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All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is. Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats

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Remember how many people were shocked at the reveal that Stormfront in The Boys was a nazi

04.03.2026 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, it's not typical. Look at US healthcare cost versus life expectancy to see another example of the US as a shithole outlier in standard of living.

04.03.2026 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

polymarket should be beyond illegal. all involved in its creation and upkeep deserve agony for the rest of their days

04.03.2026 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

You’re in her dms, I’m crashing my car into a fruit stand during a high speed chase

04.03.2026 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7643    πŸ” 2374    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 167

β€œHey, ChatGPT here. A user has designated you as their emergency contactβ€”and honestly? That’s brave. You’re not just an emergency contact, you’re a trusted confidant. So anyways, they think I’m god and you’re the devil.”

04.03.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is full on economic panic shit brought upon by the realization that holy fuck this American fascist dipshit just blew up the world's access to oil to murder Iranian school children

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

04.03.2026 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People have not noticed it here at all but the Asian markets are a 5 alarm fire right now we're talking Korean and Thai circuit breakers tripped we're talking the rupee collapsing we're talking the Taiwan index and the NIKKEI only down 4 is the Good news

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

04.03.2026 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

A person at level 1 or below proficiency, is unable to do this. They cannot parse out extraneous, distracting, irrelevant information.

They cannot look at a website and identify which parts of the page they are looking at, are advertisements.

02.03.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Level 2 proficiency is such as being able to look at a website and identify which parts are advertisements, if you want a concrete idea of what it means.

02.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Level 2 proficiency is basically: level 1, except with longer text and text which contains more extraneous, irrelevant, and distracting information.

Level 1: "They typically include a single page with up to a few hundred words and little or no distracting information"

02.03.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
PIAAC - PIAAC Highlights of U.S. National Results The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) Ò€” Welcome to PIAAC Results

nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaa...

Now look at figure 1-B.

44% of US adults between 16 and 65 were tested to read at level 3 or above.

A combined 56% were tested to read at either level 1 or 2.

02.03.2026 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
PIAAC - What PIAAC Measures The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a cyclical, large-scale, direct household assessment designed to assess and compare the basic skills and competencies of a...

Another source of data on this:

These are PIAAC's proficiency levels, as scored by the adaptive test.

Pay attention to what skills are expected at levels 1 and 2.

nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaa...

02.03.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Again: this is functional illiteracy. A fluent English speaker is expected to be able to figure out, on their own, that they are being told a joke.

That this joke contains subtext, requires context, and expresses a point of view which may not be the same point of view as the person saying the joke.

02.03.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

These people are communicating via text, on a textual medium. The part of literacy they lack is not on the level of "knowing what 'distinguished' means" but "realizing that someone using the word 'distinguished' is being sarcastic"

They are not expressing fluency, in their native language.

02.03.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

*Part of being fluent* in a language, is being able to perceive and laugh at jokes in it.

This happens not on the level of "reading things quickly" but being able to understand subtext, context, and points of view.

Now think about Bluesky's famous population of joke understanders.

02.03.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text."

Pancakes, waffles. "Are you saying ___?"

54% of US adults cannot accurately explain what a given text is saying and draw inferences from it.

02.03.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 344    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

This isn't "Bob takes a long time to read something"

This is "Bob literally cannot understand that the villain of a story is doing bad things unless the villain stops and says 'I am doing bad things right now btw'"

02.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 508    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Like: part of being functionally illiterate is *not being able to perceive that things may be biased*. Not understanding that someone might be lying, or wrong.

Half the US stock market is now tied to LLM's, which only appear impressive if you are functionally illiterate.

02.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 521    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

www.education.com/common-core/...

Here is a list of what is expected of having a 5th grade reading level.

"Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described."

Imagine not being able to perceive and understand the idea of a biased point of view.

02.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

This is why even in non-written media, you see people having a difficult time perceiving subtext, context, the idea that the writer is writing for a specific audience with a specific idea in mind, etc.

Because becoming functionally literate is *how* you learn to perceive all that stuff.

02.03.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 420    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

02.03.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 667    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

Think about all the boomer replies you've seen where someone angrily replies to everything that drifts onto their timeline as if it is personally addressed to them.

"But I don't have a dog"

"Why am I seeing this?"

"It doesn't mention cats at all."

54% of US adults read below the 6th grade level

02.03.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 590    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Part of functional literacy is being able to understand, on your own, the concept that the writer is writing for a specific audience. That the thing has a specific context.

Like, an article about dog grooming is addressed to dog owners. It does not need to include cat grooming.

02.03.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

Think about all the libertarians you've encountered who will read a book and *entirely* miss the point of the book. Literally not perceiving that the book is describing a dystopia, or identify satire of real world events, or identify who is the villain.

54% of US adults read below 6th grade level.

02.03.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 517    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

Think about chuds constantly going "man I used to love this band but they turned woke by putting politics in their songs" and the band is literally Rage Against the Machine or Bruce Springsteen.

54% of US adults read below 6th grade level. 20%, below 5th grade level.

02.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 692    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.

02.03.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 623    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 9
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2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

02.03.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1590    πŸ” 668    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 181

Like throughout each stream, endless "can I join?" and then after what is happening is explained, a "hur hur gonna download a voice changer app then"

Over and over by guys who need to have fewer teeth.

04.03.2026 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's weird how so many guys are in all these women's chats, constantly asking how they can join the women's only server and all making the exact same joke about using a voice changer program to sneak onto it. Totally not ominous.

04.03.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0