Fate Pony

Gamers' Rights Activist

[basederer]

[chiarrara]

why was messi lowkey serving saddam hussein hiding spot

[mogwai-movie-house]

Went to have a look at the implausibly high ratings for Nolan's "The Odyssey" over at IMDB, and found over and over again the hundreds of 9 and 10 star reviewers having only one (or occasionally two) reviews to their name:

which would seem to suggest there are bot-farms generating fake reviews to artificially inflate the score. Rotten Tomatoes, too, are apparently removing negative reviews, so we are back to the Captain Marvel days of manufacturing a fraudulent critical and public consensus for garbage movies.

[miles-df]

Nicole Piberius

NSFW versions: https://patreon.com/mdf

[shanks]

Anska

[shanks]

Anska

[shanks]

SilverTsuki

[avakynx]

jane doe | MRR

[daemo72]

big mess made for the big cat maid 💕art by me

[doom-ocean]

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

favorite rare wayneradiotv posts

[in-your-spoon]

Is there a reason they are all about water or apples

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

complete accident.

[in-your-spoon]

Are you sure you aren’t a horse

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

trots away from you....

[dogpuppy]

[taykoutmccleod]

I don't fucking want it then?

[beardedmrbean]

[animecchisworld]

[vanessagillings]

Oh, to be a tiny mermaid to escape the heat

[distilled-prose]

yo, @mermaidenmystic

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

[thesplendidsnout]

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

[secretariatess]

It's wild to me that there are people who are adamantly against homeschooling because parents aren't certified teachers or have degrees in teaching when there are teachers on TikTok telling people that students are performing several grades below where they're supposed to be.

Clearly doesn't matter if the person is trained or not to teach, apparently. Public schools are not really teaching kids.

Meanwhile, my brother is homeschooling his kids, matching their level of each subject to where they're at, and in many subjects, they're ahead of their peers. In others, they're on par to what their grade would be.

My brother does not have a teaching degree.

[dittography-direwolf]

It's another example of the sort of magical thinking I'm always talking about that people engage in. The Teaching Degree™, issued by An Authority™, is understood to bestow a special variety of competence and ability that is simply unattainable without it. It is a magical key item that the quest (education) cannot proceed without.

Any pointing out how this clashes with reality simply deflects off of the all-consuming belief in the magic. It conflicts with the absolute certainty that comes of believing in the magic of the Authority™ and the degrees it grants, or has to be explained away with the same sort of ardent anger that the deeply religious feel towards genuine heresy.

Probably the only thing worse than the people that think this way are the ones that want homeschooling banned because they know that public schools are indoctrination centers and they want to be in charge of the indoctrination.

[witch-hattery]

Let's not neglect the argument where they harp on the worst case scenario where a parent isolates thier child to better abuse them, and treats public schools as the one lifeline saving children from abuse. (As if public schools didn't give bad teachers the opportunity to abuse whole classrooms at once.)

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

At which point I have kids they are not going to public school at all. I'll either move to fucking Japan and have them schooled there, or I'll home school.

At this point I've seen too many videos about teachers bragging about teaching kids sexuality and sexual identity and trying to be the kids "friends" they can come to when their parents "just don't understand".

We used to have a fucking tag line for this.