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your value is not defined by your productivity
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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.
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you
Made a painting of all of us âHolding Handsâ <3
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Happy Pride Month!
Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!
-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026
Obviously I'm being a bit reductive here but people are spending a lot of words to elaborate on the underlying fear of something like Backrooms stuff when "man it would be fucked up to get house of leaves'd in a generic office/warehouse" feels like it kind of covers the main idea
ok we can all stop arguing now. my hot dog is done cooking
Fuuuuck this just made me think of Bagel Dogs
God why can't people make more bagel dogs with cheese?
i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem
what common file types are
some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)
how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private
how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)
what a cookie actually is
internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl
basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)
common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)
how to not get a virus while pirating something
what a temporary email is and when to use one
red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)
what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls
âCave Johnson here. Iâve received complaints from anonymous employees that our support of the âhomosexual lifestyleâ is âdegenerateâ and âirresponsibleâ. It really got me thinking and I think I found a solution. So good news! We now have 23 vacated positions reserved for members of the LGBT community. Additional good news, we began a new testing initiative on evolutionary degenration with 23 test subjects all ready to go.â
âCave Johnson here. If youâre experiencing a time loop in which youâre repeating the month of June over and over, thatâs totally intentional. We at Aperture Science felt that pride month was not long enough and so we created this loop to let employees experience as much pride as they feel like. To get out of this loop, simply use the pod labeled âTime Machineâ in Shaft 6 and then either kill or save the baby on the other end depending on when in the loop youâre on. Donât worry about the babyâs identity, he grows up to be an asshole.â
âCave Johnson here, happy to announce that our Rainbow Gel project was a massive success. We have developed distinct gels in every color of the rainbow pride flag. In fact, it was too much of a success, so weâll be updating our pride flag accordingly to include 75 new colors corresponding to all of our new gels. Word of advice, though, donât stare at the flag for too long, most of these colors havenât been tested on human eyes yet.â
âCave Johnson here, Cave Johnson queer. Get used to it.â
âCave Johnson here. Caroline just informed me that I am her âbeardâ. I checked, and I fail to see how I could possibly have grown out of her face. If anybody knows anything about human-to-facial hair transmogrification, please report to my office.â
âCave Johnson here. Friendly reminder that Aperture employees living prior to the legalization of gay marriage are invited to use our Aperture Science Temporal Matrimony Pod in order to travel to the future with your same-sex partner and get married there. Employees from the future who wish to return to a time before gay people being able to marry are also welcome to use the pod and weâll make sure to send you to an era well before gay marriage. Iâm thinking maybe Late Cretacesous.â
âCave Johnson here. Iâm proud to announce that our plan to hire only female test subjects to prevent them from flirting with our female scientists has been a resounding failure.â
âCave Johnson here. Iâm afraid weâll have to temporarily pause all experimentation with the Gender Affirmation Beam. The testing itself is going great, the beam is working. But weâre starting to run out of thigh high socks and khaki shorts.â
âCave Johson here. Shafts 10 through 14 are currently under lockdown due to a meltdown in the Neopronoun Syntheizer. The transphobes up in DC might call that âa disaster in the makingâ but I call it a win for diversity! That being said most of these pronouns are radioactive so do watch out.â
Cave Johnson here. If you feel a sudden sense of elation and contentness when putting on your new Aperture Science unisex uniform, that is not Gender Euphoria! Thatâs a hallucinogenic fungus taking over your brain. Take the uniform off immediately and throw it in the nearest incinerator.â
