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This pride month let’s remember those who came before us, and remember our community’s history. Remember the AIDS crisis, remember the rainbow flag, remember stonewall. Remember black trans women and what they did for us.
Imagine watching your mother collapse in front of you, knowing she could be saved but being unable to help because of money.
I write this as I watch my mother deteriorate day by day, unable to stop what is happening to her.
Her condition has become very serious due to liver cirrhosis, and her platelet count has dropped to a dangerously low level.
We urgently need the N-Plate 250 mcg injection again. Doctors confirmed the esophageal varices procedure cannot be done without it, and any delay increases the risk.
Time is running out and her condition is worsening. Donate now
The injection costs over $500, which I cannot afford in these harsh circumstances.
If you cannot donate, one share may help save her life.
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My little nephew is dying. I will never forgive anyone who ignores this.
Please, we urgently need 700 euros for my nephew's emergency surgery. 💔 His health has deteriorated drastically; he is now in a coma and unconscious, and he is suffering greatly. Time is running out, and every moment is crucial for him.
My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and suffered many traumas in this war. Please don't leave him alone. Donate for his operation. Please donate, donate! 💔😭
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20 euros have been raised out of the 700 euros needed. He still needs 680 euros for his nephew's surgery urgently before anything bad happens to him. Donate, donate, save a child's life!
If anything bad happens to me or I lose contact with you, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation, and ignores me.
Guys, someone donated 10 euros, but we still need 670 euros for my nephew's urgent surgery. Please don't let me lose hope. My hope is in you. Save us! Save my nephew before he dies! Please donate! Donate! Don't ignore me! I'm begging you! Donate! 😭😭💔
My friends, one of you donated 50 euros, but we still need 620 euros. Please, keep donating. So that we can have my nephew's surgery quickly and without delay? Please, I beg you, don't let us lose hope. Save my nephew's life! Donate, donate! 😭💔
Guys, we still need your help. No one has donated yet. Our goal remains the same. When will your hearts soften? All I'm asking is to save my nephew. I don't want him to die. Donate, donate. I don't want to suddenly have to tell you that my nephew has passed away. Please, we don't want to get to that point. My nephew's condition is critical. Donate, donate. 💔😭
These may be my last words or the last time I write a post about my nephew, so I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.
Guys, my nephew's surgery is in 16 hours, and we desperately need your help. We need 450 euros. Please, don't leave me alone. Save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Be with me! Donate, donate!💔😭
Please donate if you can, please, they don’t have much time left and only need €450! Donating 5 or 10 euros right now can really help them!!!
Guys, I'm saying it again, my nephew's surgery is in 14 hours, and we desperately need your help. Please, please don't leave me alone. Save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Please support me! Please donate, donate!💔😭
Oh God, oh God, time is running out and we still need 420 euros. Please, please stand by me, don't ignore me. Tell me the world still stands with me, helps me survive, gives me hope despite the genocide we are living through. Please, all I ask is to save my nephew. Please donate, donate!💔😭
Oh my God, time is running out and we haven't reached our goal yet. There are only 11 hours left. Please, please, we still need 400 euros for my nephew's surgery. Please don't let us down. I can't sleep, I really can't. I keep wondering if I'll be able to get my nephew the operation. Please, I don't want to lose him. Donate, donate! 😭💔
Guys, there are only 9 hours left, but we still need 350 euros. Please, don't let me down. Please donate! I don't want to lose hope. Please support me to save my nephew. Please, I don't want anything bad to happen to him. Time is running out. Donate, donate!💔😭
Oh my God, oh my God, guys, I can't sleep. The worry is killing me. We still need 350 euros for the operation, and there are only 7 hours left. Please, please look at me with compassion and help me. Donate to me, donate, donate! Please donate! Don't let me lose hope. I have great faith in you. Please save us! Donate, donate! 💔😭
Unfortunately, we were unable to perform my nephew's surgery today, and it has been postponed until tomorrow. We still need €330 to proceed with the operation. Please, my nephew's condition is very serious. Please, please donate. Don't let me down. Please donate!😭💔
Guys, I'm saying it again, my nephew's operation is in 16 hours, and we desperately need your help. We still need 320 euros. Please, please don't leave me alone. Please save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Please support me! Please donate, donate!😭💔
Please, please, we still need 320 euros for my nephew's surgery. Please don't let us down. I can't sleep, I really can't. I keep wondering if I'll be able to afford the operation. Please, don't let me lose hope. Please help me. Tell me there's someone who's standing with me and helping me. I don't want to lose that person. Donate, donate! 😭💔
Will you let another day pass without my nephew's surgery? We still need 300 euros for the operation. Please, please, your silence could kill my nephew. Don't let me lose hope. I have great faith in you, and you can do it. Please, I beg you, save us! Donate, donate! I haven't slept since yesterday, wondering if I'll be able to get my nephew's surgery or not. Please donate, donate! 😭💔
The operation has been postponed again! I swear we still need 270 euros. Please, guys, don't let us down again. This is the second time my nephew's operation has been postponed. Please don't make me lose hope in you. You are my hope. Tell me the world is still on my side. Please, please don't let anything bad happen to my nephew. Donate, donate! 😭😭💔
Guys, guys, there are only 10 hours left until the operation. We still need 250 euros. Please don't let me down. Please save my orphaned nephew who lost his parents in this genocide. Please, please tell me there's still hope and help me save my nephew. Please donate, please donate. 💔💔😭
Oh God, oh God, no one has donated yet! Time is running out and we still need 250 euros. Please, please support me, don't ignore me. Tell me the world still stands with me, helps me survive, gives me hope despite the genocide we are living through. Please, all I ask is to save my nephew. Please donate, donate!
