periwinklegreeneyes

i thought they were green

[periwinklegreeneyes]

Sometimes, the internet feels like a hellish, repetitive cesspool but I just came across this post on r/photoshoprequests where this guy asked to make himself look better since he felt he was undeniably ugly. And every. Single. Response. Was people just responding with the original photo as a way of telling him he's already beautiful and oh. My. God. Did it make me smile.

[witnessprotectionprogramurl]

what color is math?

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

pink

other?????

Voting ended onSep 2, 2023

PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW

[exnihilo-comic]

seven spills their coffee

[taylornation]

Mexico City… listos para la tercera noche? Baby let the games begin. 🐍🖤

📸: Taylor Hill / TAS23 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift

The Eras Tour

[animentality]

[periwinklegreeneyes]

Okay, everyone is talking about Aziraphale's "I forgive you." and I've seen a LOT of really interesting perspectives, so I thought I'd put my own two cents into the mix.

I think that line just underlines the fact that even though you've taken Aziraphale out of Heaven, you haven't quite taken the Heaven out of Aziraphale. Aziraphale still subscribes to the notion that the institutions of Heaven and Hell are a good thing; improperly managed and misguided for sure, but still fundamentally correct. I'm not saying this is wrong: it's been holding together for 6000 years, and it's not unreasonable to think that with a bit of fixing-upping, it could attain its full glory and potential. And believing in Heaven and Hell is pretty symmetrical to a black-and-white worldview, the false dichotomy of one right and everything else wrong.

Aziraphale, for all his loveable charm, still believes that Heaven is the one true right way. His "I forgive you", I felt, was a bit condescending and could even be construed as high-and-mighty because he's simultaneously saying Crowley is wrong and trying to be the bigger person by forgiving him when Crowley didn't even ask for it. Condescending and high-and-mighty is pretty much the motto of Heaven, and it's interesting to see that leak through in Aziraphale, showing that for all his flexible morals and humanity, he is very much a product of the system he still very much belongs to.

It's going to be fascinating to watch this belief system crumble before his very eyes in the next season, which is what I think is most likely to happen given the last 2 seasons of ineffable bureaucracy.

[accessibleaesthetics]

Very Silly Concept: a show called "Accessibility Nightmares" but it's structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.

The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that's the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.

A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don't allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like

And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like

The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says "Well I mean, it's makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?" The specialist just

The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don't know.

[strawberryamanita]

Observation #1: The prefix "a-" means "none", such as in "asexual", "apolitical" and "Atheism".

Observation #2: The word "unicorn" is a combination of "uni", meaning "one", and "cornus", meaning "horn".

Conclusion:

This is an acorn.

[goodomensonprime]

Dropping this here...

[coldasyou]

That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs

insp: x x x x

[hope-ur-ok]

Visit Original Link

And once again she has brought out Aaron

[hits-differently]

evermore - t.s.

[cloversbloom]

insp

[disregardcanon]

wikipedia's "notable natives and residents" of the poconos mountains in pennsylvania

we got CLERICS IN EXILE we got the kmart guy we got BOWLING FOR SOUP we got a super bowl champion we got the guy that invented HEART SHAPED BATHTUBS

[ieatmagnets]

I feel like there needs to be a movie in which these nine are stuck with each other due to some absurd circumstance and have to work together.

[iamnotaware]

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something 

[periwinklegreeneyes]

Once. Okay? Just once.

[weaselle]

what i wish i had been told about math in school

i have to know something well enough to be able to explain it to another person before i feel like i understand it.

I had a great math teacher in grade school, and we used an abacus to help conceptualize what was happening in multiplication and division which was super helpful for me i could feel like i really understood why and how.

but in later classes i began to be told things like

"we do it that way because that's the way it's done" and

"because if you do it any other way you get the wrong answer"

and, like, okay but if you do FOIL out of order you do get an answer, like you can do the math that way and you do get an answer, why is that answer wrong? What makes this answer right?

Clearly it IS the right answer, everyone seems to agree on that, but can you please for the love of all that is holy tell me how do we know that?

but nobody would tell me, and i stopped feeling like i understood what was going on, because i didn't know why we were doing the things we were doing

and that made math really hard for me.

So here's what i wish i could go back and tell myself

the answer is that a lot of math, maybe even almost all of it, is used to describe or prove observable phenomena.

so we see observable behavior number one, let's call it Snowballs Flying

and we see observable behavior number two, let's call that one Kids Walking By

and we do Bonkers Level Math that describes those behaviors, measurements for position, math that describes a changing rate of speed, math that describes the way gravity effects the snowballs, maybe even throw some wind force and air flow dynamics in there, all kinds of math

and that math lets us make predictions. Predictions like Snowball 37a and Kid-JS4 will be in the same place at the same time. And when JS4 goes down with an ear full of 37a, it proves all our math was right! (or at least that it was only off minutely)

So the reason you have to do FOIL (or whatever) when you encounter that kind of equation is because when you're doing Bonkers Level Math you have to do it that way to be able to accurately describe the things we can see happening around us

if someone had just fucking told me that, istg

[periwinklegreeneyes]

why is that wrong? What makes this answer right?

I've thought this a lot of times. Teaching math and teaching in general isn't just about teaching students the right way to do something. Honestly, a lot of it is also explaining why the wrong ways don't work, because there are always going to be more wrong ways than right ways, and students are going to make mistakes.

[julisworking]

Taylor, when her guitar pick didn't land where she'd aimed it to. =)

[taylorswifterasupdates]

Lmao her face