I graduated high school in 03, a few months/years into the “no child left behind” bullshit. The last week of school, meathead asks, out loud, “why do people read”.

Almost ten years later and that dude has never had a job longer than three months. This. This is why people read…

Edit: i had a friend in highschool who passed away a few years ago, so I only know his employment status from highschool, up to the funeral. Deleted Facebook soon after

Republicans destroying the education system, one preventable plague at a time.

Just turned 40 and have a Giggle Scape Purple Hippo next to me right now.

I have a kobo Clara color. Not sure if you can change the background color, but it has a “dark mode” that inverts the black on white, to white on black. You can also highlight in various colors, change font size, line spacing, margin, and it even comes with the “Open Dyslexic” font.

Edit: Derp, you said free… I can delete if you want :/

I stock shelves for a living. I can only thank the flying spaghetti monster that they don’t use his face as a logo on that chocolate flavored drywall he sells as candy bars…

In Texas, we spent a semester (half the school year) learning Texas history, and the other half the year learning World History. This was during the start of “No Child Left Behind”, so it was basically “memorize the answers to the test”, instead of “actually learn the material”…

My parents served as an example of “what not to do”.

I made a personal vow years ago, that i would never be what my dad was to me, to anybody else…

No worries, we all deal with stress in our own ways.

When i had to take my dog to the emergency vet, I got on discord and posted about ten Star Trek memes in under five minutes. One of the guys asked if I was ok, that’s when i broke down and revealed the reason. I was basically looking for attention…

My parents taught me that asking for help meant you are a failure. Does Lemmy have a “raised by narcissists” sub yet?

And I’m a bit of a diva. :)

If you listen to this post closely, you can actually hear the fellatio.

Last time there was a tornader in Garland, lightning flashed and lit up the jade-green sky. My mother and brother stopped talking instantly, and we gathered the dogs in the Harry Potter room under the stairs.

'Nader didn’t hit us, but it was still a shock to see the sky a color I’ve only seen in jewelry, or the random Pantone®© sample.

This is the way to do it

I blocked my lg from the Wi-Fi after i got a “Kobe Bryant memorial” ad, while playing on my switch… TF?!

I hope there is at least one human that has to listen to the filthy, angry, Klingon profanities I scream, while jerking myself raw to hard core, ball draining, homoerotic, gay porn…

Fair, don’t even try playing on anything but normal speed :/

I’ll throw in Oxygen Not Included.

RIP Fireworks…

Macaroni and tuna, but you have to use the liquid cheese kind, not the powdered abortion.

Cool ranch Doritos and sour cream, saw this mentioned before and had to try it. Worth every penny.

I go by the shortened version of my name, because my full name was screamed at me so often, I can barely handle it when it’s used… That second syllable is like a gun shot, so one syllable it is.