One person donated 10 euros and we still need 240 euros. Please, why is everyone ignoring me when I desperately need your help? There are only 8 hours left. Please save my nephew. Donate, donate! I can't sleep, I can't sleep thinking about saving my nephew and his operation. Donate! 😭💔
Oh my God, oh my God! There are only 6 hours left until my nephew's surgery and we still need 200 euros. Please, someone help us! Please, please don't let us down! We don't want to miss another day and miss the surgery for my nephew. Please, today is the last day, we only need 200 euros. Donate, donate! 💔😭😭
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.
RUDE!!! that is so very much it.
If I may offer the lecturer's perspective on this idea:
Currently, it's marking season for us in the UK. I have an exam board in four hours, in fact, which is where we all go over every profile of every student on our courses, see what results they've achieved, and work out their "decision" - if all is well, the decision is to let them continue the course, or the final degree grade calculated if they're in final year. If it hasn't gone well, the decision is about whether they get to rework the pieces that failed, resit exams, repeat the whole year, or be required to withdraw.
And, as has been the case for the last two years, the profiles are now littered with plagiarism investigations. Every one of those - every single one - will have come in as an assignment that the lecturer received, and started reading, and then with a sinking feeling thought "This isn't your work." Every one had to go to an academic misconduct hearing. Every one is an enormous draw on time and resources, including the emotional reserves of the lecturer.
And I know that's not the main issue! I know in the grand scheme of things, our feelings aren't the most important part of this equation! But as we're talking about rudeness, let me explain:
Firstly, the work itself. You begin reading, you see it's AI. Contractually, we have to read it anyway, and give feedback on why it's shit, and what makes it bad, and that is absolutely fucking soul destroying. Most students who use AI are doing so because they've managed to train their brains to find reading something boring abhorrent, and they want to skip that part; but a ChatGPT-generated report is bland, vague, and utterly devoid of any passion, insight or personality. In short, it's boring. You simply passed your boredom on to us.
Secondly, regardless of your personal feelings about the assignment, it at least had a purpose. It was there to stretch you, and make you think about the topic so you could learn about it, and to test that learning so we can all make sure you have actually learned what you need to. But the slop you handed in, that I now have to mark? What's the point? Literally what is the fucking point of me marking it? You didn't even write it. None of the feedback I'm obligated to give means anything to you. I'm marking ChatGPT, and it can't read.
Which means, not only is it fucking boring, it's actively pointless. Ask anyone in the world what a boring but pointless obligatory task does to your mood. Imagine that.
Thirdly, the misconduct hearing. Because listen, again, the lecturer's feelings here are, once again, not the main point. Students who cheat like this aren't doing so because life is hunky dory. They're stressed and overwhelmed and struggling, and they think they've found a magic way out, and so being pulled into a misconduct hearing - where the best they can hope for is to have to redo the whole piece for a capped mark, on top of all the rest of the work they have (functionally, a bonus assignment), and the worst is expulsion - is a mental breakdown-inducing experience. That, obviously, is the biggest issue.
But, the lecturers know all that, which means we know what we're triggering if we do report it. I cannot tell you how upsetting it is to receive a slop assignment, realise what it is, and then have to make the call to report it. I know damn well how upsetting that's going to be for you. I know how stressful and painful that's going to be. I know this might mean you're going to be thrown out of university. In some cases, I know it means you will be.
I know I could look the other way to spare you that
And oh, that gets tempting. When things are really bad for you, and I see you struggling, and this is your third strike; fuck me but it's tempting to pretend that I can't tell.
I cannot do that.
Which brings me to number four: the soul-bleachingly fucking horrible ordeal that is the misconduct hearing itself. Most people are non-confrontational; I'm no exception. I also simply do not enjoy a sobbing, panicking student sitting in front of me, telling me about how stressed and scared they are and how they're terrified they're going to fail. But that's how these things go.
Our most recent example is an international Masters student. I don't know the particulars for him; but I do know it's not uncommon in his part of the world for families to go into obscene debt, often to loan sharks, to send their kids to UK universities. Failure means more than just academia for him. Having to sit through him turning white and quietly begging us to give him another chance before he left in tears he tried to hide from us was, obviously, much worse for him than us; but it was honestly traumatic. Even now, two weeks later, I can't get it out of my head. There's nothing we can do; but, I feel guilty anyway. I could have looked the other way.
