people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

I laughed so fucking hard at this

Hasan Minhaj has created an actually free website for doing your taxes online, and it includes both a gallery naming and shaming corporate tax avoiders, and THIS little gem - an ASMR video.  About taxes.  That definitely falls into the category of “things that are unfeasibly hot for some goddamn reason”.

10/10

It is literally named TurboTaxSucksAss.com and that is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

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Unmentionables on Tumblr: When you enter the @ symbol and a username on Tumblr, you can mention a blog, sending that blog account a notification. Unless you can’t. Here are some cases where Tumblr usernames won’t show up in results when you try to “@mention” them, or the mention notification won’t go through.

Signal boosting, since I know we’ve had issues with tagging lately – check your settings, check to be sure you’re following the user whose fics you want to be tagged in! 

Good info! I didn’t know this!

I’ve double checked all these are done for me, at least of the ones I can do, and I still get blogs that can’t tag me…. I know @mamapeterson / @mrs-squirrel-chester is one. Weird weird weird…..

Emoji spell for getting a little more pocket cash

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Major plot twists like this are always controversial, but HYDRA Captain America is very different from, say, the death of Superman. HYDRA is inextricably linked to Nazism, with Steve Rogers #1 featuring the Nazi supervillain Red Skull as the main antagonist. In that context, it’s easy to see why someone might object to the abrupt revelation that Steve Rogers is (apparently) an undercover HYDRA loyalist.

Amid the discussion on social media, one fan suggested a different response to the controversy: donate the price of the comic to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Tumblr user @rockscanfly, who shared the idea for constructively protesting the comic, racked up more than 14,000 notes from other fans. The post links to an article by comics critic Jessica Plummer that recounted Steve Rogers’s origins as a hero created by two Jewish cartoonists during World War II and explained the impact of the new storyline in a world where racism and anti-Semitism are still very real problems.

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