#idk what this means or if i do this but ig i'll just hold my phone with my pinky stuck out from now on?? 

Me: Oh, good thing I never-

this post is five years old and has been repeatedly debunked, why is this going around again

The post doesn't say anything about "changing the shape of your pinky". It says that holding your hand in this position for long periods of time can aggravate one of the three nerves that control the main motor functions of your hand. You are debunking something that this post never mentioned.

The worst types of cookbook:

#the overachiever: make this very time consuming ingredient from scratch even though it'll end up tasting worse than store bought

Grace explaining sheepishly to Eridian linguists that the reason he uses different pronouns for Rocky than for the rest of the population is that he reflexively defaulted to assigning Rocky the same grammatical and social gender that he himself uses, in a way that has historical precedent but in modern English is considered somewhat chauvinistic and backward, and he's not proud of it but also the habit is pretty deeply ingrained now and unless Rocky objects it's probably easier to just keep on as he has been...

Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.

Oh my god rip the saint helena earwig. It was once the worlds largest earwig

Reminds me of this photo “After the Destruction” that won teenager Andrea Dominizi Young Photographer of the Year with the NHM of London last year.

The LA Times has a handy interactive timeline map!

Actually, that's the wrong map for the gay hockey players!

“Dad, the spouse and I both have meetings at nine, could you take the lead on child supervision? Play some legos, watch some YouTube, maybe describe the uses of some of your tools?”

Kids today are dumb because we treat them like they're dumb. By fourth grade I was hand writing essays in an hour with my only allowed source being the dictionary. I memorized long passages and then was expected to repeat it verbatim for a grade. I was reading books and writing book reports with the minimum length being 250 pages. And I never assumed it was too hard or above my grade level. Never once did I consider my teacher was being too hard on me. Because guess what? I did it.

I don’t know. I think talking to some teachers about what they’re actually experiencing in classrooms right now would be good. Something is happening that is … not in their control. Yelling that they should teach them to have an attention span when they’re getting fired for not using packaged courses and are literally not being allowed to discipline kids or send them to the principal or detention … like if you haven’t been inside a school recently or haven’t been talking to teachers who are teaching right now, things are different. Kids are being given unmonitored ungated chromebooks and tablets that the teachers HAVE to use, and you aren’t allowed to fail them. How are you proposing to keep 30 kids from watching YouTube and playing minecraft and making tiktoks in that environment? Especially given the absolute disaster of a strategy that the current reading method. Look up the literacy crisis.

A friend of mine is a middle school teacher. He loves it. He lives for it. It’s his world.