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[maleficentchroniclenew2]

Are you ‘highsexual’? Reddit invents new sexuality for ‘temporarily gay’ pot smokers

Users of internet hub Reddit have invented a new sexuality – for people who get ‘a bit gay’ when they take drugs. A thread appeared on the platform last month to discuss the phenomenon of cannabis smokers displaying homosexual behaviours, titled “Weed makes me temporarily gay. Anyone else?” The thread’s author wrote: “I’m quite a hardcore pothead… I feel very attracted to girls and not at all to men when sober, but when I get high I just want a big c**k to suck.

“Anyone else happens to have the same effects? Just curiosity, not that it really bothers me since I’m still attracted to girls while high, but I sometimes feel weirded by male friends with whom I don’t usually feel attracted to.”

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Courtesy of: The MALEficent Journal | Articles | Sex 

[portablepedagogy]

Technological adaptation and adoption as a proxy for an institution's success

Israel Galindo at Grace-ed.org:

While technology is never a silver bullet for addressing the challenges of the complex and messy work of teaching and learning, I find that an educational organization’s attitude and perspective toward the embrace of “new” and emerging technology is a good indicator of how adaptive it is—and, a rather unscientific indicator of its ability to succeed in the marketplace of the business of education.

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This post uses Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation model, for more on that see this blog post.