Slowly descending into hell

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[yumithedragongirl]

I love when corpses break in weird ways

[distractionsfromthefood]

[distractionsfromthefood]

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[muppetshow2026]

i genuinely feel like im being edged

[classycookiexo]

[kianamaiart]

[kianamaiart]

sun moon stars

[kayla-denker]

TME = cis men, cis women, trans men, transmasculine nonbinary people.

TMA = trans women, transfeminine nonbinary people.

Both categories include women and nonbinary people

Both categories include people with penises, and people with vaginas, and people with ambiguous genitals.

Both categories include intersex people.

TME includes cis and trans men.

Anyone claiming this is a binary is being disingenuous or willfully ignorant, which is honestly the same thing.

[kayla-denker]

This one's too good to leave in the notes:

[kayla-denker]

This isn't an identity. Its a shorthand way of referring to who is subjected to transmisogyny and who is not. It's not something we are imposing on people, we're describing how this transmisogynistic society is imposing or nit imposing transmisogyny on people. It doesn't care if you don't identify with fem or masc, it only cares about what you were compulsarily assigned at birth. People who aren't transitioning away from being compulsorily assigned "male" at birth are simply not subject to transmisogyny by this society. If they are trans, they're still subjected to transphobia, but not transmisogyny.

[msh2o2]

The TMA/TME divide amongst enbies describes predominantly how two people, despite neither being femme or masc, are treated completely differently based on their assigned gender at birth.

Enbies who are TMA literally cannot attend the same events that enbies who are TME can, even if their presentation is functionally identical. They are banned in big bold letters on adverts, and if they're discovered, they get thrown out and called a rapist as the door slams shut behind them.

TMA enbies are never allowed to divorce themselves from their gender assignment in societies eyes, they're never allowed to "just" be enbies, take it from someone who presented as agender for many years. The only people who took that in good faith were one (1) TME and I was dating her. Everyone else treated me like an intruder while actively bending over backwards to accommodate TME enbies.

[thememedaddy]

[the-final-sif]

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.

[straawberries]

can ppl pls reblog this version

[obsidian-flame]

Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[time-left-to-kill]

et tu brute?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

AGGGGHHHHHHHH SHARP AND POINTY

[annotated-dc]

Paramount Reportedly Considering Leaving California as State Readies Lawsuit Over Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

David Ellison's confidants are said to be urging him to relocate his corporate headquarters out of the state.

Oh, he's WORRIED worried about them looking into his finances, isn't he?

But again, this is also the man who has dodged every direct attempt to ask him questions about where the money is coming from and his plans or the company, up to his just sending a written response when they were holding hearings back when Netflix were interested and they asked him to come to explain his counter-offer.

Asking him directly leaves him open to possible perjury charges if they actually take him to court and make him answer their questions, among other things it seems, so they're advising he move the entire Paramount corporate offices out of state to avoid their jurisdiction.

[crinosg]

Oh yes, I'm sure that pulling up your entire studio, no wait scratch that, TWO studios, and moving away from what is widely considered the center of the movie and television world in the United States will work amazing for you.

Like, where does he plan to go? New York? It wont be any better here for you dude.

[espanolbot2]

New Jersey has been one suggestion, as apparently they are potentially building a studio lot there... Except like California and New York, the AG there is participating in the law suit, so that won't help them.

Maybe the plan to move to Texas, like many Californians wishing to avoid taxes and regulations, but that seems like a non-starter too.

[crinosg]

I mean, even if he does find a place to hang his hat that will welcome him with open arms, he's moving away from where all the talent is. All t he actors, all the writers and directors. Does he seriously expect people to come to him? Especially since most of Hollywood hates his guts anyway because they know he just wants WB to pick it apart.

[espanolbot2]

In all honesty he sees like the kind of guy who is used to just getting what he wants because his dad's a billionaire too (hence his bidding for WBD ten times and getting his dad's friend Trump to lean on Netflix to drop out to finally force a deal through), I don't think the idea the writers, actors, production folk etc not wanting to move out of state to suit his whims occurred to him?

Plus he seems to cherrypick formerly successful people who feel out of favour with their more prominent gigs (for example, he sniped John Lasseter for a role leading Skydance-Paramount's animation department after Pixar let him go during the #MeToo period, as his reputation of inappropriately touching women was deemed secondary to his being the guy nominally behind Toy Story etc.). If the idea of the talent not wanting to move did crop up, presumably he thinks he can just hire Max Landis, the Kang guy etc. etc. in their stead.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Talentless braindead cunts whose work is utter fucking dogshit

Also lol "the Kang guy"

The guy who was such a fucking abysmal actor that everyone was laughing hysterically at the idea that this fucking loser was meant to be the next big bad of the MCU even before it turned out he was a violent fuckwit who beat the crap out of his partner

I guess that's the kind of level of "talent" you should expect this dumb cunt to be able to attract

For its part, Paramount has argued that the deal will boost competition in Hollywood, saying it’s necessary to compete against tech giants including Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

I don't want them to be able to compete

Ideally I'd like to see studios like Paramount go bankrupt :D

Hollywood had its time

Time for it to be replaced :D

[viralfrog]

[rae-xoxo00]

omg the girlies

[astra-the-dragon]

omg the girls are saviiiiiiiing wiiiildliiiiife

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Not all heroes wear capes. Or trousers.

[poppy-tarts-stuff]

Not leaving this in the tags

[asukam]

I saw this on insta and someone commented asking her how she knew they were in there and she said that she saw the mama duck with only one duckling and thought it was suspicious so she stopped to check and hear them quacking down there... :') <3

[uncomfortablecliche]

the way the momma duck sped up once she saw her babies yayyyy

[reasonsforhope]

For when you need a reminder that there really is goodness in the world

And for whenever someone mistakenly tells you that humans can only hurt nature -

We are part of nature. And we are uniquely equipped, in many ways, to help heal the planet we are part of - so long as we keep choosing to help, and to heal, this planet of which we are a part

[onbearfeet]

Happy Lindsey Graham death announcement weekend.

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.