Eaghan Scarlette

Twenty-nine. College Student. Physics, perusing a B.S. in astrophysics. Nerd. Geek. Gamer. Genderfucked. Queer. Neutral Pronouns.

[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[unlimitedgamesbutnogames]

HERE’S ALL THE PDF VERSIONS I COULD FIND SINCE WE’RE ALL IN QUARANTINE AND WE CAN’T PHYSICALLY GET THE BOOKS WE DON’T HAVE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)

[emeraldscholar]

rebloggan 4 links

[soulsearching-sir]

I do my best to live by these words…

[a-sweetheart-being-40-deactivat]

Wow! At some of the banned books! Insane!

[mdstroup2142]

Reblogging for those links.

[official-ginger-kid]

I’m keeping this, that’s amazing

[aubreeveey]

Dreamlight Valley Flower Guide 🌺 🌹 🌸✨

[queerasaurus-rexx]

Dreamlight Valley Tips I Wish I Knew Before Playing

UNLOCK SCAR'S QUESTS BEFORE MINNIE'S LEVEL 10 QUEST DIGGING UP THE BONES IN SUNLIT PLATEAU GIVES SO MUCH CLAY

save the snow from elsa's quests. you will need it.

idk if it's just me, but when you start getting low on shards and the dig sites don't seem to be spawning, put the shards from you inventory into your home chest. it seems to trigger at least a few more dig sites.

hoard lemons or cocoa beans in your inventory. they give you 400 energy each and you only need to munch on a handful to replenish your energy.

level up goofy's stalls as soon as you can

spam gift flowers to level up faster. not only are they everywhere, they respawn quickly and cost nothing.

just look up the recipe online. it's fine.

serve. meals. at. remy's. oh my god.

turn the space beside your house into a garden. you'll need it.

do the daily discussions

[aubreeveey]

Dreamlight Valley Critter Guide 🐿 🐇 🐢 🦅 🦝 🦊 🐊✨

[aubreeveey]

Disney Dreamlight Valley Cooking Guide ✨

[guerrillatech]

[biglawbear]

Did y'all even fucking pay attention to all the climate change regulations Obama and Biden implemented? Cutting greenhouse gasses and pollution? The Paris Climate accords? The pandemic response team that they created?

Trump systematically rolled back EVERY major climate regulation Obama and Biden enacted, from increasing fuel standards for cars to limits on methane. He backed out of Paris. He dismantled the pandemic response team.

Republicans don't believe climate change is a thing at all. Biden has a $2 trillion dollars climate plan based on the Green New Deal. Biden has said multiple times that climate change is one of the greatest existential crises the next President must face.

This isn't "vote for Biden because he's not Trump." The parties could not be farther apart. Biden heard y'all in the Primaries and MOVED LEFT.

If y'all think that Biden is just as bad as Trump, or that he doesn't want anything to fundamentally change, you didn't pay attention the entire time under the Obama administration. You aren't paying attention now.

You're a fucking moron who doesn't give one shit about the progressive causes you actually care about. You only care about getting woke points on the internet and being angry. Fuck you.

[biglawbear]

Wait I decided I'm not done

Trump is a literal fucking fascist. Not to be the Jew that tells you all the signs of Nazi Germany are already fucking here. But they are.

Biden at least fucking believes in Democratic norms and not being a fucking fascist

Even if you think Biden is some kind of boring centrist who doesn't want to change a thing. If you can't tell the fucking difference between that and a fucking fascist. Fuck you.

Also, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 and has cancer for the fifth time and Trump just announced that he wants to replace her with Ted Cruz. Things like Roe v Wade, climate regulation, voting rights, and criminal rights are all hanging by a 5-4 thread on the Supreme Court that depends on one of the five Republican Justices having a spasm of conscience. If Ted Cruz replaces RBG and solidifies a 6-3 Republican majority for the next forty years, it won't matter how progressive your President or Congress is because SCOTUS will strike down every fucking law and regulation they pass, in addition to overturning Roe v Wade, marriage equality, and other fundamental rights.

Y'all aren't as progressive as you think you are

[graylibrary]

don't forget disabled people. Biden has several policies (like marriage equality for us too since we still don't have that) that will help us while 45 has several that will kill us.

which I think sums up Biden and 45 very well, actually: Biden has some policies that will help, while 45 and his republican administration have policies that are and will continue to kill people.

[cafecatcrossing]

tile pumpkin path 🎃💜

[artsyeden]

Can you make Marnie's outfit from Sword & Shield?

I haven’t played Pokemon Sword and Shield, but this outfit is super cute!

