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That’s literally what I said? Besides, I thought you were “bowing out” to avoid a raving lunatic like me.

Whatever, dude. Looking at your page, you clearly just like to argue with folks. Obnoxious.

I know how to use a dictionary: see the previous points in my “masters thesis”. 🙄

I think your point it also willfully ignoring touch-reading like braille, but I digress. I’m employed and have a life, so I no longer want to engage with some internet troll 🤷‍♀️

a woman is looking at a chalkboard with a lot of math equations on it . ALT: a woman is looking at a chalkboard with a lot of math equations on it .

You’re the one who entered a discussion thread? Ofc you’ll get discussed with. That’s not toxic—and me being frustrated and calling you out for being a troll isn’t either.

Hey dipshit, you’re clearly here to argue and not have a proper discussion. I said the primary definition followed by the modified ones based on subtext.

And iirc, the original post I saw was expressing frustration at how semantic this argument has grown, not ableism.

Sight words here and there isn’t understanding phonics and sentence structure. This whole debate essentially boils down to the “phonics vs sight words” debate that’s been pushed in k-12 education lately and it’s frustrating to see people try to discount physical reading as something unimportant. /5

Living somewhere where English is the primary language, you won’t gain much useful data from listening to an audiobook (I’m talking intonation/pronunciation/pacing) bc you’re getting that in your everyday convos. You aren’t getting the visual stimuli from reading, and recognizing a few 4/

Enjoying literature should be accessible to all. Being challenged to think is an important part of stimulating our brains. But there are genuine skills one is missing out if they exclusively participate in one version of consumption. For the sake of argument, if you’re a native English speaker 3/

Usually, this is why we add “functionally” in front of illiterate to differentiate whether or not it’s being used to insinuate someone’s intelligence level vs their legitimate lack of being able to read, for whatever reason that may be. 2/

Definition from the Oxford dictionary: “a person who is unable to read or write”. They then list the secondary definitions that you’re implying, stating there needs to be a submodifier to be offensive.

Don’t try to turn this into an ableism argument: reading is an important, and SEPARATE, skill 1/

Understanding of how English words are built. Esp for language learners, this is an important skill to build: i consider myself pretty proficient in reading German, but my listening sucks because the pacing and pronunciation is there versus being read on a page. /2

I wouldn’t argue that it’s too broad, just that it’s being used incorrectly.

America is in a literacy crisis. Children are not being taught phonics. Yes, a kid who listens vs a kid who reads would both intake the same info, but the reader would take in the spellings and gain a better 1/

The "is listening to an audiobook 'reading'" argument (no, it's listening) upsets me, not because people being wrong about it matters, but because it reveals a value system that insists that things must have the same name to be treated as equally valuable.

And that has broader implications

I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?

not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot

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having some friends over for superb owl weekend.

YOOOO I LOVE THESE PHOTOS

Plus the AI art for the link…

siri how do I lock the fuck in

Yeah, that kiss certainly won’t just be for charity 💀

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That sounds delicious. Can you drop the link as to where you got it?

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lmao i cannot stress enough that booktok is not an answer to 99% of book discoverability issues

Was it bluestacks? I also know you can install an android substation and run it through google play, but I’m unsure if that’s just a high level way to say emulator 💀 it’s been a minute since I’ve run virtual desktops

They also have an official demo out for desktop from the developers. You can’t export/save but fingers crossed that means the release is soon!

It runs on Windows 11 if you use that OS! You’d need to run an android emulator but I’ve heard p good things

Do you have an iPad or other tablet system? I really like Nomad and it’s a one time $20 purchase