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who gets into IAnthony in 2025

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hello everyone (who is everyone, anymore?)

i've been putting off making this post because this isn't an airport and i don't need to announce my departure (how self important can you BE, y'know???)

but i figured i owed at least a little bit of an explanation. even though i don't really have one.

i've been gone, i am sure y'all saw. i am gonna be honest with you. my life is in fucking pieces. my mental health is probably the worst it's ever been. i haven't had time for fandom or literally anything except barely scraping by in months. i am just. scraping.

my sister had a baby in feb (yayyy) and through a series of very unfortunate events that i literally do not have the energy to outline, i am somehow caring for my niece. my family life is imploding. my job is a fucking nightmare (thank you, us economy 🥲)

i am hanging on by the skin of my teeth while devoting most of my time to caring for a three month old. i am in. a lot of debt. my car is barely hanging on. join the club buddy

idk why i'm saying all this.

smosh was such a bright spot in my life and i made so many incredible friends in this fandom. i don't have the words to say how much i enjoyed discussing and shitposting and yakking with y'all. or how awful i feel for just ghosting literally everyone and everything. i meant to come back but at this point, irl has to take a front seat. i am tired all the time. i am sad a lot. i work and i sleep and i take care of my niece and i don't do much else, right now.

i love smosh, i loved the time i spent in this fandom, the friends i made. i am sorry i can't be more present, or even present at all, right now. i guess this is an insanely long manifesto about why i may not resume smosh posting or be around. please know that i am working on my shit, and hopefully this is just a bad season. i am so sorry to everyone who's reached out to me who i haven't been able to get back to. i am so sorry. i love y'all and maybe someday i'll be back.

all my love (for real) - hey-sacramento

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Hi! I saw that you were willing to share access to We're All Gonna Die, is that still the case? I'm very newly into Smosh, just saw the Xmas special and am obsessed, but not able to spend the money at the moment :( Thank you for your time x

i got shadow banned i think for trying to message too many people the links. i'll work and see if i can fix that. apologies in the meantime.

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they were all invited to the party 🫶

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the chaos goblin (past) met chaos goblin (present)

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It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

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I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

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THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

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guys he's bringing back isadw. if i wasn't so violently unwell, i would be so excited.

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this one goes out to my good friend tumblr user @cannonpenis

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wicked witch

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i can't remember if i posted this

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producer dinner

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spotify party

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more bts of the smosh 20th anniversary party. looks like they had hella desserts and hella swag bags. that tote design is one we've never seen before. i wonder if they'll release it.

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a few more

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i love how much the crew loves each other

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