[just-shower-thoughts]

If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday it could also be known as “2’s Day”

[the-daily-echo-deactivated20170]

DUDE

[diishii]

CLUB GOIN UP

ON A 

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[ouyangzizhensdad]

“vegan leather” “artificial whale bone” “synthetic fabric”

[locatebiome]

minecraft gothic

- You are the only one capable of building complex, planned structures. You are alone. You don’t remember building the temples or houses you come across.

- You are alone. You are the only one like you in the entire world.

- Villagers keep their hands clasped beneath long robes. You’ve never seen a villager’s hand. Sometimes you wonder if they have them at all.

- The villagers all have the same empty green eyes. They have completely different anatomy from you. They’re humanoid, but not human. Are you?

- The undead, however, have your face and your clothes. They seem closer to you than the villagers.

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world.

- All caves are the same. You’ve been in a ravine like this one. Maybe you’ve been in this ravine. You’ve visited it countless times. No matter which way you turn, you stumble into it.

- No matter which way you turn, there’s more caves. Sometimes there’s torches. You’ve been here. You still can’t get out. Sometimes there’s not torches. Sometimes you give up escape and decide to explore ever deeper.

- You wonder if you’ve ever seen the surface, or if you were born in these caves with a vibrant imagination.

- You are the only living thing in this world. 

- You come across dusty, abandoned mineshafts and rusty minecarts with loot at the bottom. You don’t remember building these or leaving anything behind. You wouldn’t shore up the walls with wooden posts. You know this world better than that.

- Then why does shoring up the walls seem logical? You don’t remember a world before this one. Why does this one feel so strange, sometimes even irrational?

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world. You’re being watched. 

- The caves aren’t yours. You’re the only one in them, but they’re not yours. They belong to something else - someone else, and you both know it.

- You’re alone in the world. You’re not alone in the caves. Their breathing and occasional humming echo in the stony corridors.

- Maybe the caves themselves are breathing. Singing.

- You are the only living thing in this world. The world itself, however, is alive.

- You make up stories for everything you build. You forget they’re just stories.

- The world sings to you. You clutch its music close and hope it never stops. In the silence after each song, you’re alone.

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world, for this world is honest. You are being watched, for you are not.

- You’re the only living thing in this world. The world is alive. You are not alive the same way.

- The world exists to for you to live in it, and you think it resents that.

[asterythm]

hey op? this is quite possibly the rawest sentence ever written on tumbler dot com and the fact that it came from a post about minecraft will forever haunt me

[rainmakesyouwhole]

minecraft has always been this raw though are we forgetting the end credits sequence that like implies the world is all a simulation and the player is a god in tune with the universe

[thefandomlesbian]

Gaining weight is not "ruining" your body. Fat people are not "ruined."

[bogleech]

lol

[sneakyspades]

hold on gotta look somehing up

[sneakyspades]

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

[apinklion01]

[[ Transmission of image ]]

Three pictures are displayed. The first is a picture with a Magic the Gathering card and a circular piece of wood. The card has a circular piece taken out. The text reads as the following:

D&D players, here’s a great way to turn your old Magic cards into tokens in case you don’t have any minis.

The second is a reaction meme with Skipper from the Penguins of Madagascar TV show.

The third is a screenshot showing the value of the Magic the Gathering card from the first picture. At TCGplayer.com the card, a Black Lotus, is shows at the value of $42,000.

[[ end of transmission ]]

[perfectcromulence]

After reblogging this post an hour or so ago I wised up and realized there’s no reason to make a game token for a blue flower. To demonstrate the utility of this craft technique, you’d use an orc or an elf or something like that. The first image above has got to be a photoshop. Here’s the original image:

[shakuras3nder]

[scarlet-rosepetals]

I hope I keep seeing iterations of this post with new additions of “actually that’s photoshopped, THIS is the real image” with an increasing number of wildly expensive Magic cards.

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

[guooey]

Love him... love mr. cool...

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

So deer have this instinct to stand tall and walk like a king when they notice something (a predator) watching them so they look like strong opponents since predators usually target the weakest members of the herd. The baby is doing the Don't Eat Me Walk.

[despicableplankton]

Predators: “How could I possibly eat someone THAT cool??”

[fishcrow]

Rdy to bite some ankles at met gala

[vendetta06]

I agree with the message but?! this is tone deaf coming from one of the elitist, most prestigious fashion events in the world. you are rich to even be invited, an event where the ticket is literally $30,000…. I’m gonna eat YOU

[urban-spaceman]

None of you people understand the actual reality of how much the ultra-rich hoard. Aoc is not even a blip on the radar of rich. Aoc grew up poor in the bronx and continued to work as a bartender while she was on the campaing trail.

