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FL Board of Education approves African American history standards; critics call them ‘incomplete’

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.

The description of slavery as beneficial is not the only grievance parents, teachers, education advocates and politicians had with the new standards. People speaking at the Wednesday meeting generally called out the diluting and omissions of history. For example, instruction at the elementary school level is largely limited to identifying famous Black people, and high school teachers will talk about the “acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans” at the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, in which a white mob killed at least 30 Black people.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history our history is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” said Kevin Parker, a community member.

they wanna whitewash the OCOEE MASSACRE??? that is obscene.

for those of you who don’t know, in 1920 a white mob murdered dozens of black people and destroyed the entire black community in the central florida town of ocoee. and why? bc some black citizens had attempted to vote.

The massacre that turned Ocoee into a sundown town?

The 'acts of violence' against the literal LYNCH MOB ?!? aka SELF-DEFENSE?

for the last 100 years, they've been trying to act like Ocoee never even happened, and now they want to bring it up and reframe it as an act of Black violence?

i think the fuck not, you trickass bitch, Ronni deSani.

this is 100% white supremacist propaganda. call his racist ass out every time you hear his name.

Well that explains a lot.

Something needs to be done about teachers who hate kids tbh

My sister is currently getting her doctorate in child psychology & education, but years ago she worked as a substitute english teacher at a high school in nyc. She spent half a year subbing for a woman who was out for surgery, and had been teaching english there for years and years. Most of the kids in this class were remedial; they had failed english before and had to retake it. Most of them hated the class, and they hated literature, because they had been made to feel unintelligent. My sister decided to introduce them to poetry, which was a little easier to digest than long form prose, and had them read Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice." And the kids loved it! They connected with it, they were spirited and engaged in class for the first time all year. They wrote their own poetry! They started seeking out and reading poetry on their own! They were all on track to get a C, B or A in that class. And then the original teacher returned and failed every single student, to "teach them all a lesson". That was the moment my sister decided to go into administration so she could hopefully prevent that sort of thing from happening. But it's difficult. Despite numerous complaints from parents and other teachers, that teacher had a job there for decades. She continued to have a job there. There are a lot of teachers like her, wielding power and taking their frustrations out on kids, especially disabled and remedial kids. And students have so few advocates in the classroom.

This post has turned into teachers complaining that this behavior is understandable because of burnout, low wages, etc and like. Ok then quit lmao. If you treat my kid like this because of "burnout" I'm gonna burn out your fucking teeth

so I just want to add to this that there's a fact that still rings true from my readings on the subject. like 85% of the usa teachers are white women so when we talk about the student body we gotta remember that they're often way more diverse than their teachers. even if my numbers are out of date that's only because its been a few years since publication of the book and the class I took factor into this. (its been about 2 years since the class and even if the book was new it was probably at least a couple of years from data gathering to printing). and we know that the country's student body is only getting more diverse.

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Every friend group has the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice

"wehhh but my friend group doesn't have a bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice!" oh yeah? Are you really really sure about that?

I am the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice in my friend group

*slinks into the shadows like the weird cryptid I am*

what if adventurer plates were used as identification cards

whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

pffft I work with 6000X4000 and the size of the brush can be only not above 2000px

i dont use that trick

this is the sassiest and most helpful tutorial ever.

дякую

oh my god

Reblogging again for my inflation artist followers. XDDD

This is absolutely the most unnecessary addition to this post you could have ever made.

A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.

Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.

And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.

encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.

I at one point read a good chunk of this but then put it down and never finished it. I need to reread it again. But I wanted to add that the author of this article is actually the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase who hosts the podcast alongside prominent fat activist Aubrey Gordon (yrfatfriend on Twitter). The author, Michael Hobbes, is thin and also wrote this article in 2018 about two years before he and Aubrey Gordon started the Maintenance Phase podcast, so I think that is the main explanation for why the article sometimes strays towards healthism. I feel like he has parted a little from healthism as he’s hosted Maintenance Phase.

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

AMEN this goes for anything too!!! drawing, painting, sewing, knitting you name it. Its so much better to just do the thing your working on, shitty or not it takes less of a toll on you to just finish a thing than to worry about fucking it up first time.

