Notices by pockets (pockets@beige.party)

@DL1JPH
Wheee, speedreading!

It's strange. I can read faster with white text on a black page, but I tend to have a higher recall with black text on a white page (or maybe I just have a higher recall when I don't read quite so fast).

I remember in late-elementary school (thirty-odd years ago), a lot of my classmates read in their head at the same speed as they read aloud. It took years for me to figure out why. They built the words in their head letter by letter; I read the whole word as if it was a single symbol.

(Curiously, this sometimes makes spelling errors easier for me to spot, because they can act as speed bumps if my brain doesn't recognize the "symbol" of the word.)

So, compared to people who read every word, I generally have a fairly high reading speed. But compared to people who can absorb multiple words, whole phrases or lines at a single glance, I can't keep up.

@neonutopia @Frantasaur @SilverArrows @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

@seanbala
I just gave it a shot at signing up and got rejected too. I think it was either my VPN or using a forwarding email as the contact. (At least, those were the two reasons on their "why did I get rejected" list that I was knowingly guilty of).