#poorboi

[espato]

They are best friends and I'm sure they went for ice cream after the competition

[muppetminge]

gd i get so fucking angry when i see crying about "boys are doing worse in school :(" being pulled up to look like a huge problem. you're not upset about boys doing 'badly' - you're upset about girls doing well. blaming it on the school system is so funny because tell me how the school system is suddenly modelled after the girls when we weren't even allowed in when the basis of the current system was being created lmao.

the difference between average grade by sex is about the same as the regional/geographic difference and it's less than the difference sorted by race/ethnicity (not even to mention the socioeconomic differences), yet these aren't the differences creating headlines every year. why?

because you find girls doing well wrong, like it's upsetting the natural order. you're hanging on to this idea that girls are stupid, yet when you're proved wrong you refuse to accept it, hanging on to an excuse of systematic differences that have to be solved now, because won't somebody please think of the poor boys :(

so we're looking at averages. here's the thing: those are never going to level out. we're always going to see one group being above/below others. you're just upset it's not in the "right" order.

the difference is smaller than you'd think, by the way. when i was in high school (non-us system, meaning voluntary/different kinds of secondary) we were 70 percent women. you know what else? the girls, in general, were working fucking hard. every single grade point they fucking earned. there's this story of girls' grades being inflated due to this and that, but all i've seen is boys getting grades for doing less - because they're outnumbered, the poor things, so it's obviously the teacher's job to support them, right? right??

even in trade school where we were a handful of girls per year, i saw nothing but the girls putting in their all and the boys showing up. sometimes. if they felt like it.

but it's a systemic problem, right? how else would girls be doing well? we've got to solve this, lest the boys get their egoes wounded by not placing in their 'natural' position. gd forbid we end up with an overweight of women professionals.

[icouldhyperfixatehim]

happy to have an offgun sunday show back on the docket but i can already tell this series is going to put a bee in my bonnet every week about late stage capitalism foisting its cancer upon all workplace cultures and turning things like internships from learning and exploratory opportunities to build skills and discover interests in a field, to an expectation of free/low paid but inexplicably pre-skilled labour. do you think ye olde blacksmith's apprentice showed up to the first day of the apprenticeship and the blacksmith is like "what do you mean you don't know how to shoe a horse?? that's so basic" no. the expectation of apprenticeship is that a newborn emptyheaded youngin with a vague notion that metal is cool shows up, and is taught how to blacksmith. the expectation is not that the young savant of metalwork turns up with a list of horses already shoed, including One Very Special One in the Royal Stable, and god would you please please please allow me to debase myself for you, o blacksmith? my resumé is just like the journeyman's!! this workplace culture is a modern invention!! they used to teach you things at work!!

[breathing audibly] i just think entry level should mean entry level, and that as much effort goes into gathering experience that makes people competitively hire-able, ability, opportunity, and luck also play a role. it is lucky to know your passion early enough to be able to groom yourself to competitiveness in a sharky field of work, but a person should be able to turn up for entry level positions/interning with an unabashed "i know nothing" as long as it's followed with an "and i'm ready to learn" and it is in neoliberalism's favour to allow work environments to cut their costs by eschewing the responsibility to teach. to train the trainee.

[idasessions]

Missing the groupie sector of the classic rock fandom lately? Check out my recent piece on elusive, BFF groupies Kay Poorboy & Francine Brockey and their fascinating backstories over at my newsletter. 

[d1ology]

people oit there calling pbdio short abd saying hes 6 ft or something.. in my true vision he is 5'6. 5'8 if were being very generous

[cherryhrat]

poorboy for @conflictedkismet what a little guy

[musicmags]

[ryoki-ph]

oooough my stomach hurts because the part of my body the stomach is in is growing taller.. oughh

[k1spiegel]

Warmaster Seerus from Spiral Knights, if you remember that?

im so sorry i remember him From sk i just never did any of the dlc so hes just a misc big goblin in my mind

[gloriouszeta]

yes i think i’ll cry to elo until morning

[oddphotos362]

[rastronomicals]

November 2:

On this date in 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival released the band's album, Willy And The Poorboys.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Works Live, Emerson Lake & Palmer's album.

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Mutations, Beck's album.

On the 2nd of November, 1999, Duster laid upon us 1975, their EP.

[poorboypictures]

hhiii 📚??

That depends.

On Sketchbook, I used one (1) for line art and coloring and a second (2nd) for shading, and two extras for background and any shading on that, so between two (2) and four (4) layers.

Now that I have Clip Studio Paint, that has gone up to three (3) layers for line art, coloring, and shading, respectively, but still two (2) extra layers for the background.

[idasessions]

Kay Poorboy as seen in Pierre Adidge’s concert doc Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen, 1971

[milkpansa]

#POORBOY only friends the series (2023)

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Eldorado Overture • Can't Get It out of My Head • Boy Blue • Laredo Tornado • Poorboy (The Greenwood) • Mister Kingdom • Nobody's Child • Illusions in G Major • Eldorado • Eldorado Finale

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