It comes less than two weeks after the world's richest man completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter.
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It comes less than two weeks after the world's richest man completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter.
I love saying âof courseâ instead of âyouâre welcome,â like of course Iâm helping you thatâs what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which Iâm not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.
twitterâs either gonna implode or turn into a fucking cesspool, time to come back here i guess
Super shredder machine
the joker is like ah yes my favorite song normal frog
Huh. The app actually loads images now. How about that.
Itâs the only logical explanation
So thatâs what the Monster Under The Bed is reduced to these daysâŚ
The economy sucks what do you expect
Been a while since Iâve posted here. Hey.Â
Video game protagonists getting almost recognized because of their fame but it's like Tony Hawk's tweets
Skyrim shopkeeper, processing a transaction: I wonder what the Dragonborn's up to
The Dragonborn: this
NCR Ranger: are you the Courier
Courier: yes
NCR Ranger: why
Courier, over narration: and i had no idea how to answer
I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
thereâs this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then thereâs this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where Iâm about to go with this.
Youâre condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality itâs always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: letâs check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why donât you stop what youâre doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book thatâs edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesnât have a single page article called âlist of countries with left-hand trafficâ
also âuser editedâ really doesnât mean as much as you think it does. there are millions of people displaying accurate information, for every one person displaying inaccurate information. and that inaccurate information is usually changed quickly, and the person who made it can get their ip blocked from wikipedia if it was bad enough. way more accurate than textbooks or a library.
Librarian here! Iâve worked at both academic (college/university) and public libraries, and let me tell you this: most print encyclopedias are useless garbage we canât get rid of fast enough. With the exception of subject-specific sets which we need to buy again every few years because the information has become outdated, most of the information in any volume of an encyclopedia is far more accessible and far more in-depth on the internet.Â
Wikipedia as a reference resource is fantastic because, just like print encyclopedias, it serves as a jumping-off point for research⌠and so do librarians! A librarian isnât going to just write your paper for you, weâre going to point you to the books, articles, and websites that contain the information. Wikipedia is great for that, too, because any article that gets more than a bit of traffic will wind up with sources and external links. But print encyclopedias donât go that far in citing their sources, and because theyâre static media, the references may not only be outdated, they might be entirely inaccessible due to age, obscurity, or cost of access.
And thereâs an interesting thing about all those books we have on the shelves⌠anyone can write one, and usually they only have a handful of other people checking their work. Academic journals are somewhat notorious for the ease with which a completely falsified paper can see publication (especially in cases of electronic journals), but printed books can also be easily falsified, whether as a result of publishers with an agenda or just fact-checkers slacking off. Â
 As has been pointed out above, wikipedia is really great at getting obscenely specific in terms of the topics of articles. Itâs an amazing collection of data, and more importantly, itâs an amazing collection of sources of data.
The role of a reference librarian and a wikipedia editor are basically the same: show you a brief summary of the information you need, and point you to more in-depth, reliable sources.
I was helping a friend clear out their dadâs old stuff from their home recently and we came across encyclopedias from the 90s.
They all went to the dump. They were ASTOUNDINGLY outdated. Totally fucking useless.
High school English teacher hereâI regularly get crap from some of my colleagues, but I am completely fine with students using Wikipedia for info. Wikipedia does an excellent job of flagging articles that have been recently edited until someone can verify the changes, so pages with inaccurate info often have giant warnings at the top saying âTHIS PAGE MAY CONTAIN IANCCURATE INFOâ. Wonât find that in an out-of-date print edition.
Not only that, but Wikipedia cites its sources. It tells you right at the bottom of the page where all its info came from, so if you want to use a fact from Wikipedia but donât want a teacher annoyed with you, just cite the source in the footnote. Teachers and professors are (a) not likely to check up on this and (b) itâs a real source so even if they do itâs legit?
The biggest problem I have had with letting students use Wikipedia is actually that Wikipedia articles are often written in such academic language that students sometimes struggle to understand them. That part kids have to overcome on their own or with the help of their teacher. But thereâs nothing wrong with Wikipedia as a source. Hatred for it is a remnant of academic elitism, thinking that âpeer-reviewedâ can only mean some handful of crusty white dudes instead of literally anyone with enough knowledge and motivation to review it.
Honestly. My dad is a college professor and heâs told me time and again to always start my research at Wikipedia. You have to go further, obviously, but its such a great jumping off point for information.
Plus, where else can I find an itemized and updated list of every Cryptid known to human kind?
For the impenetrable articles, hereâs my tip.
The list of other languages in the sidebar? Look at it and check whether the article has a version in Simple English.
Simple English is a mode for non-native English speakers but is also great if your reading comprehension is not super good, youâre having a slow brain day for any mental health or developmental disorder reason, or the English version is just poorly written.
Librarian here, and this whole post gives me so much joy.
Love it when @ayellowbirds shows up on my feed
sorry mate I canât talk right now Iâm being chased by a lit trail of gunpowder
Hey whatâs that pouring out of your pocket?
oh god
A woman traveling into the dark woods to an evil witchâs house to trade her firstborn child for selfish desires sounds a lot like a demonized version of a woman traveling to see a cunning woman to aid her with an unwanted pregnancy js
Holy shitâŚ.. this post is life changing
⌠Why didnât I ever think of it this way? Wow.
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When I worked in a tea shop, I actually got a few people coming in requesting jasmine tea. Why jasmine? Because thatâs what Uncle Iroh would drink on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
So hereâs something to think about:
Even though he was royalty, Uncle Iroh was a master of preparing his own teaâ even after he left with Zuko, he could always be seen preparing it on his own, eventually opening a successful tea shop when the one he worked at turned out to be awful.
For a firebender, heating a pot of water wouldnât be difficultâ a few seconds of rage and youâd have it at a rolling boilâ but a rolling boil would ruin the tea.
The secret to a good cup of tea is often in the temperature of water that you use.
Jasmine, green and white tea tends to need between 160-180* F (71-82*C)â go any higher than that, and youâll scald the leaves and wind up with bitter tea. Let it steep for too long, and itâll scald anyway. So you canât just boil the hell out of it and walk away; to be really good, a cup of tea needs a lower temperature and a softer flame. It needs patience and attention. And thatâs where Uncle Iroh excelled.
It was such a wonderful character detail, and I love it so.
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*Gags*Â âThis tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!â
âUncleâŚthatâs what all tea is.â
âHow could a member of my own family say something so horrible?â
DO YOU MEAN THAT ZUKO NEVER PREPARED A GOOD CUP OF TEA BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS TOO IMPATIENT TO PROPERLY HEAT IT AND THAT IROH PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER RIGHT THEN AND THERE?
âWeâll have to make some major changes around here!â â His next line which he says firmly, grabbing the teapot and looking at Zuko as he turns.
Like literally after this the main plotpoint between these two is Iroh teaching Zuko how to be more patient/kind/open-minded while also teaching him how to properly work in the tea shop and I justâŚdo you mean to tell me those two were actually not just random meshing plotpoints but were a direct correlation?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME, BRYKE!?
oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY
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The most iconic cats snaps of 2018
I love this.