Metasine

@metasine.bsky.social

He/him. Follows/interactions are 18+ only! Appreciator of fat anthro animal ladies. Avatar by GLWuffie!

You "read" the news. But you can't understand it all the time. So you get your news from other sources. Radio's easier. Someone tells you what's up. They yell a lot and curse and insult people and you kind of dig that. That is your window to reality now.

I love when characters in media can do this sort of thing. I've always called it 'Being a duoped' insofar as stance goes! Duo in that you can walk on twos, OR, go into all terrain mode at will. It's a super fun character quirk, and I've been happy to see more of it.

Begging for money again $1,079, that's how much the car fix hit me for. I had to do a financing service thing to make the payment. That has bought me a little time, that was still a $220 drop that will put me in the negative. I started a Gofundme for lack of any better ideas: gofund.me/c7d193a0b

Bill for the big screw

i've complained about this before but every time i try to cater to my vegan audience and look up "high calorie vegan foods" it's always like. "lots of chickpeas and tofu!" "a bowl of seeds and berries!" thank god for bakers who just reverse engineer regular indulgent foods with vegan ingredients

a bowl of Green and Tana bowl of Yellow, Green, Red, and Black

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We're on #YouTube as well. With Twitch debating feeding everything to AI, we're looking at YouTube as a fallback. We need your #help reaching the basic monetization requirements. We need 500 subs & ~3000hrs watched (in a year) and we're about 1/3rd of the way there. www.youtube.com/@teamretrofox

TeamRetroFox

A team of furry friends hanging out and playing a variety of games. Looking to bring back the fun feeling of hanging out at the arcade with your pals!

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Jaye @ TeamRetroFox@jayebunny.bsky.social · 14h ago

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the whole article is well worth reading but here's a particularly grim excerpt from near the end, interviewing one of the creators of the three-cueing system so many kids were taught that ruined their ability to read

When I asked him what he makes of the cognitive science research, he told me he thinks scientists focus too much on word recognition. He still doesn't believe accurate word recognition is necessary for reading comprehension.

"Word recognition is a preoccupation," he said. "I don't teach word recognition. I teach people to make sense of language. And learning the words is incidental to that."

He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept.

I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"?

He dismissed my question.

"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."

Friendly reminder to everyone who said they supported voice actors during the strike last year: now's your chance to prove it by not playing one of the biggest games that was recording during it ❤️

2. Top 5 Books Not gonna rank these, but: Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon The Golden Notebooks by Doris Lessing Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

1. Book you've reread the most I'm not really in the habit of rereading, and if I do I usually reread just the one time, so I'll just say State of the Art, an Iain M Banks Culture novella about a futuristic civilization studying Earth circa 1977 and finding it a bit wanting

The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks