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[slewfootwitch]

If a person's friends are racist and they don't care because it doesn't impact them or they try to reframe their buddy's racist behavior as something else, they are also racist, okay? 🫶

[slewfootwitch]

Also if your friends are saying racist, antisemitic and otherwise heinously weird things about people, you may want to consider just not being their friends instead of just sending anons to the people they're talking about. 🫰

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Not only is it okay to stop being friends with someone because they're racist, it's the bare minimum thing to do.

And just so we're clear, if you stick around with racists, you can't get upset that you're associated with racism or that people think you're a racist too. Because if your friend's racism isn't enough to end a friendship over, that means you're okay with racism. Being okay with racism means you're racist. Just so you know.

[shitswiftiessay]

Taylor acting like Travis was some kind of sweetheart in high school when THIS was him in college 💀 ⬇️

Yeah, sure seems like a guy who would’ve sat with the less popular kids 🙄

[tartrazeen]

Remember that she picked him ☝🏽

[hocuscroakus]

This is like the third time they’ve done this plot😭

[disney-universes]

Imagine getting What We Do in the Shadows out of the Fox purchase and not using that as an easy template for a comedy skewed Mansion movie.

[videntefernandez]

Oh my god they couldn’t be more boring and overdone. When are we going to get a movie about the ghosts haunting the house and not the dumb ass losers moving into the house??

[malsmanor]

They will never get it right. The fact that they refuse to acknowledge the ‘happy’ in ‘happy haunts’ is simply hilarious at this point. Not that you can’t have a villainous ghost amongst the bunch, but the focus shouldn’t be on them.

The selling points should be the dark and surreal humor and the alluring strangeness of the mansion itself.

‘Exorcise’ and ‘Haunted Mansion’ shouldn’t even be ALLOWED in the same sentence unless the first word is used in the context of exorcising the fear of death with humor.

[tartrazeen]

Don't let any of them watch BBC Ghosts.

[heated-blanket]

RIP bozo status pending

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so much of the "research" on "phones bad" is just statisticians congratulating themselves in a circle

[dragon-in-a-fez]

example: I am right now reading an article on "phubbing", which is apparently the term for ignoring people you're with in order to pay attention to your phone. we'll slide right past the claim that this is a normal word people use.

the authors have developed a "phubbing scale" and demonstrated that it has strong correlation with the existing "maladaptive technology use" scale. from this, they conclude the "phubbing scale" is a valid and useful metric.

the "maladaptive technology use" scale, if you go and read that paper, has shown strong correlation with the "problematic smartphone application use" construct.

have you caught the problem yet? nowhere has it been proven that scoring high on any of this is actually bad for you.

imagine someone told you "if the ground is wet it probably rained recently". then you talked to someone about rain and they said "if it rained recently there were probably clouds". yeah okay sounds reasonable. then all three of these people told you their research proves clouds, rain, and wet ground are all signs of demonic possession in giraffes. you'd be like hold up, I think you lost me somewhere

[ollievion]

I don’t need a study to know using my phone makes me feel like shit

[dragon-in-a-fez]

do different things on your phone then. I'm guessing you haven't written off paper as a technology just because tax forms make you want to cry

[weeknightbrutal-deactivated2026]

It's fair to be skeptical of research into problematic mobile phone usage on the basis that while some studies have shown it to be correlated with anxiety, insomnia, and depression, correlation is not causation and it is difficult to establish a causal relationship when studying this kind of problem. It's also fair to be skeptical of psych research in general due to the problems that are pervasive in the field.

But being not just skeptical but confident that you've debunked all the extant research on the basis that...the dumb statisticians never even bothered to check if this was actually bad for you LMFAO IDIOTS is just plain anti-intellectual though.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

> spend 5 years getting a PhD in youth and digital media

> express annoyance with a common failing of academic writing in your field

> get called anti-intellectual

[dragon-in-a-fez]

now reading a paper where the researcher:

asked students to volunteer to take a "screen-free challenge" where they didn't use electronic devices in class for a semester

recorded students' views on the challenge at the end of the course, and found that most of the students who participated had positive views while most of the students who didn't participate had negative views

completely ignored that this might just mean "people who thought something was a bad idea didn't do it", and instead concluded "the screen-free challenge leads to more positive views on the learning experience"

I'm getting whiplash from all the looking into the camera I am doing here

[allore]

Just to clarify, they only recorded the students’ views at the end of the study?? They didn’t ask the students what they expected at the beginning or ask why they participated??

That seems like such a basic step to mitigate your #3!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing you have to understand is that "screens bad" research gets published so easily you can basically make every research mistake ever invented and be fine

[tartrazeen]

their punishment is to be taken wildly and further out of context by ChatGPT listicles

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[legoyuri]

ITS ABOUT BEING SHIRTLESS ITS ABOUT PEOPLE WITH TITS BEING ABLE TO HAVE THEM OUT TO THE SUN I AM TIRED OF MY TITS NOT GETTING A TAN. FREE ME

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[coelii]

Never forget that DOGE was formed so Elon et al could fumble around sensitive government databases in order to hamper multiple investigations into his companies and government contracts

He is now a trillionaire thanks in no small part to this fiasco

[fellahimedia]

Me laughing at US losing but then realizing Belgium, most undeserving team in the world, is now in the quarter finals

[tartrazeen]

[ubernegro]

You can’t make others the acceptable trade-off for any reported progress.

This goes for establishment Democrats who opted to continue to aid and abet a genocide, and it goes for progressives who ignored obvious racist, misogyny red flags for electorialism.

[indolentjellyfish]

tiny glass aphid

[shiroashes]

NORTH DBH

The idea was that her nails looked like vampire fangs( *´・ω)/(；д； )

[apricops]

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

everyone who is an excellent writer thinks they suck and will never get published. everyone whose writing sucks ass is actually getting published and displayed in barnes and noble

[tartrazeen]

:( I'm on AO3

[gremilnboxedin]

moots I hope you know every time you interact with my post it’s just

“OMG THE [mutual] INTERACTED WITH MY POST. THE [mutual]”

[the-haiku-bot]

moots I hope you know

every time you interact

with my post it’s just

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[briannyssey]

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

[briannyssey]

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

[tartrazeen]

Sometimes writers don't even realize the themes and concepts they've put into their stories, or frame something as unimportant. Identifying these is also exceptionally helpful for other areas in your life.