this stuff

[libraryadvocates]

Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds

A study of middle-school to college-age students found most absorb social media news without considering the source. How parents can teach research skills and skepticism.

“However, fewer schools now have librarians, who traditionally taught research skills. And media literacy has slipped to the margins in many classrooms, to make room for increased instruction in basic reading and math skills.”

[gmbencompetence]

According to the song Seasons of Love from RENT, there are 525,600 minutes a year.

One line later, there are “525,000 Moments so dear”.

So, doing the math, we can glean that there are 600 moments which aren’t so dear.

And I think I just used one of them by walking in on my boss who forgot to lock the bathroom stall.

[therothwoman]

this post did not even remotely go in the direction I was expecting it to

[mapsontheweb]

What Americans are thankful for?

[12-tone]

This actually…really sweet and pure?

[altonzm-deactivated20170213]

#we love the rain

[kickinwiregrass]

Someone: Oooo why are you smiling at your phone?? Is it a boy ;)???

Me, scrolling through Joe Biden memes: uh,,,yeah

[jk-rowling-canon-tweets]

jk rowling canon generator

[jus-a-dash]

[jus-a-dash]

Yaovi Mawuli, a high schooler from North Carolina, noticed that a fellow classmate of his had sneakers that were very worn down when other kids in the class made fun of them.  In the spirit of the season, Yaovi laced his classmate with a pair of “Concord” Air Jordan 11 lows to “help a brother out” as he stated in a Facebook message.

These are the righteous acts that need to be shown to the world….we need more people like this.

[ludgatess]

“How do I present i to him without him feeling like I feel sorry for him?” i am crying, he even worried about his classmate reaction and how to make a smooth move instead of try to act like a saviour. This is the type of actions and love we need

[chelseawelseyknight]

AWWWWWWWWW

[wordsnquotes]

I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.

Nikita Gill (via wordsnquotes)

Well, this hit me hard.

[huffpost]

“I just treated her, really, like she was my grandma, to be honest.” ❤️

This generous Target cashier’s act of kindness led to the sweetest reward.

[half--agony--half--hope]

Lovely story. I read the huff post article. The man was offered a job at a dialysis center because he was so good with the elderly and the company is paying his way through nursing school to be a dialysis nurse. He will be a credit to the profession.

[ghost-in-the-ujb]

ok that is the nicest damn thing I’ve seen in a long time

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Read more about Proxima B

follow @the-future-now

[akatsukichelsei]

ITS TIME.

[distinguishedbaloney]

[kickinwiregrass]

me: please, for the love of god, let me concentrate

my shit brain: taaaaake ooooon meeee, TAKE ON ME, TAAAAKE MEEE OOOOOON

[guy]

it doesn’t matter where i am i will do this

[alrightevans]

social media aus make everything better lmao literally imagine the harry potter books + social media. second year someone snapchats a picture of literal death threats written on the walls in blood captioned ‘’hogwarts its the safest place in the world’ lmao bitch where??’ fourth year #potterstinks is trending locally on twitter. sixth year story gets out about harry’s conversation with snape and everybody in the gryffindor group chat changes their name to ‘roonil wazlib’ for a week. draco bitching about harry on yik yak as if the entire school doesn’t know for a fact its him. 

[jiilys]

if i may

Hogwarts girls all sharing pinterest boards of the ideal yule ball #aesthetic

Fred and george’s twitters being #1 in the school because they post stuff like: ‘Filch’s office has a nice carpet it would be a shame if someone… replaced it with ants… hmm… imagine… swarms of ants… in Flich’s office… right at this moment…’

Inquisitorial Squad has a facebook page which it’s compulsory to like but no matter how hard they try they can’t get anyone to like their new profile pic of all of them posing like absolute white boys outside the greenhouses

Dumbledore is the Cher of Hogwarts Twitter

Colin Creevy’s snapchat story basically just being videos of Harry sleeping with captions like ‘the boy who sleeps!!!!!!’

Moaning Mertle having 38 minute long youtube videos that have 2 views

A reddit thread of ‘Where is Sirius Black???’ and someone keeps posting dog puns on it but no one knows who it is

Dumbledore has to ask everyone at the start of term feast to stop creating fake McGonagall Instagram’s that are just full of cat pictures with captions like ‘my damn hair was a CAT-astrophe today’  

YAHOO ANSWERS: ‘if I was trying to sneak a bunch of cloaked figures into school without anyone noticing in order to redeem my father in the eyes of Death Eater Jesus how would I do that I am asking for a friend’

MORE YAHOO ANSWERS: ‘how to tell entire class of students that teacher is a werewolf without arousing suspicion’

FUCKING YAHOO ANSWERS MAN: ‘is it bad to keep dragon inside wooden house’ and then ‘spell to rebuild wall of wooden house after enormous fire’

Slughorn would be one of those instagramers who tag everything with about 3939 tags like #followforafollow #likeforalike #f4f #funny #hilarious #lol #popular #fitness #instalike #inspiration #love #hate even when the photo is literally just a shot of his thumb

I could go on for years oh my god can you picture McClaggans Facebook where he tags Hermione in every fitness photo until she is forced to unfriend him

[queerstrawberryshortcake]

Out of nowhere people start getting followed by someone called @Thesiriusblack on instagram and all it has is a “surprise bitch, I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me” meme

[andromxche]

the memes though

history of hogwarts becomes a huge thing because fred and george got their hands onto youtube so everyone talks about it now. “sticks. and brooms. broomsticks”

neville becomes FAMOUS for years because trevor is the face of the pepe meme.

peeves playing “never gonna give you up” near valentine’s day

[purqatory]

the wizarding schools around the world compete to see which does the best harlem shake

[wordsnquotes]

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.

