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want to see my favorite piece of vintage clown jewelry?

was not prepared for the overwhelming amount of enthusiasm in the replies, but fortunately I am prepared to make everybody regret this optimism!

mushroom-soup-is-my-religion

poisonfishs

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

it's how i tag content that is not safe for work :)

glendathegoodone

enchantingcheesecakepersona

rosesonkittens

I've always written everything by hand before typing. Staring at a blank word document doesn't inspire the words to come.

But a blank paper and a blue pen and the words come at a steady pace.

panaeolus-fimicola

As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human

aaaand here's a link to the paper :)

aparrotandaqrow

There's a pretty damning commentary on this paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full

In short:

they didn't actually measure changes in learning; they measured theta waves which don't have a clear link to learning

They evaluated adults, not children

They didn't have participants do any encoding activities; they were mindlessly typing the same thing over and over

They didn't allow participants to actually type; they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand, when there's plenty of evidence that using both hands while encoding information leads to increased brain activity.

They couldn't see what they were typing (no visual feedback), so any error-correction processes the brain would usually run were impaired

The handwriting part of the experiment was completely normal and representative of using handwriting to record information.

They didn't actually report the raw data or conduct any statistical analysis for the two parts of the experiment individually; only the differences between the two groups.

Honestly, that is....shockingly bad. Like I'm surprised this passed peer review and it makes me wonder about the journal. Of course educational science is a joke of a field anyway with little scientific rigour over the last 50 years, so maybe that's not surprising. But this sure as hell sounds like this researcher walked into this project already convinced that handwriting is better for children's learning than typing and screens, and then rigged an experiment to support that bias. If I were the editor I would retract the paper, not just include a link to the commentary.

quinloki

they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand

The incandescent WHAT?! that boiled out of my mouth had my spouse worried I was reading some world-ending news.

I mean, look, I love the idea of "writing by hand helps with learning" because it sounds good. There's a feel good to it I can appreciate, and as someone who was worked for hours upon hours to have beautiful penmanship, I was ready to accept this.

But I've also written two books by hand, and I've written several books via typing, and there's no difference cognitively speaking. If anything, typing is more efficient, easier to edit, and less stress on my fingers because I would often write pages and pages within a day until half my left hand was bruised.

This is just one of those posts I'm glad I went all the way through, because my initial knee-jerk reaction was "huh, neat." followed by "I don't know if this tracks..." and then ending with "Oooooooh, okay. That makes sense" when I got down to the last bit about how it was basically the writing version of the vaccines cause autism paper. (i.e. the author had an end result they wanted, and made everything fit that).

And hey, writing by hand is both fun and valid, and rock on if that's how you do it, but don't let some slipshod paper powered by what feels like a very snobbish "pens and penmanship are superior" dupe you into thinking you're making cute little brain pathways vs your drooling typist peers.

apolladay

mckitterick

ever since the early 2000s when a couple brain-dead frat boys on campus said "Cute skirt" at me and giggled, I've worn kilts pretty much every day

because to hell with the delicate gender-enforcing losers who don't understand the origins of kilts, to hell with people sticking their noses into other people's choices, and to hell with the whole notion of gendered clothing

theemotionmachine

cyberbullyinc

emiliusthegreat

I had previously seen the bottom image with zero context like 5 times before finally finding the context post and that’s why I love tumblr.

strongermonster

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

strongermonster

this is what i mean

degenderates

Via @bulbaderp

itistimetodisappear

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

anarchistmemedistro

ALSO! red light doesn’t fuck up human night vision much so you can go in and out of lit areas without readjusting

anarchistmemedistro

thicque

the red light not fucking up human night vision is also why a number of older cars had gauges that lit up red at night

b0ggyb1tch

i legit miss red lights in cars and appliances n stuff. red city lighting is goated

softdomsworld

actually my kinks boil down to “i want someone to desire me so strongly and urgently that they just can’t control themself around me”

harmorii

traveler's teapot, in a few weeks when they're all released;

quakerjoe

k1k0w0

Dazai you can’t say thatttt!!

austimpowerz

MOODBOARD FOR WHEN SHIT IS FUCK

laqueus

vicholas

It's still crazy that Anita Sarkeesian did some pretty basic Feminism 101 videos about things like "It's bad when a woman only exists in a narrative so her death can serve as a man's motivation" yet gamers act like she's some sort of Radical Feminist Satan.

And to be clear, me calling it Feminism 101 isn't a dig against her. Her videos were meant to be introductory pieces to feminist analysis and that's perfectly fine. That's what makes it crazier that people act like she killed their grandma or something.

vicholas

If I made a video about how I wish Princess Peach had more agency and this made people declare me a permanent harassment target I would become the Joker. She's way stronger than me and she deserves way better.

the-upper-shelf

Doe

recoveredcombatsister

for the last time, transmasc and transfem dont describe gender but a relationship to the gender heirarchy imposed by patriarchy! every nb in the world is either transmasc or transfem regardless of their own personal gender! you can be the most transneutral genderless nb ever but you will still be described as either transmasc or transfem depending on how your transition relates to your agab! and you need to acknowledge this before you join transfeminist discussions becuase otherwise you look like a bad feminist!