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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 6m

And yeah, that's why the Trump admin immediately went after the department of education. They want to do this to the school system on a national scale.

It just makes me sad. All those kids are getting screwed out of a quality education for the sake of a stupid culture war.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 10m

Honestly the education was not my biggest concern while I was there. I mean it was shit and we all knew it was shit, but I went off to college and caught up quick. They did much worse stuff to us on a regular basis.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 50m

Like I cannot emphasize enough how racist the shit was. The Wikipedia article on ACE has a section about apartheid.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 53m

As a teenager I lived several years in a boys' correctional home run by white nationalists. The educational materials were mostly provided by a company called ACE, who designs curricula for home and private school programs based on fundamentalist protestant teachings, and also racism.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1h

Also what the fuck

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1h

This meme is 24 years old btw

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1h

But yeah please read my book I hope you like it! I'd say more about it, but there's an order to these thing. (I don't have the cover to reveal yet since I had to re-commission it at the eleventh hour)

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1h

What do you mean niche film buff I just watch anime and soap operas 😭😭😭

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

As far it showed up on college applications, I had attended some exclusive private school no one's heard of and taken double course loads, nevermind that I didn't actually learn anything.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

The worst part is the system rewards this lmao. The work was easy and they gave out credits like candy, so even once I got out and started back to public school my senior year, I already had way more than enough credits to graduate.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway, I think about this a lot when people talk about parents' rights in education like it's a serious debate and not an attempt to do institutionalized child abuse.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

You can teach anything in private and home schools. There is functionally no oversight.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

The English course taught that secular literature was tangibly demonic, so we could only read 18th-century sermons and biographies of missionaries.

The business course hadn't been updated since the 70s and referenced Ford pintos and Vietnam war refugees like they were culturally-relevant topics.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

The science course taught that humans used to live 900 years bc the atmosphere was covered in a solid dome of translucent pink hydrogen, meaning people saw the world through literal rose-colored glasses, lowering stress levels. (The biblical flood was caused by God shattering the dome in 4000 bc.)

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 2h

When I was in the home, they didn't let us attend school because exposure to other kids might interfere with "the program."

Instead, we were all taught an accredited homeschool curriculum full of insane cult shit. It was, among other things, explicitly pro-slavery and anti-women in the workforce.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 5h

If you're going to cheat, why cheat at an 1800 level?? You could get here in like six months if you study hard. Cheat better, idiot.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 5h

Got my queen trapped by an 1800 and went "huh, I think my opponent might not be human."

Not 10 minutes later lmao, didn't even have to report the account. Love when I'm vindicated for being a paranoid asshole. 🙂

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 7h

"Ooh is it ~spicy, do you read ~spicy books" ok so dividing media into tidy boxes of Porn and Not-Porn is a fascist framework used to diminish the value of art the right labels obscene, a goalpost they will move as necessary to fit whatever doesn't serve their agenda

But yeah sure it has sex scenes

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 12h

Yiffin on the people

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 22h

White Pony ends with a run of tracks so fucking good Change in the House of Flies ends up sandwiched between two songs that are both better than it

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 22h

bsky.app/profile/roxx...

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 22h

If you have any interest in reading my silly little book when it drops, I made a non-porn account.

@harlowmoth.bsky.social

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1d

Alright I think my weird little short sci-fi novelette is more or less in its final form.

14,000 words almost to the dot. Cover art is commissioned, should be done early November-ish. Storefronts are set up. Maybe someone will read it, maybe not, but I tried my heart out.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 22h

If you have any interest in reading my silly little book when it drops, I made a non-porn account.

@harlowmoth.bsky.social

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1d

Alright I think my weird little short sci-fi novelette is more or less in its final form.

14,000 words almost to the dot. Cover art is commissioned, should be done early November-ish. Storefronts are set up. Maybe someone will read it, maybe not, but I tried my heart out.

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1d

Oooooh 👀👀👀

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1d

As many as you want :)

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Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 1d

Alright I think my weird little short sci-fi novelette is more or less in its final form.

14,000 words almost to the dot. Cover art is commissioned, should be done early November-ish. Storefronts are set up. Maybe someone will read it, maybe not, but I tried my heart out.

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