Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Contrarian men are all over the place saying “actually you DO need to give up your data to use the internet and posting on websites is actually exactly the same thing as corporations harvesting your data because you agreed to that in order to use their app and your instance admin is exactly the same as a corporation there is no difference so you should stop trying” and it's a wonder they can squeeze all those words out past the boot in their throat tbh

What if it isn't

"A generational thing"

What if we can't

"Just wait for the people who believe or do that bad thing to die"

What then

A few months ago we re-wrote our rules to remove the term 'NSFW'; it's sex-worker exclusionary, largely non-descriptive, and increasingly irrelevant with so many people working from home now.

Instead, we're encouraging more descriptive tagging with content warnings that explain what's hidden so that people to make informed decisions on whether they want to click through.

Some good tags to use instead, depending on the nature of your work, are: lewd, sexual, erotic, nude, smut, genitals, etc.

Also, these discussions about homeschooling completely ignore the fact that the best homeschooling families often work with a range of people, programs, and impromptu moments.

Homeschooling, despite its name, can actually be *more communal* than the top-down directing of all other forms of schooling.

Are some homeschooling parents pieces of shit trying to control their kids? Yes. But that doesn't mean it's everyone.

The pro-public school focus of everything, which almost never even tries to explore the problems of schools *at all*, really annoys the fuck out of me.

Just because it's a public school doesn't inherently make it better than anything else. It just makes it state-controlled.

And hey, I wonder who is controlling the curriculum in state-controlled public schools and what's happening! And I wonder how that hits marginalised people! Or more radical left-leaning politics and movements! I wonder why it is that we don't actually know what's happened in our own histories and why we only know the Most Positive Spin (for our nationalistic purposes).

Listening to some video about PragerU (which isn't horrible) only to hear this person be like:

"I can't say this for certain, but I suspect some people are using this because homeschooling is really hard. Try as they might, pretty much no parent has the skill or time to be as good as an actual school with actual teachers. A lot of parents give their kids a worksheet they found online."

Lmao, what the whole entire fuck do you think teachers are doing? *gestures at Teachers Pay Teachers and twinkl, for example*