It's as you feared. Possibly worse.

a treatise on bloodmoon-cannibal morality.

[jay-rayart]

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently suing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because suing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're suing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[jay-wasreblogging]

a video by qtmcenter, themasgd and bayareaqm

[martindykewood]

like i quite literally have never been more passionate about anything than i am about the human race’s invariable desire to tell stories and the fact that we always find a way to do it, through spoken language and written language and body language and visual art and theater and poetry and oral tradition and a million other things. there are so many things we take for granted about the human experience that we never stop to think about but i really want you to take a step back and consider how fucking amazing it is that our need to tell stories transcends all boundaries of time and geography and borders and language. it is one of very few things that is legitimately intrinsic to human nature and i will never stop being completely in awe of humanity for that.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

The linked article

[lastweekseyeliner]

so ive worked in childcare for a bit now. during the pandemic, the place i worked started a day program for kids whose parents needed to return to work. turns out the school district uses memorization and cueing, and when combined with online learning that read all the instructions to them, overwhelmingly the kids aged 5-9 just... couldnt read.

i brought in a bunch of my books from childhood, and we started having one-on-one reading lessons with the littles. then i went out and bought about fifty more books secondhand. first step was covering the pictures so the kids couldnt guess what the words said and had to actually TRY reading them first. second step was making a list of new words for each kid so we could learn about those words, what they meant, and if the kids were old enough, some of the etymology behind them (because if you can recognize latin root words, it's easier to make connections for pronunciation later on eg. unicorn -> universe).

the kids HATED this. reading was previously the easiest class and now it was really, really hard. but reading class had also previously been the most boring class; their books were ten pictures with a single sentence on the opposite page. we got through it by taking turns reading books the kids picked out from my collection- they would read one sentence or paragraph, then i would read the whole page complete with funny voices, then it would be their turn again, etc. it turns out that if kids are motivated to hear the rest of a good story or a lot of information about a topic they love, they're more willing to struggle.

the kids improved so rapidly that i honestly almost cried a few times from how proud i was. one little girl (kindergarten aged) went from being unable to sound out the whole alphabet to reading goodnight moon by herself in two months :'>

all this, though, was NOT my job. my job was to keep the kids on task during their online schooling and prevent them from killing each other or starving. i am not a teacher. the school system was failing these kids to the degree that outside individual reading lessons were necessary, and school systems across the US are still doing this!

if you are a parent or teacher or childcare worker, PLEASE check to see what your kid is being taught. ask to see examples of lesson materials. raise concerns about the importance of phonics over any other reading strategy. join the pta, go to school board meetings, send emails- just make sure your kid is actually learning to read.

[pancake-surprise]

i would like to add that you don't need to have a child to ask these questions of your local school district. regardless of your status as a parent, it is all our responsibility to care about how children in our communities are being educated. not just because it objectively good to care about and engage with your community, but also because the children of today are the adults of tomorrow.

if this backwards way of teaching reading keeps up, then in the future it is going to create more issues, not only those kids but all of us. if you are in the US, i would encourage any adult to look into their local public school district. some school districts have curricula that can be accessed through their website. if what you find concerns you, then it's time to head to a school board meeting and bring it up.

it might feel weird or uncomfortable, but i assure you, you are as a much of a member of the community as anyone else. it is not weird to care about the community and the school district.

this is a problem that is already affecting all of us and it's only going to grow with time. but there are things we can all do regardless of our status as a parent, childcare worker, or teacher.

(p.s. i think sometimes these things are assumed to be the fault of a teacher, but it is almost always a school board issue. teacher's don't typically get to decide on the curriculum)

i don't know a ton about the right terminology for what we should be looking for within those curricula, but phonics is solid. beyond that, it would great if an any educators out there would weigh in with the correct term? method? of the looking and guessing that is pervasive in education at the moment, that would be fantastic. what are some reading curriculum red flags or green flags?

[dutchster]

one of my favorite hobbies is not being a parent

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

if someone has to monitor AI agents constantly in order to make sure that they don't do things like expose people's sensitive data for hours or wipe out entire databases, why not just hire back the people you thought the AI would replace? or better yet, why not just STOP COMPLETELY TRUSTING AND RELYING UPON AI? literally it boggles my mind the lengths companies will go to in order to avoid fucking paying people. how could i not wind up deeply disliking every company owner and upper management person ever in life forever? fuck capitalism; all employees should own and run the place they work as a joint unit. if that sounds like communism to you, it's because it is. fuck the free market; it's built on wage slavery and/or actual in-chains and behind bars slavery. it takes advantage of absolutely everyone except the owners because that's what the system is built to do. burn the whole free market concept to the fucking ground.

[tainbocuailnge]

the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts

[imaginarylands4000]

[mckitterick]

"But we have to keep people poor and in debt or else who would join the Death Machine?"

Republicans these days are just blurting the quiet parts out loud: X

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

can i get a headcount of how many queer people do not have colour recognition on their tag words?

every year for a couple of years now, during US pride month (June), i ask for the genderfluid tag to get its colours. i know genderfluid isn't the only queer tag that doesn't have its flag colours in its tag. so, everybody whose queer tag is currently colourless can and should complain that in this small way we're being treated as not-the-same. we're not invisible or fake. we deserve the same level of recognition as other queer people get in their tags. i was thinking that maybe if i start making noise @staff in May, i'll at least be dignified with a "why we haven't done this yet" from them by the end of June. maybe it could even be fully addressed and resolved.

i'm listing my uncoloured tag only, along with the applicable flag. if you feel safe to do so, please like and reblog with uncoloured queer tags and flags that apply to you. if you're not feeling safe or you just want to amplify the noise as an ally, just like and reblog without any added anything.

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

can we fucking please stop playing the gender bullshit games with our binary trans kin? transmen are not part of the patriarchy just for existing and wanting to see themselves in art. transwomen are not needy fake bitches taking up too much communal mental and emotional bandwidth when they want attention paid to misogyny. it's not illegal (yet) to be a man who wants women to have choices and rights that he can't and shouldn't control, even though he once had an F on his paperwork. it's not an act of misogyny to draw and write art that specifically addresses women who don't experience periods, childbirth, or menopause. (sit with that for a second, because that covers a lot more women than you think it does. and if you never thought of addressing menopause in art, please also sit with the possibility of needing to address either ableism, ageism, or both.)

some people really are asshats, i get that. but a lot of people aren't, and are catching stray hate just for trying to be an active part of the community that should most readily accept them. we can only see and understand so much at one time. we need room to learn and grow in good faith. where education is needed, if you have the knowledge, share it kindly. be like James Baldwin, and advocate love-based correction and restoration. please allow this grace to each other without dooming each other to a gender stereotype corner. when you don't, it says just as much about your wisdom as it does about their knowledge.

signed,

a very tired and, more often than not, utterly forgotten non-binary transperson

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

OF COURSE the motherfucker posted an image with him looking all messianic when he's everything but. the antichrist been antichristing; you just weren't giving a proper shit before.

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

the freedom to say "no" is immensely important. anyone- a partner, a person in power, even a deity, who allows no options for questioning, and does not tolerate "no", is an abuser, and should actually never hear "yes."

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

isnt it weird that we cant ride any other animals except horses. like if horses weren’t a thing humans would be fucked cause we couldn’t ride any other animals. like riding animals just wouldn’t really be a thing. we should probably be more grateful to horses

[burger-czar-deactivated20180324]

elephants

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

blocked

[toaster-hacker-deactivated20181]

camels

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

extra blocked

[sinfulpercy]

donkeys

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

ultra blocked

[uncertifiedhuman]

that dick

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

… followed

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

a consenting partner's face.