Is she wealthier than the average person? Yeah. No shit sherlock. But does she qualify…as RICH?? My fam…my guy….my bud…..the answer is simply No.

Aoc wants to tax the 1%. The people who can afford to buy space programs, influence elections and send countries to war.

She is not referring to…like….lil nas x here. Shes referring to jeff fucking bezos.

Please learn the difference between BEING WEALTHY (aoc) and being RICH (bezos, gates, etc)

[portraitofalarryonfire]

Also this is just a classic case of the left trying to eat itself.

Some of you really need to ask why you’re trying to drag one of the most progressive American politicians for this. I mean for one, if any of us could afford to go we would, let’s not pretend lol. But secondly, damned if she does damned if she doesn’t right? If AOC attended and didn’t have a political statement, she’d be dragged. If she attended and did, she’d be dragged. If it came out that she had the opportunity to use her platform to make a statement at the event and she refused, she’d be dragged.

Some of you really think you’re achieving something by helping the right dunk on progressive figures for literally nothing, when AOC is the one who bothered to run for her position and put in the work and is sticking her neck out. Tumblr and Twitters love of dragging progressives who actually do the work is embarrassing. You all know rightists don’t care if you cancel them so you spend your time picking at the actions of the most progressive voices doing the work, from behind your screen.

AOC actually thought she was going to die when the Capital was stormed because she’s the figurehead of progressive politics, and you think you’re better than her because she went out and did something fun for once?

[anyroads]

Politicians are often invited to the Met Gala. As AOC herself said, “BEFORE anybody starts wilding out - NYC elected officials are regularly invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing our city’s cultural institutions that serve the public. I was one of several in attendance.” Anna Wintour will often invite people to the Met Gala who she thinks will make it look good, and who don’t have to pay for their ticket. AOC also made sure her hair, makeup, and dress were all done by BIPOC/women/LGBT folks. Y’all are so quick to hate on anyone, you don’t even stop to check your facts, or how many of the sources criticizing AOC are legit blogs. This is how y’all get swayed by trollbots without even knowing it. And you def don’t check yourselves and how eager you are to tear down a WOC in a position of power.

[deathtoskinnyjeans]

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]

I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

[novac]

We need to exclude people from spaces they shouldn’t be in . Lets normalise that . You are not meant for everywhere. “Gatekeeping” is sometimes a good thing

[novac]

the only addition i care about

[puniper]

does anybody have that one comic of a stick person driving home and suddenly thinking “penis” and making a face that looks like 

[wuffleton]

I KNEW I HAD THIS SOMEWHERE AND THIS IS THE FIRST POST I FOUND EVEN RELATED TO IT ON GOOGLE. AFTER LIKE AN HOUR OF DIGGING THROUGH VINTAGE MEMES I FOUND IT.

[weirdmageddon]

do you guys know the lore

[happymunchqueen]

this is so fucking specific but on October 2, 2014 you posted pictures of a rare fish you got in the mobile app Fish With Attitude and that post is making me lose my mind (in a good way) not just because you didn’t know what the anarchy symbol was, but the developers gave a FISH a POLITICAL ALIGNMENT

This feels so chaotic and I love it

And now I wanna download the game again lol

[ryebreadgf]

microdosing on living by going to the grocery store

[evilkaito]

my college is going viral bc a professor told this little snot nose white boy to stop praising the police in her class.

she fucking lost her job

[evilkaito]

SO fucking mad, he was interviewed and he was like “i felt attacked” BITCH ILL JUMP YOU AND SHOW YOU WHAT ATTACKED FEELS LIKE i hate orange county die white boys

[evilkaito]

you can get fired in california orange county for saying police brutality exists to white people. the thinnest fucking skin. ever.

[evilkaito]

my college is cypress college. im a black person who works there and is a student there. if you have some free time, call in and send a complaint about how they handled a subject as impactful as police brutality.

[phone]

[callingallcars]

everyone’s debating posts of the decade, best and worst, and i have yet to see anyone mention moon moon

[callingallcars]

for those who were not on here to experience this ridiculousness

[feral-flower-child]

Seriously. It caused so many memes.

[feral-flower-child]

[feral-flower-child]

Truly the greatest meme of our generation

[tokenofmydevotion]

I'm dying. I saw the original, but I've never seen any of the others. God bless you, Moon Moon.

[silvergryphon]

MOON MOON WAS THE BEST

[nagytoe-deactivated20211125]

@thatotherentity

[that-is-not-milk]

did not expect to see moon moon today

[iamthecutestofborg]

[hallowed-be-thy-ween]

Dammit Moon Moon! About time you came back!

[deactivated13527840737-deactiva]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it occurs to me that some of you have never seen a medium sized pile of baby tortoises (torti?)

[dualumina]

Nature’s grenades

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*pulls the pin and launches a baby tortoise at your head*