Gerard watching LS Dunes backstage :)

zooiboo

🐌☕️ ☕️🐛

they’re on a coffee date

gerardwayspostnutclarity

yeah idk

rotttting-deactivated20231124

Someone needs to get laid and it's definitely me

scoes

(no drinks in) who wants me

earthnation

I want to fuck your throat

my thrussy!?!?

ventrue

schakira

sorry for being dramatic but this post did irreparable damage to the english language

timebendinglunatic

Horrible job, everyone! Thank you!

earthnation

my bad damn

marxism-transgenderism

Happy birthday my thrussy post

marxism-transgenderism

Happy 7th birthday my thrussy post

marxism-transgenderism

Happy 8th birthday my thrussy post

marxism-transgenderism

Happy 9th birthday my thrussy post

transjudas

Frank Iero + fake blood

tpwrtrmnky

The idea of Mario and Peach having any kind of relationship beyond the occasional kiss on the nose and "mama mia" is like viscerally incomprehensible to me

Not like in a prude way I just can't conceive of Mario experiencing... urges. He's a character outside the scope of that. I'm not saying he's asexual either cause positioning him on the allo/ace spectrum implies that it's a dimension of his character that at least exists, that he has at some point noticed it. I think he just jumps.

tpwrtrmnky

Luigi probably fucks though.