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Skincare is fake the most effective shit for a Recurring Zit I've found is straight up just neosporin. Or antibiotic ointment of choice. You can just do first aid on your tiny infected wounds and it works

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Lately I've been obsessed with adding the franken- prefix to words. Sometimes people do this to denote, like, multiple things being stuck together. Frankenstyle. But I've been using this to mean like. Relating to frankenstein in any way. Like doing something frankenstyle is just shit victor frankenstein does

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knuckle tattoos that say MYFIN GERS

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Firefox is a gateway drug to realizing you can do whatever you want with computers. It starts with getting adblock and then you start thinking about what else is possible

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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

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Go Girls Go! | First Dyke March in Washington DC, 1993

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Happy Raturday morning!!! This is my lil outdoor void rat friend. She doesn't even know me, but I still love her.

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Things to Think About

Mouthwashing

A few tidbits regarding the fandom :

* To infantilize Anya is to characterize her entirely by and around her assault. I saw someone on Pinterest say, “I just can’t imagine an SA victim in a relationship,” in regard to Anya which is… just weird thing to say. And dehumanizing.

* Also infantilizing or treating disabled Curly like a “pet” is mad weirdo behavior.

* No, Curly being disabled is not “karma” for bad behavior. If karma existed in the Mouthwashing universe Jimmy would have died by a thousand paper cuts or been tortured in the far recesses of the galaxy for eternity.

* Anya expressed a degree of forgiveness towards Curly and that’s her decision to make. Not yours. Not mine. You can feel anyway you want about it. But at the end of the day it’s her trauma. Her decision.

* Shipping is shipping, fandom is fandom. You’re in fandom culture. You can feel however you want about the ships, just don’t be douchey. (Unless it’s Anya-Jimmy, you can be a little douchey.)

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this is the energy we will be bringing into 2025

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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Unintended consequence of creating my own Bill... He watches me draw now...

The Horrible Triangle in question:

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This is for all you ladies out there.

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do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

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they should invent making friendship bracelets for online friends

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Chat am I cooked?