Fuck yeah! And even making something that has nothing to do with pots will help you make your pots. Because lots of different expiriences doing different stuffs will also help you make better stuff if that makes sense

whoever invented the webp image format deserves to die the death

i know this is more work than it's worth but when I need to steal gifs from the tumbles:

1: right click "open in new tab" 2: it'll take you to a stupid-ass gifv which is just as bad as the webp 3: erase the "v" at the end and hit enter 4: NOW you can right click save the fucking GIF like god intended also, you could paste it in this tool:

. . . you will receive the Order of Lenin for this

In Firefox, you can also go to about:config and toggle image.webp.enabled to false.

This makes your browser stop advertising webp support, causing many sites to either just send you the png/gif/jpeg instead, or convert it for you.

You can do the same for image.avif.enabled, for a similar format that's not as prominent yet.

On Android, you have to use Firefox Beta to do this sadly, as the normal Firefox mobile doesn't allow you to access about:config.

(On iOS... I don't know. It might work, but I don't have a device to test it and the browser situation on iOS is... complicated. Due to Apple's rules every browser on there has to be essentially an elaborate Safari reskin)

Additionally, on desktop you could just use this extension that does all of that for you.

Chrome and Edge also have converters built into their save dialogs, but really, please use Firefox.

Another solution I saved for myself from another post, in case none of the other options are available. I tried it before I learned that the other solutions existed, and it works.

Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old

this hit me.

another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.

why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?

Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html

Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).

And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.

Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call.  It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder.  The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.

Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.

Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.

Wow. This really hit me hard.

EAT

Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.

Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.

Remember that “calories” are a measure of the “energy” you get from food and not specifically a measure of fat or sugar or any one thing. A single calorie is the amount of heat it takes to warm water by one degree Celsius. Using it as a measure of a “healthy diet” is batshit gibberish.

More reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25782294

Friendly reminder that a 2,000 calorie daily recommendation was taken by averaging self reports (which are notoriously unreliable) and then rounding down by several hundred calories. Also what @bogleech says above is technically true, but not accurate. As in, a calorie was established as how much heat it takes to raise water by one degree, but humans aren’t just vats of water. You can heat literally anything, but not everything has calories. Heating a brick of gold could produce results in this controlled system, but my body cannot convert gold to energy. How much of what is in a Snicker’s bar for example is non-nutritive additives? And if, for example, I’m missing a foot of intestine, it might take a lot more calories for me to obtain the same amount of energy. Calories aren’t a measurement of energy, not one that can be reliably and accurately applied across all foods and for all bodies. The only thing they measure is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one degree celsius.

Reblogging because I hadn’t the time to elaborate before and now there’s more sources on this too

I fucking hate the “explaining = invalidating” when it comes to apologies. Yes, sometimes a person means to invalidate you by saying this, but sometimes we genuinely just want to fucking explain our side so we can properly communicate.

I do not know what the fuck is wrong until I’m told what I’ve done wrong and feel the need to explain in order for us to see both of our sides

I like getting explanations with apologies because for me it helps lessen the damage that was done or can help clear the negative emotions.

I’ve had multiple people say it’s a sign that I’m a bad person that I don’t apologize right away, or that I’m giving excuses instead of owning up and apologizing (which is fucking hard for me to know if I’m actually in the wrong or not and people doing this shit does NOT fucking help). Apologies aren’t always just a “Sorry” one and done deal thing.

knowing that someone didn't mean to harm you, and in fact may have been trying to help, can be comforting! knowing how they came to choose actions that harmed you can help you both collaborate to avoid harm in the future! Knowing whats going on in the mind of your loved ones can be important and bring you closer together in times of possible conflict! An explanation is NOT an excuse, thats true, but that also means that someone explaining doesn't mean they're not ALSO trying to apologize on top of that!

I mean it's actually actively important to understand that people didn't intentionally try to hurt you. We have a real problem with assuming malicious intent behind actions, when the vast majority of people are actually just being a bit inept, or even might be coming at something from a different angle. The absolute insistence that you must never explain your actions, you must simply self flagellate before the Appointed Victim is... well, a lot of very problematic stuff can be enabled by that.

hot take but i actively miss when tv shows were like 20 episodes a season. slow down. let me get to know the characters. let them do something dumb and not consequential to the plot for one fucking second i'm begging you.

"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

2% of 7 billion is 140 million. That's over three and half times the population of Canada. Six elements make up almost 99% of the human body, but by god do we not ignore the five other elements that make up 0.75% of it

1-2% of people have red hair.

“gender critical” is so funny like critique all you want I’m still here dumbass