(It wouldn't have passed anyway. It was terrible. But at least he'd probably be allowed a resit - we're still waiting on the outcome of this one, but he may well be withdrawn)
To bring this back to the point of the post:
I know my feelings aren't really the ones that matter here. I do know that. But, every time a student chooses to use AI to write an assignment, all that is what happens behind the scenes. My job nosedives into being shit. Whether it's reading the boring slop, having to write pointless feedback, or making the upsetting decisions to report it when I know what the consequences will be and then having to deal with the guilt, my job that I love suddenly becomes shit. And that, actually, among the many other things it is, is fucking rude.
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‘The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE)’ by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi ( 1410 - 11 C.E.)
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if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.
i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf
you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!
getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?
ALSO FUCKFKFNGN. WILDFLOWERS. THEY ALL LOOK LIKE "WEEDS" TO BEGIN WITH!!!!! To the untrained eye every fucking forb (herbaceous plants that are not grasses) will look like a weed before they bloom. And a great number of them also look like weeds WHILST in bloom! They look weird and gangly and leafy and they sprawl and have vines and some have spines because they are not de-fanged domesticated things that exist to be pretty! They exist to be FOOD and to SURVIVE. If you want pretty wildflowers and pollinators YOU HAVE TO LET THE "WEEDS" GROW!!!! in addition GRASSES are also important!! And they look like weeds too!
See this?
Trash plant, right?
WRONG! BUTTERFLY MILKWEED!
there are hundreds of examples like this. If you want flowers, you have to be okay with "weeds!"
Oh my God, my wife has completely lost consciousness. Her health is deteriorating due to lack of treatment. We are living through catastrophic conditions due to the war and the blockade. 😭
We are suffering from a severe shortage of food and medicine; we are suffering from acute malnutrition.
My wife is four months pregnant. Due to lack of food and medicine, she has completely lost consciousness. Her life and the baby's are in danger, and I am helpless to do anything for her.
I feel like I am going to die. We are living in hell because of the war. I don't want to lose my wife. My wife needs treatment as soon as possible to save her life and the life of her unborn child. Please help me, don't leave me alone in this cruel world.
I ask for your help with a heart filled with sorrow, loss, and pain. I lost my mother and older brother in this war.
Therefore, I am asking for your help and compassion to save my wife's life. Is there anyone who can save my wife? We urgently need a course of treatment costing 450 euros to improve her condition.
Please Donate Now For Save Life Her
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Please donate whatever you can urgently !!! They only need €450 euros !! If 45 people who saw this donated only €10, they can save his wife! Do something, please!
Please don't leave me alone in this cruel world. Please don't let my wife die. Help me, do something, I beg you, please help me. 😭
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My wife is fighting for her life. We must secure treatment now, or we will lose her. Please, I am suffering. I cannot bear to see my wife dying before my eyes and I am powerless to do anything for her. Please do something! Donate, donate to save her and provide treatment now! 😭
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124 / 450 € !!
My wife's health is deteriorating due to lack of treatment. Please help me quickly! Help me before it's too late! My wife is dying. We urgently need 326 € (medical assistance). Please help me! Don't leave me alone! I die a hundred times a day! I am helpless! Please do something! 😭
If anything bad happens to my wife or I lose contact with you, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation, and ignores me. Please donate before it's too late.
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280 / 450 € !!
Please Stand With Me, Please Help me, Don't Leave Me Alone, My wife urgently needs treatment; her condition is worsening due to a lack of medication. 😭
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Only Just 3 People can donated 50 € now I can afford the rest of my wife's treatment. Please Donate Now for save her Plesese!! 😭😭
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uh so, my savings are practically drained and the healthcare system is fucking me up without lube. i will need to take a week or so out of writing because the situation is pretty dire at the moment with my lungs.
if anyone would like to help me with any paypal donations, it’ll be greatly appreciated. even so much as a dollar could be a big help. as my thanks, no matter what ends up happening with my health issues, i’ll be making my upcoming exclusive patreon content free for a month.
i’d appreciate some signal boosts too, no worries if you can’t donate since i know times are hard. thank y’all for always supporting me, i’ll have an update ready if anything changes.
I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.
And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.
And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.
That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.
I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant
"I've never heard of Megan Thee Stallion before" if you've ever said any variation of "Hot Girl Summer" then congratulations you've benefitted from an internationally popular Black female artist's creativity
vamp fang studies from last month I forgot to post
If those were on a woman 🥵 my god I’d die on the spot
In bed and Story just stopped moving, then turned to face out into the darkness and said, completely apropos of nothing “now we are free from the gladiator” and i got scared
idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
I don’t like raw apples but I like them cooked so I’ve experimented a bit. I learned that in medieval Europe people used to put apples in like pottage and soup and whatnot so I tried putting them in soup and they’re pretty good. They make the soup slightly sweet. I basically chop them up in little pieces and sweat them like an onion. Pretty good in chicken soup.
Friend groups in the movies: Unshakably united by shared traumas, secret handshakes, and reminiscence of better days.
Friend groups in real life: Unshakably united by cryptic references to that one time one of you managed to mispronounce the word "shrimp".
You don’t have to love your body
I really needed to read this today. Thank you.