[appletartboutique]

[shhoos-crossing]

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@winteroflowfidelity asked if there's gonna be a bi \ pan jacket and the answer is yes!! This is for all you valid pan and bi people 💛💛

How it looks ingame:

If there's demand for other flags I'll definitely do more ^^

[ check my acc for the trans \ nb flag! ]

[spoon-crossing]

New Pokemon Sword and Shield rival wearing a QR Code

[whitepeopletwitter]

[samshine-and-lollipops-deactiva]

Wait, it got better.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gingersofficial]

[candiikismet]

Life path unlocked. He’s a scientist now.

[prolifeproliberty]

If your dad is telling you in great detail about something he’s passionate about, you’re going to be hooked even if you don’t understand a word.

[by-grace-of-god]

He tells us more…

So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.

Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni . 

Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.

It’s funny though — on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone ❤️

Addendum: he has really grasped onto the “everything is made of atoms” part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.

“And my bed?” Yes, and your bed. “And that wall?” Yep. “And the armchair?” Yes, the armchair too. … … “And… the book case?” Y—

“And my home?” Yep, the whole apartment block. “And your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.” Haha, it is. … … “But is it made of atoms?” Yep. “And… [best friend]’s home?” Yes, it is. And [other friend]’s home, and [third friend]’s home.

“Is [yet another friend]’s home?”

Update from the other night:

“Is my… is… [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?” —Yes! Yes it is.

I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.

Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks “is [baby sister] made up of atoms?”

yep!

*runs over to her on the floor* *puts face up real close to hers* “HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[arcticfoxbear]

@radioactivepeasant @themagdalenwriting @iusedtohaveanaccount

“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[the-strongest-decoy]

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[windwardstar]

My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points for a question that the majority of the class got wrong from the total on the test and then hold a lesson on the topic because she realized if 90% of her students didn’t know the answer then she hadn’t done a good job teaching it.

[randaness]

I hate it when teachers take pride in having a large percentage of students get bad grades in their classes. It just means that students aren’t learning from you

[bettsfic]

you know, i have a science degree in psychology, which basically means you spend 4 years learning how to build experiments. then i became a teacher, and i realized with horror that grading is always an in accurate measurement of a student’s learning. 

if a classroom were set up like a social science experiment, the students taking a test would not be what’s being measured. the student’s grades are a measurement of the quality of the teacher.

where things are really broken is that the teacher is both the variable being measured and the assessor, which, in social science, is deeply unethical.

then, i took a very close look at the requirements of the class i was teaching, to figure out if i really needed to assign letter grades, and it said something to the effect of “yes, you must assign letter grades because it makes students work harder.”

and that’s when i realized: grades are merely a tool of conformity and obedience. an ideal educational structure would not have grading metrics at all, but classrooms small enough to offer holistic feedback and self-guided/collaborative learning.

[percivald3rolo]

Reblogging again for the addition

[argumate]

seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

[th4nkyoub3n]

Does Firefox not count for anything?

[argumate]

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

[argumate]

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

[ms-demeanor]

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

[bookloveranddesigner]

[justsomeantifas]

They don’t teach kids math from proofs on up in the usa because it would give children tools to create their own world to rules they made. To think outside of a capitalist framework is to sow the destruction of the bourgeoisie. 

[justsomeantifas]

people think mathematics is just formulas and numbers … lmao it’s not, we had to invent those formulas from scratch, capitalists want you to think all there is to life is memorizing baseless bullshit to accomplish useless tasks that only benefit them. 

real math isn’t like that at all.

real math is creating a universe that doesn’t even follow this universe’s rules. you can do whatever the fuck you want in mathematics it’s a tool you can use to paint whatever you want when you know how to use said tool.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

They don’t contextualize math

[justsomeantifas]

CONTEXTUALIZE IT? FRIEND…???? THEY DON’T EVEN TEACH IT!!!!!!

[justsomeantifas]

HOW MANY OF YOU KIDS HAVE EVEN HEARD OF TOPOLOGY? ADULTS? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF GRAPH THEORY? ABSTRACT ALGEBRA? HOW MANY OF YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT NUMBER THEORY IS??? NO??? NO TAKERS?? WHAT THE FUUUYUUCKWADFSJBSDNFKJCDSUKDNFDSI

[prince-tips]

what rad education did you get? We only got proofs at gcse highers here.Tell us the secret forbidden math.

