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Reading Comprehension/Effort

https://youtube.com/shorts/t0QqrgWVvWw?si=VDWN6M2PGHheJuuv i feel like something needs to be said about the lack of reading comprehension in majority of people these days; but there also seems to be an even larger issue with 'reading effort' in the first place.

Im gonna be 'old man yelling at cloud' here for a moment, but I agree with piratesoftware on the problem with shorts and short-form content. For clarification: his position is that shorts should not be their own content, that shorts should in-fact be a 'cold open', a starting of a conversation to entice people into the longer form of content about that subject. His reasoning? Shorts don't allow for context, and majority of discussions and issues require context, and as such shorts provide an innacurate view of any and all subjects they discuss regardless of topic because they physically do not have the space to explain nuance. So he doesnt use his shorts for pithy gotcha shit, he uses it to entice people into longer videos of said subject where he can actually discuss the topic in proper depth.

But now, people are so horrendously addicted to immediate easy to consume dopamine content in shorts and tiktok and all that shit, that it's legitimately destroying their attention spans and not just fucking with their reading comprehension, but actively negating their ability to engage with ANY media in ANY capacity in the first place.

Guys... please... ACTUALLY ENGAGE IN FUCKING MEDIA.

You use the arts to mindlessly dissasociate but there won't be any of the arts left if you don't engage in it.

And maybe, just maybe, if you try engaging in the arts with some level of good faith, maybe you'll stop dissaociating when doing so and actually finding nuance, philosophy, and expanding your mind and education a little.

Grow up and stop expecting dopamine to be flooding your veins within the first 30 seconds.

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My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

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Lilo and Stitch.

mine is definitely either metropolis, twister, the good dinosaur, or nosferatu

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Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

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Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

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I'm not like Mad at anyone who does this and I'm obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it's always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I'm just the guy who wrote the thing.

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TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT

1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.

2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.

3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.

4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.

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𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒

your anxiety is lying to you and your

inner critic isn’t telling you the full story

𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒ 𓍯𓂃 ⭒

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A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

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