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?

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

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.

Also a whole lot of people need it to hold down a job or stay in school regardless of reproductive risk: it offers menstrual control. It can be the difference between debilitating, bedbound periods and normal function. It’s medicine. It’s also very cheap to produce and returns soooo many thousands of dollars to the economy for every dollar it costs, so don’t let anyone make a false financial argument about it.

Extra bricks up for grabs -> 🧱🧱🧱🧱

(actually if anyone quotes this with a specific tag I will edit it on as a treat)

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They don’t look so good..

Biblical levels of greed btw

I think we can stop throwing bricks at them, the blorbo is DOWN.

ENOUGH

“Ooughh…”

YAY!! The loop has reset and the blorbo is once again safe from the horrors <3

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

Plus this one:

My wife told me this true story about how in her early 20s she was spending the night with her boyfriend, laying in his bed with him, in his childhood bedroom. She'd just met his parents earlier, they'd had a lovely evening, and were settling down to sleep.

That's when she heard voices.

Coming from his closet.

It sounded like a dinner party, with people laughing and talking over each other. The clinking of tableware on plates. She couldn't make out words but it was definitely loud enough to be distracting.

She shoved him awake and asked what the fuck was going on?? He blinks at her.

"You can hear that?"

Turns out, he'd grown up in that bedroom, listening to the ghosts in his closet having a dinner party every night. And convinced himself he was hallucinating it all.

Hey we're schizophrenic and while we do have some Scary TM hallucinations we also have ones like:

• Vaguely latin chanting, honestly very chill great ambiance for reading at home have admittedly triggered this on purpose once or twice because it actually tickles a sensory seeking part of our autism
• Music or a TV playing in other rooms
• Black dogs; not scary just inconvenient when we live with an actual black dog, because sometimes we think she is a hallucination and ignore her and then she steals our food
• The addition of sparkles or holographic effects to stuff, honestly the worst part of this is the disappointment when things don't look as cool without it
• The door being knocked on, props to the non hallucination dog here because she basically eliminates any confusion since she always barks at least once when someone does knock
• The colours of my clothes changing. Kind of annoying especially if we recently bought new clothes and can't remember what they're supposed to look like
• Seeing stuff in the wrong spot, so our backpack seemingly ontop of the fridge until we try to grab it or coffee beans in the shower
• People calling our name, our roommates will just message us to get our attention most times to get around this
• Ghosts but their chill. Like we get why it's freaky to other people but we started seeing them young and now they're just dudes and we hang out. When we shared a room with our sibling we used to tell them stories based on the ghosts we saw
• Sometimes we smell food cooking which honestly works in our favor since it usually reminds us to eat

Honestly there's probably a lot more little ones we're forgetting but when we say we hallucinate people have this idea that its always completely terrifying, and yeah there can be times when we get freaked out but mostly its just a little weird.

Also the ones that seem like they'd be freaky, like ghosts and black dogs, aren't actually that bad.

People in the notes are saying "You can!" referring just to the hospital visitation part, and sure (depending). But people should have access to ALL of the benefits of marriage without needing to be married.

You should be able to add anyone you want on your health insurance plan.

You should be able to sponsor the visa of anyone you choose to move to your home country.

You should be able to name anyone you choose as the legal-from-birth legal coparent of any child you give birth to.

You should be able to apply for student aid on your own at any age.

And yes, yes, ideally healthcare and college should be free, international migration should be unrestricted, and the entire concept of legal parenthood should be rewritten from the ground up. But right now we're talking about marriage benefits.

sometimes i complain about art but at least i don't have to know anything about good dialogue. god truly gives his hardest battles (figuring out plot threads and character development) to his strongest warriors (writers)

Love that the response to this post is either:

1. Writers and artists talking about how much they respect and admire each other
2. People who are both writers AND artists cying