Nap Time

Tot 21+. i play FF14 mostly. i would like a nap

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I'd try one now, if it comes in pink.

[ruinedchildhood]

[2000ish]

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[india-official]

WOW THIS IS SO COOL :O

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[ciqqy]

replying to mutuals vent posts like this

[ordr]

Thanks for sexualizing peoples trauma fuckhead

anytime

[blumineck]

Archery x flower arranging

This was actually really fun!

Anyway, don’t forget I’m still raising money to test a bunch of things in a suit of armour:

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[shaftking]

So can we be so fucking serious about the literacy crisis yet or are y’all still pretending that it’s just exaggeration that there’s a massive systemic issue where parents and educators have catastrophically failed a generation by passing them through school when they literally can’t do basic reading and math.

[nonenosome2]

The thing for me is, how does a parent allow that to happen?

I understand the teacher's couldn't care less, they get paid either way, but the parents allowing it to happen? Not even teaching them at home?

[tlaquetzqui]

The teachers don’t get paid either way, the parents get them fired for attempting to really teach reading, or anything else, in such a way that the parents’ precious little darlings might be told they’re wrong.

Parents have exactly the education system they deserve.

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

Most teachers care very much. Its the only reason we stay in the low-paying, soul-sucking, burnout inducing profession for so long. The education system is built on emotionally manipulating teachers into doing unpaid labor, without which it would cease to function.

Teachers beg parents to read to their kids. Parents don't. We try to get kids to work through frustration, but parents have given them screens to microdose them with dopamine all day long, so they're incapable of focusing or sitting with discomfort. We're not allowed to tell kids they're wrong, and not allowed to hold kids back even if there's no way they could succeed in the next grade, since they can't read. When we do get to hold a kid back? Parents can appeal it and the school board will automatically pass the kid to the next grade in most districts.

Teachers care more than anyone gives us credit for, but it's much easier to ignore what we say while blaming us for not fixing a system we have zero control over. Teachers have been sounding the alarm about the literacy crisis since WAY before covid, and no one wanted to hear it. Teachers can't be the only ones working with kids and expect them to succeed. And I don't just mean working on reading. I'm talking about teaching kids how to handle emotions, how to not hit people, how to take no for an answer, and how to recover when they're disregulated. Teachers are increasingly expected to handle aaaaalllll that (and worse) times 30 (or more) before we can even begin to teach what the kids are actually supposed to be learning. And we get told if we just create relationships it will all be fixed. Oh and also make our lessons more engaging (when our competition for their attention is tiktok). Oh and document every behavior and every intervention (which means every single thing WE did to bend over backwards and try to get kids to participate in any way in their own learning, and also all the things WE did to fix their behavior problems before we get any support from admin) because "if you didn't document it it didn't happen. That documentation, btw, is pretty much always done for free outside of contract hours because there's not time in the day for it. And we don't get paid overtime. So tell me again how "teachers couldn't care less".

[tlaquetzqui]

Parents. Have. Exactly. The. Education. System. They. Deserve.

[shadewriter13]

very insightful things from ausefulblogforputtingthingsin

I just have some problems with it.

Look. I do agree, trying to paint everyone with "teachers couldn't care less" brush is bad but having saw how other teachers acted when my mom WAS teaching, especially in special ed, has left me with the idea that yes, there are teachers that care. There are teachers that try. There are teachers that go outside of their expected duties and means to try and get something going for these kids. My mom was one of these And by the sound of it, Auseful if they teach also is one.

And then you have the teachers that just fucking don't care. At all.

The ones that don't document stuff not because it takes time away from them, but because they just don't like paper work. Or dumping the expected paper work onto someone else. Or, after my mom switched from teacher role to an administration position, walk into the class room, the kids are being kids and not doing work just kinda acting up and the teacher is on fucking instangram. Hell a handful of these would try to get a kid tested not out of the kindness of their hearts to put them into a more suitable teaching environment but because FUCK I don't wanna deal with this brat, get him away from me!

These teachers stay because well there's not enough teachers, they don't rock the boat enough to get canned, and they still do the job which is 'just pass the kid'. And it's not about teaching the kid to think or learn but just how to not annoy the teacher for most the year and how to pass the few tests that actually matter.

Admins aren't much fucking better, as Aseful said, "We want documentation" for like EVERYTHING among other issues(my god the fucking petty arguments my mom overheard, like some of these higher admins were arguing about fucking FIEFDOMS not schools). Oh and that donation you raised for library books? Just gone. Fuck you dunno where it went. Don't look at the new car the Principal bought or the new bus for the football team.

So you have a good storm of number of parents don't care because their child is perfect(of course they are, THEY THEMSELVES are prefect, what do you mean my child is on the spectrum, are you saying I'M RETARDED TOO YOU LITTLE BI-), a number of teachers that don't care(treating the entire thing on the level of fucking DMV operations), and a number of Admin that also do not fucking care(save for not wanting to look bad and keeping the funding coming).

With everyone else that does care either too overworked, to ill informed, or too shut out to actually try to do anything.

[cookingwithroxy]

There is, of course, also the contributing factor of 'I am teaching to the lesson plan!'

In literally the sense of 'when Phonics became the new standard, people still pushed back to this change and forced us back to Whole Language/Balanced Literacy' and 'No Child Left Behind policies changed how willing teachers were to fail students'.

If one cannot derivate from the standard and the standard ITSELF is what's failing the students? It doesn't matter how much you care about your students, because the failure is baked in at a systemic level.

[thegreatyin]

there's characters i subjectively love more than her but objectively i think haruka is the best design in arknights. i think she's just the perfect execution of her concept. the ruffles of her skirt acting as her fish tail and the bulky white jacket contrasting against her hair to give the vibe of spotted fish scales. the chain of her belt looking like fish eggs. her bracelets looking like bubbles. her earrings looking like fins. her blue dress and hair tie bringing it all together. she communicates her entire animal motif at a glance and she does it while being a cute fashionable popstar. She Even Has A Goldfish Charm.

🫵 you like haruka arknights.

[pissvortex]

[hail-the-villainess]

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

[hail-the-villainess]

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[himynameisemail]

[mrhealyourgirl]

the sinister sniler

[parkchanwoohoo]

That video of the historical reenactor dressing like a medieval West African mercenary reminded me that I'm still waiting on the completion of the Historical African Martial Arts Association's English translation of the Kitāb al-makhzūn jāmiʻ al-funūn, an Egyptian treatise on military arts! It's still ongoing but you can at least follow some of the updates on their blog via the HAMAA link above. It's a small team working on it as they balance other projects, but I'm glad they're doing semi-regular updates!

This video, which was uploaded I think roughly around the same time that I learned about the translation project, is what ended up catching my eye re: African martial arts. (Forgive the clickbaity title):

[roxygobyebye]

@jack-inaboxx

[thyrell]

not my amazing digital circus not my amazing digital monkeys

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.