Get well soon ♡

And by that I mean me

[notsowittywriter]

New graffiti in Norwich!

[toddcoward69]

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Helpppo why am I getting boomer conservative memes on my for you page 😭😭 I keep saying not interested but tumblr won’t get rid of them

Grrrrr

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I rewatched the last few episodes of AOT recently and I always forget that eren goes…. Fully insane. Like to a terrifying extent.

I’m not the biggest eren fan in the world, but to remember that he goes from a baby face 15 year old who can’t seem to do anything right to the scene where he cuts off his leg. Terrifying. And so fascinating.

2 takeaways- 1) Isayama actually did a great job with him as a main character and I was wrong 2)Don’t watch AOT high

[disgustinggf]

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Me this week

[beardedmrbean]

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Back to venting on my tumblr!! 😜

I want my boyfriend to come home 😜

Lowkey terrified his job is going to cause our breakup 😜

I spend all hours of the day wanting to cry 😜

[scalepsychosis]

Not to be cliche but if my boyfriend and I weren’t doing long distance rn my anxiety would be WAYYY better. Not because he can fix climate change or fascism or war, but at least if it all goes up tomorrow I could die in his arms

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taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!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

[fadagaski]

I would also add that giving as broad an education to as many as possible gives everyone the opportunity to follow a career that might use calculus. Or colour theory. Or electromagnetism. Or [insert specialism here]. If we gatekeep specialisms, those careers are only available for the ones who were privileged enough to have the background training. That’s why Classics as a degree subject is full of private school kids: it’s not offered in state education.

[ferrousferrule]

And when you gatekeep classics you get people who turn up their nose when people enjoy things ‘the wrong way’ like some (thankfully few) of the comments on the video of the girls playing Vivaldi on their marimbas with such joy.

[scalepsychosis]

If you hate public education I hate you. All education is valuable, even if it isn’t obvious

[scalepsychosis]

Not a middle aged middle class man trying to defend AI because I called it stupid :| It is stupid and you are wrong “oh it’s a tool that helps us I know company where it sorts all their applications!” Ok and I know an earth and human population it’s actively destroying

[quiverpaw]

hi scourge :DDDD

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The last episode of severance made me laugh so hard because 1) hello marching band win??? but also 2) I can now create an accurate and overly qualified severance-sona

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Here’s my really controversial take-

Have empathy as Trump voters begin realizing they’ve been fooled. We’re all starting to see it- relatives and mutual posting less about trump, centrists coming out with how upset they are, etc… Here’s my plea-

Be kind to them

People are raised in different environments. Surrounded by different influences. Indoctrinated by a number of sources. Yes, we’ve been trying to tell trump voters what they’re voting for. But that shouldn’t give anyone the right to get on their high horse and isolate the people starting to realize what’s happening. We all need each other. This is a top vs. bottom issue, not a left vs. right issue. Let people become better. Let people join the fight against those in power right now. DON’T pretend you always knew better. DON’T pretend you’re inherently better in some way. We all learn every day. We all need each other.

Have empathy, be humble, and help each other. It’s the greatest form of resistance, and the most important thing we can do to fight back

(Quick edition- I’m not saying to automatically forgive bigotry. But at some point we are going to have to band together to resist, regardless of our differences and pasts. You can refuse to forgive former hatred, but still hold space for those looking to be better. Nuance exists, don’t be fooled into purity politics.)

[nickbn26]

Seriam melhores amigos

Eles têm a mesma hiperfixação ksksksk

[scalepsychosis]

This is not a dig at anyone but the amount of people who thought the first half of the season was better is WILD. Like did we watch the same first act?? The one with 500 new characters and 20 plot points and the bouncing around? I really felt that the season wasn’t anywhere close to season one until the second act when it slowed down and stabilized. Sure, the ending of the show didn’t really follow the act one plot points. But tbh, with the crunched time the writers had, I truly feel they made the right choices on what they decided to follow based on a logical priority list

What do I mean by that?

For example, many people are frustrated by how easily Caitlyn’s dictator arc was resolved and how she went back to being a good guy. And yes, I agree that it was a little too fast. HOWEVER, they only had so much time to resolve it, and they would have lost too much time focusing on that rather than the arcane plot line, which was the underlying thread for THE ENTIRE SHOW. Many of the plot points literally could not have been resolved as well without completely demolishing the pacing like they did for act 1.

When they slowed down and went ahead and resolved some things, we got some of the best moments in the show imo- s2 ep7 (in its entirety), jinx and VI’s reunion, victors exploration of Vander’s psyche, and oh my GOD the finale Jayce and Viktor scene (idc if you’re not in the show for the shipping, the scene was gorgeous, powerful, and heart wrenching). While some of the political points were thrown away a little too quickly, and I get that many people wanted the show to focus on that, in return we got the end to many other plot points that we’ve also been following from the beginning.

Idk I guess my point with all this is that everyone can and should take a step back from blind criticism or admiration of this last season because from a zoomed-out lens, it’s obvious that this season fell victim to a shortened run-time and that sacrifices had to be made. However, I think it’s also obvious that the writers made very intentional decisions about what to sacrifice in order to save the rest of the show. And it’s not bad writing for them to have sacrificed the parts YOU wanted to focus on.

Tl;dr- The first act of the season throws a bunch of shit at the wall that it, quite frankly, never had time to completely clean up. Acts 2 and 3 did a much better job of telling a well-paced and emotional story, even if it wasn’t telling the story you wanted to see

[bryverros]

i wanna study this scene under a microscope bro

[scalepsychosis]

I’d give everything to experience this scene for the first time again, holy SHIT

[beezims]

Guys the FNAF movie was so good

[scalepsychosis]

People who hated this movie have never had fun once in their life!!