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Here some ducks dancing salsa. Turn on the sound
Conga_Gloria Estefan
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"In her book "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys", Lucy Neville argues that male-male erotica, Boys Love, slashfic, yaoi are very popular among women in part because they make more space for versatility and fluidity than heterosexual conventions will allow.
If women were submissive by nature, why would they sexually identify with men to this extent?"
Source: Twilight | ContraPoints
But we don't need 3 hours to discuss this. This message needs to be way more accessible and 3 hours isn't accessible, bruv. Could I do it? Absolutely. I just don't have that big of an audience. Foz Meadows does it on TikTok in under 10 minutes.
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im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged
the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.
“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless
Reblogged galwednesday
Reblogged winter-seance
And we didn't stop for a second to say, "What the hell?"
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Source: minne.com
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When Large Bastard and I went to go pick up my weight bench we found a store that sells used hardware by the pound and in the 18 years that we've been together I've never seen him as excited to go into a shop. We got up to the counter and he said "I'm definitely coming back with my calipers" and the guy at the register pulled out a *really nice* set of calipers and said "here, you can use the loaner" and I think that's when large bastard decided this was the only place he wants to buy tools ever again.
Reblogged keire-ke
Putting your vampire fuckbuddy into the sauna to reach normal body temp before sex so their ice cold hole doesn't kill your boner
Glad yall are vibing with my very important thoughts on the undead
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seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.
very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.
they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.
mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.
sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.
these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.
i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.
what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.
they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???
THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!
it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just
ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.
kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.
I have been actively fighting this problem in education for over a decade. I work as an elementary school assistant. Every year, I point out the kids’ skill gaps to their teachers and beg them to teach the kids how technology works. All but one of those teachers has scoffed and insisted that the kids will magically figure it out, and/or that their middle/high school teachers will teach them those skills.
Meanwhile, they are already expecting the kids to write competently in google docs on their ipads in 3rd grade. One classroom had 6 keyboards, for the entire class to share. None of the kids actually knew how to type anyway. All they know is hunt-and-peck. Because nobody is teaching them at school, and most of them don’t have computers at home. They only have phones and ipads.
They can’t google how to do things because they have so little knowledge that they can’t even formulate the questions to ask. They have no idea how much they don’t know. They don’t know that it’s possible to center the alignment in a word document by clicking on a button, so it doesn’t even occur to them to ask how to do that. I have seen so many kids literally press the space bar over and over to center a title.
They are assigned email addresses but they are not allowed to use them, except to log in to whatever apps their class uses. Most of them don’t even know that their “username” is actually an email address. The teachers want them to make power point slides and videos, but don’t teach the kids how to do that. They just assume they already know. When they are 8 years old.
I have been screaming about this for so long and no one is listening. Its exhausting and frustrating. I have done my best to reach as many kids as I can, but I couldn’t get to all of them. Even if I could, it’s still a massive systemic problem.
And it’s only getting worse.
This is wild. I'm 47 years old and I see my younger coworkers struggling where I am honestly the tech wizard around the lab.
My first career was in IT and I was 100% self taught. I was the tech lead on a help desk that supported 500,000 users.
And then there's the people I work with... I had a coworker who was in her early 20s who didn't understand how to double click an icon on the desktop. It's completely and utterly baffling.