#goddamn fucking pathetic

[nonconstories]

Someone pissed me off a couple of days ago

So! Below are several links to programs and foundations that promote adult literacy! Hundreds of millions of adults world wide were failed by their education system and now must fend for themselves while trying to read contracts and hospital bills and infographics from the CDC. But they don't have to be alone, and it is never too late to learn!

ProLiteracy: A network of educators, researchers, and advocates which provides research reports, learning materials, and other support to adult education programs. They assist with connecting volunteers to local programs and provide guidance and support to community leaders trying to use their programs' findings to advocate for social and political change.

Adult Literacy League: An adult education program in Central Florida, which aims to provide students with one on one attention to foster growth and confidence. It also offers English Second Language courses and job skills training, and each new student receives a comprehensive assessment to determine the best plan for them.

Saint Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center's Foundational Skills Program: A 100% free adult education program aimed at adults reading below a fifth grade level. It operates year round and is either in person or remote, and they now have a GED testing center that is open to students and the public alike.

Washtenaw Literacy: A free network of trained tutors for adults in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Adult Learning Program (Las Vegas/Clark County): Free education classes to those lacking a high school diploma, those seeking to learn ESL, and adults who read below an eighth grade level. Also assists in students' search for gainful employment. Nevada got so fucked by COVID and the education/literacy numbers in the South West are grim. Please help these guys.

Hawaii Literacy: In addition to helping adult residents of Hawaii Island learn to read and write AND bridging the education gap in Hawaii's underserved children, they offer computer literacy classes, ESL classes, and a bookmobile. 1 in 6 Hawaiian adults struggle to read and write.

[madootles]

a baby

[fraternum-momentum]

The Lord's Prayer.

damn that one ask got me reminiscing 😔

[fucksatan]

Thinking about a time I wrote a 7 paragraph long post analysing Walter and Skylar's relationship back in 2022 and somehow it got deleted and I was so devastated and I felt so silly and useless and I stopped posting altogether.

[theatre-artmuppet]

i’m going to hell for this

[razmerry]

Jack in 2003 vs Jack in 2022

[spotsupstuff]

Wait, so you mentioned a few times you've got Strong Feelings about 7RS, so uh. could you articulate those feelings please?

they are just so fuckin....

like aight my initial reactions to some of the broadcasts were this

(didn't have it figured out yet that Suns used they/them at that time)

because like lets set the setting for NSH here, alright? he has this friend he's been loving for who knows how fucking long. after all the Ancients left everybody was ought to feel lonely and thank the all good in this world he has probably found solace in this other iterator, Looks to the Moon. she means a lot to him. he wants her to be okay

so he tells this to this one other guy he's been talking with and also finding solace in. he tells them that he really cares for Moon, that they've been close, that he's so fucking scared right now for her because he just doesn't want her to be hurt. he cares for her to SUCH extent that he leaves behind his jokester shtick (and local therapist friend shtick, as per me headcanons and perception) and actually grows cold and actually kind of fucking bitey????

like in one broadcast i was marvelling over how healthy their communication actually seemed, next moment i know NSH is hammering it into Suns how much of a fucking idiot they are for all of this. the THERAPIST FRIEND goes OUT of his way to ATTACK HIS FRIEND (however subtly and verbally). that is INSANE to me, i'm often in the position of the therapist friend and it usually takes so much for me to actively attack and then give a cold shoulder to the bud???

and on top of all of this Suns goes ahead and call this entire dooming fucking situation a "SETBACK" to Pebbles' development into a satisfactory enough cynical person, i'm going to fucking throttle this toaster.

but at the other hand, despite all of this, Suns isn't necessarily a bad person! i'm not actually saying that nor i actually think that. they obviously care for people (Pebbles, Spear), but they are just so fucking emotionally stupid that they don't know how to go about it or they just really realize a thing much Later. they are slow as shit when it comes to processing emotions. they are analytical and very logic based, which isn't a bad thing but yanno! no matter how you are as a person you are still responsible how you are going to act towards the people around you. you are expected to Not Hurt others and such a thing as actually Hurting someone will not be accepted

low empathy or low sympathy or lack of experience with the emotional aspect of life does not equal or excuse being a shit person

again, but they do care. all of the iterators are fucked up by a religion taken to extremist reaches (as per my understanding of the lore and the RW world). so naturally, they are going to believe that sending step by step instructions on how to commit suicide is a good thing. so i don't actually blame them for that, even though it is horrifying when We look at it. it's how they showed that they care for this little pink fool. they tell him that everything is useless and they are fated to run in circles over and over again. that it is good to lose your ambitions and the fire of a fight in you. they truly think That is the best course of action one can take- the whole Society believes in that and because of That these helplessness inducing advices are signs of care and love

they want Pebbles to be happy. they want to lead him to safety and show him how things work. protect him from the tiring useless fight that is swimming against the stream of a river

and yet they are so cold and hurtful. Suns is a mess of opposites- the warm and kinder ones forced behind their Exact negatives

[lunacysuggestion]

i genuinely wish more people respected themselves holy shit

[blackvahana]

The observatory works on the principles that form the Sky Library, which is that the world is the Brain of God and as such every single thing that exists is already information in some form, active (consciousness), passive (matter), or a combination of or lack of both. Everything considered real is either/or/and.

