here's some dunky donut

lava • she/they • married to @serenade-silver • strawberry shortcake gender • im ready for a nap.

[veryluckyclovers]

:)

[bugmuscle]

beautiful, sexy, powerful and smart women named SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING are attempting to contact me

[scribeherself]

“they never explicitly looked at the camera and said ‘i am experiencing immense grief’ so how was i supposed to know??” i don’t know what to tell you, man. if a story doesn’t spoon-feed you the character's internal emotional state like a jar of mashed peas, you guys just willingly starve. subtext is not a myth, i promise it won't bite you.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

BREAKING NEWS: screenshots from your phone not an appropriate format for submitting work in college classes.

[json-derulo]

my partner was a TA for an intro-to-subject course in grad school. finals week rolls around and the students are required to submit this big module assignment they've had like a month to do for a decent chunk of their grade. if you've submitted everything, you'll see a summary screen with a star beside each module name showing it's been completed.

an hour before the assignment deadline, he receives an email from a student claiming they completed the assignment, but the system is not allowing them to submit. there's an image attached to the email. partner goes to open what he assumes is a screenshot of that summary page.

instead, he sees that the student has taken a photo of their laptop from about 2 feet away, with that page open. strange, but it wouldn't be the first time a college freshman has lacked the tech literacy to take a screenshot. he almost doesn't look twice at it, but he realizes something about it just feels a little bit...off. so he zooms in.

the student had CUT STARS OUT OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER and TAPED THEM TO THEIR LAPTOP SCREEN BESIDE EACH MODULE NAME. you could see where they actually had completed the first couple of modules, but the stars for all the subsequent ones were like, double the size of the first two and exactly as uneven/irregular as you'd expect if you were freehanding them with scissors.

probably would've been quicker and easier to just photoshop them in but no, this student took a refreshingly creative, arts-and-crafts approach to getting an academic misconduct case

[chaotic-archaeologist]

The one thing I will say for AI is that it's made me much more appreciative of homebrewed bullshit

[party-cat-anthem]

accidentally running over a vampire with my car because they didnt show up on the backup camera

[molabuddy]

lets be friends...!!

[catmintnepetas]

2️⃣0️⃣ 🌸

[fangshazzard]

I bet raising your arm and summoning a weapon for you to grasp feels good as fuck

[pardonmystardust]

Yeah, I'm really into the science of devising methods to most effectively communicate to others the ideal methods for petting their dogs.

Pet A Doggy Pedagogy, you might say.

[abalidoth]

We tried to do outreach through marketable cardboard discs but the quality control wasn't great -- the pet a doggy pedagogy pogs were dodgy.

[wordsgood]

I try but can't remember who wrote the essay that keyed me into the idea, but I'm constantly plagued by the idea of moby dick as a story whose narrator wants it to be an epic. the idea that the story is strung together like a necklace of beads, both plot and digression evenly if not uniformly spaced to make you feel how long that voyage took, how long they were on the ship. and it eats me up, the idea that ishmael wants it to be so long but there was so little to write about that he had to interject little essays of his own. essays, rambles, digressions, rants, marvels. he can't make his story as big as he thinks it should be on its own but he'll make it that big. and if he has all this anguish over whales and what price they fetch, he will literally pad out the runtime with it. as filler, as explanation, as venting. this is ishmael's story and his therapy session and you will sit and listen in

[bowlby4]

[snotsloth]

HEY DON'T DO THIS!

Japanese Knotweed is highly invasive and can overtake native ecosystems so fast. It's a lot like kudzu in that way. Y'know, "the vine that ate the South"???

I know we all hate AI data centers and want them gone but this is not the fucking solution and should not be spread around even as a joke. Shit like this ruins already endangered native ecosystems.

[garaks-padded-bra]

I wish adhd didnt have the reputation of the oh my god you people cant do anything disorder because i feel like i am barely staying afloat at every single moment of my life dawg. Maybe i have adhd 2 but um jesus fucking christ, jesus christ,

[garaks-padded-bra]

Like i literally feel like a loser. What do you mean the disorder is Affecting me. It shouldnt be doing that, ppl online said thats cringe. Thats not allowed

[mblematic]

love when the mutual takes the mutual bait. yes that post was for you. yes it was about our lil guy. thanks for falling for it. I love you

[tothechaos]

hate when people say something along the lines of "we must get along so well because you are/i am [some astrological sign]" to me. what are you fucking talking about. we get along because im fucking nice. a decision which i regret when you say shit like that

[tothechaos]

this post is a good rent lowering gunshot. in case anyone needs one of those

[vulturevanity]

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

[vulturevanity]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to stop dehumanising people even if those people are "abusers" or "creeps" because you need to understand that you are not immune to doing something equally as bad

Abusers and creeps are not some species of especially heinous animal or alien or monster wearing the face of a human. They're people. And you NEED to drill it into your head that they are people because you NEED to remember that people are capable of doingn heinous shit. And you are a person. And your loved ones are people.

By emotionally classifying people who have done heinous things as subhuman filth incapable of thinking and feeling and acting just like you and me, and by using that emotional dehumanization as a reason to deny those people any compassion or support on a systemic level, you risk becoming blind to abuse/violence perpetrated by someone close to you or even yourself. Because if "abusers don't deserve rights", then you won't ever want to admit or accept that you or a loved one is perpetrating abuse, and that makes stopping the abuse or preventing further abuse much harder. This is how you end up excuaing abusive behaviour on the grounds that, since you don't see someone as a disgusting subhuman pile of garbage therefore they can't possibly be An Abuser, Trademark

[vulturevanity]

And here'a the even harder pill to swallow: since the world isn't split into "abusers" and "good people", in the same way you or someone you love can inflict abuse/violence on others, the people who HAVE inflicted abuse/violence on others can, in fact, change and become better people

There is no bottomless chasm of moral uncleanliness that someone can run off and fall into and get stuck in forever. People can do better. Yes, even those people. You HAVE to accept this. Otherwise not only is there no motivation for anyone to try and do better (which is when people become stuck in a cycle of violence and abuse they don't want to escape), but your idea of a perfect justice system doesn't look any different from Literal Christian Hell. And I HOPE you understand that Literal Christian Hell is, to put it very lightly, not a good justice system.

[trickedsparrow]

Unchecked and fear-driven dehumanization is the brick foundation for fascism.

[birdonahotdog]

contrary to social media developers’ beliefs i have literally never once wanted to see posts in anything other than chronological order

[infertilityidol]

just remembered how mad I am about the whole "lolth sworn" and "seldarine" as drow subraces in bg3 thing