oozey mess
Cosmic Funnies
if i look back, i am lost
Jules of Nature
NASA
izzy's playlists!
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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YOU ARE THE REASON
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
almost home
roma★
sheepfilms
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Claire Keane
noise dept.
occasionally subtle
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
DEAR READER
Origami Around
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@acasualbitch
Lindsay-King Miller’s excellent essay on how the women on Angel were treated and specifically how Charisma Carpenter’s character, Cordelia, was treated after she got pregnant irl is more poignant today than ever.
The deaths of Darla, Fred, and Cordelia Chase were a waste
🕷️Batman Beyond (1999)🕷️
MEXICO WIN!!! FUCK AI!!!
The real impact of AI at university level that I've watched in real time is how so many students come onto courses now - including Masters level - who straight up don't know how to analyse/evaluate things anymore. They just accept whatever they first read/hear completely uncritically. Every time you point it out you have to coax them into Actually Thinking.
I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.
"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"
"I'm sure I read it," he said.
"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."
The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.
"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."
Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.
"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."
Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.
A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.
I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.
Ngh. Yelling at the choir here, I know, but NNNNGH
STAND WITH MINNESOTA
WHAT'S HAPPENING & HOW TO HELP
How the fuck am I supposed to meet a fellow lesbian and then convince her to date me
Don't know anything about lesbians, but maybe if you walked around carrying a baseball bat that'd be really bad ass.
Turns out I know everything about lesbians
Always amusing when people get upset that fictional worlds not meant to resemble established history don’t accurately resemble established history. I'm pretty sure Robert Jordan never intended for the setting to be high medieval, but closer to the renaissance. The show, though, has just embraced the idea that it is all post-apocalyptic and therefore fashion can be whatever they want it to be.
Bro how could you be mad when they do nothing but serve c*nt in that show, and i’m not even kidding. Their costume and wardrobe department as well as hair and makeup departments deserve awards, the effort that goes into each characters own styles progression, and all the different trends and clothing from the regions they go to. you can tell they put thought into it all. I can’t understand how anyone would say the characters outfits don’t work …
Boss battle theme from Kirby 64.
The shredding
This scene and sequence was so stunning, my jaw dropped! And this was only the first scene of the first episode! I knew that we were going to get an amazing season and so far I've been blown away. I feel like every season is better than the last
There are many ways to be a channeler. Many ways to be a woman. […] Channeling is like the sea. It can’t be controlled. It flows, whether you want it to or not.
When we fucking it’s your soul that i want
Fundamental life advice: never trust a product from a youtuber/influencer sponsorship
Raycons - overpriced repackaged cheap bullshit
Hello fresh - last years workers were on strike for shitty work conditions and there’s reports of union busting. Never have i seen a youtuber acknowledge this at all
Adam and Eve - the dildos aren’t all from body safe materials. Don’t risk it with cheap dildos it can fuck your body up
Audible - owned by amazon
Idk which one but one of the vpn ones mined bitcoin from ur computer and they’re useful but generally falsely advertised, not a big tech person but this guy talks about it
All the fit teas and shakes etc are bullshit that just makes you poop and loose water weight short term
Raid shadow legends - lol do i even need to explain this one
All the loot crates - filled with cheap junk they’re getting wholesale
The online coupon thingies are a data harvesting scam. Just google the shop name + coupon when shopping
The online therapy better help was a whole big controversy and i still see this shitty company being promoted
Idk maybe the learning platform ones are the exception but i never looked into them
Adding on to this. Skillshare is hard to cancel. There’s a slight chance this has changed but when I looked into subscribing, there was a lot of people complaining about having to email the company multiple times to cancel.
Since Squarespace is templets, they legally own whatever you make. If you decide to change providers, you can’t take it with you. You’re stuck with them forever or have to rebuild your website from the ground up. You at least own the domain name so there’s that, but for me it’s not worth the work if I have to restart should I ever decide I hate the company.
I want more people to know this because every time I’ve looked into something advertised by youtubers, it’s never been good.
Time to talk about SponsorBlock again.
This is a Firefox extension that automatically skips sponsorship messages in Youtube videos. The fact that these small-time corporations feel the need to make Youtube creators behave like trained animals for a tiny contribution is stupid in the first place.
Sponsor block has been amazing
