I Should Go Outside More…

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
beggars-opera
ochipi

Weird thing I have done as an archaeologist 2

  • Teaching students how to describe soil colors, but you’ve got no clue what greyish-brown or brownish-grey is yourself
  • I’ve probably eaten dead Roman
  • Trowel throwing competitions
  • Giving names to skeletons you’re excavating
  • You’re on a constant field walk. Architecture, place names, street signs... You spot it all
  • Comparing weather app predictions with your colleagues
  • Collecting pretty stones, preferably quartz or silex
  • Being very possessive over a shovel
  • Trying to find north without a compass so the lot of us are standing there hoping the sun breaks through

Bonus addition: I’ve seen plenty of archaeologists who collect broken bits of ceramic smoking pipes and they hold competitions to who has more, measured by weight

micewithknives

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boopsloop464

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not-the-perfect-wagnerite

This is really sad, but it's at least kind of encouraging that he's still trying

euronymous4e

Absolutely. The spirit of learning should be nurtured at any age. Read on, info warrior!

gay-jesus-probably

Hey, this is exactly how you expand your vocabulary - stumbling across new words, looking them up, and then remembering that. And they're still having fun reading the book, so they're probably going to remember the words they pick up. This is good!

I see y'all in the notes making fun of this, don't fucking shame people for learning stuff late. It's not like this guy can go back in time and do more reading as a kid/teenager, do you want people to learn new things, or do you expect everyone to just wallow in ignorance if they weren't lucky enough to be taught things as a kid/teenager? And they don't need an easier book either, if they're engaged with this one and understanding it, they're fine.

snailsarecute

Kudos to this person. It’s encouraging to see there are still people out there willing to learn despite the struggle. It’d be interesting to see how many adults are unfortunately in this position.

I will give a small recommendation into looking up Emily Hanford and her investigative journalism/podcast on why reading levels are so low now. It’s a good overview of how reading curriculum has been a mess for decades now. Her team made Sold a Story Podcast, but she had a couple of guest episodes in other education podcasts. It doesn’t really give any specific instruction on how to improve things, unfortunately, but is a clanging bell to hopefully steer towards science backed teaching practices.

theriverbeyond
captorations

was looking something up and got absolutely obliterated by

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dulcinea knows that isn't the real camilla. even before it got its face blasted off, that was an empty puppet. but she's fucking PETTING her okay it's fine i'm fine we're good i'm normal about them. but no really if i see anyone try to claim that dulcie and pal is the only romantic side of that triangle i'm going to beat you over the head with both this paragraph and the "will she know who we are" exchange

hyperdragon97
thebibliosphere

It's midnight here, so happy disability pride month to my fellow disableds, the chronically ill, and also to the temporarily abled.

If your activism doesn't include disability, you're sure as fuck going to wish it did.

Nothing about us without us ♿👊

rain-after-thunder

I know its about how everyones health is going to decline eventually and that disabillity will happen to everyone eventually, 

but “ If your activism doesn’t include disability, you’re sure as fuck going to wish it did. “ is such a raw fucking line.

shitpost disability pride