Everything that happens is information, everything that has happened has been recorded. The past is traversible via going through the active state of what is considered passive state - metaphorically traversing ice through its simultaneous mirror as water since ice is water. Everything that's happening wants to be recorded, is being recorded. The Sky Library works on "mirrors" which work to collect as much information of everything there is through reflecting what is currently happening, and the currents of all states of information. By mirroring, you cut down immensely on the energy and processing time needed to record reality as well as processing mistakes.

The brain is a huge collection of translations, reality goes through hundreds if not thousands of digestive translating processes to get from Material to Experiential to Thought information. Even just looking at overarching stages, reality has to act, which then has to interact with the Perceiver's sense organ, which has to, like sound passes vibration, pass Chinese-whispers style reflections of the experience down every molecule, which passes it from nerve to brain, which processes it in regards to all various memories, instincts, and so on... At each and every stage experience is being translated into the state of the next thing down the chain, which leads to heavy biases. Think about damaged nerves, memories colouring receptivity, personality giving bias and so on. That's not even getting into the output process of experience to wordless thought to worded thought to expression.

The art of mirrors is always, always still a translation. Language and information is always about translation. The art of mirrors encourages reality to record itself, however, immediately reflecting experiences into perceivable instances of information. You need it be able to read (the) mirrors to get it right, but ultimately the art... extends outside of the more literal set of the Sky Library, though even those are far from literal.

The observatory is just in amongst the art of mirrors as a general, which is to say it's just based on the general principles of inserting mirrors into reality itself rather than going through the means of translating. Setting up a system of recording flows, celestial movements, etc, is slow, clunky, and inaccurate. It's like if a telescope bounced light around in French-horn-esque patterns, ridiculously overcomplicated and dares reality to lose information in the cracks of every single human mistake you make creating its necessarily perfect form.

The observatory is just... making reality write itself, simply put. Information surfaces from patterns, flows, underlying subtle elements. The observatory pulls those elements very gently as they're about to surface and encourages them in another direction. Mirrors reflect light, this is more about refraction, rewriting parts of the firmament over subtle reality which is it's refractive and scattering surface causing them to manifest into information in the various instruments present in the observatory.

[sanguinewolves]

i think there’s some thing wrong with meeee

[sodrippy]

⚡⚡⚡💥💥💥 NERVE PAIN BE UPON YE 💥💥💥⚡⚡⚡

[yanderepuck]

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[soupamor]

my dad was always just very insecure, he had the fantasy of getting rich and then having his eldest, his son. take over the company.. he worked hard for that dream. i don’t care about it either way. my brother is incompetent, he can hardly take care of himself. if anyone was going to take over it’d be me, but i bet he’ll hold onto it til he dies because he just can’t stomach the thought of me being better than him

[americannoteven]

Me deep down knowing that life is busy and my friends love me:

The depression in my silly lil brain: ooo they wanna abandon you they wanna ditch your ass sooooo bad

[mcalhenwrites]

I'm not going to pretend it doesn't make me angry that I spend months and years trying to peddle my work to make ends meet, that I spend so much time mentioning my books and comms and everything, and people ignore that consisently... But the moment I finally break under the hopelessness - when it's obvious that it's fucking futile, that almost no one deems my work good enough to share with anyone else - suddenly they're concerned and scolding me. I'm working several jobs, bathing, generally keeping things clean, and I do this with several health problems including chronic pain. I found out that one of my cysts is growing and I may need to have it surgically removed. Which means potentially missing work to recover. Which means more money I lose. I spend so much time crawling out of the hole and it goes ignored, but the moment I just give up bc I don't have any strength left, suddenly that's my fault and I'm mentally sick. And that kind of makes me wish my entire situation upon people, and when they whine that it's hard, well fuck you, you thought I could ace it so surely you can, babe! I hate being angry about this, but it's just so exhausting to tell people who accuse me of not trying that I HAVE I HAVE SO FUCKING HARD AND YOU DID NOT PAY ATTENTION THEN Or you know you're attempting to gaslight me by claiming I didn't try despite that I obviously have worked my ass off trying, and that's so much fucking worse

[sassyfever]

Every new chapter that comes out I'm beginning to love afo more and more