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[christianstepmoms]

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[vampire-core]

[id: the first image is a tweet by Ryan Grim / @.ryangrim that reads: Ya know, if a country has so many people in prison that allowing them to vote could swing an election, maybe there are too many people in prison.

the second image is a tweet by Anthony Oliveira / @.meakoopa that reads: hi everyone - a government that denies its prisoners the right to vote is a government that now has an extremely vested interest in jailing its political opposition

thank you to coming to this, the literal first class of Civics 101 /end]

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG

[valtsv]

you've heard of Friends to Lovers, now get ready for: Alliance to Polycule

[mrawfulman]

Tf2

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[anhed-nia]

IT’S OCTOBER NOW

[mrawfulman]

FUCK YEAH LETS GET SPOOOOKOOOOOOKKIOIKOOKUYJEJEJDNDNDNDNFKDKDKDKDN!!!!! :D

[3liza]

this is so accusatory. those vile children never learned cursive!!! bitch whose responsibility was it to TEACH THEM???

[magspag]

I read that as more celebratory than accusatory. The curse has been broken

[3liza]

cursive is extremely useful for anyone who writes with liquid ink pens, anyone who enjoys taking handwritten notes quickly and with lower stress on the joints, and anyone who wants to read handwriting from the historical record. these are all really common situations to be in even for civilians, even in 2022. flipping over the photographs from your grandparents' album and not being able to read what they wrote on the back is a bummer. i understand superficially the hatred of cursive and the condemnation of it as useless, but it is misguided. having hundreds of years of human output made illegible to you in a single generation is actually pretty alarming from a historical access standpoint. people should be mad they were not taught to read one of the major languages used by their recent ancestors.

edit: also being given more different writing techniques is so helpful for people with disabilities for mobility, literacy, and cognitive reasons. this is truly one of the only things where i was mad about it in 4th grade, and now as an adult I'm glad i learned it. usually adults are full of shit when they say "oh you'll understand when you're older". cursive is like the only one lol

[fallout-lou-begas]

Given a current generation of students in which so few can read or write cursive, one cannot assume it will ever again serve as an effective form of communication. I asked my students about the implications of what they had told me, focusing first on their experience as students. No, most of these history students admitted, they could not read manuscripts. If they were assigned a research paper, they sought subjects that relied only on published sources. One student reshaped his senior honors thesis for this purpose; another reported that she did not pursue her interest in Virginia Woolf for an assignment that would have involved reading Woolf’s handwritten letters. In the future, cursive will have to be taught to scholars the way Elizabethan secretary hand or paleography is today.

What about handwriting in your personal lives? I went on. One student reported that he had to ask his parents to “translate” handwritten letters from his grandparents. I asked the students if they made grocery lists, kept journals, or wrote thank-you or condolence letters. Almost all said yes. Almost all said they did so on laptops and phones or sometimes on paper in block letters. For many young people, “handwriting,” once essentially synonymous with cursive, has come to mean the painstaking printing they turn to when necessity dictates.

During my years as Harvard president, I regarded the handwritten note as a kind of superpower. I wrote hundreds of them and kept a pile of note cards in the upper-left-hand drawer of my desk. They provided a way to reach out and say: I am noticing you. This message of thanks or congratulations or sympathy comes not from some staff person or some machine but directly from me. I touched it and hope it touches you. Now I wonder how many recipients of these messages could not read them.

The individual ability to read cursive isn't so important just because it's Old and Classy, and the argument that the article is making is so much more than "man fuck these kids for not learning proper handwriting grrrr!" whether you give a shit about what a harvard president would say most of the time (I sure don't) this essay is very particularly about how worrying this loss of knowledge is for students' abilities to understand handwritten primary sources, which is troubling for the future of college-level research contexts and students' abilities to pursue their potential and their curiosities on that level, but is also really sad in present and quotidian contexts because the extinction of comprehending cursive is so much more than a loss of good signatures

[churlsgonewild]

I wanted to reblog this again with some actual resources for people who want to learn cursive.

cursiveletters.com is extremely helpful and free.

Each lowercase and uppercase letter has a page that includes:

a video showing exactly how to form the letter,

videos on how the letter looks at the beginning of the word and in the middle of the word, and

free downloadable worksheets that you can trace over and practice on.

All of this is free. (The only charge I see is if you want to download all the worksheets in a bundle; they have an Etsy shop for that, and you could buy everything there for less than $4. You can also just download them one at a time from their site, for absolutely nothing.)

Another free site, consistentcursive.com, looks helpful but possibly more focused on refining one's handwriting rather than learning from scratch.

I think legibility is much more important than consistency or matching an aesthetic standard (unless you feel moved to make handwriting a hobby of yours, which I'm told can be fun but is not at all necessary).

I'm in my mid-30s, so I learned cursive in school, and I've been writing with it for many years; some of my letter forms are a little streamlined and deviate a bit from the standard that you see on these pages. I love that my writing has character, and it's still very easy to read if you've learned these shapes.

Don't let the standardized nature of these examples scare you off; just learn them as a starting point, and you'll naturally develop your own distinctive spin on them as you go. It's a joy!

Writing without lifting your pen for every single letter is incredibly useful for getting thoughts down quickly and for thinking fluidly on paper, and being able to read a very common and widespread form of communication will help you in lots of areas of your life.

[mrawfulman]

i rlly like the icon and url dont let the haters bring u down

Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you, bowserforeskin

[mrawfulman]

So you ever just have an extremily realistic dream and everything feels right, but then all of a sudden your alarm clock wakes you up and you realise "right, fuck, I live in the real world bound by the laws of reality and I will never be able to live the life I want to or dream of because of that, sorry I forgot" And then you just have to go back to having a job like it never happened because there is literally nothing you can do about it? No? Just me?

[mrawfulman]

Man I wish I could've been around for fashion before technology. You could just stroll out into the streets wearing like 30 large unshaped rodent pelts wrapped around your waist and as soon as someone asks what the fuck you're wearing you can just " oh you havent heard? You poor, ignorant, idiot. It's the latest fashion from the west. Get with the Time, McGiligan" and they've got nothing

[mrawfulman]

Albert Einstein had a vibrator up his ass 24/7 so he was in a constant state of post-nut clarity and that why he was so smart

[serenenecrosis]

Nah, that’d mean he’d be in a constant state of “nutting rn stupidity” not “post-nut clarity”

[mrawfulman]

Fine, fine, you got me. Hed have the vibe In there 24/7 but would only turn it on to max, cum, then off again to prepare himself for an intense session of S and M (science and math) but that's not as catchy

[mrawfulman]

Help my wolf fursona got copyright struck by national geographic

[headspace-hotel]

[funnytwittertweets]

[mrawfulman]

"I swear to fuck nataliegh If you say some dumb shit like that again I'll bring up how your dad left your mom last year"

[mrawfulman]

I am coming

And now my first cryptic threat! It's been a big day guys

[mrawfulman]

Albert Einstein had a vibrator up his ass 24/7 so he was in a constant state of post-nut clarity and that why he was so smart

[mrawfulman]

i like the idea of jesus going out for a walk on the ocean but then a huge fucking wave comes out of nowhere and it falls on top of him and crushes him like he was slammed between two walls of solid concrete 

[mrawfulman]

hi for the love of god hello

Oh boy! My first vague as fuck ask, very exciting

[cognitohazardous]

how come animals are allowed to drink whatever dirty water they want but if humans do we get sick. bullshit

[mrawfulman]

Good news, They dont!

34% of wild animals die from infections/disease cause by dirty, unclean water