Peace, people.

Artblog: https://www.tumblr.com/s-j-u-r

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 14

[cheasewedge]

Bothersome creature

[cheasewedge]

MY FUCKING SOUP

[navigatorsnorth]

Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day

[trek-tracks]

When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

[trek-tracks]

Any educator who doesn't feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase "Unused York City."

[trek-tracks]

This is the fifth anniversary of me receiving the paper that contained "Unused York City." With ChatGPT slop invading my classes like original thought-choking kudzu, I now look back on the copy-paste + Spinbot days with a surprising amount of rosy nostalgia.

I was once in the office and another professor called me over. She was teaching a course on global citizenship.

"I can't figure out what this student is writing about," she said. "She keeps using the phrase 'perspiration stores.' Perspiration stores this, perspiration stores that."

I glanced at the paper and read a paragraph.

"Friend," I said. "She's writing about sweatshops."

[headspace-hotel]

i just spent like 20 minutes scrolling through the notes for examples and I'm screeching with laughter

[segamascott]

[aquaheartgirl]

[ilaeriawitch]

[pantspissedinreverse]

[adonischildsupportcase]

[susandotcom-deactivated20210224]

evil Winnie the Pooh: I could go for a few smackerels of blood right now

[susandotcom-deactivated20210224]

i think i’m going to pass out from how funny this reply is

[mossworm]

[redstonedust]

"i know this show was made for children but i enjoy it too." > awesome and cool. watch whatever you want forever.

"i know it LOOKS like it was made for children but its SECRETLY for us. calling it a kids show is an insult cause kids could never understand these THEMES and EMOTIONS. we're the TRUE fans." > i dont think i trust your opinions. you seem lame as fuck.

[yoshidinosaur]

Apples are a type of fruit.

[autismsupersoldier]

[dramatic-dolphin]

the thing about the concept of gendered socialization is that so many people use it as like another kind of gender essentialism. you know it's not an immutable trait right. you can literally overcome it.

"i'm like this because women are socialized to be shy and quiet and subservient" okay good on you for recognizing it, but that's only the very first step. the next few steps are that you Stop Doing It. feminist thought vs feminist action.

[dramatic-dolphin]

and when ppl see a trans woman being confident and unafraid to take up space and decide it's because of her evil evil male socialization, i'm always like "wait you're saying this woman was raised as a child to be loud and confident and take up space? that's awesome, i thought that's how we WANTED people to raise girls? why exactly is it a problem now? 🤔"

like WHY are you telling trans women that they literally have to make themselves smaller and conform to the WORST gender exceptations of women to be seen as real women. since when is it evil and masculine to be confident, i thought we were supposed to be doing that. i thought that was feminism.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They also treat socialisation as some indelible artefact of the past, not an ongoing process. Women aren't just more shy and cautious on average because they were taught that as small children; they're like that because of the environment they're still in at forty or fifty. It's not some irremovable childhood brainwashing, it's a reasonable reaction to current circumstances. A great many trans women become more shy and quieter after coming out or transitioning because the people around them socially punish them for not doing so, same as previously shy and quiet cis women become more confident and take up more space when put in environments that don't punish them for it. They act like someone's personality and behaviour are branded into them based on whether they have a penis at eight years old, but that is simply not the case.

Whenever I see people who are like "trans women are all loud and aggressive and uncouth (/negative)" I automatically think "do you think black women are all loud and aggressive and uncouth (/negative) too? Because that's what you sound like. You sound like someone who met two or three women from an oppressed minority that were more confident than you wanted them to be, and decided that the whole demographic was beneath you in a different way for daring to not stay in their place."

[chintzmann]

I almost don‘t get to paint/draw in my free time anymore, but I finished one study I started on a plane two month ago yesterday and thought I‘d do a mixed post with a winter landscape from earlier this year (we had a fantastic winter in Germany, with many a beautiful walk to be had!) and even older study of a friend‘s house (this one done in Photoshop).

I think if I had some artistic leisure time now, I would love to paint on paper again. Haven‘t done that in ages. Oh, and live drawing classes :D!

Disclaimer: None of the photo references I used were taken by me, but by friends, who‘s OK I have.

[thalassata]

itchy scratchy jiggle jiggle

[sapphling]

i think it was kind of a major failing to frame the self diagnosis issue around whether it's "valid" or not rather than the fact that unless an official diagnosis is necessary for you to access actually beneficial pharmaceuticals/treatment, accomodations or disability benefits, you should actively avoid on-paper diagnosis for your basic safety and access to care

[gremlinservant]

Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today

Edit:

THIS IS A POST ABOUT GOATS!!

[klapollo]

almost seven years deep into the 2020s this feels less like a retrospective evaluation and more like a prophetic vision

[havingapoemwithyou]

Swimming, One Day in August by Mary Oliver