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[prokopetz]

I’ve seen a lot of videos going around of urban-dwelling critters coming to humans for help with various problems, ranging from boxes stuck on their heads to young trapped down a storm drain, and it’s gotten me to thinking:

On the one hand, it’s kind of fascinating that they know to do that.

On the other hand, setting any questions of how this sort of behaviour must have arisen aside for the nonce, does it ever strike you how weird it is that we’ve got a whole collection of prey species whose basic problem-solving script ends with the step “if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason”?

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

how did jk manage to write ootp and not come to the conclusion that the only career w any true meaning for harry james potter was as a goddamn professor at hogwarts like how do u write the da scenes and say “nah he’d want to be a wizard cop”

[hugisak]

#just let him dress in warm sweaters and have tea with neville in the staff room and help first years #harry james potter as hogwarts longest serving defense against the dark arts teacher fucking fight me (@batcii)

[tattooedsiren]

#but it would be so perfect??? #bc it would help normalize his life so much #like there would just be this generation of kids who are like #‘ugh who cares that he killed the dark lord he gAVE US HOMEWORK OVER BREAK’ #like the beginning of every year there would be the new first years who would freak out a little #but then it would calm down #and most of the students would literally forget #until like clockwork the fifth years would have their history of magic class on the second war #and they’d all show up to DADA looking a little awestruck and everyone would be extra quiet #and harry would give this kind of annoyed sigh—except it’s fake bc he TOTALLY knew this was coming #bc binns is a bro and he totally gives him a heads up every year #and harry wouldn’t have any lesson plans for the day and instead he would just sit at the front of the room and answer everyone’s questions #but otherwise everyone would just be like ‘professor potter!! i can’t get my patronus to work! help me!’ #and like they’d go home at the end of the year or for break and their parents—who ARE still starstruck by harry james potter #would pester their kids with questions#and the kids would just be like ‘merlin i don’t know?? potter’s such a huge dork you should hear him talk about proper wand movements’ #but they would all love him #and he would feel safe and normal and utterly accepted #AND I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE (via @cinematicnomad)

[saywhatjessie]

Not to mention it would be an ultimate Fuck You to Voldemort, who put a curse on the teaching position in the first place.

Like, Jo, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but COME ON

[timemachineyeah]

I already queued this but also, you do this, but still have Ginny become a famous Quidditch player. Imagine the first time Harry gets called “Ginny’s husband” before “the boy who lived” or “the chosen one.” Imagine how fucking pleased he’d be.

Imagine the first time a student comes up to him looking starry-eyed and Harry’s thinking “Oh no” because he doesn’t want to talk about Voldemort or the war but instead this little eleven year old is like “ARE YOU REALLY MARRIED TO WEASLEY FROM THE HOLLYHEAD HARPIES???!?? WHAT’S SHE LIKE?” and he’s like “oh thank god” because he could talk about Ginny all day. 

[optimysticals]

Yes. Good.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Don't speak Ojibway? You can still get a job teaching it in an Ontario school

Ojibway teacher files human rights complaint against Lakehead Public Schools in Thunder Bay, Ont.

David Thompson believed his Ojibway heritage and his university degree with special qualifications in native language instruction would give him job security as an Ojibway teacher in Ontario’s public school system.

He was wrong.

During a round of job cuts this year, Thompson was bumped out of his full-time permanent job teaching high school Ojibway with Lakehead Public Schools in Thunder Bay, Ont., by a man who is a specialist in business studies and has no professional qualifications in any language.

The teacher currently doing the job is not Indigenous and does not speak Ojibway, Thompson wrote in a complaint filed with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

“It’s a total insult to our youth to put someone in front of the classroom to teach Ojibway, who is not Ojibway, who is not affiliated with the culture or brought up with it,” said Thompson, who was raised by his grandparents at Rocky Bay First Nation in northwestern Ontario.

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[sugarmoonaki]

what the FUCK

[mamapluto]

Wasn’t there also a class where the teachers were having the kids harvest berries they’d throw away instead of teaching them, and an Ojibwe 13 year old volunteered to teach it instead? What the fuck, Canada???

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Yes, that also happened:

Grade 8 student tells federal minister he teaches indigenous language course

[volbeetle-blog]

ayyyye hooray for the fucking teacher’s union

i’m a union girl through and through but the teacher’s unions in ontario are fucking shit shows

it took two years to fire a teacher that was on camera stealing lunches out of low income 10 years olds’ backpacks because of the union

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The government of Canada has a credit rating of AAA and a budget of over $200 billion. You would think it could meet its payroll.

But for most of this year, getting paid has been an exercise in frustration for more than 80,000 Canadian public servants — not for lack of money, but because of a new payroll system that has repeatedly gone haywire.

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the "slob but also a perfectionist" squad

VIRGO, Cancer, Aries, Taurus, Aquarius, Pisces

[leftmyheartinlondon]

No Shave November is upon us, which means every guy in sight will either look like God’s gift to women or like he should legally be banned from going near small children.

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[memewhore]

[volbeetle-blog]

this guy got knighted for chemistry education

he got knighted for youtube

[trapcard]

Why would you intentionally eat olives like what in the fuck? are you okay? is someone forcing you to do this? You need me to call the police let me know so we can help you

[captoring]

there is a component in olives that some people taste as extremelly bitter and some people dont taste at all. it’s just how we were born please leave us and the olives alone

[allthecanadianpolitics]

No women on panel considering gender pay gap

Wright is speaking as part of the federal government’s pre-budget consultations ahead of the 2017 budget.

The Federal Standing Committee on Finance will hear from a variety of speakers about economic disparities, including gender inequality, today in Charlottetown.

The only problem? The committee doesn’t have any female members present.

Jenny Wright, executive director of the St. John’s Status of Women Council, posted a tweet Tuesday highlighting the irony of the fact that she was about to speak in front of an all-male government panel about income inequality for women.

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[volbeetle-blog]

oh god like this is gold fucking satire material i’m ?????

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hey pals whats upaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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shut up

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[brinnanza]

my favorite thing about the cask of amontillado meme (which I LOVE) is that it displays, yet again, how difficult millennials on the internet are to predict. oh, giant company, you want your advertisement to go viral? well this week the kids are obsessed with a short story written in 1846 good fucking luck