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always some new bullshit in the ocean
Why is it always orcas or dolphins
Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once
worry not ☝️ they're doing coke
Narwhals are also menaces, the only documented thing they’ve done with their tusks is harass fish for fun.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/narwhals-use-tusks-to-play-fish
Lil damselfly 🪷 they remind me of little fairies on my walks, everywhere but also impossible to capture on video !!
Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.
Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!
Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space
Don't forget to play it loud as fuck
please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.
This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.
It's make a terrible comic day.
CONTEST EVERY PRIMARY! SCARE YOUR LOCAL COMPLACENT DEMOCRATS!
Get your ducks in a row. Now get them in a circle. Get them in a Socratic seminar with that duck in the middle. Get them in a mosh pit. Get them moshing. Get them moshing.
oh hey, it’s the board game Abducktion!
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
I am back from the grave once again
Do y'all have any favorite card games?
I know this is the jaded post-irony website and we all wanna be funny, but I am genuinely asking. Please, tell me about a good memory you have with some loved ones and a stack of standard playing cards.
Have you guys seen that clip
Go off Kermit
we're just normal men
Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???
assessing the situation before he shoots his shot
Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king
I am continuously astounded by how much pro-homeschooling rhetoric flies in youth rights circles.
Homeschooling (yes, that includes unschooling) consolidates massive amounts of power into the hands of parents. Homeschooling causes horrific abuse and isolation.
The homeschooling movement is far-right and blatantly pro-abuse. The HSLDA called a man who kept children in cages a “hero.” They has helped to block the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child AND the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, has backed legislation banning both same-sex marriage and civil unions, and helped kill a bill that would define isolation as abuse, among countless other offenses. Its founder, Michael Farris, wrote in his dramatized narrative of CPS “stealing” children from their Christian homeschooling parents that hitting children to the point of bruising is not abuse.
Libby Ann has extensively documented HSLDA’s support of abuse, including praising abusers and attempting to block all bills that define abuse more strictly, even if “more strictly” simply expands the definition to include bruises and welts.
You can’t be pro-youth and pro-homeschooling.
I grew up in a household that donated to the HSLDA and was homeschooled and all that.
HOMESCHOOLING IS THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY TO ENABLE CHILD ABUSE.
You know how we on the left are opposed to nuclear families because they are a historical outlier from the larger multigenerational households humans have largely had across history? Because nuclear families isolate kids so that if one or two adults in their life fail them they have no recourse?
Modern homeschooling is that turned up to eleven. It is a life where if your parents are guardians are abusive you literally have no way out. No help. No one to turn to. It is ENTIRELY opposed to children’s rights as autonomous individuals.
A lot of very ignorant reblogs going on about “but disabled kids!” like there aren’t numerous cases of homeschooling parents using it as an excuse to neglect and abuse their disabled children, including just not educating them at all. And unlike abuses in school, they tend to go much longer undetected, because no one is checking in on them.
Schools can be regulated to be better to disabled children. Much better solution than funneling disabled children out of the reach of authorities.
I say this as an autistic kid who often had issues at school. The assumption from some here that those of us who are anti-homeschooling aren’t considering disabled kids is insulting (on this website?) and dangerously ignorant. Disabled kids are all the more reason to protect kids from the rampant abuse that homeschooling enables, and instead to have them in places where their education is regulated by laws designed to look out for them, they are being educated by trained professionals and more importantly, there are so many more adults keeping an eye out for them if anything bad does happen.
So, on one hand most kids are not homeschooled for disability reasons, but for “moral” ones - 75% of parents want to provide “moral instruction”, 53% explicitly state it’s religious. Comparatively only 15% of parents cite health special needs (which encompasses any health or developmental condition lasting longer than six months) as a reason for homeschooling. So they’re creating a straw child with this argument in the majority of cases.
