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homeschooling in the US needs to be regulated but this is one of those conversations that immediately gets crushed by extremist conservatives and even well-meaning liberals will pipe up to be like "well some homeschooling is good!" when that's absolutely not relevant. regulation will not change anything for the homeschooling families who are serious about their children's education. the people who need to be regulated are the fringe extremists

#as someone who was homeschooled? it should be illegal. #the closest i will accept is remote learning still taught by accredited teachers and with oversight #that's fine - that's a good way to handle students who absolutely can't be in the classroom for some legitimate reason #but you should not fucking be allowed to take your kid out of the social web and be their only source of information like that #my mom had good intentions and it fucked me up in ways I will likely never fully recover from. #I met a lot of other homeschoolers who were in straight up cultlike environments if not outright cults #I have cousins who were on paper being homeschooled in reality dropouts in all but name by no choice or action of their own #I have never met a homeschool student who is actually the better for it. #The 'good ones' I've seen propped up as examples are all just kids who got into colleges really young but didn't know how to be people #because they lived in social isolation with nothing to do but escape into study and homework

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(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#oh making the bed - easy #i actually hate the bed being 'made' it fucks with my nestlike tendencies so I'd be more upset if it did constantly make itself #now this is a situation where every necessary chore I hate is pre-done and the chore I don't want done at all is free to ignore

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in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

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U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

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Somehow, finding a dead body on the beach isn't the worst part of Molly's day. Can she escape a candy-coated wonderland? This two hour audiobook preview contains the first six of seventeen chapters from "Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic," available now in book stores everywhere.

The first six chapters of the Prison of Plastic audiobook are going up on YouTube LIVE in just a few hours! Join the Premiere and listen along with your fellow!

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#hi hello hey I know I'm pushing a lot of weird niche stuff I like at yall lately (play in stars and time) #hypothetical people who follow me and like to read my tags essays #well I'm gonna do it again - Epithet Erased is really fuckin good and one of my favorite indie projects and I love it so much #Do you wish kid characters were better written? Do you want interesting magic systems that prioritize creativity? #Do you want found family? Charming dialogue? The weirdest most specific style of describing a thing you've ever heard? Anticapitalism? #Epithet Erased!! #It does have a season of a show with a unique limited animation style but if that's not for you good news you don't need to watch it first #it's on its way to a novelization and the start of this book gives you the run down anyway #(but you should also watch the show pls is very good and on this youtube channel for free also as well) #TRY IT TRY IT TRY IT TRY IT and then come talk to me i want to talk about how mad i am that i think naven's kinda hot

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There's a Round1 location right by where I work, so sometimes I like to stop in there and let off some steam after work. Not too long ago I was trying to go in and I got carded. Turns out they had changed the policy, and now people under 18 aren't allowed into an arcade without an adult with them, but only after 5pm on weekdays. So basically if a bunch of teenagers want to hop a bus or one of them has a license to get to the arcade after school, they're shit out of luck if none of them happen to be 18 yet. But if they skip school, they can get in no problem? What? I'm still so mad about it, it's not like there's even anything to do at a Round1 for free, it's a paid location anyway and they're still not allowed to just be there.

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DO NOT REPOST THANK YOU

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye

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Again no artificer because of options limit

#that's so hard to choose man #I mean Artificer for sure I want Artificer to be good so badly but it's so kneecapped from the get and only has *one* viable subclass #God help you if you wanted to be an alchemist it fuckin sucks hope you like not being able to do anything #I personally hate the way Warlock does spells. It's confusing that it's completely different from every single other casting class. #and I don't like that it gives you no option to pull your punches. sometimes lower level casting is still useful at higher levels. #But I think that's my biases at play - it's not good for how I play #More objectively? It might be Cleric. Which is my go-to class but i will be the first to say it's so ridiculously overpowered #All the best healing abilities all the best support almost all the good damage all the best armor all the good weapons #a Cleric is a support tank and dps as good or better than the other classes that are only one of those #and the subclasses let you specialize even harder on one or two of those without losing any of the others #any other class you cannot have a balanced party of just them. you can have a solid party out of oops all clerics #I like having that option if it turns out the player who dibs'd the dps class sucks at it and needs more backup but man #cleric is MILES less specialized than ANY other class

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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”

Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.

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#In Stars and Time duh #look I like time loop shit but it's the best I've seen it done

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On anon but. I'm someone who has detransitioned. I just want to say that, I was on HRT for about a year. It changed my body in ways that I absolutely love. I have a deep voice, and sharper features, and I have new perspective on my identity and how it interacts with the world. Being trans is a journey. From when I was five up to when I was 17, I fullheartedly believed I was a boy. I was, in that moment. But now, I'm a girl, too. I feel better as a girl - prettier, comfortable. But when I was a boy, I felt good too - in that moment, I was handsome, and I felt so so strong. It's not as scary as it seems. People ebb and flow and change. You can be what you want to be, and if ultimately you want to go back? You can. Just don't discount your experience as a mistake. In the moment it felt right. In the present is what matters.. You'll reflect on it, and maybe you won't ever change. Maybe it'll be what sticks. And that's a lovely thing in and of itself. You will find the you that fits. You will become someone you love by letting yourself express. I promise. Holding back will just mute everything that makes you, you - don't feel like you need to medically transition, either. It was right for me, but research is key, in all things. You'll be beautiful no matter what. Your experiences will shape you - as long as you allow yourself the freedom of expression. I promise.

this is so beautiful. the word detransition does seem to have a negative connotation in certain spaces and im really happy to hear u sharing your positive experience.

its so important to stress that you can simply try it. and if it isnt for you, you can stop.

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024