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KSQUARE - Karadec’s last initial + his tendencies of rule following and being, well, square 😂 The letters are all straight lines, uniform size, and monochromatic. There are small white squares inside the letters and gray squares on the outside - NO other shapes. He's all about consistency and uniformity.

It's so interesting thinking about that line. Colin didn't have the urgency to kiss Marina even if he was a virgin in S1. If Colin really had the urgency to kiss her, he would have.

Then we get to Season 3 and Colin comes into town flirting with all these women publicly. When Penelope asks for one kiss he does it and even kisses her again unlike Marina when he stops himself. Colin also DOES CARE when Penelope has found feelings for another he is Extremely Jealous and completely loses himself. He also has no interest in flirting with women anymore they will walk up to him and try flirting but he just looks away. He will talk normally and give advice like "what gave you the courage to be so brave" but he is not flirting with them anymore. There is a stark difference infatuation and Love!

Un paywall academic journals and archives and turn universities into open archives of knowledge freely available to the public like libraries are.

Classes piecemeal and offered to the public, no application or transcript needed.

Safety training is done the way trade school does such things--if you mess up a practise weld, your trainer tells you how you messed up and you do it again and again and again until you get it right, BEFORE you are allowed to do it on a building or a bridge anywhere in the real world. Because the important thing is you learning how to do it properly and safely.

No homework. It doesn't help.

Montessori training for all teachers so they don't fucking abuse the students, as "traditional" teachers are trained to do.

Dismantle No Child Left Behind and tying school funding to test results, attendance, or zip code. The only thing school funding should be tied to is probably census data i.e. population count or something unbiased like that. Someone smarter than me about this probably has ideas.

No rushing through everything and leaving students behind who don't keep up, or don't learn the first way you teach. Learn how to teach EVERYONE.

Smaller class sizes, I'm talking no more than 15 students per teacher for the important stuff like safety training

Destroy the abusive toxic culture in medical school I'm not fucking kidding that is KILLING people.

Ditto law school.

Why are we doing this Protestant Work Yourself To Death Ethic it is 2026 move ON i don't have time for this christian nonsense.

Stop having everything be paperless and online. Not everyone has access to the internet or a smartphone. Part of making things accessible and unpaywalling them is BRINGING BACK PRINTED BOOKS AND REFERENCE MATERIALS.

When I first moved to Prague I had a colleague who had such great style, and I always complimented her because I thought she was hot and cool. Years later when we were friends, she told me that she always suspected me of trying to manipulate her somehow because that is not how Czechs roll, and it was really inconceivable to her that I was simply complimenting her with no ulterior motive, but that's culturally normal to me?

Also, I am married to a British person, and his mother is an artist -- she's a collograph print-maker, and she told me that whenever she wants a pick me up, she sends photos of her latest prints to me, because I can be counted upon to say something nice. What can I say? I love her work? Her prints are beautiful, so...not faking?

And he was like...are all of you like that? You say nice things to total strangers as if you're life-long friends??

And the entire comment section was like: Yup. Absolutely. This is 100% a thing we do.

And someone looked up a picture of the backpack and shared it and we were all like OMG THAT IS AN AMAZING BACKPACK yeah if I saw someone in any city on earth wearing that thing I would in fact say something.

Sometimes posts on that subreddit are a trash fire, but we were all so happy to talk about times we've told strangers compliments or been complimented by strangers.

That woman never gendered me right once, but she shut up about Jesus long enough to feed people next to us bc she cared more about action than ideology. She also had a whole network of other church people who helped contribute $ to ingredients. We provided more and better meals together than in our "correct" silos

I've been so much happier since then, and especially since starting HRT. Yeah, there are new struggles and anxieties and problems to adapt to, but I'm also learning how to enjoy life and find myself and love myself, and it's definitely worth it.

Over the past year I've laughed and cried and been able to look at myself in the mirror and selfies and enjoy what I look like. I've felt more comfortable with my body, and worn outfits and accessories that I've been daydreaming about for over a decade. I've felt pretty, which was not something that I thought was possible.