Some weird little gremlin

[kaijuno]

[ghost-hugg]

bigger version if anyone wanted to zoom :]

[ablazeinhim]

[pleoros]

Eerie lava formations around the West Kamokuna Skylight in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, 1996 Photo: Laszlo Kestay

[vampire-loving-vampire]

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

[despair-tea]

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[adamtotscomix]

[tarisilmarwen]

The older I get, the more I agree with media when they attack/confront their fanbases. Like with Avatar, Sherlock, Doctor Who, The Last Jedi. Every actor and producer who has ever called out the fans for being creepy, weird and disrespectful has been fully justified.

It highly depends for me. Like:

Creator: "No that ship/theory/headcanon is not a thing and it was never going to be, we thought we were pretty explicit about that, sorry." = 👍

Creator: "Please stop being weird about your porn and parasocial towards the cast and crew you are freaking them out." = 👍

Creator: "Don't harass anyone online." = 👍

But...

Creator: "You're not allowed to be mad or criticize us when we invade your beloved fandom and change everything about it into bad content slop to the point where it's a hollowed out shell we wear as skinsuit, the thing you liked was bad and problematic anyway you should be grateful." = 👎👎👎👎👎

Do no pass Go, do not collect $200, get your nasty hands off my fandom you asshole.

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[thememedaddy]

[captain-price-returns]

[axolotluv]

Please give us your data 🥺🥺🥺🥺 For the children 😢‼️ all of your legal information 🙏🙏 yes 🥺 your home address? 🥺 Your government issued ID 😢❓social security number and credit card details 🤗 immigration status ❓ racial religious and gender identity 😁😢😢😢⁉️ please 🥺 did you get an abortion this year 🥺 please give us your personal information 🥺🥺🥺🥺 for the children‼️‼️

[sexygrammaticalerrors]

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[kvothes]

i tend not to take museum photos of things unless i think i can take a good one, and this was in a glass case so it had a lot of glare, but the sargent exhibit at the met has the only know photograph of madame x before he repainted the shoulder strap and seeing that for the first time in my life made me feel like my body was made of static

[kvothes]

the met had a photo online. offering this to all of you (with the repainted one for comparison) <3

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

@qqueenofhades look, another

[honorculture]

[theprofessional-amateur]

Author/illustrator Trung Le Nguyen has been live posting reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time on bluesky and just hit the first proposal. The replies are basically the sickos meme

Thread here

[theprofessional-amateur]

Incredible stuff happening. I want push notifications for every update. I hate push notifications.

[kiralamouse]

Ha! Found the thread this is from! Now here's hoping I can figure out how to follow it.

EDIT: Ah, the thread that was linked in the original post. The link that I missed and did web-search and other stuff to find. Well done, me. *sigh*

[kiralamouse]

Okay, Imma go ahead and do this again, because while the entire thread is delightful it's getting Very. Long. And I want to be able to skip to the relevant part of the story as desired without hitting "see more" 120 times. I'm subdividing on vibes, a mix of where Trung Le focuses attention and where I feel like the story subdivides and when we've gone too dang long without a breaking point.

The Beginning (as above) (2026-05-28 19:20 UT)

Jane's mother and sisters visit her while she's sick at Netherfield (05-31 5:10 UT)

Introducing Collins and Wickham (featuring some GREAT analysis of Wickham as malignant social engineer) (06-05 14:03 UT)

Netherfield Ball (beginning) (06-11 14:14 UT)

Netherfield Ball continued ("This party is taking forever, and I’m moving through it so slowly, which is the experience the other characters have every time Mr Collins decides to give a speech, which happens more than once somehow.") (06-19 3:15 UT)

Mr. Collins's Proposal (06-23 4:42 UT)

Charlotte's Options (06-24 19:40 UT)

The Gardiners come for Christmas (and further character discussion) (06-26 5:08 UT)

Going to Rosings (at least, going after Mrs. Gardiner's opinion on Wickham & Mary King) (06-30 21:34 UT)

Meeting Lady Catherine (07-07 3:53 UT)

"Wait is Colonel Fitzwilliam hot?" (07-07 18:22 UT)

Elizabeth warns Darcy about her favorite walks (07-09 1:41 UT)

The Hunsford proposal (07-09 20:35 UT)

Darcy's letter (part 1) (07-10 4:23 UT)

Darcy's letter (part 2) (07-10 5:02 UT)

Elizabeth's reaction (07-10 22:19 UT)

Back to Meryton (07-11 17:17 UT)

"This is going to be a disaster. I can't wait." (re: Lydia going to Brighton) (07-11 18:23 UT) (less of a natural stopping point and more "oh, I've about run out for the day")

[persephinae]

[kellyroman]

Picked some magnolia petals and discovered as they started to wilt at creases they turned a beautiful warm brown color. Then got the idea to use a silverpoint stylus to scratch a magnolia drawing into the petal~ smells divine