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[dailycasserole]

"You smell nice."

"You smell like tandoori skewers."

"I had a bunch of 'em."

"Yes, I know."

Cassie & Cole in The Keys. 1x07.

[escuerzoresucitado]

The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal

One of the darkest moments of France’s colonial history has never been properly acknowledged. That could be about to change.

[dyslexic-asexual]

More info:

Thiaroye massacre - Wikipedia

[onetrackminded]

Ok, let's break down dyscalculia, the math-related learning disability that no one knows or talks about:

- it doesn't just affect math! dyscalculia can make it difficult to hold a rhythm, dance, perceive accurate depth perception, keep a consistent driving speed, be on time for events, remember names, or remember whose turn it is in games

- as a kid, you may have learned multiplication facts only to completely forget them soon after, no matter how much you practiced

- you may struggle to read analog clocks, count on your fingers, use calculators for basic things, get extreme anxiety while doing math, struggle to read a tape measure, have to count the dots on a dice every time, and avoid games that require any sequence-based motor skills like fighting games, just dance, guitar hero, etc

- an estimated 4-7% of kids have it, which means 1-2 kids per classroom

- in an MRI, people with dyscalculia doing a math problem use less efficient parts of their brain and bypass parts of the brain associated with calculations

- people with dyslexia are WAY more likely to also have dyscalculia, and it frequently coincides with ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence

- it is the least understood and least diagnosed of all learning disabilities, in part because of the common belief that "everyone is bad at math"

here is a good online test to assess if you show signs of dyscalculia

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[ot3]

i collect images with powerful ot3/third wheel energies so you don’t have to. i am releasing them to you, the public, so you may share in my bounty

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[sluttygrandpa]

Honestly, at this point, if you're still bitching about AI but not moving to open-source and nonprofit software/tech/services, you deserve it. Shut up or stop using it. Those of us who've put in the effort to switch to non-evil tech are sick of the purposeless whining.

[hydrachea]

I've been nicely letting everyone suggest open source on this post because it might genuinely be useful to someone but because you've decided to be a condescending little bastard- this might be a hard concept to grasp, but some of us actually have jobs. Some of those jobs also provide us with computers equipped with an OS we have zero say over, to use software we also have zero say over. Kindly get off your high horse and suck my dick.

[sage-nebula]

As someone who has worked in IT for the past 17 years, I'd also like to say that there is often a higher barrier of entry for open-source software / operating systems when it comes to technical knowledge and ability, and those who can't jump that barrier still deserve to not have AI programs installed on their devices without their knowledge or consent. Someone who struggles with Windows is not going to be able to just hop into Linux, especially when they probably have other things going on in their lives and don't have the time to sit down and learn a brand new operating system. Someone who doesn't even recognize that there are different browsers, much less open-source ones that aren't Chromium forks, isn't going to be able to seek out one they can both a.) safely download, b.) install, and c.) use instead of the shortcut they know as The Internet.

And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.

And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.

Companies like Microsoft and Google sneaking AI software into devices and software without the consent of those using the software or devices is wrong. It's invasive and raises major security concerns. People should not have to learn entirely new operating systems to escape this nonsense. It's an unreasonable expectation, and it fails to hold companies like Microsoft and Google accountable for their malicious behavior.

[ethernalium]

[bconker]

Yoshinobu Nakamura. The Women Sea Divers in Japan. 1962

[captain-price-returns]

At least one member of the British government is doing their job.

[lutz4lesbians]

Wait wow okay how didn’t I hear of this. Well even though im late to this, congrats to these two!

[quelmdn]

Making his height an offering while laurent's feet goes tiptoes offscreen (old piece from last year, but it seems i never posted this one here?)

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[agayjewishwerewolf]

This dog I’m sitting grabbed an American flag out of someone’s front yard, shook it in his mouth like it was a prey animal, then carried it 10 feet before shitting on it

[agayjewishwerewolf]

To be clear I have never been more proud of anyone or anything

[barbitone]

Fav thing about Berencel’s dynamic? :)

Omg everything XD I guess how mismatched they seem at first, but if you look deeper they actually fit together so well, complementing each others strengths and weaknesses.

Pristine “me and the bad bitch I got by being autistic” vibes lmao

And I find Berenger, in particular, kind of fascinating. Vere is insane and he’s like. Just A Guy. How did he end up being so normal? What happened to this man to make him so resistant to the depravity he’s constantly surrounded by? Is Varenne just like, a nerd province for nerds?

[barbitone]

Berenger offered his hand to Ancel and they started to dance, falling back into the pattern of the other couples.

“You look angry,” Berenger said. “What have I done this time?”

“For once, nothing,” Ancel said. “Which is entirely the problem.”

“I see,” Berenger said, looking far too blasé about it. “Have I delivered insult by forgetting someone’s birthday? Was I meant to send someone a thank you card?” “As if I’d trust you to send thank you cards,” Ancel said. “No. It’s something significantly worse. Mathe is over there telling Lady Clara that your cock doesn’t work.”

-Marriage Material, chapter 13

Closeup and original below the cut. Thank you for the art request, anon!

This drawing is based on an ad by Leyendecker- I love this drawing, and I've been meaning to do a berencel version for a while. So this art request was perfect!

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[arcadiabay]

PAGET BREWSTER as EMILY PRENTISS CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION — 19x10.