âCave Johnson here. I wonât tolerate any misgendering of the interdimensional invaders swarming the facility! Their pronouns are they/them and weâre ought to respect that. Weâre also ought to shoot them on sight since theyâre extremely hostile and bent on enslaving our planet.â
âCave Johnson here. To all of my suitors and secret admirers: Thank you, honestly Iâm flattered. Unfortunately for you, I donât swing that way. Or any way. I only swing where the wrecking ball of science takes me. Usually into a brick wall.â
âCave Johnson here. Iâve been thinking. We have gay pride, and we have gender envy. What other deadly sins can we incorporate? Maybe bisexual sloth? Lesbian wrath? Iâll talk to the lab boys about it.â
âCave Johnson here. Update: The Lesbian Wrath project is postponed indefinitely. My condolences to the families of the deceased. Though letâs be honest, they probably had it coming.â
âCave Johnson here. For the last time! âIâm reclaiming the slurâ is not a valid excuse to shout out loud the killer androidsâ activation codes! We picked that word for a reason.â
âCave Johnson here. Iâd like to apologize to Floor 194 Safety Supervisor Doug Blakely for firing him after allegations that he was forcing employees back in the closet. I was not aware that said closet was a literal storage closet for zombified Aperture employees. To make it up to Doug, heâll be allowed to feed Floor 194 HR Manager Lisa Briant to the closet zombies if he so chooses.â
âCave Johnson here. A reminder that next year Transgender Day of Visibility falls on Extradimensional Day of Visibility. The lab boys are cautioning me to caution you to be prepared. Do not confuse transgender and transdimensional! Big mistake.â
âCave Johnson here. To all cishet Aperture employees who volunteered for the âGet More Wokeâ program, please report to your departmentâs OR at the nearest convenience to get the alarm clocks surgically removed from your spinal cord. Aperture Science apologizes for the misunderstanding.â
âCave Johnson here. Dr. Barnaby from Cyborg Engineering is an attack helicopter. Thatâs not a transphobic joke, by the way, they literally transformed themselves into an amalgam of human and helicopter. Impressive. Unauthorized, of course, but still impressive. Anyway, we lost track of them, so everyone watch the sky for a mad scientist with blue rotors and machine guns.â
âCave Johnson here. To the joker who added âmake the sun gayâ to our quarterly agenda, I hope youâre pleased with yourself. The Astrophysics Department is tearing itself apart with half of them shouting that you canât make the sun gay and the other half screaming that the sun is already gay. Either way, weâre not doing it.â
âCave Johnson here. The congressional delegation of Senator Patrick Johnson (no relation) to inspect our facilities had to be cut short due to a mishap with the Gender Affirmation Beam. Iâd like to apologize on behalf of Aperture Science to Senator Johnson and her staff.â
âCave Johnson here. Just the other day, our sign guy asked me âCave, donât you think LGBTQIA2S+ is a tad too long?â and I told him âFirst of all, thatâs Mr. Johnson to you! And secondly, I actually think itâs not long enough!â and thatâs why Iâm adding an â&â to the acronym. Donât know what it stands for yet, but Iâll figure it out.â
âCave Johnson here. You already know that here in Aperture Science weâre all about gender affirming care. Weâve been at the forefront of hormone replacement therapy since before we knew what these hormones do. You also know that here in Aperture Science weâre all about not getting sued. So everyone be quiet about our role in the Estrogen Cola disaster.â
âCave Johnson here. So far, we received 832 submissions to our Homophobia Remover design competition. Unfortunately, 829 had to be disqualified for being a schematic of a gun. Objectively hilarious, but not what weâre looking for. Wait, the lab boys just got another submission: and⊠itâs another gun. Keep at it, folks.â
âCave Johnson here. Using a set of genetically identical triplets and a molecular combinizer, we just proved scientifically that being bisexual isnât the same as being half-straight and half-gay. Now we just need to figure out how to separate Craigstopher back into his component brothers.â
the kind of autism that makes you confucian
confucius had this
Which could mean anything
you ever have to deal with someone so immature you're like "i think an actual six year old might be preferable"
Because they're easier to throw?
When I see a video of a cat minding its own business with nothing else going on I unmute immediately cause I know that mf is about to make a funny noise
pushed over by ghosts! sad
my partner doesnât use pet names nearly as much as i do, which is very funny because i will crack my gay little knuckles and say some shit like âgood morning my sun and moon, my loveliest boy, my baby my sweetheart my darling dearestâ and he will reply âhello adrianâ
That actually looks really really good...
do we think chocolate guy is gay?
-Grandpa Joe muttering to Charlie in that factory