coasting

Take it ham n cheesy. Be yourself. No regrets! You're all sexy.

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x06 - “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern” ↳ “Hey, you're going to be a great mother.”

[boobieteriat]

Other people already said it but sending immigrants to El Salvador is not a deportation but a kidnapping. Deportation is sending a person to their country of origin. This is something worse.

[phoebesbridges]

And think about what happens to these people who have no El Salvador citizenship once they arrive there and how they cannot leave El Salvador. First off, the US and El Salvador governments have to have an agreement otherwise El Salvador would not accept these people. Secondly, they are ending up in literal "Mega-Prisons" to do God knows what. They can't leave the country even if they were free since they likely have no documentation/money after being snatched up from their homes in the US. They are deporting people with no criminal record and this is really just the definition of human trafficking.

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[livedinthecastle]

“every time i see this celebrity they look younger!” cool, it’s plastic surgery

[livedinthecastle]

it’s not pilates, it’s not skincare, it’s not moral virtue manifesting in the form of physical beauty, you’re not gonna grow old like that, they didn’t even grow old like that, and the cosmetic procedures you can afford are not gonna look that good

[livedinthecastle]

also the new popular comment to make is "lol [actress] has taken the substance" and it's like...yeah. that's what the substance was about

[celebrityho]

[eurodynamic]

[kanagenwrites]

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

[eldritchamy]

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

This is also a good string on this topic.

[dwgif]

Doctor Who Silence in the Library | 4.08

[important-animal-images]

[pizzabills]

the full slayage

[screengifs]

Gwen Stacy  (Spider man: Across the spider verse, 2023)

@comicedit women in comics: Week 1 → Favourite female character.

[haymakers9th]

[machetesquirrel]

I’m just going to leave this here

[chosetoseethebestinyou]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

He really did.

[bibliophilepixie]

[edgar-allan-possum]

Don't know why anyone's even surprised. Like half his Doctor Who episodes were about technology screwing everything up because it didn't understand context or emotions or just kept running the same script long after it was useful.

[moniquill]

[ansonmountdaily]

Captain's log, supplemental. Ours problems seem to have doubled. We started our day with one time traveler and now we have two, which is… a lot.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"

[capinejghafa]

evelyn's toolkit

+bonus

[silverhawk]

but the good news is:

[anymoretastelessdemands]

Now that IS good news

[catvalentines]

@pscentral event 36: TRIOS

↳ Eleven, Amy Pond & Rory Williams

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange to me that some people aren't bisexual

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i can understand having strong preferences one way or another, but not experiencing even mild passing attraction or sexual curiosity in regards to the strange wide range of human gender? bitch im borderline asexual and even i get it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

also women and men? basically the same thing??? there's so much overlap!!! u all look like relatively hairless ape-adjacent bipeds to me. i have to squint to see it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

like, not even just a little bisexual? even just in your head, as a concept to play around with? out of mild curiosity? to amuse yourself on a rainy day?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

loving the people in the notes with "I'm only attracted to one gender and honestly it confuses the heck out of me also." i think i get it now. arbitrary human condition is arbitrary. go kiss your lovers in the rain