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anthony stewart head.... so sad. the father figure who raised me lesbian. loved giles for real

#was having fun reading thru a long post of giles gifs then got to the RIP at the end. a real gut punch!

i just realised 2 thoughts i have in the past can be combined.

the first is about how text based the internet is and how it must be like one of the most exclusionary environments for people with literacy issues in human history and how its swallowing up so much of culture and social life that it must be pushing illiterate people even further to the margins? i have talked with people who have been working in literacy for decades and they said with the rise of technology the ability of illiterate people to nevertheless succeed and find pleasant niches for themselves is narrowing. like they'd have had experiences of people who couldn't really read or write rising to pretty prominent positions in businesses in the nineties because they had so many other compensating skills (often developed specifically to compensate for illiteracy) and it just wasn't all that necessary anyway, and that's just not really possibly anymore with like new hiring processes and things like that. but also just like learning and exploring culture and identity online in the tumblresque way. it makes me sad. and like also in terms of how some people have really gathered social capital and sense of self worth from their online presence and how presumably that is really not available to people with literacy issues. the addendum to this is i suppose that democratized access to the internet is probably a pretty valuable learning resource for people in developing literacy and maybe (total spitballing) has played a role in the global decline of illiteracy.

so the other thought ive had is how someone ik who works in comms said that video is absolutely the way to go and all comms professionals find that video content way outperforms all other online content and has done for the past few years. i think at the time i was feeling negatively abt this and i still for idiosyncratic reasons dislike videos but maybe this will end the tyranny of literate people in a cool way. i remember that like feel good series about the guy on tiktok who was posting his journey in learning to read and presumably that would have been a lot harder for him to communicate in any other online format. not that video is brand new but its growing primacy might be changing things for people.

i would love to know about this im sure there are articles about it and stuff i should seek it out

theyre in my for you tab calling the pope a blorbo

#cant blame tumblr i brought this on myself

not intending to be disrespectful to the lived experience of anyone who has had this side effect from antidepressants but reading it made me go ewwww out loud

#like what??? i cant even figure out what worm like would mean like how would a tongue be capable of moving like a worm #this is so horrible. ive hit my threshold for appreciating the human body... i think im letting myself away w it bc evil pharma is involved

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María Luisa Roësset y Velasco, aka Marisa Roësset (1904-1976, Spanish) ~ Autorretrato tumbada (Supine Self-portrait), 1927

[Source: museoreinasofia.es]

heavy rain is like so stimulating for me i am getting goosebumps about it i wish everyone could feel this way i love everything about it.

i learned this when i went to the national history museum bc there are so many different kinds of insects they will name them literally anything. insects are like race horses

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selected ant names

#wow

rein and reign are homophones i struggle w bc like they both invoke power and control and they are both used more as metaphors than for their literal meanings in my exposure to them so i do always have to take a moment to work out if this person means rein like what a horse rider has or reign like what a king has.

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Dad and All of His Trophies, 2015 Leonard Suryajaya

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I hate how everyone makes a big deal about how long ago 2016 was and how we're half way through the year......THE RIVER OF TIME SIMPLY FLOWS, STOP POINTING & SHOUTING AT HER

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