[justsomeantifas]

Let me tell you my tale:

When I was in college I decided to study economics, because I love people, and wanted to do something with it

I got amazing grades in my economics classes, and so my economics advisor took me aside one day and was like “I need to tell you something… economics? it’s bullshit. it’s all bullshit” ON GOD THESE WERE HIS WORDS HIS NAME IS NICK SLY AND THESE WERE HIS WORDS “if you want to do something with your life get your bachelors in mathematics, it will help you understand the world much better than any of this will. I’m not teaching anything of substance, if you want substance go to the mathematics department. I only tell students who genuinely care. The rest can get the degree.”

and I’m like “damn that’s pretty deep.”

so I go to the math department and I’m like “I want to study mathematics but I am bad at it.”

and this fucking old russian professor [arkady vaintrob] who learned how to prove shit in mathematics in third grade in soviet russia was like “None of us are good at mathematics. None of us will ever be good at mathematics. You should not do things just because you are good at them. You should do things that make you feel fulfilled. Even if you are bad at them they can help you in life.”

I’m still skeptical though, so I take some classes, and then I take some more classes, and the only people who claimed to be good at mathematics dropped the major, terrified of failure.

No one is good at mathematics, it is very difficult, we learn because it is wholesome. We learn because it helps us in life with other difficult things.

Please study math, all of you. It’s hard as fuck, it isn’t easy, it’s so fucking hard. I sobbed over studying mathematics and not understanding. It’s because I spent 13 years in the education system learning vapid trash, and had to unlearn that all… and it only took me 2 years to unlearn a lot of it … for it to help me in life forever more.

Please study math.

[justsomeantifas]

If you want to get into math I suggest you take up The Art of Problem Solving: The Basics, it’s anything but basic. Usually they hand these out for free at math competitions, but if anyones got a torrent I’ll spam the shit out of it, you need both the book and the solutions manual. I swear to fuck it’s the best thing you can do for yourself.

The Art of Problem Solving series IN GENERAL is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I’m not a shill for them I just … learn so much every time I go back through their books.

[justsomeantifas]

A GRACIOUS AND BELOVED ANON HAS BESTOWED UPON ME THE GOSPEL

YOU CAN FIND THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING HERE ALLEGEDLY. I HAVENT LOOKED BUT I WILL LOOK. BUT IM TELLING YOU ALL. PLEASE DO YOURSELF THE FAVOR OF LEARNING SOME BASIC MATH. NOT FROM THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM BUT FOR YOURSELF FROM PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT MATHEMATICS AND TREAT IT SACREDLY. 

on library genesis libgen(.)is/book/index(.)php?md5=300911F1614E5B9DF6319539DED64C2A

[odinsblog]

Obama and Hillary Clinton really out there tryna put their thumbs on the scale and front for conservative Democrats in the primaries. (SMH, I’m disappointed, but not surprised). Corporate Dems really trying to turn, “change is too hard and unrealistic” into a policy platform.

The truth is, we’ve gone too far right. But centrists will always kick left and compromise with the right. We need some FDR type Democrats who aren’t constantly chasing after Republican voters.

Angela Davis once said,”You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time.” 

I much prefer that message as opposed to the, “don’t rock the boat, don’t upset the status quo” advice that Reagan/Clinton Democrats are shoveling. 

[tire-deyes]

Everyone was surprised about Obama’s comments but if you bothered to follow American politics on international news sources, you’d find even he was still very conservative by European standards.

[virgo-of-rage]

People really missed the mark with what he was trying to say.

[odinsblog]

@virgo-of-rage No. Not really.

Look, I read the article. I “get it” that there was some nuance. But unmistakably, there was an clear “warning” against going “too far left”. And, not sorry, but that’s utter bullshit.

We didn’t get stop-and-frisk because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get rampant voter suppression and gerrymandering because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get the electoral college and Donald Trump because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get Citizens United and an activist, right-wing SCOTUS because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get no gun reforms after Sandy Hook because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get the Affordable Care Act virtually repealed because we’re too far left. 

We didn’t have virtually free college eliminated by Ronald Reagan because we’re too far left.

We don’t have abortion clinics being shut down because we’re too far left.

We don’t have immigrant child separation and modern day concentration camps because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get the Voting Rights Act gutted right before the 2016 election because we’re too far left.

Flint didn’t get it’s water source poisoned because we’re too far left.

We haven’t had living wages suppressed for generations because we’re too far left.

We haven’t had unions busted because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get the KXL Pipeline going through sacred native lands because we’re too far left.

We didn’t get massive income inequality, a second gilded age, and repeated tax cuts for billionaires because we’re too far left.

FOR JUST ONCE, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR CENTRISTS ADMIT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS GONE TOO FAR RIGHT.

Being more progressive is NOT the fucking problem. It’s the solution.