John Green (via wordsnquotes)

[crazychipmunk]

[ruinedchildhood]

it’s a rebellious princess thing

[helthehatter]

Good Things that Happened in 2016

·         We’re closer to having successful vaccines for lung and brain cancer.

·         New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)

·         Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.

·         Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.

·         Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene responsible for ALS has been found, meaning we are closer to an effective treatment. Let me rephrase that: we are close to getting a treatment for a very bad disease because a lot of people (including really hot celebrities) got wet.

·         A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.

·         Michael Jordan donates 2mil to try and help bridge connection between police and the community.

·         Tiger numbers are growing.

·         And manatees.

·         And pandas.

·         Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor killings.

·         70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against ISIS.

·         Pokemon Go players went insane with placing lure modules near hospitals for sick kids.

·         California is now powering over 6 million homes with solar power, a record in the US (and that is the tightest shit)

·         Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in 24 hours.

·         Apparently world crime as a whole has drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.

·         Coffee consumption has been proved to help curtail cancer and suicide rates.

·         Speaking of coffee Starbucks figured out how to donate perishable food in a food safe way.

·         500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.

·         We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention (my grandmother literally told me that scares her more than getting cancer this is very good news)

·         The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.

·         A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation sickness.

·         The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).

·         The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.

·         Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING (as someone who’s had relatives with cancer this is the best news)

·         Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.

·         The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from anti-gay protesters

·         We may have cured MS

·         Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened

·         Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in the United States

·         Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks to specially-designed glasses

·         Pope Francis spoke against society’s obsession with physical beauty while dedicating Mass to the disabled community (love that dude)

·         Portugal ran its entire nation solely on renewable energy for four days straight

·         A retiree is launching a project to transport 80 endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from poaching

·         An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via bicycle to villages that lack schools

·         Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

·         200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless WW2 veteran with no family

·         A teen battling cancer married his sweetheart

·         Bank firm pays for college tuition for the children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks

·         New medicine has been shown to increase melanoma survival rate to 40%

·         Over 800 Boko Harem Hostages were rescued by Nigerian Army

·         Toys R Us is Offering Quiet Shopping Hour for kids with autism this holiday season

·         Volunteers made special tiny Halloween costumes for NICU babies

·         A 4-year old befriends a lonely man and helped him heal after losing his wife

·         Families grew

·         People survived c ancer

·         People overcame depression

·         Any kind of victory, even if it affects only one person,  is a victory

·         Now for the pop culture good news

·         LEONARDO DICAPRIO WON AN OSCAR! EVERYONE READING THIS LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE LEO FINALLY GET WHAT HE DESERVED

·         There’s a new Harry Potter book

·         And a movie

·         Harry Potter has no plans on vanishing with time

·         This sweet father gave candy to passengers on a flight so his little girl could trick or treat on Halloween

·         LET ME TALK ABOUT ALL THE KICK ASS MOVIES WE GOT THIS YEAR OH MY GOD

·         Kung Fu Panda 3, this franchise is still going strong despite that its about a panda played by Jack Black

·         Jungle Book. The amazing remake none of us saw coming

·         Finding Dory. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard good things

·         Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven’t seen that yet as well but its Laika so I know it’s a masterpiece

·         Deadpool. The beautiful and super accurate R-rated marvel film

·         Captain America: Civil War. Seriously is the best marvel movie yet in my opinion I need more.

·         Zootopia. Oh don’t mind me I’m just a movie that tackled the issue of racism and not only game changed animated films but also made a billion dollars

·         The Hamilton Mixtape is coming out. Which is a bunch of artists singing songs from the musical (Sia, Usher, Regina Spketor, etc.) I’m excited.

·         A personal victory for myself, I joined Tumblr and met angels in blog form so…that’s uplifting.

·         And I met my favorite voice actor at a con which was a bucket list accomplishment.

Good Things that have yet to happen this year

·         Birthdays

·         Doctor Strange

·         Thanksgiving

·         Black Friday

·         Moana

·         Christmas

Good things that have nothing to do with the year but will hopefully make you feel better

·         Puppies

·         Chocolate

·         Rainbows

·         Rain (I like listening to rain it’s one of the most calming sounds)

·         Cartoons

·         Kissing

·         Music

·         Friends

·         FF: If you are a religious person you are an imperfect masterpiece

·         FF: If you are not then you are a splendid coincidence

·         Any year spent with loved ones be they family or friends is a good year. Trust me.

·         ”A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have” –Roger Rabbit

#NeverForgetTheGood

*Plz feel free to add other good news (even if it’s something small like you ate cheesecake THAT is good news)

[datsemtx]

This is a gorgeous post, everyone should reblog it to see the balancing side to the whole bad things happening in the world!

[nerdywallflower19-deactivated20]