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Morgan | Mid 20s trans girl she/her | Card game trash, board game connoisseur, and perpetual wanter-to-play-tabletop rpgs

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[stylusinsidemspaint-deactivated]

this is still the worst vinny noise ever

[girlballs-archive]

donald duck prostate orgasm noise

[t00thpasteface]

sorry to everyone out there who thinks they have the funniest tshirt but i think i can confidently say i just saw the actual funniest tshirt just now. i passed by a beautiful black woman with long multicolor braids blowing majestically in the beach breeze & she was wearing an oversized tshirt that said in gigantic letters "WHITE BOY OF THE YEAR"

[communistkenobi]

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

[thewickedbohemian]

More reason why we need more Leverage in our lives

Sign the Petition

Create a new America-based Leverage series

[communistkenobi]

what

[munchiep]

i wish more things were bolt-action. its fun. underrated mechanism.

[smuganimebitch]

so this is a poorly written wikipedia article right?

Regardless of whether the article’s conclusion is correct, this is a terrible way to frame and write a encyclopedic lead. Calling whole language “discredited” in the first sentence front-loads a conclusion without even defining the subject, it takes the article until the two sentences of editorializing before actually talking about what the whole language theory posits. Compare it to the article for luminferous aether!

or this one

see! theory is explained and defined, and then the information about it being false or discredited comes after! The one for Whole Language is flagrantly violating the wikipedia style guide, and it reads like it was written by people who have an axe to grind against the theory

[smuganimebitch]

i can keep doing this

hypothesis described and explained. then it talks about how it is discredited

some articles wait until the second paragraph before talking about the contradictory scientific consensus!

[smuganimebitch]

Diving back into the article, two of the "sources" they have is a pair of citations from Jordan fucking Peterson, where he is listed as a "critic" of Whole Language. the first source is a link to a tweet where he recommends a book that teaches phonics. Which... isn't even a critique of Whole Language at all? I suppose you can read an implied criticism of Whole Language via the fact that he's recommending phonics but that's an intuitive leap that a resource like WIkipedia shouldn't be making.

The second is an excerpt from podcast where he says something along the lines of "whole language is bloody stupid" which... yeah, that's a critique. Jordan Peterson is accurately identified as a critic of Whole Language But is that a meaningful, substantive critique from an expert in the field that deserves to be placed in an encyclopedic article? Jordan Peterson has no relevant credentials when it comes to this subject! Why is he there at all!?

[smuganimebitch]

legitimately reads like a high school essay. "Ken Goodman had an idea about reading" is not an encyclopedic voice!

WELL YOU'RE AN ENCYCLOPEDIC ARTICLE NOT A STAND UP COMIC SO YOUR JOB IS TO DESCRIBE IT EVEN IF IT IS DIFFICULT

[smuganimebitch]

It's insane, I can go to the article for young earth creationism and read a much more even handed article that accurately describes what its proponents believe. But with this particular article the actual beliefs of Whole Language advocates are impossible to parse under the constant criticism of the article authors. I'm not even saying "don't critique it" or "don't put the fact that it's discredited in the overview" it's entirely possible the bulk of the article should be the "criticism" section! if that's what the sources indicate. I just want an article that reads like any other wikipedia article about a subject.

[destinyhero-dysphoria]

I came across this and I feel like I have to add to it because just last night I was also looking into this topic, mainly looking into three cueing, because despite the amount of conversation around it I've never actually seen any detailed history of its spread and adoption, and the wikipedia page for three cueing is also of staggeringly low quality

It opens with the same leading framing

the history section has the exact same problem I've seen with every conversation around this topic - that there's no detailed historical record or account of its adoption, just a summary of its early development and then an assertion that it "nonetheless became incorporated into many reading curriculums"

the history section then ends with an outright falsehood. the cited source number 5 states that in 2019, one survey performed by EdWeek Research Center found that 75% of surveyed special education teachers from grades K-2 and elementary school used the method. while the wikipedia article states 75% of (supposedly all) American teachers use it there's a notable lack of citations and sources across the article and at the end the reference section shows that one source was used far and above literally any other, with seven sources being used but one source being used thirteen times

Emily Hanford being the writer of popular articles and the most popular podcast series about three cueing. I also remember her podcast series Sold a Story having a poor amount of information about the actual history of three cueing's adoption that I was seeking, so I checked the wikipedia page for Sold a Story that was linked here and

the article is 70 words long, this is its entirety. note the sensational final sentence and the bunching of all citations at one point. not only does this article have less words on it than some Yugioh cards, it has four sources its sources being - the Sold a Story podcast, understandable - an article written by Emily Hanford for a different website that is also just about her podcast, strange - an interview with Emily Hanford about her podcast, understandable - and then a single paragraph page article from the University of Michigan that has no discussion about the content of the podcast. its just an article stating that the podcast exists and linking to it

Checking the history page, both the articles for three cueing and the Sold a Story podcast are very new, having been made at the end of 2025 (the page for whole language itself is much much older)

and this entire situation is so strange to me because as far as I can see the science is completely in favor of phonics but these articles are so poorly written and made, ranging from badly sourced to outright misinformation and misrepresentation of its sources. why are they like this? I'm in full support of phonics education and I have no interest in 'proving' three cueing or whole language, but I just want to find an actual historical account of how these education reforms were made and spread

[squid-ink-on-toast]

Me: Man I have something I need to be at but i only need to be there in like 6 hours

My brain for 6 hours straight:

[darling-deary]

Bridget’s show

[pincushionsoup]

if i ever design a magical girl who loses her glasses when transformed you have permission to kill me. it’s the worst trope in the genre

[boarboy-old-blog]

[hentairobot]

im sick of summer. who the fuck likes summer. who the fuck likes being butt ass naked in bed no cover and still sweating your tits off except the air is soup so your sweat goes nowhere but soaking into your fucking sheets and god forbid if you open your fucking window for 30 seconds to even begin to rectify it (which doesnt work because its still fucking hot at night) unlimited fucking flies and ants and stupid fucking bugs harass you forever

WHO FUCKING LIKES THIS???

[hentairobot]

plunge this planet into an eternal ice age for the love of fucking god i never want to see the sun again in my entire life

[anisongoftheday]

Chainsmoker Cat Opening

Nanmonee by Wasureranneyo

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

It's all film references btw:

[tastylemonbread]

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

[didderd-reblogs]

[nyanletnest]

let’s merge with mama

[unalivejournal]

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

[molabuddy]

[s-lycopersicum]

catgirl boot sequence

[destinyhero-dysphoria]

doom character portrait