What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.
People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I’ve ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn’t know that musicians had schedules that we could see
Everything is a surprise when you don’t pay attention
im the guy in the studio that makes every up and coming pop star run 5 miles before they can record so they sound winded while they sing. yes this is a fetish thing for me and yes i get paid a lot for it
this just in: relationships are now predatory if one person could beat the other in a fight. the only acceptable dating is between two perfectly matched warriors locked in perpetual stalemate
We’ve all been caught up in “would you have sex with your clone?” And didn’t stop to ask the real question, “is it moral to have sex with anyone but your clone?”
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Telling young zoomers to “just switch to linux” is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you’re throwing them to the wolves
i taught programming to middle school kids last summer and I don’t think you understand how bad it’s getting.
a lot of these kids don’t know what a “folder” is. some of them don’t even know how to right click. I asked my class to put a folder on their desktop and half of the students did not know how. these are like, 11-13 year olds who’s parents thought they were tech literate enough to sign them up for a programming class. most of them did not know how to add a bookmark on their browser. most of them could not touch type.
basic computer literacy is evaporating because everyone does everything on their phone now, but schools are getting rid of any computer classes because “all the kids are using computers all the time anyways!”
I hope they’ll learn more as they get older but many of them wont. the divide between “basic user” and “advanced user” is quickly shifting towards knowing the most simple functions of a computer, and the more people who don’t know how to correctly use their devices the easier it is to sell them shit they don’t need.
…what the fuck? wow, I didn’t even realize this was a developing problem jeez.
Y’all don’t even understand.
I teach primary school and I had a composite year 3 and 4 classroom (small Australian suburb school) for my first year (8-10 year olds) back in 2022. At this age is probably around the time I started learning about all these computer things bc I had a dedicated ICT class but society would have you believe that these days, kids already know all of it by this time.
Now at this school, these kids had STEM as a specialist subject but the tech part was mostly to do with programming and parts of a machine and all that jazz. Not so much the basic mechanics of a computer and it’s use (tho they do learn here and there bc it’s just embedded into the learning that hey you turn on a computer and access internet and log in here blah blah blah).
But I did a big information report research project with them in the final term and the amount of computer literacy issues that just popped up as we went along.
Googling basic information (didn’t know how to find google, didn’t know how to find information using google), clicking on website links and looking for information, using search bars WITHIN websites, basic typing posture.
ALL OF IT I had to explicitly teach.
Knowing that my Year 4s would be heading up to Year 5 where A LOT of assessment involves typing up writing pieces and using laptops with increasing frequency, I was genuinely horrified how little they actually knew how to do.
One of our major statewide (nationwide??) assessments, once they get to Year 5, involve typed writing pieces. And the way some of these kids used only one finger to do all the work???
I literally dedicated a couple sessions a week to typing practice and covering the basic parts of websites. What is a search bar? What is the refresh button for? What is a hyperlink? What is the home page? What is a URL? How do we use Google effectively?? (Keywords as opposed to typing whole questions into the search bar). How can you tell a website is safe or not?? How do you make a PowerPoint? How can you add images to a PowerPoint? How can you make a PowerPoint more interesting? How do you save a PowerPoint?
OH MY GOD HOW DO YOU COPY PASTE??? Like the use of the ctrl button was a revelation to them.
Now as time has passed, I acknowledge that my typing posture is shit. I use like 5 and a half fingers at best. But you bet your ass I can touch type and the way my kids reacted when I demonstrated that I did not even have to look at my screen to type while it took them a solid 20 seconds to find the s key.
Computer literacy at this time is wildly under-taught given how much these kids will be working in the digital space in future.
Many cats figure out pretty quickly that humans don’t like dead mice as gifts, and then go through an extended process of trial and error trying to figure out what humans do like. Here we see Attempt# 47: Moss.
My boy used to bring me dead snakes (no venomous snakes in our area, don’t worry) which made me rather upset because I love snakes and they were very good for our garden.
So whenever he brought me dead snakes, I would scold him.
On April 27th, 2018 the premiere of the Avengers: Infinity War generated $257,698,183, leading the best opening box office of any movie up to date, followed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 18th, 2015, with earnings of $247,966,675.
In
the meantime, on the parallel universe of video games, Grand Theft Auto
V came out on September 17th, 2013 and in only 24 hours it sold over 11
million unities, reaching $817,5 million in sales.
I did not know that.
