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holy shit

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my humours have balanced. I have become mentally normal again

pangur-and-grim

no, mentally normal people can still write spider sex books

YOU

This what I mean when I say science writing is terrible and you need to actually go back to the academic publications themselves to get what’s going on

athenasdragon

Frequent enough issue that there's a greeting card about it...

calebwittebane

its so awesome that sauropterygians soft launched turtle designs some time before actual turtles released but they fucking sucked and didnt survive past the end of the triassic

this sucks

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

cookingwithroxy

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

hunter-rodrigez

Like... come on man, 310 pages isn't even what I would've considered a particularly long book as a kid.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I don't understand why they're freaked out by book length. A kid can read one 300-page book or six 50-page books and it's the same amount of reading. Scholastic's bread and butter has traditionally been long, LONG series of relatively short children's books; it's known that bookworm kids like to read a lot. Nobody blinks an eye at a kid reading all sixty-ish Animorphs books or a bookshelf's worth of Goosebumps or The Babysitter's Club. But if the pages are stuck together into thicker books then suddenly that's difficult for a kid? 300 pages isn't even all that big for children's fantasy.

#yeah I’m not sure what people are talking about when they say 300 pages is too much to read #on top of that kids should be able to explore complex topics through reading and media #not just because they should have that choice but also because it helps them grow #when I was younger I used to read a lot of books that made it easier to process things that adults try to shield kids from #it’s natural to want to protect kids but keeping them from learning about the real world and the things they’ll have to or are dealing with.#it’s. really sad actually

mephostophilis

are non brits aware of count binface.

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to give some entirely bizarre context, nigel farage (extreme cunt) has stepped down from his position as MP for clacton (due to a scandal where he received £5 million from a crypto billionaire that could have been laundered) only to run again so that he can prove people like him. and the only person running against him is count binface. who has been a staple of british politics for many years. and now the british press is forced to interview him seriously while he sits there with his binface.

spell-fox

For context Farage can't be prosecuted for this while not in office. His tactic is to be re-elected to show he is a man of the people beating all other parties (and therefore laws don't apply??). Other parties have chosen not to run ostensibly because it lends legitimacy to his stunt but more likely because it is a Reform stronghold and they are unlikely to challenge him anyway.

Except in the hour of need, a binface stepped up.

So either he gets in and is prosecuted, or he loses to a bin.

#incredible #truly a hero of the people

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adurot

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

adurot

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

adurot

But wait, there’s more!

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Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

batmanisagatewaydrug

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

#HEBSBDBHEHDHWJDJ

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Josiah Ellner (American, 1996) - Untitled (n.d.)

skittypilled

the fairies and i did not make any figgy pudding. nobody is welcome to join us

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I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

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Six VCRs providing different eyeball videos, each monitor pans around the room randomly via servo mounts. When someone walks in range of the sensor at the front, the tree turns all monitors to stare at them.

iTree — Collusion show, Eyedrum Gallery Atlanta 2002-10-05