architects are insane people who can just say whatever they want and get away with it
Person A: What are we goin to do today?
Person B: Yea. What are we goin to do today?
Person C: Let's eat each other!
Person A: Mmh mmh mmh! Cannibalism!
Person B: You know that cannibalism is illegal in all countries right?
Normalize disliking people and avoiding them without starting a conflict and insisting that they're bad people. You don't actually need to be able to call someone toxic and abusive in order to justify that you're not vibing with them.
Exercising caution
Pride month reminder: Making fun of the Shatnez laws (the Jewish biblical prohibition of mixing wool and linen in the same garment) and using them as an example of why biblical homophobia is stupid is antisemitic. Many Jews still practice this and it's not a "crazy weird thing!" It's something Jews actually practice in real life and your ignorance is actively harmful when you're punching down on Jewish practice lol please fuck off
Gotham is like if an intrusive thought was a city
(or without ADHD, if they help regardless)
cover the page with a piece of paper and reveal lines/paragraphs as you read them
use a highlighter to emphasize important/interesting parts
take notes as you go to be physically engaged with the material
copy and paste the text into a doc/word processor
change the font size/style/colour to something more legible
make your own paragraphs and spacing
copy and paste one paragraph at a time to isolate them from the distraction of the rest of the text
install a browser extension like BeeLine Reader or Mercury Reader
zoom in on the page and scroll slowly so you’re revealing lines as you read them
physically cover the screen and reveal lines as you read them
if you do better with physical media, print it out or find a physical copy
read out loud
pace, move around, or use a fidget while reading
set a timer for 5 minutes and read in small chunks with breaks in between
divide the material into sections and read one section at a time with breaks in between
have another person, audio book, or text-to-speech program read it aloud as you follow along
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