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the blogger formerly known as wugs (and briefly gagapine) chris, they/he, 24 sometimes pretends to be a real adult. lavender is love. nyu grad making dumb jokes and trying to survive. toss in an existential crisis or two and that's an average day in the life.

[wuqs]

[pallidprincess]

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

[pallidprincess]

[courier420]

garfield if he was an aisha

[zelitte]

you kids and your NFTs. back in my day, that meant "not for trade." we'd put that on our neopets' profiles so people wouldn't bother us about trading them away. and they did it anyway

[jesterjamz]

on a dark & stormy night, there was a creature . & you’re never going to beleive what it did next

[jesterjamz]

it creached

[lakemojave]

I would rather die serving cunt than die serving my country

[tallahasseemp3]

help

[effemimaniac]

sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions

[punkrock-bottom]

F*g is a slur and no amount of quirky posts is gonna make you cool for using it

You have rights because faggots and dykes fought for them. Respect that you cunt

[the-haiku-bot]

You have rights because

faggots and dykes fought for them.

Respect that you cunt

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

[siriosa]

oh haiku bot. i thought i couldn’t love you more

[fluffygif]

Amazing dominoes structure

[cricketoid]

god destroying the tower of babel

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there really is nothing more charming or telling about humanity than the amount of time and effort we’ll put into something just to see how cool it will look when we make it fall down 

[saint-ambrosef]

me: that’s a lot of….oh…OH

[wuqs]

i'm sad to report that winnie passed away today. i posted more about her on my twitter which is currently public.

twitter.com/vvugs

[wuqs]

Help Winnie Fight Her PPDH, organized by Chris Hyman

Hi, I'm Chris, Winnie's cat-dad. Winnie is a lovely, tenacious tabby cat who unfortunately… Chris Hyman needs your support for Help Win

hey tumblr friends, i know i haven't been here for a while, but i figure i should post this basically everywhere i can.

long story short, lots of bad news for my cat at the vet today. as much as it feels gross asking for help, the finances of this whole situation are pretty scary. signal boosts also appreciated

[funnytwittertweets]

[anexperimentallife]

So if you're Black and test positive for pot (NOT a performance enhancer), you're banned from the Olympics, but if you're white and test positive for actual stamina-enhancing drugs, you're still allowed to compete.

If you're a white man who naturally produces remarkably less lactic acid (the chemical that makes your muscles tired) than baseline, you're celebrated, but if you're a Black woman who naturally produces more testosterone than baseline, you're banned unless you agree to take performance-REDUCING drugs.

I lost most interest in the Olympics long ago, but it's interesting how many people (read: bigots) still try to pretend the Olympics committee doesn't intentionally try to prevent Black athletes from winning.

[hungwy]

200-page paper on language and thought just pulled this thing out. shouldve ended the paper there

[thespoonisvictory]

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

[thespoonisvictory]

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

[jabberwockypie]

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

[swordplease]

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

[memory--box]

to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game