Fool Errant

The blog of the foolish mortal in the bowler hat. Female pronouns - I answer to Lissa or "Hey you." This blog is a badly organized hodge podge of my own artwork, few personal details, lots of random silliness and general geeking out over a multitude of subjects.

[ziriii]

what is it v

[tw1nkee28]

Wow, thank you Johnny Silverhand 💞💞

[alicecrow]

I need this

[technolysa]

😅

[sharkthinker]

Lawrence of Arabia + blond men slander

[bitterdatura]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

now THIS is a baroque painting. mannerist even.

[sodorz]

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

[marlynnofmany]

I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

[siphersaysstuff]

The Call of C'thchoochoo.

[fearlessfishless]

It’s pretty annoying that we live in this dystopian future of pollution and political instability and civil unrest but we do have the cool cyberpunk body mods. Like you know what would help me deal with the incompetence of our justice system.. sick ass mantis blades coming out of my arms.

[spookyweaselbones]

Every Reddit question is like, “What quietly became a thing that women quietly don’t know about America after COVID? And please, answer quietly.”

[spookyweaselbones]

[spookyweaselbones]

[spookyweaselbones]

I never really put two and two together, that reddit’s obsession with correctness makes them piss easy to troll, but in retrospect it’s so obvious

[spookyweaselbones]

Okay last one

[krowmeats]

[spookyweaselbones]

Krow has a habit stealthily of bestowing gifts on me I can never possibly hope to repay

[penvision]

The thing about movies directed by a famous older white guy starring a famous older white guy is you don't have to go see them. This is relevant every year.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[soreheadinamblemood]

[captain-price-returns]

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

The linked article

[massivetittiesandwarcrimes]

This article is genuinely insane. I learned to read at the same time and it was completely different. I was taught to sound out the words and if I came across a word I didn't know, they did suggest we use context clues to figure out the meaning, but it was also made clear that that was not a perfect solution and the best option is always to look it up. But seriously, just a memorizing? That is inside.

[auxryn]

I taught English as a second language for over ten years. In order to become a proficient reader in English, most kids will need to be explicitly taught phonics. To become proficient in Japanese, you need to learn radicals.

Three-cueing is essentially crutches that help you get by but let you down eventually. It's very common when learning a foreign language, I misread kanji sometimes because I pattern-recognize based on context instead of really looking. The solution is to do some proper studying, but I don't wanna.

It's also interesting that this sort of contexual confabulation and pattern-recognizing is how LLMs work. Not sure what to do with that.

[thechekhov]

Absolutely fantastic article, but I do want to say that this...?

... Is absolutely terrifying in the context of all other anti-intellectualism happening right now. This guy is STILL pushing his 'observations' while denying evidence that it doesn't work.

[quasi-normalcy]

#the part where he says it doesn’t matter if a child reads horse instead of pony bc the meaning is the same is.. particularly dire 💀#it’s immediately obvious that this doesn’t work as soon as books don’t have pictures in them ???

Good thing that there aren't any texts where subtle differences in meaning are important or anything like that.

[basic-bamboo]

ALSO HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN DYSLEXIA

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

[funereal-disease]

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

[flat-fish]

[cartivp]

See you in the major leagues, choom.

[ziriii]

what is it v

[reitoeii]