Mishgal&#x27;s Caustic tumescence

Hey guys.

If anybody can help me out with some cash for groceries, or some stuff from my household needs list on Amazon, I could really use the help.

Morale boosting also is welcome, but less essentially.

I have $5 in my account. Anything you can do is very appreciated.

I need $300 to keep the power on. The inflation and gouging is insane, I don't know how people are supposed to survive this.

I need $170 of that by monday or the lights go out, so please help if you are able.

Situation is unchanged, any and all help is welcome.

Missed the window. They shut me down, I got it turned back on but only for a couple of days, and now they want the full $300 amount.

FML.

I'm still not there on power, and rent is looming. Any help is very welcome.

I need to make 500 happen in about 24 hours. Any help is welcome.

teddykaczynski

baby javelinas….

st-just

A lot of 1940-50s pulp fiction makes a lot more sense when I remember that there really was a sprawling alliance of mafiosas with its hooks in graft, commerce and government across the country called things like 'the National Crime Syndicate' and 'Murder Inc.'

st-just

The US Senate just doesn't subpoena dozens of known gangsters for live televised hearings like it used to.

marigoldsys

Damn there really was

madeleinejubileesaito

my sincerest wish for Cathy

16/30

hopefulmilkshakeengineer

Picture painted by Zdzisław Beksiński, 1979

sivavakkiyar

The Ex-Classics Web Site Main Page

cocoainthemorning

“I briefly considered making calcoins a real thing in tandem with this update. I asked somebody how bitcoins worked, and the absolute worst case scenario happened. Bitcoins were explained to me. So obviously I axed that idea.”

— Andrew Hussie (via revolutionator)

calware

are you telling me that seven years ago andrew hussie almost got into crypto. that this was another timeline we just narrowly avoided.

gexavery

It's unbelievable to me that everyone crops out the fourth panel of this comic

retroactivebakeries

I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.

the word is "commute"

kid: complete?

me: do you see a P in that word?

kid: uh.... compare?

me: where are you getting a P??? sound it out.

kid: com... complete?

me: is that a P after the M? sound it out.

kid: *stares blankly*

me: [oh right, nobody taught them how to do this. fucking hell...] okay, we'll do this together [like it's kindergarden even though you're thirteen years old...]. what sound does C make?

I am not a reading teacher or a dyslexia specialist but I'm having to do remedial phonics instruction for middle schoolers because nobody ever taught them how SO THEY CAN'T FUCKING READ

I cannot overstate how much these kids are just making wild guesses when I ask them to read something. Because that's what they were taught to do. If you don't know a word, use context clues and make a guess at what you think the word might be.

Which is a fucking insane approach to reading, by the way, and I could rant about this forever because this makes absolutely no sense and I cannot figure out how the entire educational field was duped into thinking that this makes a lick of sense.

But I also want to emphasize that even kids who are decent readers have this problem. I work with some kids who straight-up can't read, but even my kids who absolutely can read will just guess wildly at an unfamiliar word. Those kids will go back and sound it out if I force them to, because they can read, so they have the necessary decoding skills. But they have to be pushed to do it and reminded several times to quit fucking guessing and read the actual letters on the page, Jason.

For example. I have a kid who is actually a pretty strong reader - probably one of my best.

The word was "disagreement."

He made a couple of guesses - some nonsensical, but after pushing him to sound out the word, he got closer. He kept saying "dis-age-ment" and "dis-argue-ment."

And I said okay, let's break this word down. Is there anything in here you recognize?

"The beginning is 'dis' and the end is 'ment' like argument, but I don't know the middle."

Great! Let's pull the middle out. I wrote the word "agree" on the page. Do you know this word?

"Age? Argue?"

SOUND. IT. OUT.

"Ag... agriculture?"

Jason the love of god. I drew a line in the middle. Ag/ree. Sound out each part.

"I don't know."

JASON. I wrote them out on opposite sides of the paper. Ag...........ree. What sound does ag make?

"Ag?"

YES GREAT FANTASTIC. Now come all the way over here. Ree. Sound it out.

"Are?"

JASON. R. E. E.

"Rey? Ree?"

Yes, thank you, it's Ree. Put it together.

"Ag...ree? Oh! It's disagreement!"

