idk what i’m doing

rachel / 30 / probably sleeping rn

[obiwan]

[christiannegg]

Happy Pride, Nerds.

[the-firefly-system1-deactivated]

catradora

[pebblume]

au where they play boggle and eat soup and nothing bad happens to them ever again✨

[a7estrellas]

PEDRO PASCAL  dancing on the set of THE LAST OF US

[free-of-explanations]

SO IN LOVE

[unnaturalequilibrium]

Public service announcement. Sjukt Oklar is back on SVTPlay. Use a VPN and automatic subtitle translation and watch the best lesbian comedy show to currently exist.

Sjukt oklar – Avsnitt 1

24-åriga Ellen har alltid haft svårt att fullfölja saker och beslutar sig för att gå om gymnasiet. Men att låtsas vara sexton, fokusera på s

[naivety]

whatever. tumblr should send you little notifications when a beloved mutual changes urls

[sapphicbean]

[whatelsecanwedonow]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS S01E02a | Something Smells

[adriannelenker]

And it’s sweet, sweet, sweet victory…

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS | 2x15B ‘BAND GEEKS’

[armandeos]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH S1E7 | “This is Happening”

[alfvenwave]

Happy Lesbian day of visibility to all lesbians but especially trans/nonbinary lesbians and lesbians of colour ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 

[mayhemily]

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

nothing angers me more than the amount of young gays who are erasing the rainbow flag to replace it with the new mlm flag. like, if you personally want to use an mlm flag go ahead idc but so many people are really out here ignoring the history and significane of the rainbow flag, which was literally made by a gay man. also angering is just how much people try to divide up the lgbt community into ever smaller subgroups instead of focusing on the point that its supposed to be a community.

[sapphicbean]

nah honestly I'm fine with them having a separate flag. the flag is used now as a community flag, like I can use the lesbian flag and also the rainbow flag and no one's going to say "oh no the rainbow flag is only for gay men, you can't use it", so some gay men might feel left out that they don't have something that's entirely theirs. it feels almost like if all the countries in Europe had their own flags but Germany just used the EU flag

[brandneweyescd]

rb to give the person u rb'd this from transgender swag

[languill]

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

[flavoracle]

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

[c-is-for-circinate]

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

[rocktheholygrail]

The Good Place (2016-2020)