Twilight System

hot flaming take i’m abt to slap you with: it’s not acceptable to punish children for their grades, no matter the circumstances.

lost a follower for this one!

I’ve heard of so many kids whose grades went bad for a long time, and it turned out that they needed glasses, or they had dyslexia, or ADHD, or they had graves disease, or they were being abused, or they had epilepsy and teachers were misinterpreting it as misbehavior. Lots of health issues can look like inattentiveness and forgetfulness. Bad grades are a sign of needing help. Punishing a kid wouldn’t help with any of those things. 

If my kid has three hours of homework a night, that extends their work day to ELEVEN FULL HOURS. That’s inhumane. If an adult told me they were working eleven-hour days, I’d give them my wife’s number and tell them how to start unionizing. Like????

fuck that. tbh i’m on my last year of high school and the stress levels of some of the kids in my class is horrid. a friend of mine had a breakdown in the bathroom one time because she didn’t get a chance to speak and explain her part on a class discussion and she’s up running for honor roll with a solid +3.5 ish GPA and dude, shitty doesn’t cover it. the pressure, the studying and work, the exams and tension and everything… y'all some of us students aren’t even bothering to cope healthly and turn to stupid stuff in order to forget the fact that we have three papers, two exams, and a fuck ton of homework every week or so, let’s not even touch the classes and how, if you have horrid social anxiety, you’re fucked three ways and begging to dig a hole, crawl in it, and sob in peace. (a.k.a. me)

And all of this under the pretense that they’re “preparing you for life/adulthood/a job”... Except as an adult I’ve only needed about 10-20% of what they’ve taught me, and I barely understand how to be an adult because they didn’t teach me what I needed most.

OHTHANKGOD

Also! if you genuinely thought you had something, but later realized that you don’t, that’s okay! You’re allowed to be mistaken!!

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

THANK YOU????? SO MUCH??????? WHAT THE FUCK SHSGSKDHKXC

@bigskydreaming this seems to be your kind of tea.

I could not reblog this fast enough 

Genuinely I enjoy criticisms of America as a nation for Obvious Reasons of Color but so many of y’all are just like “I hate Americans because they [something only white people do] [something only white people do] [something we’re forced to deal with due to our government] [something that even white Americans will mock you for doing] [something only rich people can afford to do] [movie trope] [something you would only bring up if you’re fatphobic] [something that Canada also does but hides behind the “we’re just super nice teehee” stereotype] [something that your country does but you recognize is not inherently the fault of all citizens] [literally just capitalism] [something you’ll only see in like, Maine] [something Americans complain about constantly] [movie trope] [something only white people do]”

I don’t want to be here so please don’t hate me for something I can’t currently change - Ash

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

THIS.

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

I’m in love with this post

Joke’s on them, I was already gay - Mortimer

We tried getting recognized for years before we had to quit due to a lot of personal and financial reasons and we were recognized professionally ONCE (The therapist we had right before we had to quit acknowledged us, sadly we had to leave before she would formally diagnose us.) It really sucks, especially since its pretty obvious at this point that we are a system. Plus, some of us read the DSM and actually put great time and effort into verifying our suspicions before claiming anything. Sometimes the lack of diagnosis isn’t for lack of trying. - Alex

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

And this is tiktok we need

75% of the time if something is paywalled, fucking around in developer mode looking for a link to the real thing or finding and deleting the content blocker works like a charm

also if ur lazy like me or just straight up cant figure out how to do this without deleting 90% of the page  theres this extention called Poper Blocker which not only.. blocks popups. but also has this thing called “Remove Overlay” when u right click which works a good 99% of the time in my experience in getting rid of paywalls.