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@TrevorOfficialR @gayest_tone Jesus this reads like a conversation between 5 year olds

@gayest_tone You’re the one with the lame joke

This isn’t funny

@IndieGameJoe No

This indie dev is making a game where all you do is skip rope… with one button. - Time your jumps perfectly - Roguelike upgrades every run - Try to survive as long as possible It’s called Scarlet Skips. Would you play this?

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna That, and universal pre-K so that "ungiffted" students are capable of handling alternative/accelerated pedagogy. Class structures where students can self select into accelerated coursework is also good, as opposed to it being gated by a test.

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna The common idea is that gifted education in general involves pedagogy that would benefit all students. They get the shiny toys and the cool projects that other students don't get. Ideally all students would receive the same interventions

so wait was the “gifted kid” thing just a more polite way of cloistering all the ADHD kids away from the normies

@anotora_ @SkinnyTuna You guys are incapable of looking stuff up!!! The research on this subject widely supports this, the concept of gifted children was invented by eugenicists!

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna lol I had GATE classmates who lived in nicotine-stained single-wide trailers.

@ligmathong @SkinnyTuna Yes, as were most of my peers.

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna you were a rich kid doing extracurricular activities?

@SkinnyTuna Oh, yeah, fun bit --- one of the leading scholars in pursuit of the identification of "giftedness" in the United States, Lewis Terman, was a prominent eugenicist!

@SkinnyTuna No it was for rich kids whose parents made them do extracurricular activities.

@ligmathong @SkinnyTuna Yes, I was enrolled in gifted classes throughout my primary and secondary education and my anecdotal experience confirms this. The research suggests the same, if you'd like to look into it.

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna do you know what they're referring to when they say gifted program because i don't think u do

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna researchgate.net/publication/33… Regardless, the research suggests that the gap is widely known. I am glad your classes accounted for this, but in large it is a program biased towards those with privileged backgrounds.

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna i'm not talking about AP courses, AP is what they called TAG in my school

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna AP is not a gifted course in the same way most people talk about it, it's self select and a totally different thing. You do not need to test into AP courses.

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna I literally say in another comment I was in gifted courses.

@kavakava662660 @SkinnyTuna What is the cope here?

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna cope

@pixalpixal @SkinnyTuna Yes, rich kids do better on standardized tests.

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna GATE never required any sort of extracurriculars, it was mostly based on standardized test scores and grades in elementary school. Rich kids just tend to do better on standardized tests. I was a poor and lazy kid (literally zero extracurriculars) and they shoved me in GATE.

@JellyPasta69 @SkinnyTuna Ok

@PointyFingShoes @SkinnyTuna I was poor with a single mother and I was gifted?

@denimneverdies @breadophile100 @SkinnyTuna Gifted education is literally just better pedagogy exclusively for parents who were able to invest in their kids education outside of school enough for them to be able to pass the gifted exam. I knew plenty of bright kids who couldn't test in because they were poor

@breadophile100 @SkinnyTuna Yeah the fun thing about neurodivergence is that you can wind up in either gifted or special education because the one thing you can't be is neurotypical

@misterminsoo It's evident from the music as well, which got much worse

I appreciated Cameron Picton’s candor when talking about Black Midi in my interview with him.

@EmbiidAmputee Every pepe pfp replying to Sridhar has the same millennial cadence, I can't tell if it's because they are all in fact millennials or if they're just conversing in autistic dialect. Probably the latter? The sopranos pfp guys are definitely autistic

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@bendknee4queers @bugheaven_ When you love Is A Real Boy as much as I do you know enough to not defend Max Bemis on anything really

@PointyFingShoes @bugheaven_ Real ass Bemis scholar

it’s obviously fine to hate this song but there are a lot of people on the timeline taking this song & video at face value when it is *very* obviously satire, media literacy doesn’t have to go down the toilet just because you think something sucks lol