One of the Riders

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.

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?

essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read

How dare you say we piss on the poor!

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

This is Peak Yuri media and I hope my beautiful feral daughters love each other forever

Alarm Off perfec t time for put lying in bed to t/hink! Inside very Quiet and Peace thoughts very productive put in Alarm Off. Put Thinking in Alarm Off time. no problems ever lying in bedd with alarm off because good Contemplation and Eyes Closed for difficult deep thoughts about day. alarmOff yes safe place to close eyes lie in bed can trust not to fall back asleep. friend bed

Whoever did the caps for this deserves an award

Can never not reblog this, a Scottish national treasure 😂

I IDed the song from the silent clicks as I scrolled passed. I am normal about Queen, I swear.

The smallest possible pile is four grains arranged in a pyramid. Three as a base with the fourth sitting atop. Three grains in close proximity may be referred to as a pile, but is is rhetorical. A three-grain matrix with no peak is a sub-pile. One grain is a speck. Two is technically a superspeck, but referring to a two-grain matrix as a speck is acceptable. Calling it a pile is incorrect.

Surely 2 as a base with a third resting on both would be a pile. If we're ignoring small grain on large grain.

there are two punchlines here, the first is predictable, the second really surprises you

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