With that being said…
Disability rights activists fought for decades to be allowed equal rights and access to public schooling and IDEA, which was only passed in 1979, is under threat of repeal by the Trump administration because they believe parents should “handle kids themselves” or better yet just institutionalize them. This combined with threats to Section 504 and other laws which mandate accommodations mark concerted efforts to force disabled children out of public life entirely and is part of the right-wing anti-social safety net agenda homeschoolers push specifically because they actively want parents to have absolute legal and practical authority over their children—which means, in reality, impunity to abuse.
It is absolutely spitting on the legacy of disabled activists like Judith Heumann, many of whom got their start as young people self-advocating for their own rights to be educated to condone the prioritization of homeschooling.
A bit more info/stats but it is, obviously, related to child abuse of all kinds so cut for that.
So, I was homeschooled and grew up in a household that was abusive. Three of my siblings have disabilities. Most of my friends growing were neurodivergent and a significant portion had physical disabilities, especially as a young adult. Many of my friends were abused. Many of my friends were homeschooled. I have a lot of complex thoughts on this.
Homeschooling absolutely forces children to spend more time with their families, which compounds abuse. The education homeschoolers receive is also far less regulated than public schools (though depending on the state, not necessarily much less regulated than private schools). I also take issue with some of the claims here. First, I want to say that “The Homeschool Movement” is considered niche and radicalized even among homeschoolers, at least in blue states. Everyone hates them and with good reason. Anti-homeschool-movement is different than anti-homeschool. The second thing I want to say is that I think there is an assumption that going to school means access to help, which I think is rarely true. We don’t really have good systems to find and help abused children, regardless of whether they are homeschooled, except sometimes in cases of extreme physical abuse. Kids rarely directly say they are being abused, and if they do, that still doesn’t guarantee help. I don’t know anyone who got out of their abusive household because of help from adults at their school. I know several people who were abused both at home and at school. I know several more who started homeschooling as a way to escape abuse at school. For those people, homeschooling vastly improved their lives.
For some people homeschooling is profoundly helpful. I know many people who had really good experiences, and who struggled in public school and were unable to afford private school, or who tried private school but found it still didn’t accommodate their needs. A lot of the options that exist for people with cognitive disabilities, especially publicly funded ones, are also rife with abuse.
Better regulation and systems of enforcement to protect children, especially disabled children, is necessary in all spheres of education. Welfare checks, proof of academic rigor, proof of enrollment in activities outside the home, etc. are all regulations that I think should come with homeschooling. But I think that homeschooling can sometimes be an important and useful option for families who are failed by existing systems.
To be clear, unregulated homeschooling, which is the norm in much of the US, does way more harm than good. “Homeschool rights” as a slogan is always used to advocate horrible things. But it’s sometimes a really big good for people, and I just wish that it wasn’t dealt with so terribly.
I am continuously astounded by how much pro-homeschooling rhetoric flies in youth rights circles.
Homeschooling (yes, that includes unschooling) consolidates massive amounts of power into the hands of parents. Homeschooling causes horrific abuse and isolation.
The homeschooling movement is far-right and blatantly pro-abuse. The HSLDA called a man who kept children in cages a “hero.” They has helped to block the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child AND the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, has backed legislation banning both same-sex marriage and civil unions, and helped kill a bill that would define isolation as abuse, among countless other offenses. Its founder, Michael Farris, wrote in his dramatized narrative of CPS “stealing” children from their Christian homeschooling parents that hitting children to the point of bruising is not abuse.
Libby Ann has extensively documented HSLDA’s support of abuse, including praising abusers and attempting to block all bills that define abuse more strictly, even if “more strictly” simply expands the definition to include bruises and welts.
You can’t be pro-youth and pro-homeschooling.
I grew up in a household that donated to the HSLDA and was homeschooled and all that.
HOMESCHOOLING IS THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY TO ENABLE CHILD ABUSE.
You know how we on the left are opposed to nuclear families because they are a historical outlier from the larger multigenerational households humans have largely had across history? Because nuclear families isolate kids so that if one or two adults in their life fail them they have no recourse?
