MoonShadows

Be kind.

[turnways]

Actually, yes, at some point as an adult iIt is your responsibility to learn about history and politics outside of what you were taught in traditional k-12 education

[aubrey-plaza]

MISS CONGENIALITY | 2000 

bonus:

[thedoubteriswise]

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[sistertaxon]

Incidentally, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do no have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

[duckdotcom]

I love using "by the way" as a segue into topics that are completely unrelated to the matters at hand. it isn't remotely by the way, quite a ways out of the way in fact. a little adventure

[uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

"contrapositives are for cowards"

[eclipxium]

college aus are kinda crazy. they would not be doing all that. There's midterms

[dreamingofmoonshadows]

Truly nothing like the few days before the classes end for the semester. Everyone is scrambling to finish this assignment or that presentation. There are three tests on any given day. You have an attendance of 30%. The practicals are all going terribly and your professors have mostly vanished from the face of the planet.

[skeletonclaw]

[luthi3n]

Oh. Oh. Oh I love this

[timetravellingkitty]

turban naxals sent me

[vitalinformations]

shut up

[allie-leth]

This man is actually willy Wonka and he needs to be stopped. Someone needs to stop him. This is out of control.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[cherchersketch]

Grandpa: I’ll DIE before I let you marry her

ML: aight BET

I will change the Genre

[moonmoonthecrabking]

"use chatgpt" that's the devil talking. buy four caffeinated drinks and pull an all nighter. this is the way.

[sourgrapelaffytaffy]

"How will you sleep at night?"

"Next to my wife."

[beemovieerotica]

"why is my mental health so bad" -> oh yeah I haven't gazed fondly at a large body of water in a month

[borderlinereminders]

People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.

It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.

Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.

[inkzbat]

I agree with this but they can communicate that they need time to themselves or time alone and just wanna post things and have alone time instead of ignoring, communication is important.

[lechatelierite]

I think expecting people to actively take the effort to communicate to every single person they regularly talk to, every single time they need a break, is honestly putting a lot on that person and defeats the whole point of having a break. If I had the energy to text 30 people that I’m tired and need a break, I would probably have the energy to just respond to them.

Wanting to post things and chill out is a really normal human need and should not need to be communicated every time. People need to consider why they feel so entitled to other people’s time. Nobody owes you a response for any reason and I hate how modern technology has made it such that people are constantly expected to respond and that not texting back when you’re doing something is considered “ignoring”. It’s not ignoring, it’s being busy, and people should assume that by default instead of needing it spelled out/communicated.

[borderlinereminders]

Sharing this response because I keep getting comments and asks and people tagging about this and how “well you should at least communicate that you’re tired”.

And I think this response nails what I wanted to say in response really well.

[dont-leafmealone]

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