let's up the ante!

My kids are in 5th and 6th grade. They’ve never even seen a fingering chart. The 6th grader is expected to do nearly all of his schoolwork on a computer, and he doesn’t even know the term “home row”. I don’t know how they expect them to excel without giving them the skills they need to use the tools they have to use.

Typing classes were only availble to those taking the secretarial class, which was not open to boys.

It should be noted that there is a distinction between typing as it used to mean and word processing. Typewriters were unforgiving machines, not only could you not cut, paste or delete (for obvious reasons) so your spelling had to be very, VERY good, but the legibiity of each letter produced depended on how hard you hit the key (unless you went to a fancy school which had electric typewriters, which were not the norm).

Those of us who were subversive enough to learn keybaord skills through computing had a MUCH easier time of it. Though it was often offset by the shitty keyboards some computers had, and YES, I’m calling you out ZX81!

If you can’t see any depth to those keys, you are correct, they have none because the ZX81 keyboard was a damned membrane!

But believe me, if you could learn to typeat a decent speed on of these, then NOTHING could stop you, expcet for the fact that the odds were good you were typing faster than it could process input.

It’s successor, the ZX Spectrum had spongey keys, which whilst not great, were better than nothing.

it was one of the two most valuable classes I took in K-12.

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Is it so wrong to know girls who are slimes? Is it cruel to befriend sentient ooze? Is it incorrect to take alil nibble out of- ahem

Had an awesome time at Anthrocon 2026! My first non-anime con and it was a blast (even if the weather was horrendous)

first attack of the year! i definitely could've done better but i've been a bit sick :(

One way I put this into practice when I sub is to explicitly talk about how I handle it when people hurt me. (Honestly, this conversation has usually happened weeks before the sex, because I only really do kink that intense with people I already have mutual trust with.) My thoughts on this are way too detailed for a tumblr post, but the executive summary is that I'm extremely future-focused and take 'finite consequence for finite harm' very seriously.

I have had a (yes, trans woman) domme with whom I previously had that kind of conversation get carried away and cross a hard limit before. (I'm being deliberately nonspecific, but suffice to say it's a limit that's in 'extremely easy to exile someone over breaking' territory.)

We talked about it after the scene. She apologized (important) and then was very invested in hearing how I felt and meeting my needs (even more important.) I chose not to red during the scene, which is absolutely my choice to make either way as the person having an expressed limit broken. But I also admitted to how that choice not to red increased her risk of being unable to make amends - e.g. if I had completely dissociated as a result, it could have left very deep wounds.

She took responsibility for hurting me, and I admitted that while I did nothing ethically wrong, my freeze response did make things worse. This process was very obviously painful for her; she was clearly scared. Enduring that heavy discomfort without avoiding her responsibility was, itself, a consequence for her actions.

I told her explicitly that I was satisfied with her apology and amends, and would make no further fuss about it, and I meant that. I did not pretend I was unable to do immense retributive harm to her, as that would be a complete lie. I acknowledged that capability, then said "I promise not to use that tool over this incident, because we're square." The fact that she has to trust me to keep that promise is, again, a pretty significant consequence for her actions; I'm pretty committed to keeping it, but she doesn't live in my brain, she can't know that for sure.

I can speak.

I can hear.

I can see.

Who are you?

I am you.

I can jump.

I can swim.

This is fun.

I am you.

You are me.

Who are we?

Who are you?

I am Sylvia.

I am Sylvia.

I am Sylvia.

I am Sylvia.

I am Sylvia.

I am Sylvia.

You are Sylvia?