Modern homeschooling is that turned up to eleven. It is a life where if your parents are guardians are abusive you literally have no way out. No help. No one to turn to. It is ENTIRELY opposed to children’s rights as autonomous individuals.
A lot of very ignorant reblogs going on about “but disabled kids!” like there aren’t numerous cases of homeschooling parents using it as an excuse to neglect and abuse their disabled children, including just not educating them at all. And unlike abuses in school, they tend to go much longer undetected, because no one is checking in on them.
Schools can be regulated to be better to disabled children. Much better solution than funneling disabled children out of the reach of authorities.
I say this as an autistic kid who often had issues at school. The assumption from some here that those of us who are anti-homeschooling aren’t considering disabled kids is insulting (on this website?) and dangerously ignorant. Disabled kids are all the more reason to protect kids from the rampant abuse that homeschooling enables, and instead to have them in places where their education is regulated by laws designed to look out for them, they are being educated by trained professionals and more importantly, there are so many more adults keeping an eye out for them if anything bad does happen.
So, on one hand most kids are not homeschooled for disability reasons, but for “moral” ones - 75% of parents want to provide “moral instruction”, 53% explicitly state it’s religious. Comparatively only 15% of parents cite health special needs (which encompasses any health or developmental condition lasting longer than six months) as a reason for homeschooling. So they’re creating a straw child with this argument in the majority of cases.
With that being said…
Disability rights activists fought for decades to be allowed equal rights and access to public schooling and IDEA, which was only passed in 1979, is under threat of repeal by the Trump administration because they believe parents should “handle kids themselves” or better yet just institutionalize them. This combined with threats to Section 504 and other laws which mandate accommodations mark concerted efforts to force disabled children out of public life entirely and is part of the right-wing anti-social safety net agenda homeschoolers push specifically because they actively want parents to have absolute legal and practical authority over their children—which means, in reality, impunity to abuse.
It is absolutely spitting on the legacy of disabled activists like Judith Heumann, many of whom got their start as young people self-advocating for their own rights to be educated to condone the prioritization of homeschooling.
A bit more info/stats but it is, obviously, related to child abuse of all kinds so cut for that.
So, I was homeschooled and grew up in a household that was abusive. Three of my siblings have disabilities. Most of my friends growing were neurodivergent and a significant portion had physical disabilities, especially as a young adult. Many of my friends were abused. Many of my friends were homeschooled. I have a lot of complex thoughts on this.
Homeschooling absolutely forces children to spend more time with their families, which compounds abuse. The education homeschoolers receive is also far less regulated than public schools (though depending on the state, not necessarily much less regulated than private schools). I also take issue with some of the claims here. First, I want to say that “The Homeschool Movement” is considered niche and radicalized even among homeschoolers, at least in blue states. Everyone hates them and with good reason. Anti-homeschool-movement is different than anti-homeschool. The second thing I want to say is that I think there is an assumption that going to school means access to help, which I think is rarely true. We don’t really have good systems to find and help abused children, regardless of whether they are homeschooled, except sometimes in cases of extreme physical abuse. Kids rarely directly say they are being abused, and if they do, that still doesn’t guarantee help. I don’t know anyone who got out of their abusive household because of help from adults at their school. I know several people who were abused both at home and at school. I know several more who started homeschooling as a way to escape abuse at school. For those people, homeschooling vastly improved their lives.
For some people homeschooling is profoundly helpful. I know many people who had really good experiences, and who struggled in public school and were unable to afford private school, or who tried private school but found it still didn't accommodate their needs. A lot of the options that exist for people with cognitive disabilities, especially publicly funded ones, are also rife with abuse.
Better regulation and systems of enforcement to protect children, especially disabled children, is necessary in all spheres of education. Welfare checks, proof of academic rigor, proof of enrollment in activities outside the home, etc. are all regulations that I think should come with homeschooling. But I think that homeschooling can sometimes be an important and useful option for families who are failed by existing systems.
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
