Smorgasborg

Non writing related content appreciated by @the-writers-wrench PFP by @birdy-the-artist

[ouroborosorder]

fucking losing my shit over elizabeth holmes' fucking twitter banner

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[xmonday-mintx]

Confused Hima 🦊🌻🍥

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#STOP SAYING 'PLATONIC' WHEN YOU MEAN 'CASUAL'#RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE PLATONIC AND ABSOLUTELY DERANGED

[joleneghoul]

i think censoring subtitles is actually ableism

[saint-ambrosef]

wild concept: maybe that family has a lot of kids not because they don’t know about birth control, but rather….because they wanted a lot of kids…radical, i know

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

And even if the kids ARE oops babies, your snide remarks and rash judgements aren’t making their life any easier. Either offer a hand with things or shut your mouth and mind ya business.

[saint-ambrosef]

favorite post of mine

[elizabethsgenes]

Another WILD CONCEPT: Maybe the 30 something adults who don’t have any kids have been trying to have kids for 5+ years and your snide comments about when can we expect babies are RUDE AND HURTFUL.

tldr: Don’t comment on other couple’s procreative abilities. It makes you an asshole.

[saint-ambrosef]

the ONLY addition to this post i accept

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

whatever their procreation status, if you can immediately think up a joke or comment… they HAVE heard it before so you CAN zip your lip THANK you.

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[thegreenaper]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[shaftking]

So can we be so fucking serious about the literacy crisis yet or are y’all still pretending that it’s just exaggeration that there’s a massive systemic issue where parents and educators have catastrophically failed a generation by passing them through school when they literally can’t do basic reading and math.

[mrbossguy-tenbillion]

its almost impossible to name an area in which there ISNT a crisis!

[shaftking]

Don’t get blackpilled! Mississippi used to rank second lowest in the country in their student literacy, but after changing their policy in education back to phonics they jumped all the way up to the top ten. This is a problem with a solution but it takes work and time.

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

1. Teach phonics. Stop the 3 cueing/whole word approach to reading

2. Have kids read whole books, not just excerpts

Thats literally all there is to it

[witch-hattery]

Phonics is real reading, because written language is at its core a translation of spoken language. It can diverge, which is its own problem to work on, but the point is that cueing is a set of tricks to fake reading ability.

I wish I could find the article or whatever, but there was an anecdote from someone who struggled with reading as a child, came up with ways to make it look like they could read until they got good at it for real, but then when they had a kid, they discovered that children were being taught to "read" using the same tricks they were using to fake-read.

The main reason getting rid of cueing is so hard is because it looks like fast learning on the surface. Politicians loved the metrics, and personally recommended cueing, so to switch back to phonics, we need to get politicians to admit they were wrong. Which means we have to wait for all of them to die.

[bruzum]

[sacred-portal]

[tangledbeast]

If it makes you feel any better, he hated it too.

[gayserblast]

This is the funniest and saddest sentence I've read all week

[lordascapelion]

Yeah but it lead to Weird Al’s Tacky which is a phenomenal work of art so don’t feel down Pharrell

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

Everytime this gets a note when its nowhere near christmas I question my sanity just a little bit more

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

No, it is July, stop that, stop giving this notes, you guys have lost reblogging privileges

[unyieldingsilence]

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[gsirvitor]

OP blocked me for saying this, but I'll say it again here, this isn't even a joke, he actually says this in the movie.

[ultramaga]

"We appear to be going on some sort of Odyssey!"

[mademoiseli]

May the Lord bless you and keep you

[tornadointhetundra]

May he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you

[scaremoonturkey]

May He turn His face toward you and give you peace.

[landmineblogging]

reblog to thank prev for being here

[ivy-michaels]

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Corset of Visibility

[obscurelocalstranger]

[introvertathome]

So, I'm rereading Project Hail Mary (shocker if you look at my blog at all, I know /s) and I'm dying because I completely forgot about the line of Grace talking about beating his kids parents with a sock of coins

To quote the book:

"Besides, if I had a nickel for every time I wanted to smack a kid's parents for not teaching them even the most basic things... well... I'd have enough nickels to put in a sock and smack those parents with it."

Grace is far from a pacifist y'all

[robovader]

"A Link to the Past" by PTIMM

[uncomfortablecliche]

hm i like this