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20s • she/they • i don't have any hope left but the weather is nice mcr blog: @poolofblood2005 beatles blog: @wearing-raincoats neocities: ratanarchist.neocities.org

[kristina100000]

youtube comment of the day

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[lesbianshepard]

one of the funnier incidents of me assuming someone knew a meme irl was when a new coworker was talking about some woman who got arrested for tax fraud and I went "God forbid women do anything" and he got scared and thought I was accusing him of being sexist, so he started apologizing and saying how tax fraud isn't even bad, actually.

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

[whyenn-reader]

[deanwinchesterapologist]

finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell

[gondwana]

The enemy's parasociality vs our diva worship

[sixty-silver-wishes]

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

[femboy-c-cups]

think the biggest sign of tumblrs aging population is how we went from posting about how unethical and ineffective assigning homework in schools is to deciding that humanity is fucked because kids these days aren't writing essays with is much enthusiasm as you have for your fanfic about two white guys from the Pitt

[femboy-c-cups]

if you are currently in school and you somehow see this post, heed my warning. any adult on here telling you essays/homework/school is easy or something you must be grateful for is fucking compromised. they do not relate to you, care about you, or respect your autonomy.

do what you need to survive, it is an injustice that anything more is expected of you

[theroguefeminist]

As a teacher, I do not assign homework, but I do teach my students how to write essays. It's more important than ever for people to have critical thinking skills and the ability to discern reliable sources from unreliable sources. My colleagues and I deeply, deeply care about our students and their wellbeing. We are working overtime for low pay to educate young people. The fact so many people are lacking literacy and critical thinking skills is a major factor in the rise in fascism in this country.

Look, if you were right that education was some grand conspiracy to browbeat young people into submission, the right would be pouring money into schools. They'd be spinning their propaganda machines about how important schools and teachers are. Instead, they have done everything they can to knee cap public education and vilify teachers. They frame colleges as liberal brainwashing factories. They do not want you to be educated. They don't want people to think for themselves. There's a reason fascists kill intellectuals and burn books.

The students who need education the most are the most marginalized. The people who will struggle most to survive WITHOUT an education are the ones who come from oppressed backgrounds, who feel disempowered and already have odds stacked against them. A couple of centuries ago, slavers didn't want enslaved people to read. Right now, rich white oligarchs don't want young people of color to know how to read either.

Anti-intellectualism is a cornerstone of fascism. Leftists who adopt it are doing nothing to further the cause of ending oppression whatsoever.

[ot3]

criticizing the school system isn't inherently anti-intellectualism in the same way that critiquing the prison system doesn't mean that you're against the concept of there being consequences for crime.

it's great that you and your colleagues are dedicated teacher who care about your students' wellbeing. it's genuinely important work and i'm grateful to anyone who can manage to do it. there are also people in the same field who are not dedicated and caring. a good teacher can be lifechanging, and a bad teacher can be life ruining; you may not assign homework, plenty others do. which sort of teacher a child ends up with is completely outside of their control and they are completely at the mercy of that random chance. the fact that being a good teacher means working overtime for low pay pretty clearly illustrates that being a good teacher is structurally disincentivized in a lot of cases. that's a real problem.

there does not need to be a grand conspiracy in place to browbeat children into submission for that to be what ultimately ends up happening as a result of other factors compounding for the worse. the fact that the right has done such a good job at kneecapping public education is a big part of why school does end up browbeating children into submission. racism and ableism are structurally baked in to our school system from the ground up, and as such those marginalized students who are the most in need of a good education are also the most likely to be subject to unbelievable amounts of cruelty, bigotry, and setbacks during their attempts to get one. asking them to be grateful to be in those sorts of environments is not fair. would you ask an adult to give their best effort to a workplace that was openly hostile to them just because the work they were doing was important? probably not. i don't think children should be held to a higher standard.

education is good, objectively, and a subpar education is better than none. i would love a world where every child was as educated as is humanly possible. but a prerequisite to being able to learn is having your basic needs met, and there are significant areas where the us school system as it currently exists means that children are prevented from maintaining the basic physiological and psychological security they need in order to receive a proper education. i believe the point this original post is trying to make is that we do not have the right to demand a bottom up approach where these children work themselves to the bone to compensate for the ways in which they are being systemically failed. they have enough on their plates just trying to get through it however they can, and it's up to adults to figure out how to actually turn the school system into something that protects and enriches children.

[femboy-c-cups]

Posting your tags because you understand bigly. It really surprised me how the queer nerd crowd was so belittling and genuinely cruel about the "survive" part. I got accused of being anti-intellectualism (or conspiratorial and "acting nefariously" according to therougefeminist, what the fuck?) for prioritising mental health before education. Is that so controversial?

I'll reiterate that when I say do what you need to survive, I mean it with all seriousness. Sleep through class, cheat on the test, fucking get up and leave cos it's boring you for all I care.

I had a friend who never made it out of high school, I have ones who are riddled with anxiety and have panic attacks to this day because of what they had to go through. School is not as important as your health and literacy is not worth more than your life. Reading, studying, and learning are not restricted to high school. Your life is only just starting by the time you get out.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[waydownn]

Frank Iero pissed me off so I brought him into the mines

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

[humanoidhistory]

Early color photographs of Antarctica, circa 1915, by Australian adventurer Frank Hurley.

[probuccalfat]

Girl I was scrolling through your blog and I had to google "shane dawson" and "pewdiepie" back to back who are these people 😭

you might be the only pure soul left

[justanapparatus]

why is it that when someone is struggling mentally we always ask if they've tried therapy and never give them $5000

[justanapparatus]

therapy:

another responsibility for the stressed person

requires time and money they probably don't have

takes a lot of luck and hard work and time to be effective

$5000

$5000

[reticent-vampire]

Louis in An Inside Look at The Vampire Lestat

[unliikelylovers]

it’s been said before and it’s not even close to the worst thing but it sucks how our current robber barons are such philistines. like these guys aren’t even building libraries or concert halls. they can’t even pretend to enjoy art, and they don’t see any value in signaling that they appreciate art

[higglety]

this current batch of the fithy-rich is BORING. They're BORING. Oh you have a yacht that's bigger than anybody else's yacht but functionally no different from one of your fancy houses? BORING. You have yet another fast car? YAWN. You ate a burger but like, a special burger? whatever. FUND AN OPERA ABOUT ANOTHER RICH GUY YOU HATE, DIPSHITS. How about you put a concert hall with your name on it in every city in the US and fund their operations for the next decade, if you're so rich????? unless you're too poor to afford that????? How many people do you, personally, directly employ, and what are their salaries? Do you pay well enough to command the loyalty and willing service of any masters of their craft? It would be so easy to win the absolute love and adoration of the masses in this climate but no, they wanna build bunkers and play politics in order to save a few more miserable nickles.

[letterful]

[theboredvoid]

@commodityproduction

[commodityproduction]

I'm afraid it's hopeless