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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, i.e. “choosing what to ignore, learning how to resist low-quality and misleading but cognitively attractive information, and deciding where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities”.

This article is good but a bit dense, so here’s a quick and dirty summary.

Distracting and Low-Quality Information

Targeted Outcomes : Better Self-Control, Reduced Screen Time, Improved Well-Being

Behavioral and Cognitive Strategies for Critical Ignoring: Self-Nudging

False and Misleading Information

Targeted Outcomes: Improved Judgements of Information’s Credibility

Behavioral and Cognitive Strategies for Critical Ignoring: Lateral Reading

Trolls and Malicious Actors

Targeted Outcomes: Minimization of Online Harm and Negative Experiences Behavioral and Cognitive Strategies for Critical Ignoring: Do-Not-Feed-the- Trolls Heuristic

Lightly edited quotes I found interesting/useful, comments in square brackets are from me:

why does tumblr have reels now

why does every app need to have a tiktok feature

I dont come to tumblr for videos, I come to tumblr to see my mutuals post gay shit from things I don't even care about

sorry for being indecisive, I haven’t had any prophetic dreams to guide me in a while

someone is on my blog on their wii that is dedication right there

2013 was a simpler time

Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Don’t put no hate and resentment, and try to — “oh Imma fucking show them, Imma show” — FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They don’t matter! They NEVER mattered.

This one really does just gain momentum with every new word, huh?

cis men will oftentimes go off about "the male struggle" or "men's problems (which are worse than women's!!)" but like literally all of the time that they complain about that, they're literally just complaining about gender roles and gender expectations

"men have to provide for their family!!"

women can do that too

"no, it's expected of men to financially provide for the family!!"

that is a gender expectation based upon a social construct, which originally stemmed from misogyny in the first place

"no one cares about men's feelings and thinks they should be emotionless!"

gender expectation again. you don't have to do this or be around people who enforce this.

"men are expected to do all the hard shit for the family, to do all the unpleasant work, do all the hard labor!"

women are capable of all that too. and like you don't have to do that and also don't have to be around people that force you to do that.

like for real any man who says men have it worse than women are really just mad at gender roles and gender expectations and tbh intersectional feminism would solve like the majority of their problems

like i've literally seen takes by "traditionalists" that are like "i want a woman who fulfills her gender roles so perfectly that it makes my gender roles (WHICH I HATE AND SUFFER FROM AND WHICH ARE KILLING ME ON THE INSIDE) easier" like bro listen to the feminists and transgenders you literally do not have to do this

well maybe my path to getting revenge wouldn't be so bloody and destructive if people didn't keep getting in my way to lecture me about how bloody and destructive a path it is

you take up a sword to kill one guy and suddenly everyone thinks it's a smart idea to get on your nerves. come on people.

CHAPPELL ROAN covering "Dreams" by The Cranberries, February 13, 2018 (via Instagram)

I will always stand by the fact that, despite Katara being wrong in saying "Then you didn't love her like I did" to Sokka, her words hold a fragment of truth, and her anger has very justified and understandable reasons to exist in ways Sokka could not understand.

Her experiences after her mother died and what that meant to her were a lot more personal than just her mother passing tragically. She literally had to become a mother to Sokka because of the empty void her mother's death left in the family, and her mother died specifically to protect HER. She looked her mother's killer dead in the eye right before he killed her.

Sokka had Katara to comfort him after their mother's passing, but no one comforted Katara. There was no closure for Katara in any capacity leading her deep hatred for the fire nation and the man who killed her mother to fester in her for years under her maternal personality.

Ultimately, Katara's good heart shown through in the end because she didn't kill the man despite having every reason to. She just needed closure, not forgiveness.

Also she was reacting to Sokka specifically saying "she was my mother too, but I think Aang might be right" in response to Aang saying Katara was acting like Jet. Just because they both lost Kya doesn't mean Sokka has a right to tell Katara that wanting justice for her murder is the same as harming innocents, and it objectively is not the same. If Katara was wrong, then Sokka was also wrong. If Katara was angry, it was because she was provoked.

There's also the fact that Katara spends the entirety of the series being everybody's constant emotional support. She's always willing to offer everyone her compassion and understanding, even the enemy (Zuko in the catacombs). Yet here it is, the one (1) time she needs it back, as the loss of her mother is an unhealed wound that shaped her entire life, and neither her best friend nor her very own brother are willing to offer her even an ounce of the same empathy she's always been giving them.

And not only they refuse her that, they also show that they don't trust her to make her own choices. Aang especially immediately judges her and assumes what she's going to do because she's angry, and Sokka ends up backing him up.

To add insult to injury, the only person who defends her right to closure, whatever it might entail, is Zuko, somebody she still hasn't forgiven by that point. Not the people closest to her that she's always treated with love and kindness, but somebody she's still (understandably) mad at, and has been treating coldly (again, fair) since he joined the group. And he never tells her what to do - he respects and trusts her enough to let her make her own choices. Who knows better what would give Katara the closure than Katara?

Well, according to Aang or Sokka, them, apparently.

I understand the general "your loved one is about to do something they might regret, so you're stepping in", but that's not how it looks here, because their attempts to empathize with Katara are lackluster at best. They seem far more concerned with what she's going to do than how she feels.

It's really no wonder she snaps.

Republicans are creating the worst timeline.

So much for the "government shouldn't pick winners and losers' conservative bullshit.

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”

But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.

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tumblr user walking into a forest that got cut down and then replanted like 50 years ago: omg... the fae... the old gods...