I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Sweet Seals For You, Always
dirt enthusiast
Stranger Things
Not today Justin
Discoholic 🪩
JVL
almost home
noise dept.
KIROKAZE
we're not kids anymore.
Andulka
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Product Placement
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@deveonfairy
christian bpd girl: god has chosen me to be disfavoured, such that none will ever stay with my sinful self unless i repent
atheist bpd girl: material conditions explain why people abandon me, a material flaw of my person
agnostic bpd girl: no one knows why my girlfriend doesn't text me back
Everything is embarrassing if you live your life through the eyes of others btw
my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip
This was posted on a ‘second hand finds’ Facebook page…
…only to be followed by this amazing message.
The roller coaster ride started.
With a happy ending…
…and a sweet poem to finish.
The Calvin and Hobbes epilogue we need.
somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is
Other comic strips I think about all the time: this one Calvin and Hobbes arc where he gets an alien to impersonate him in class. Every single time I bring a packed lunch to work I look straight down the metaphorical camera and think "Lunboks:)"
The fuckin hold this single comic panel has had on my psyche for almost 20 years now
If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.
Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.
We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."
The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.
Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.
That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.
Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.
So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.
Finally, a good fucking take.
Sleeping good
are those my only options
disco elysium dialogue tree
I wish all Black girls a clear shot at this world. I wish all Black girls a full belly. I wish all Black girls a respite from their many troubles. I wish all Black girls nothing but grace, prosperity, and ease. Black girls I am hoping for your continued safety and success every single day.
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.
That is a humpback. If you think they are huge, I have some news for you…
Me watching this video
Fun fact: the blue whale is the biggest animal to ever live on earth. And they’re alive today.
The biggest isn’t some dinosaur or weird devonian fish, nope. It’s the blue whale, and you share a planet with them. How lucky is that?
I read an article on a scientific paper about how whales got so big.
As I remember it, normally the more cells you have the greater the statistical chance that one of them will develop cancer and kill you. It forms an upper limit on size, at least for mammals (I think, its late).
But one or more of the genes that allows whales to hold their breath for a crazy amount of time also controls the mechanism for cells developing cancer.
So by evolving the ability to live in an anerobic state for hours at a time they coincidentally found the means of growing so fucking huge.
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