YES. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. WHY WAS THIS SO HARD?

ms-hells-bells

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

#however the situation is better in liberal states that invest substantially more money into education than conservative states

As much as I wish that was the case, "Jason" and all of his classmates are students in a strongly blue state with some of the highest educational spending per student in the country.

I'm not saying the situation is better in red states - I've seen what my friends who are teaching in Texas are dealing with and the situation is dire. I'm just saying it's less of a red/blue or funding issue than you might imagine.

boppinrobin

If you are an educator who has discovered you were taught the whole language approach in sum or in part, SUNY is offering a 45-hour online microcredential in the science of reading that is free to educators in NY and MD, and only $50 for everyone else everywhere else. It is comprehensive, straightforward, and will absolutely get you and your students on the right track.

If you, like OP, are a teacher of older children and find yourself needing to know how to teach remedial phonemic awareness and phonics skills without knowing where to start, this microcredential will give you what you need so you can help your students.

indigosfindings

at the end of the day i think the online digital artist community has for a very long time operated on a set of like unspoken handshake rules generally enforced by social pressure which (despite being positioned on a moral & pseudolegal plane) have very little overlap with what is legal or illegal (de facto or de jure) but which have Everything to do with figuring The Artist as a universal would-be petit bourgeois auteur, reflected through these rules' emphasis on (1) the moral necessity of The Artist's unwavering & eternal power over their own art (& its reception) as articulated via informal pseudo-IP mechanisms (no reposting, dont tag as me/kin/id, dont use as your pfp, dont draw my oc), (2) the moral mandate toward Constant Self-Improvement (generally meaning adopting more of the conventional signifiers of "Good Art" eg realism) (admonition of "tracing" even for practice, artists who do things that are "not conducive to improvement" being fair game for mockery), & (3) attempting to induce in observers (often through guilt) a social pressure to further the ambitions of such artists ("you need to reblog/share, not just like", "you MUST commission 1 million artists immediately", "it's rude to express anything other than praise for any piece of art")

like these all (in tandem with SEO etc) boil down to attempting to lay the groundwork for an imagined future state of self-employment emanating out of one's (semi-)hobbyist artistry (& to obstruct anything perceived as interfering with that fantasy or its actuation). it's sort of like hiring a team of accountants on the assumption that youre going to win the lottery someday, like if it were in another context we'd effortlessly recognize it for the meritocratic grindset shit that it is. & none of this is even remotely conducive to the production of good art lmao

kaylapocalypse

An event happened to me tonight

kaylapocalypse

I’m chosing to believe he didn’t pee. I’m chosing to believe he got in and immediately went “uh oh”

But, before he could get out, I got in. So then, he helplessly just turned to me and said the first thing that could describe our mutual situation:

Welcome to the pee pee palace.

explorermoo

Recoming

Kam knew there would be no return. Peace and eternal rest was promised, but the calling of the Thick World and their duty to the Old still rung true in their mind. Both agreed, they would see it through to the end, and so, turned away from the cyan gates of Brightsheol. Their vision fades, and the matter of their new body starts to thicken and clot. They’re inlaid with ribbons of bone, tissue, nerve and flesh, and made anew.

#caves of qud

Reminded of that time when Trump came to power Gaza ceasefire had just been signed there was a lot of "of course Trump led to a ceasefire, supporting Israel is no longer materially beneficial to the empire and he realizes that but those stupid libs kept saying he would be worse for Palestine".

And then the ceasefire immediately unraveled, Trump went to do exactly what he said he would in terms of destroying the pro-Palestine movement and attempting to deport its supporters, military assistance to Israel continued, and he even proposed a US takeover of Gaza.

Maybe your "materialist analysis" ignored some important factors there, sis.

The way some people online use the word "materialism" sounds increasingly like the way some people self-describe as "rationalists" or "objectivists".

Taking a view of history that focuses on the effects of material conditions on society (as opposed to vague "spirits" or "great men" and etc) is all well and good but do you:

1- Actually know much about those material conditions or really history in general? Do you read stuff besides "theory" or tumblr essays about it?

2- Have the ability to make falsifiable and concrete predictions that take those conditions and the historical context into account and can be tested in some way?

3- Know about the scientific method more generally and how elements of it are relevant to determining what is true or false?

4- Truly understand the potential effects of emerging technologies and adapt your models accordingly?

In summary, do you actually try to get scientific with it (at least as much as you can with this kind of thing) or do you just want to apply nice and objective-sounding labels to your beliefs?