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had a fun time at the Georgia Aquarium & natural science museum today !!!! had to buy a whale shark to take home with me :)

might've seen skunk ape's cousin.. idk...

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I absolutely didn't cover every possibility here but this is a Tumblr post and it's not that serious

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100% yeah to all that + It's sort of weird how whenever there's a tiny, completely negligible thing like this that pops up where like 0.000001% of the population thinks something silly, suddenly we're blaming the "american education system" as if there's one homogeneous way every school in the U.S. is.

There was never a "they just all stopped doing it". Some schools started teaching whole language in the 90s, and some taught phonics. Within the past few decades a lot schools have switched back and forth between them, or tried new methods entirely. I started Florida public school in the late 2000s and learned phonics because of "Just Read, Florida!". [Source] Somebody who started public school in 1990 in California probably learned whole language, since that's what was being taught statewide at the time. [Source]

So no, the "american education system" never "just kinda stopped doing phonics." There's so much more history and nuance to THAT conversation.

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

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you cannot simultaneously hold the opinions that every disability is secretly super common, and that disabilities that are common aren't real disabilities. do you people hear yourselves

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one of the pieces of widespread misinfo that kinda upsets me is how on any post mentioning baby powder there'll be comments like "baby powder has talc that causes cancer".

there's been a ton of studies that have noted the increase in cancer risk when using talc-based baby powder is negligible. TALC has never caused cancer. (and it's not in baby powder anymore anyways)

y'know what causes cancer? asbestos. y'know who KNEW their talc was contaminated with asbestos? Johnson & Johnson.

Y'know those commercials you'd see about how people with vaginal mesh were entitled to compensation? Yeah, blame Johnson & Johnson for that, because they were the ones who knew their implants were dangerous, and pushed them on consumers anyways.

They've also been HEAVILY sued for their part in the opiod crisis.

So yeah, baby powder is safe, but FUCK JOHNSON & JOHNSON. That company does nothing but lie and endanger people.

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I didn't style my hair for the 6, maybe 7 hour drive to Georgia, but idk the flat look is growing on me

shoutout to the girl who reacted by jumped up and down and squealing and complimenting me ^⌣⁠^

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I just....I just learned that there's a word in the English language...for when you run into someone to hug them with all the enthusiasm and strength you have....I learned that it's called glomp.

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love

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ⓘ You can Bite your Friends.

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Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That's irreversible

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sorry for the celebrity drama but i just do not care about jojo siwas rebrand. i didn't even know she had (supposedly) stolen a song until my friend explained it to me because all i saw were people going like "omg look at her CRINGE makeup!!!!!!!!!!!!"

like man. how many times does a child star have to go through this before we just learn to let them be cringe for a while. i do not care if this young queer girl, who has been screamed at by adults on television since she was like 7, then was the target of so much public mockery throughout her teens specifically focused on her being seen as annoying and stupid, is being cringe in public. becoming an adult is already hellish & having to do that when your entire identity has been a child friendly brand for your whole life? the only criticisms of her ive found at all interesting are like, how she is seemingly disconnected to past and present queer culture, how she and her mother treated their girl group dancers. but god if she wants to wear sparkly pseudogoth outfits and hump girls in a music video fucking Who Cares. "cringe culture is dead" was a fucking joke literally nothing has changed wrt how we as a society treat weirdness esp of queers, kids, and girls. "cringe" is not and will never be a good critique of anyone's behavior!!!!!!

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seeing all the posts about Watcher and how the CEO owns a Tesla therefore must be evil is actually pretty funny considering the princess of YouTube himself, Markiplier, also owns a Tesla, and he advertised his Tesla referral code to his fans

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watching the ~fanfiction girlies~ on tiktok shit on men who write/read fics because "it's always naruto cringe" is so fucking funny like. y'all are at the devil's sacrament together, babe. you're throwing stones in glass houses. your fanfiction is just as fucking cringe & awful. fanfiction is always cringe, and that's okay. but making fun of THEIR cringe because you think you're superior for reading Drarry on ao3....

straight and/or cis women are not the sole consumers and writers of fanfic, you need to kill that little gender essentialist in your head and go talk to some faggots

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not “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in you are not allowed to find genuine joy and form a true connection to fiction, but “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in, if it legitimately stresses you out and impacts your mood when things don’t happen exactly the way you want them to, and it causes you to lash out at other - real - people, maybe you need to take a massive step back.

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"rpf is fine" says the most rpf'd man on youtube

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okay my problem is that I started reading the Darkmourn series without knowing it's fairytale retellings and enjoyed the first one a lot and didn't even come CLOSE to making the connection that it's supposed to be a Beauty and The Beast retelling.

and then the 2nd book— idek what it's retelling, I didn't like it enough to really think about it 💀 I guess it's like Hades and Persephone but that also doesn't make sense?? because that's not like.. A Fairytale.

the 3rd book was nearly too overly Red Riding Hood for me. like it was a hysterical, entertaining book, but the references were fucking pushing it!

and now I'm like 60% done with book 4 and it's TOOOO MUCH. the Little Mermaid references have gone too far 😭 I'm still gonna finish the book, and honestly probably enjoy it more than I enjoyed book 2, but GODDDDDDD man. have a little bit of subtlety please, fuck

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I cannot express how jarring it was after being raised by a "Porn Addiction Coach" to get into a relationship with a woman and come face to face with the fact that she did actually want me to sexually desire her.

Like, in Evangelical Purity Culture, male desire was basically poison. It was a threat. It was this constant temptation that would destroy everything. And even after leaving, in the sort of queer, feminist spaces i spend most of my time in that wasn't something that pretty much anyone was spending time actively dissuading me from feeling.

But my desire is good. It's not something that I'm being accepted in spite of. It's a positive thing. It's a bonus. Not even just vanilla stuff, all the stuff I'd convinced myself were these weird terrible desires that were shameful to have.

It honestly took me over a decade to fully accept that. To stop dissociating during sex and confront that I was, in fact, being a massive perv and that was fantastic and preferable and that I could accept that into my self-image without shame or self hatred.

But it's important to do. It's important to leave relationships that don't welcome that part of you. To know that your sexuality is valuable and valid and worth owning and celebrating. Because the alternative is just...not being. Either existing as yourself and repressing the part of your identity that is sexual or allowing that sexuality to exist but turning off your self while it does.