When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense…
call that the Ship of Thesaurus
Any educator who doesn’t feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase “Unused York City.”
A lecturer at Middlesex University in 2014, Chris Sadler, coined the term “Rogetism” for these. Perhaps the best:
When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense…
call that the Ship of Thesaurus
Any educator who doesn’t feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase “Unused York City.”
A lecturer at Middlesex University in 2014, Chris Sadler, coined the term “Rogetism” for these. Perhaps the best:
Tips from your friendly local woman with a job that gives people vicarious trauma.
- get a creative hobby. Self expression helps and so does practicing skills that use your hands if that’s an option for you. Coloring counts.
- schedule downtime. You aren’t a bad person if you need a break from the Horrors. You can get up to speed later. Turn off news alerts and stay off social media. Find something engaging to do and immerse yourself. At least a day or two a month. For best results, take your downtime with another human and talk about something other than the Horrors.
- get a physical hobby, if that’s accessible for you. It’s unfortunately true that exercise gives you endorphins. It’s also good to get out of your head and into your body. Swimming is extra good because immersion in water triggers your mammalian diving reflex and calms your nervous system.
- mindfulness is another thing that I’m annoyed works but does. YouTube meditations, walking meditations, restorative practice yoga, etc.
- if you’re like me, you may also need your own cannon of readings to fall back on- they don’t have to be scripture from your faith (though those also work) but can be passages, poems, and song lyrics from any work where you find meaning. These help ground you and remind you of your role in all this tragedy.
Seconding all of this but also adding:
Don’t just sit in all the misery and then log off and try to forget about it for a while just to sit in it again. *Do* something. It is much easier to unplug and take some time for self-care when you know that your time has been well-spent, that you’ve actually done the best you can do to help out, and that you are now *taking a break* so that you can return to help again. You don’t need to do world-changing things. You just need to *genuinely* do what you know is the best of your ability. If you can fundraise? do that. Protest? Do that. Write/call your representatives? Educate your community? Provide comfort to people in need? Do that. Remember that you are part of a community, and your individual actions are not about changing the world, but helping to add another drop into the pool that will ultimately bring about change. Pick 1 cause, maybe 2. Do the things that are fully within your means to do and separate out that time so you can do that work and then give yourself time off. Even if you “only” donate a few hours of your time or a little bit of money or whatever, you are building up to something bigger.
“noooo but this trans woman is actually dangerous and has hurt people” please explain to me how spotlighting her and setting her up for mass harassment is in any way helping anyone in this situation. Like, does this 6 hour long cringe compilation help the victims? because i think you just want an acceptable target for bullying
guys i don’t think doxxing and stalking and obsessive documentation of a person constitutes justice, i genuinely don’t care what a person has done to “earn” it.
there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word “spicy” to mean “neurodivergent” and one that uses the word “spicy” to mean “sexual content.” i do not like either of them
I use spicy to describe food
my food is mentally ill and I’m putting my dick in it
cultural christians create a “winter”-themed fandom event or fanfic that isn’t just christmas-themed while pretending it’s not, challenge level: impossible
I do think it’s ultimately the potion seller’s right to not sell the knight potions that would explode the knight and that it’s out of hubris that the knight keeps insisting on only the strongest potions but I also think it’s a situation born on clashing egos because the potion seller is clearly proud of how strong he can make his potions and here comes a common bloke insinuating that he can handle the best of what the potion seller is capable of offering, and instead of offering more suitable alternatives from his own stock the potion seller completely shutters down on this initial gaffe out of pride - note how he says “you’d better go to a seller that sells weaker potions” instead of recommending his own weaker potions, suggesting that he is still stuck on the knight’s request as an insult to his abilities as a seller above anything else, and reasserting himself as a high quality seller relative to other sellers. ultimately this unfortunate interaction happens because neither party is willing to cede an inch out of the initial affront to their self image
what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they’re not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
I recently learned that, a few years ago, the Vienna Tourism Board had such a problem with this that they opened an OnlyFans for their museums.
I hate this aspect of US culture and want to fight it viciously
I hate this aspect
of US culture and want to
fight it viciously
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Tumblr dash: It’s misogynistic not to acknowledge that women are more susceptible to propaganda because our brains have more goo.
Me: *closes Tumblr dashboard*
Some days I deeply wish more people understood that reblogging bigots in order to dunk on them is still front-paging their bullshit, no matter how good you got them or how hard everyone clapped.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about how transfems are pretty much entirely barred from working in childcare.
The only possible motivation a transfem could have to work with children, in most people’s minds, is sexual. There’s no thought given to the possibility that it’s steady work with good pay, or that she just needs a job and took the first thing that came up. And if she claims she likes working with children? Clearly a pedophile.
Hell, the only way you can even get one of those jobs as a transfem is if you can pass. If you’re even a bit clocky, the interviewers are going to assume sexual predator and ghost you after the interview. And then if you do pass you have to be prepared to go extreme stealth, lest anyone find out that you’re trans and throw a fit about your existence.
And so we’re barred from a huge sector of the economy. Any jobs in daycares or schools are essentially unavailable to us, because we’re assumed to be a danger to children. Because transmisogyny.
I feel absolute rage when i call An Office and have to sit through a 5 minute recording telling me I can just use their website thanks!!! I can’t! Believe it or not I’m a child of the internet age who went on your website and it was shit!! Get me a human person!!!!
any government department: ~you can use our website~
me, 2 hours on hold: I really fucking cannot
Doctor’s office hold music: did you know you can book an appointment right now through our app?
Me, who downloaded the app half an hour ago which said “online booking unavailable for this location”: -_-
if were all catpeople there would be trans catboy forums devoted to how to dye over calico markings so you can pass better and another group of trans catboys who insisted that the only way to deal with it is to normalize catboys having calico markings. the discourse would be insane
meanwhile all the far right commentary catboy youtube channels would have videos titled ‘HAS “MALE CALICO” ACCEPTANCE GONE TOO FAR?’ with the thumbnail of some random calico catboy who was shown in 0.001 second of a popular clothing brand’s pride month ad
there would be a whole other discourse over why we should stop talking about calico catboys when no one knows the struggle of transitioning from a girl orange cat (cute) to a male orange cat (stupid)
I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.
I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.
Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.
Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.
Are there any other particularly egregious examples?
This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:
It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).
This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:
In third grade, I started writing a book called “HOW TO NOT DIE IN THE WOODS” mostly about not petting the wildlife, but apparently I should finish it.
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
“you are one of gods strongest soldiers” i say, not even believing in either of those institutions
“you are one of God’s strongest soldiers” - common, theistic, why does god need soldiers. Who does she go to war with so often that she needs so many soldiers. Maybe that budget would be better spent elsewhere.
“You are one of Cosmos’ greatest observer” - strange and mystical, can actually be true since both the cosmos and the observers exist, says that you notice them observing things which also makes you a good observer :)
hedonism is good actually rich people just suck at it
i think not only do we have a moral obligation to preserve human life but also a moral obligation to maximize the pleasure of others and ourselves (provided it doesn’t hurt anyone)
people don’t just deserve to eat food, they deserve to eat good food that tastes good without worrying about nutritional content
people don’t just deserve clothes, they deserve nice clothes that are well made and fit their personal style
people don’t just deserve the bare minimum, they don’t just deserve to be alive, they deserve to live and have nice things for no other reason than making that particular person happy
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