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People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
This brought to you by the chucklefucks behind me at the Nutcracker who felt the need to explain the plot of the Nutcracker to everyone present as if it was their first day on Earth
I'm not sure we're ever gonna recover from COVID as a society until we start shaming people who talk at the theater again
December 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
This brought to you by the chucklefucks behind me at the Nutcracker who felt the need to explain the plot of the Nutcracker to everyone present as if it was their first day on Earth
I'm not sure we're ever gonna recover from COVID as a society until we start shaming people who talk at the theater again
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm not sure we're ever gonna recover from COVID as a society until we start shaming people who talk at the theater again
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder.
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Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
electronicintifada.net
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder.
electronicintifada.net/content/refa...
electronicintifada.net/content/refa...
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i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
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it's worse than that: the machines could crank out a larger volume of shittier cloth *and* didn't require a lot of training to operate
so instead of paying the same workers the same price for more cloth, they got a bunch of orphaned kids to work the machines
so instead of paying the same workers the same price for more cloth, they got a bunch of orphaned kids to work the machines
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
it's worse than that: the machines could crank out a larger volume of shittier cloth *and* didn't require a lot of training to operate
so instead of paying the same workers the same price for more cloth, they got a bunch of orphaned kids to work the machines
so instead of paying the same workers the same price for more cloth, they got a bunch of orphaned kids to work the machines
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Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss Press
A time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova!
"An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders
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December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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We publish many new & emerging authors; they deserve pro pay. Our First Readers write personalized comments in ALL replies; they deserve pay. If you read BCS & you're able to support, please consider it. If you have, THANK YOU. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... weightlessbooks.com/genre/fictio... 2/3
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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We publish many new & emerging authors; they deserve pro pay. Our First Readers write personalized comments in ALL replies; they deserve pay. If you read BCS & you're able to support, please consider it. If you have, THANK YOU. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... weightlessbooks.com/genre/fictio... 2/3
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Hi all,
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hi all,
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
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This is me politely asking you all to review this skeet and, as a result, think twice before engaging in "smell-this 'activism.'"
DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID
HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE
OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?
DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID
HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE
OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is me politely asking you all to review this skeet and, as a result, think twice before engaging in "smell-this 'activism.'"
DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID
HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE
OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?
DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID
HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE
OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?
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November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trans? Under 25? 🏳️⚧️
There's a few hours left to sign up for a free festive gift from our Trans Secret Santa community project 🎄🎁
Read more: www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/28/t...
Sign up here: www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
Registrations close just before midnight tonight ⌛
There's a few hours left to sign up for a free festive gift from our Trans Secret Santa community project 🎄🎁
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Sign up here: www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
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📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
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or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
artists and designers using ai like
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How we all create art and find meaning in it is as unique as a fingerprint.
In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness
In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How we all create art and find meaning in it is as unique as a fingerprint.
In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness
In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend