NerdiRaven

Math, sewing and cooking are among my favorite things.

[cappurrccino]

Two universal constants of high fantasy living:

If something falls into ruin a necromancer will move in 100% of the time

There is a critical mass of gold that will summon a dragon. If you keep accurate records and stay below it you’ll be fine

[probablyfunrpgideas]

I’m sorry, sir, if you don’t renovate your summer keep and live in it at least one month out of the year, we’ll have to charge you with Negligent Dungeonization of Property. The old cellar laboratory might have belonged to your uncle, but if you aren’t going to use it, something will.

The players are a squad of government investigators, trying to prevent monsters from claiming new habitat. It’s mainly negotiation but sometimes people have an interest in attracting dangerous entities for their own purposes.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I love this so much!! GIVE 👏 ME 👏 DUNGEONS 👏 WITH 👏 BACKSTORIES

[katjohnadams]

Heck but I’d play that idea though

[vbartilucci]

Reverse embezzlement.

Evil accountants, hired by people who hate you surreptitiously adding gold to your treasure rooms, increasing your wealth incrementally, until the day the Dragon Event Horizon is passed and you’re ruined.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

The group hired to stop the evil accountants are called Robin Hoods. They’re oftentimes nearly too late and end up having to pull some elaborate heist to distribute the gold over a wide enough geographical area that the dragon looses the scent

[digitaldiscipline]

“Gods damn thee, Hardison!”

[deathvsthemaiden]

Good evening fellow bad students.... struggling students.... easily distracted students..... frustrated students...... fed up students....... I’d ask how you’re doing but.

[intj-aesthetics]

Hey kids, take it from an old forest hag: it's totally okay to half-ass your hobbies

... trace that picture for your journal

... like old cars without knowing how to fix them

... watch the movies without reading the comics

... super glue the part of the model

... learn one (1) way to make a braid

... watch how-to videos for every step of the recipe

... google every second word in that article

... use the automatic setting on your camera

And don't be ashamed. Real life isn't school. The all or nothing mentality is not healthy. Don't gate-keep yourself from stuff that might be fun. Shrug, grin, and hold eye contact with a boomer while you do it. It's good I promise.

[wildxwired]

How fucking annoying is it when you feel so restless with creative energy but you can’t decide what to do with it and when you finally try to create something it comes out shit so you just give up and sit there being all creatively annoyed and jittery.

[lianabrooks]

1 - Decision Making Fatigue is a thing. --> Make a list of possibilities. --> Use a random number generator to pick something off the list. --> If you hate the idea cross it off and generate a new number. --> Continue until you either find a project or cross off the whole list. --> If you cross off the whole list pick a random short story prompt, write for five minutes, and call it a good work day.

2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. --> Let it suck. --> You can fix it in edits. 

3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. --> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. --> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. --> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.

4. No work is ever wasted. --> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way.  --> Failure means you tried, which is good. --> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. --> Keep going until you like what you’re making.

5. Love yourself enough to allow yourself to not be perfect. --> Seriously.  --> If this is a struggle I highly recommend seeing a doctor or therapist about depression. --> Because you are dang lovable, my friend. You rock. You do great things. I’m proud of you.

[mioxenoblade]

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.

[berningsensation]

I think one of the most harmful things I learned growing up was this notion that history exists in a different realm than the present; that the world is basically "fully formed" now and history was the world "still cooking." I think this kind of ideology makes it really easy to dismiss protests, because to people (especially those with privilege) who haven't critically examined the way they learned history, it seems like there is a fundamental divide between the righteous protests that brought us to where we are now and anything that happens in the present.

Through this lens things like:

"Slavery was 150 years ago, get over it!" Actually kind of make sense. I mean, if the world is fully formed now, doesn't that mean racism is over? So any further attempt to correct it would be the real problem in the present, Anti-white Racism!

So what do we do? Well, first of all, for my fellow educators, developing assignments where students think about how the events of today might look in a history book could be a good place to start (helping them draw the connection that the current moment in history is not somehow special or different from any other)

So that's a band-aid that would be easy to implement quickly, but what about deeper systemic change?

In a broader sense, I think we really need to restructure the way we teach history in a way that creates a focus on modern events and the historical context that leads up to them. Each unit could tackle a different social issue, tracing how that issue evolved over time. For example, if we wanted to talk about the George Floyd protests, we could have a whole unit about the history of anti-black racism in America. Or for a unit about climate change, you could start at the industrial revolution and talk about how environmental justice has changed over time.

[liquidstar]

anyone else get the constant fear that there are unspoken social rules you dont know about (especially in new situations, like when i first started taking the bus, i was afraid i was doing it wrong lol) so youre just always on edge and kind of… watching how other people act so you can copy the “correct” thing to do

[nerdiraven]

Oh my god... starting a new job you’re entirely qualified for, but it’s a new workplace so... “copy” social que’s so you don’t seem weird in this new society of “workplace”

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

When you're ADHD and something gets you riled up it's like interdimensional beings come up behind you while you're distracted and slurp your extra time up with a silly straw

[nerdiraven]

I feel personally attacked while I should be studying for a physics exam instead of doing all the other things except studying.

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[makeitdewey]

576 Genetics and evolution

[advanced-procrastination]

[complex-variable]

Just wait until anti-vaxxers learn about bijections.

[vacuously-true]

It’s time to make injections a SURJECTION! Every element of the codomain should get one!

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

I, for one, am down with trying to put math words in catchy political rhetoric.

Make Injections Surjective

[vacuously-true]

If you like that, you’ll love the Mathematicians for Equality line by a friend of one of my professors.

[mymathedblog]

The Mathematician Who Will Make You Fall in Love With Numbers

The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play, and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just

[nordic-at-heart]

Today on “rules of English language I didn’t realise were a thing until someone pointed it out”

[wordsaremylife]

Yes, you found it! I have been looking for this, thanks!

[theconcealedweapon]

You’re able to call your parents “Mom” and “Dad”. They were not born with those names.

You’re able to call your teachers “Mr” or “Mrs” and their last name. You’d get in trouble if you addressed them by first name.

You’re able to call a celebrity by their chosen stage name.

You’re able to call your friends a shortened version of their name, their middle name instead of their first, or a completely random nickname.

You’re able to call a married woman by her husband’s last name, even though she was not born with that last name.

But when someone’s transgender, how does calling them by a name they were not born with somehow become a hassle?

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

♥️

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Nice

[dankmemeuniversity]

[davidlathorian]

You missed the best part of this.

[toastbutteregg]

i dont know what this is but i find it funny so im reblogging

[just-shower-thoughts]

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

[savvygunner]

[violetnpurple]

LISTEN-

[bl6ckwoman]

Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren’t spelled with the letter e in it …

[antiandrogen]

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

father god 

[abrown16]

…if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. 30 and 50 are odd.

[antiandrogen]

[ethereal-sketches]

-_-’

(15+15=30

25+25=30)

[britteryikes]

25+25 = 30? You sure about that??

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

Lord have mercy….

[kumasenpai]

Bye

[mf-johnson-deactivated20190605]

3 days into 2018 smh

[kwantsu]

LMAOOOOOOO

[effigyofubiquity-deactivated202]

[lizzysarai-deactivated20190109]

One

Three

Five

Nine

And since everything else after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter ‘E’.

[britteryikes]

🗣YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

[thxrsdxy]

It keeps getting worse.

[e-wifey-deactivated20201128]

LMAOOO WHAT IS GOING ON

[ellsworthej]

[goldensweetcheeks-deactivated20]

My head hurts…

[skullprincess]

This is why that Tumblr University shit was the dumbest idea ever just look at this

[drankinwatahmelin]

who failed yall?

[microtear-deactivated20181213]

IM SCREAMING

[lukestarkillerisgay]

[hey-hey-shutthefuckup-deactivat]

You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even

[shaolinbynature]

why would 8 be brought up if it’s EVEN in a post about ODDS??????? the post said “every single ODD number has an ‘e’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘e’ is odd” what the fuck

[emma-d-klutz]

3 days until 2019 and we’re still here

[nerdiraven]

How did this happen?!

[gjsjsifisjdkeoskhqudidbwjsidk-d]

hey since apparently some people didn’t know this

if your family is low income, you can take your sat for free – twice!

and as a bonus, you can waive 4 college application fees. so like if a college you wanna apply to has a $20 fee, you can use one of your freebies to not have to pay that. four times. that means you can apply to at least 4 colleges (more if you can find ones with free applications) for no cost at all.

check in with your guidance counselor and see if you qualify – at my school, we qualify if we’re on free or reduced price lunch. my waiver had 2 free act’s included too.

boosts appreciated! a lot of people don’t know about this and it can save you a lot of much-needed money. tell your friends. tell your friends’ friends

and this is all directly from the college board website so it’s legit

[egggender]

Lots of people at my school did this! Also look into your state college’s fee waiver options. In California if you qualify for this, you can likely also qualify to apply to 4 UC’s and 4 Cal States for free, as well as get 4 Common Application waivers!

[violent-darts]

In case any of my US people could use this for them or their kids.

[sharing-of-words]

Boosting for teachers!

[nerdiraven]

Boost please!