[duncebento]

[pukicho]

Tumblr may be a little slow rn. It is currently experiencing 8 people at once!!

[kitttenteeth]

Do you like biting ?

ya that’s why they’re putting me down tonight

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I mean Elon Musk has of course now cancelled the blue checkmark bullshit so no more Twitter fun with verified accounts, but shout out to my personal fave of someone pretending to be Gamefreak and tweeting "Gen 8 was bad because we wanted to accurately portray living in the UK"

[noctude]

sorry professor i did not do this asisgnemtn becuase i was too sad! NO consequences please. goodbye

[good-4-her]

[kosmogrl]

[schrodingersspy]

well i guess now that twitter’s dead

[depsidase]

[oneheadtoanother]

[knishy-deactivated20230216]

[toxzee]

[tsunflowers]

red cross questions before you give blood are like

do you have the bubonic plague (also known as the black death)

were you a member of an Armenian monkey juggling troupe between the years of 1985 and 1997

have you ever even SEEN a gay man

[libraford]

Teacher to me (photographer): this is Mohammed.

Me: and last name?

Teacher: -shrug- his name is Mohammed, hes the only Mohammed at this school.

Mohammed: -is in preschool, doesnt know his last name-

Me: -looks up Mohammed in system- Nadir?

Teacher: sure, yeah. Sounds right.

[libraford]

Me: this will come back to bite me later.

[libraford]

After merging my camera data with another photographer: there's two Mohammed Nadirs. -goes to talk it out with secretary-

Me: -shows two photos- which of these kids is Mohammed?

Secretary: -points to the one I did not shoot- that's Mohammed.

Me: I was told this one was Mohammed. -points to my student-

Secretary: well, theres only one Mohammed.

[libraford]

Secretary takes me to the break room to chat with two teachers.

Me: can one of you tell me which one is Mohammed?

Teacher A points to my student.

Teacher B points to not my student.

Both: that's Mohammed.

[libraford]

Teacher B says that her Mohammed is in her class and is definitely Mohammed Nadir.

Me: so who is Mystery Mohammed?

Teachers Aide walks by: who are you trying to find?

Me: -turns laptop around- can you identify this child?

Teachers Aide: oh! That's Mohammed!

[libraford]

So theres two Mohammeds. Secretary cant find data for Mystery Mohammed. No one can find his name. All we know is he's in preschool.

Me: okay! Can you direct me to the teacher?

Teachers Aide: sure.

I have my laptop open to the photo as I'm walking down the hall, updating data as we go looking for this kid. Checking hairstyles and clothes in vase we see him in the hall. Buffalo check shirt. Hi-top fade. Secretary is freaking out a little that she lost all data for entire student.

We pass the library.

A class is exiting.

I see the buffalo check shirt. I see the hi-top fade. Kid is wearing a mask.

Teachers aide taps him.

Me: is this you?

Child: no, that's Mohammed.

[libraford]

Identical child is Mohammed's cousin. They dressed alike for picture day because their mothers thought it would be cute.

Cousin: I dont know his last name. His mom never told me.

Teachers aide leads me to classroom where we see...

MOHAMMED!

Me: Hi, hello Mrs preschool teacher. I need to know the name of this child-

Teacher: that's Moham-

Me: Mohammed, yes. We gathered. What's his LAST name?

Teacher:

[libraford]

Teacher: Mohammed, what's your last name?

Mohammed: -stares at the wall, then points to a picture of a duck-

Teacher: his last name is not 'duck.' I'll go look it up for you.

Five minutes later and the reason we couldn't find his name was because he spells it MUHammad. All of this because the teacher swore he was the only kid in the school with the most common name in the world.

End scene, exit left pursued by a migraine.

[gallusrostromegalus]

This sounds like the EXACT flavor of bullshit literally everyone I know whos' had to deal with the education system in Ohio has told me about. Honestly I'm just glad it didn't escalate to a fistfight in the parking lot somehow.

[sexhaver]

your opinion on 100gecs is actually governed by the same genome that decides whether or not cilantro tastes like soap to you

[briefcollision]

What If cilantro tastes like cock

[sexhaver]

check out Machine Girl

[softsubs]

[odinsblog]

[feministism]

[beeperbopper]

It’s called “environmental amnesia” and it’s an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but it’s been something that’s happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you don’t see how large they are because you don’t personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.