#functional skills

[lacewise]

Growing up and escaping fundie-ism is wild (people should know I grew up indoctrinated in ultra fundamentalist Christianity, I think) because everyone is so obsessed with control and the world-ending that any functional skills outside of proselytizing are heavily discouraged (and, in some cases, effectively illegal).

So every year since I’ve left I get closer and closer to Mr. Darcy’s definition of ‘an accomplished woman’ but I get more and more likely to hit any man who talks to me like Proud!Darcy with a vase.

[ancientroyalblood]

Training for the Tactical Athlete: Strength and Conditioning

Tactical athletes—military personnel, first responders, and anyone whose job demands peak physical performance—require a unique approach to fitness. Their training goes beyond aesthetics or sports-specific goals; it’s about building strength, endurance, and resilience to tackle real-world challenges. Whether you’re breaching doors, carrying wounded comrades, or enduring grueling conditions, you…

[lead-academy]

Mastering ICT: Your Guide to Functional Skills Past Papers and Answers

The website lead-academy.org offers past papers for Functional Skills ICT, providing valuable practice and preparation for the test. It also provides information on topics, assessment structure, and question patterns, making it a valuable resource for developing practical computer skills and gaining a nationally recognized qualification in ICT. Here is my blog:https://lead-academy.org/blog/functional-skills-ict-past-papers/

[quadrantadvisor]

Even after learning their secret identities, the hero community always insisted that there was something inhuman about the bats. No one doubted that their intensive training had a lot to do with it, but it never quite explained how they could evade a Kryptonian's super senses, how they could melt into shadows, how they could function so long with little food, little rest, little oxygen if need be. Most people dismissed their uneasy feelings, but there was something strange about the bats, something uncanny, something that made them different from the arrows and other vanilla human members. And, slowly enough that no one really noticed, it was getting stronger.

Until one day, during a diplomatic meeting with the ruler of the Infinite Realms, when High King Phantom turned to Batman and his brood and literally brightened. "Oh! I didn't know you had liminal members!"

Or: through a variety of factors (proximity to death, their own death/near death experiences, exposure to the Lazarus Pits, the favor of Lady Gotham, immersion in Gotham's own cursed ambient ectoplasm, being a close knit group who continued to expose eachother, etc.) the batfamily have been becoming liminal/ecto-contaminated without noticing. The powers they're developing have been subtle, and align with the skills they expect to have, so no one brought it up when they started being able to hold their breath beyond human limitations, or got so sneaky that they literally seemed invisible, or had a lucky miss when they expected a bullet to go right through them. And they always exuded an unsettling aura of fear, so no one else thought anything was out of the ordinary either. By the time they meet Danny, Gotham counts as one of the most fiercely defended ghost haunts on the planet, with so many territorial liminals patrolling the streets.

[umblrspectrum]

part 4 of a lot funnier in my head than on paper

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Firefly AU: A ragtag crew.

[decarbry]

wow our teachers sure are spending a lot of time together lately

[somecunttookmyurl]

i'm not reblogging the whole post again but @zorilleerrant you are so real for this

[nyxi-pixie]

stormbringers fucking insane for using rimlaine as a contrast to skk. these two couldnt trust each other fully and rimbaud only believed he could help verlaine feel human, not truly be so, and still considered him Other, however much he believed them to be equals, verlaines humanity only existed in rimbauds eyes because he gave it to him. verlaines inability to accept his own humanity or even really that rimbauds feelings for him were genuine because he, alone, singular, monstrously set apart from humanity, should be incapable of receiving anything resembling affection or genuine understanding, such that it left him betraying his partner. and then they cannot exist as two beings working seamlessly together. rimbaud and verlaine in fact cannot exist as two beings at all, only as one conjoined entity. verlaine kept alive with rimbauds skill, and rimbaud, long dead and refusing that reality until he can find his partner, existing only as an extension of verlaine. while skk who do trust each other blindly, who do see humanity in each other enough to look past when they doubt it in themselves, who see humanity not as a defined be or be not, but as a set of values, as a do or do not. they are able to exist as one act in two parts. interdependent, always, even down to their skills, but still functioning as one unit in two separate cogs made to fit together.

