There was nothing about English class that actually fostered a love of reading, just more work after hours and hours of work. It wasn't escapism, imagination, or experience; just a slog.
I think education systems need to grapple with the fact that they're pushing kids away from actual learning.

Now as an adult I read at least 20 books a year and love it, but part of that is about finding the books I'm interested in and not just the ones prescribed to me by a school board. I learned enoughfrom class lectures to get by on the tests, but that's not actual learning, that's memorization.

At my school we were expected to sit in classes for 8 hours, then go home and complete 4 more hours of homework. There was no time for me to decompress and actually be a kid, so reading fell to the wayside. I wouldn't finish (or even start!) Books because it was just more homework.

In the 2000s I was a preteen and a teenager, and I never finished books for school. Part of it was my sensory processing disorder limiting my ability to read hardcopy books, but the other part of it was they weren't interesting to me and I had no time for it between all my other homework.

Being right when people doubt you is one of the most validating things. 😌✨

Is the US a fucking country club???

I was never able to meet my maternal grandmother.She died two years before I was born, but so much of who she was influenced the way I grew up. I wish I could have known her, but I also wish she could have known how all of us turned out, which AI will never be able to do.This feels very self-serving

They can feel free to leave the gold, though.
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You will also note the chocolate ganache layer second from the bottom. Absolutely not allowed in a nanaimo bar, this disqualifies it.

I believe this is a case of convergent evolution, and while it does look identical to a nanaimo bar, it is in fact a cookie dough brownie with a dark chocolate exoskeleton.

Fellow Canadians, on closer inspection the dessert on the left DOES seem to have a brownie base and not the chocolate coconut layer required for a nanaimo bar. It stands to reason that perhaps the middle layer is, indeed, cookie dough instead of the necessary custard.

A friend remembered reading this post in r/confession when tarantino started running his mouth this week.

They play on the same PWHL team and I ride or die for Montreal Victoire. 😌

Speaking of Read Palestine Week, you might find this reading list of Palestinian speculative fiction up your alley! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

As a lifelong Pogues fan I'm a li'l hurt hahahaha

Ahhhh!! Mutts!!!

A tuxetortitabico!