tooies:

tooies:

tooies:

tooies:

how is the word “cellphone” pronounced

chel-po-ne (CORRECT and GOOD answer)

kaey-poen (WRONG and BAD answer)

something else (????????)

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was originally gonna go with “dog” but decided to go for a longer word with more “reasonable” mispronunciations instead, but that ended up backfiring and now like half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this. guess you could say it was a bit of a. a b. it was a

it was a bit of a self-own

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

  1. why might op have said that she wanted to choose a word with “more ‘reasonable’ mispronounciations”? what could the quotes around “reasonable” indicate? why did she say mispronunciations instead of pronounciations?
  2. op writes that the post “backfired” and now “half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this.” what might the word “backfired” mean in this context?
  3. what words could “self-own” sound similar to, and how could that relate to the rest of the post?

kitten-kin:

jestergal:

manager in the fanfiction universe: I don’t care how many flower petals you’re coughing up. You need to come in today

manager in the fanfiction universe: Heat’s just an excuse for omegas to be lazy. Take a shower and get in here; we’re short-staffed.

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someonedm:

headspace-hotel:

sluttypatrickstar:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

ayeforscotland:

ayeforscotland:

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This is fucking embarrassing ‘journalism’ from the BBC.

Guy goes to an NHS doctor, flat-out states the nature of his investigation and gets behind the scenes information on assessments.

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Then he hits up three private clinics actively looking for an ADHD diagnosis, has his friends fill out witness forms, and is shocked when he receives a diagnosis.

An utter disgrace.

Turns out, if you go and lie about your symptoms, they’ll diagnose you.

Consider me fucking shocked.

thank you, random white man, for this insight on the condition known to be underdiagnosed in women and people of color

i found the article and it’s like, comparing and contrasting private and public clinics I think? It’s a little opaque to me (American) what the significance of this is

I’m not sure what the point of this was. Like, the article doesn’t really even touch on what his methodology was—it doesn’t actually state whether he was filling out the forms honestly, and knowing how an evaluation works and going into the evaluation with the goal of “demonstrating” something about an evaluation infuses inherent bias into everything

this is just yet another thing that serves to create paranoia about people getting prescribed stimulant meds. Something that, in the USA, is difficult to the point that it blocks people from obtaining the care that they need all the time, and i know in many other countries it’s even harder

Like, why did he feel the need to do this to begin with. I’m sure that if he went to several different doctors trying to get a diagnosis of chronic constipation, he would get one, because listening to a patient when they bring a concern up to you is Your Job as a doctor

@headspace-hotel uk person checking in! when you go public for an adhd assessment, waiting lists are YEARS long with often no indication of when you’ll finally be seen. thus, many people – who are desperate for care – will pay money (which you don’t have to do for public healthcare) to go private.

so basically it’s stigmatising people who were so desperate that they were willing to find £1,000 to get help.

So this asshole was actively taking precious opportunities and resources away from people who need them?

Is your conclusion “he tried to prove that private clinics are bad, something something, less people will be able to go to private clinics for these resources as a result” or “he took 3 diagnoses in private clinics which could have been 3 other people’s diagnoses and resources”?

He seems to have bypassed the atrociously long waiting list for the NHS appointment - which he biased anyway by disclosing his investigation to the NHS doctor.

He then fabricated symptoms to three private clinics which require two other people to validate his symptoms - all in a bid to frame them as predatory.

This could have been an investigation into underfunding of the NHS and absurd waiting lines forcing people to use private clinics. Instead the story became ‘ADHD is a fun trend and you can just pay to get a diagnosis’.

It’s malicious journalism that casts doubt in the public’s mind. Some people are now not going to believe other people’s ADHD diagnosis on the back of it.

we also want to challenge his assumption that private clinics apparently taking less time to diagnose obvious adhd is a reflection on their lack of diligence - it’s much more a reflection on how much more gatekeepy the nhs is encouraged to be, especially when it’s about “invisible” or mental health or neurodivergent conditions (we had 11 hours of meetings before getting diagnosed autistic by the nhs at 55 - a diagnosis six different other autistic people had spotted right away)

you see this with gender care too, nhs gender care (assuming you ever make it to the top of a six year waiting list) is like “yes come and see us for a year before we’ll consider hrt for you - but not if you’re fat or have mental health conditions because fuck you” while private clinics are like “yes we confirm that you are trans, why on earth would we make you wait?”

Yeah, I wonder if the NHS considers the entire time from the start of assessment. Their ‘thorough assessment’ is someone else’s frequent misdiagnosis and the doctor even not believing them at face value.

assiraphales:

assiraphales:

detective pikachu came out four years ago why did no one (except sonic after ugly sonic) take notes

this works

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this also works

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this does NOT

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striders:

striders:

so insane to me watching claw clips become a trendy tiktok girlie thing when they have always been nothing but the hallmark sign that i didn’t feel like brushing my hair that day

rocking up to the restaurant to pick up my takeout in sweatpants and fluffy slippers with my rats nest in a claw clip except im fat so i swiftly turn the trendy low effort outfit into a trashy beacon of america’s failings

is-the-owl-video-cute:
“30-minute-memes:
“Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!
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You can also buy bags of duck treats at feed stores.
However if you are in North America it may be a good idea to forgo feeding ducks this year. Avian flu has...
is-the-owl-video-cute:
“30-minute-memes:
“Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!
”
You can also buy bags of duck treats at feed stores.
However if you are in North America it may be a good idea to forgo feeding ducks this year. Avian flu has...

is-the-owl-video-cute:

30-minute-memes:

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

You can also buy bags of duck treats at feed stores.

However if you are in North America it may be a good idea to forgo feeding ducks this year. Avian flu has been spreading rapidly though waterfowl, and encouraging them to cluster together can spread the virus faster and expose humans and pets to it because the virus is shed in feces.

ganymedesclock:

My personal favorite flavor of cosmic horror has two mutually essential components to it.

  1. The universe is vast in every possible metric one wants to measure it by. Space. Time. Complexity. Potential. It is also, quite understandably for its scale, completely without concession to any particular individual’s ideas of how it should be and anything capable of perceiving its surroundings must make some degree of peace with this.
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  2. Human beings are inconsequential in every possible metric one wants to measure them by, except for one. For better and for worse, there is an impudence inherent to sapience; in the face of coldness and darkness deeper and older than the life of our entire species, we have always been and always will remain creatures that start fires in the dark.

worldheritagepostorganization:

gidguard:

c3rvida3:

When I was little, my mom told me that throwing your chewing gum out the car window was the good and moral thing to do because it patched up people’s flat tires for them, and to this day, I think it’s one of the funniest lies anyone’s ever told a child for no reason.

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i’m memorising these so i can change some children’s lives later

World Heritage Post

90stvqueen:

icklewolfiekins:

you ever learn something you wish you didn’t? I, for example, just learned that between 2008 and 2015 not a single episode of Doctor Who aired that was written by a woman. Between The Sontaran Stratagem, a story with David Tennant as the Doctor, and The Woman Who Lived, a Peter Capaldi story, not a single episode was written by a woman.

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elbiotipo:

elbiotipo:

The whole “common era” (BCE-CE) has to be the stupidest thing ever and I say that as a Christian who thinks we should indeed have a secular calendar.

“Oh no we can’t use "Before Christ” and “After Christ”, that’s so Eurocentric. We’ll change it to something else, like “common era”, that’s more neutral.“

"Oh okay, and what’s gonna be year 0 then?”

“Oh, the year of the birth of Christ of course”

As far as I’m concerned we live in the year 62 A.G. of the Space Age (After Gagarin), like in a proper sci-fi novel.