I'm not good at my job to make my bosses money
I'm good at my job so that I can say with absolutely no reservations "hey, you don't look well, why don't you head out early, I think I've got this handled" to my singular coworker at 2am on a weekend
I'm not good at my job to make my bosses money
I'm good at my job so that I can say with absolutely no reservations "hey, you don't look well, why don't you head out early, I think I've got this handled" to my singular coworker at 2am on a weekend
In the latest episode of Rite Gud, we talk to @ChrisBookishCauldron about how we read and why we read. What’s the point of reading when there are other ways of getting information? Does reading make you a better person? And why are so many Americans so bad at it?
y'all there is not a "what the fuck" big enough for what I read in this and am starting to hear in https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
I mean. This makes a lot of things I've seen around the internet make so much more sense, and also, how do we get out of this?
just in case anyone thinks the immediately above characterization must be overblown: readers are encouraged to intuit meaning for passages based on guess work instead of reading words and interpreting them
i could feel the blood draining out of my body. many of the teachers quoted here are effusive about how the system "felt" to them. phonics were bad because it "felt old fashioned." they wanted to believe in what they were being sold because it "felt" empowering and comfortable
fucking up decades of lives based on vibes, for profit: the american way
education has never been accessible to me, but having been in compulsory schooling around these times makes it easy to imagine many of my worst teachers were just going "thank god! this one can read" before ignoring me (and my many and obvious non-academic problems)
apm's 2019 article on this is well written, and therefore just really horrifying
actually it turns out it's @mogwai-poet who first drew my attention to this godawful shit. lord knows it's usually hard to get mad at really old people but the pictures of this ghastly asshole still puttering around on his mobility scooters and still writing books on this shit makes my blood boil. someone stop them
edit: lmao never mind, someone did
Kenneth Goodman (December 23, 1927 - March 12, 2020) was
Marimon! Marimon is a fishing-themed monster-catching setting inspired by GBC-era games, small toys, the gulf coast, and whatever else my brain distills into it. It was/is my main thing for a couple years now, though currently I'm taking a break from it.
In the past (by which I mean on twitter) I was always anxious about posting the full lineup of marimon designs together like this for fear of art theft by bots and whatnot. Buuuuut since cohost is a lot smaller and isn't riddled with bots, I figured I'd put em up here.
Which six would you have on your team? 👀
Don't think I posted about this here: on Saturday 12/17 (tomorrow!), I'm doing all-day streaming marathon to raise money for Trans Lifeline! For every $5 raised, I have to play one minute of Dizzy. We are already at over three hours of Dizzy. This is gonna be a mess. Please stop by and donate!