[chaozfantazy]

I need to shoutout the Chance player who shot his flintlock at me (Telamon) because I walked up behind him and scared him apparently

[idlestories]

hilary mantel, wolf hall // merlin

[lead-academy]

Functional Skills vs GCSEs: Understanding the Key Differences

Functional Skills are not the same as GCSEs, but they are equivalent qualifications in English and Math. They focus on practical skills and application, offering an alternative pathway for those who prefer a more hands-on approach to learning. Here is my blog:https://lead-academy.org/blog/does-functional-skills-count-as-a-gcse/

[factual-flittermouse]

Autistic people are often portrayed as being really genuine and kind and brilliant, but I would like to clarify that some of us are idiots who don’t understand people and just want to vibe with our 53 unfinished projects and maybe a cat

[metanarrates]

it's nice that the genre framework of a mass-produced action novel tend to gamify empathy, isn't it? makes human interaction so easy to understand. if you choose an incarnation to raise, you can see your understanding of them increase, and watch their power levels grow as their bonds with others increase. save a person, and they are in your debt. play on their traumas you already understand, and you can earn their loyalty. this action earns you an ally, this one an enemy. human hearts reduced down to words on a page, skills, stats, bonds, understanding that can be used to borrow their skills.

makes it simple for kim dokja, a man who has next to no practical experience with deep human bonds, to comprehend how people work, doesn't it?

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

What would it be like if people in your community looked out for you?

What would it look like if people outside your most-texted friends and closest family knew you and were invested in your wellbeing and were willing to make deliberate effort to contribute to it?

What would a healthy supportive community, full of a wide variety of people who aren't all necessarily friends, look like?

What would make your community more like that?

What structures or opportunities already exist that might enable that? Are they sufficient? Why or why not? If you don't know what kinds of organizations etc exist in your community, how could you find out? If they aren't sufficient, what could you do to contribute or create new opportunities for relating with each other?

What barriers interrupt opportunities for healthy connection and support in your community? What would effectively addressing those barriers look like?

What would be the easiest possible first step that one busy person could take to start to make your community more connected? Can you think of anything that you personally could do?

What kinds of skills or ideas would be necessary that you can't provide? How could you find people with those kinds of skills or ideas who are also interested in community care and who might be willing to work together?

You're probably marginalized by at least one form of oppression. Most people are. You're probably busy and tired. Most people are. What would make it possible for you to contribute anyway? What would make it possible for other busy tired people to contribute?

If you want your community to care for you—if you need that, as I'm convinced all people do—you might have to figure out how to care for your community first. If you wanted that, how would you start?

[lareanzo]

Seeing people's opinions on ABA here and everything they say is so far removed from everything I'm learning in my classes and seeing from people in the field that I've come to the conclusion that either no one on this site actually knows what ABA *is*, they think it's still the same as it was back in the 60s, or behaviour analysts in the US don't abide by the ethical code like they're supposed to.

Knowing the US, I would genuinely believe any of these.

Cause wdym ABA is just "teaching people to mask" or "teaching people to not be autistic". We are EXPLICITLY TOLD that we CANNOT touch a behaviour unless it's socially significant - i.e., it causes harm to the person doing it or those around them, or it severely limits the person's ability to access supports necessary for their quality of life. No one is out here taking children and forcing them not to stim - and if they are, its a massive breach of the ethical code and you can legally report them to the board of ethics.

And don't get me fucking started on what some of you think a punishment procedure is. You'd need to go through every other possible intervention before even THINKING of starting one, and even then you'd need multiple supervisors, a gigantic stack of paperwork, EXTENSIVE communication with and consent from the client, and One Million safety measures before you could even get permission to tell a client "no, don't do that", or remove their access to television - which, by the way, is about as extreme as the "punishments" get.

Do remember that it's called a "punishment" in the scientific sense - a consequence that reduces the likelihood of a behaviour reoccuring - NOT in the typical sense. A high five could be a punishment to someone. So could a compliment.

Even when a client literally tries to STAB you you have to use the least invasive and least restrictive safety measure possible, you can't just lock them up and you CERTAINLY can't sedate them unless it is literally your only option.

So either y'all have never actually interacted with actual ABA and are just repeating stuff you read online, or you've had the misfortune of meeting an incompetent or unethical practitioner (which, seeing how "Behaviour Analyst" wasn't a protected term until THIS YEAR, and ANYONE could claim to be one, is very possible).

Or maybe the field itself is full of incompetent and unethical and ignorant practitioners! From the US, that wouldn't surprise me.

But ABA itself (and it's derivatives, like IBI) are EXTREMELY useful and effective tools for helping people of all kinds learn the skills they need to lead better lives. Maybe it's not right for everyone - few things are - but the incessant demonization and unwillingness to actually DISCUSS, instead of just throwing around misinformation and fearmongering, is both unproductive and actively damaging people's ability to access supports they might actually benefit from.

And this is coming from someone who used to have the same opinion of ABA, btw.