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makani's tumblr for non-art nonsense

[piinkechooo]

Something that really happened the other night that gave me so much emotional whiplash I had to make a comic out of it. Enjoy!

[butchfriend]

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

[cognitiveinequality]

[sturionic]

For anyone unfamiliar with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the entire thesis is that traditional educational models promote oppression by removing students' agency in their own learning. Freire argues that currently education functions as a "banking model" - teachers are the holders of knowledge, and students are empty vessels, waiting to have that knowledge put into their heads like a piggy bank. This reinforces a passive attitude towards information, not seeking and understanding it on your own terms, but waiting for a "banker" to deposit it into your head.

Instead, Freire proposes that teachers and students act as co-creators of knowledge, where students become active participants in their own learning through questions and dialogue. Teachers are also open to changing their understanding of topics in the process of critical dialogue - the goal is not "student learns Fact A and memorizes it as presented," but instead the goal is the knowledge itself, discovered collaboratively by teacher and student, who are acting with empathy and respect towards each other. This also starts the process of the oppressed being able and empowered to question structures of power, take agency, and actively participate in the transformation of society.

So, the irony of writing an AI essay on critical pedagogy is actually insane; because it's essentially the extrapolated endpoint of Freire's arguments that our current educational system creates passive receptacles who not only can't think critically in an educational context, but also become the perfect citizens for a world that doesn't want us questioning structures of power, to view those in power as we viewed our teachers - deliverers of indisputable facts that must be memorized and regurgitated because they command it, and not co-creators of true understanding.

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

[nattousan]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[victusinveritas]

He's prostrating himself before the Eucharist, in case you're wondering. Or possibly planking.

[vvatchword]

@apocrypals

[apocrypals]

Hi, pope expert here. This isn’t funny — popes only do this when they’re in extreme distress

[zuzartii]

I've been making a lot of random e33 doodles, so I'm throwing them all into one post. Featuring:

🐞Bugspedition 33 (Why? I don't know either),

Monoco's and Verso's very serious adventures

The squad in their anniversary haircuts 💖

[zuzartii]

Forgot to add the best part: my friend turned the Bugspedition into stickers for me. Skin clear crops watered etc

[daphrona]

“lordaeron parents told their children fairy tales about uther and the original paladins :)”

how I now imagine what pre-third war paladin households were like:

[targetedknowledge]

[lynmars79]

Link to the artist's images on reddit, from the comments.

[sacred-portal]

[katmorart]

[dinolich]

Welcome to Taskmaster!!! Would you like to play a game?

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

one of my favorite internet posts

[anoia]

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[rcrisu]

For some good luck 🐎✨✨

[nonaferatu]

My favorite one yet- heres the creator

[wearewatcher]

maybe someday we’ll all be promoted to Professional Ghost Catchers