Clash of Clans alone earned over six billion dollars.
i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities
that is to say, “transgender” is a useful way for me to convey how i move through the world to others rather than some essential qualia. i am of a class of people with an infinite number of relationships with their genders
“There are not two sexes, there are n sexes; there are as many sexes as there are assemblages. And since each of us enters into several assemblages, each of us has n sexes. When children discover that they are reduced to one sex, male or female, they discover their powerlessness: they lose the machinic sense and are left only with the signification of a tool. And then a child really does fall into depression. They have been damaged; their countless sexes have been stolen!”
and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.
Guy there are books on magic on there.
There’s books on EVERYTHING there!
Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?
It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.
There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.
They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.
You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.
And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”
This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing.
Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.
don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA
300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript
Transcript: (sorry for the language!)
Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that
belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on,
what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”
Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”
Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“
Speaker:
“What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right
here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The
truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter
as camera shifts to the onlookers]
Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“
Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“
Speaker:
“And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our
own until it’s a country without… without what?“
Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“
Speaker:
“Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding,
following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know
these…“
Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“
Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“
Speaker:
“These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take
over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And
it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the
vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and
destroy them before they destroy us!”
Speaker: “Thank you.“
One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“
Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*
Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”
Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*
Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“
Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“
Hungarian
man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I
have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”
Young man: “What were you doing there?“
Hungarian
man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we
have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy
people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they
knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so
they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical
weapon to cripple the nation.”
I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:
and my personal favorite
After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.
About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like
I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like
This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”
But I guess the lesson goes like this:
DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN
DON’T TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES EVER.
THIS POST IS SO IMPORTANT I WANT EVERYONE ON TUMBLR IN THE WORLD TO SEE IT
This needs to be reblogged. I couldn’t scroll past this if I tried, I got a message like that but not for me, it told me to my friend to kill them self, I was livid! I didn’t answer it because a message like that doesn’t deserve an answer but I don’t see what is so funny about telling someone to kill them selves! I really don’t! It’s sick and it’s wrong. This person though, I take my hat off to you. You taught that bully a lesson.
this.
This will always be number one on the list of things that aren’t okay
Ho-ly shit.
I’ll never not reblog this
If you dare scroll without reblogging this you have no soul…….. i mean you do but reblogging this wont ruin your blog……. please just spread the word.
Please people don’t send anon hate your just hurting yourselves…
Don’t tell anyone to kill themselves. EVER.
A PSA we shouldn’t need, but we do…because some people are fucking horrible
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
REBLOGGED.
How the fuck is the anon gonna do a complete U turn when they find out ‘oh shit they might actually kill themselves’ every action has consequences, good or bad, some people never learned this and it really fucking shows.
I get it a lot actually. I just don’t tell anyone anymore because I’m afraid they’ll jump on the band wagon and do it too. It’s happened before.
THIS
✨This✨
DON’T YOU EVER FUCKING TELL SOMEONE TO KILL THEMSELVES
How about this: Stop being a coward and don’t use anonymous! And obviously, why on Earth would you tell someone to go kill themselves?! That Anon is a absolute S.O.B !!
That was good lesson.
luckily this never happened to me but still smrhn worth sharing. some people just rlly,,, dont rhink of consequences as often as they should.
Don’t listen to those cowards. You are loved and worth much more than they can ever comprehend. Those guys are just scum who can’t deal with their own insecurities, so they take it out on others
How can someone be so disgusting, just ignore that coward that doesn’t have the courage to even show themselfs. DONT JOKE WITH SUICIDEDONT TELL ANYONE THAT THEY SHOULD BE DEADIT’S NOT FUNNY AT ALL.
I know this doesn’t fit with the ‘theme’ of this blog, but I don’t care. You never know what someone’s going through, and there’s always a chance that they’ll take messages like these to heart and actually commit suicide. NEVER TELL SOMEONE TO COMMIT SUICIDE, EVEN AS A JOKE.
very important post.
Don’t answer anon asks like this!!
Block the anon (Tumblr still knows who they are) by clicking the meatballs menu, and then the appropriate option! I’m pretty sure you can report them as well!
quite a bit horny: can we pretend i’m an elven prince and the necromancer’s curse turns me into a demon on the full moon and the only way to cure me is to have my Womb filled by a chivalrous knight . and can you make sure you say soem shit like ‘forsooth’ and ‘by my honor’ and stuff. mngh
hornier than anyone has ever been: i need to kiss someone and get married
uh, dont look at it? idk what to tell you. You probably spend most of your time doing things that happen to not be looking at a light switch. So just imagine doing that for like a year and a half whenever in a particular room
