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i got to propose my own final project for digital audio and i made sound for drifter !!<333 i recorded all the sounds myself EXCEPT the sword noises @gravitonbeamemitter recorded for me a state away <3 u are irreplaceable babe
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average glass animals song be like "what if [x] happened. would that be crazy or what"
"what if a melon and a coconut broke up" "what if i was a creature on the island of dr moreau" "what if there was a girl who was a stoner and kind of wasted her life away" "what if i sort of had a crush on someone but mostly i just wanted to be them" "what if a guy did too much cocaine" "what if i was a vole who fell in a cave and died"
and of course most recently: "what if i was kidnapped, hog tied, and stuffed in the trunk of a 1999 toyota corolla"
It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”
On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.
Here’s a fun story:
The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.
So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”
So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.
A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.
So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.
The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.
Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.
This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.
And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”
Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.
this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”
(note the dates)
this post aged like an ice cube in an oven
worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!
yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.
I have something to add to this. every single time I look up reference pictures, I get shitty ai generated bullshit. I've actually reached the point where I discovered that pasting this into google gives you a solid filter for 99% of the ai art. typing in -"word" will filter out all results with that word. I might end up making another one to filter out costumes and all that shit for better historical results when looking at outfits for my characters from various time periods.
if you don't put a space before it, it won't work so keep that in mind. if there are any I might have missed that are still coming up in your results, put them in tags. and I'll add them to the original post. if you see this and you end up using it, please reblog so more people, especially artists and charecter designers, are able to find it. Google is becoming rapidly unstable due to the influx of ai art, and it makes me incredibly sad, first of all, that my work as an artist is becoming rabidly obsolete. This is not worth it. Ai art is not worth it.
Here is the anti ai filter, note that this only works for image searches and only serves as a filter for art. due to the amount of ai writing concealed in media, I have no real way to create a filter for that. I hope this helps the art homies who are sick of this shit, and the people who just want to look at human art for a change:
-”starryAI” -”Krea” -”freepik” -”lexica” -”Midjourney” -”hayo” -”storybird.ai” -"Craiyon" -"ai art generator" -"prompt hunt" -"Opendream's ai" -"nightcafe creator" -"arthub.ai" -"open art" -"playground ai" -"PixAi.art" -"Creative fabrica" -”ai” -”Tensor.art” -”Images.Ai”
not an artist but im so glad to have this. You can also use before:2021 because that’s when ai “art” started to get big
nex was 16. they had a cat. his name was zeus. they played Minecraft. they were 16. they were beaten to death. they were a straight-a student. nobody called an ambulance. they loved rock music. they listened to the radio after school. they were 16. they were choctaw. they were 16. were.
NOBODY CALLED A FUCKING AMBULANCE!!
nobody called an ambulance. they reportedly could not walk independently to the nurse's office. the police say they didn't die from trauma. the police have a video of them before and after the incident. they're going to release it "at some point." their head was repeatedly slammed into the floor. nobody called an ambulance.
i want to be so fucking clear. even if the school isn't lying, and nex could walk. even if the nurse was qualified enough to say nex didn't need to go to the hospital. if a person's head has any above minor trauma, you need to go to the hospital. immediately. even if it turns out to be nothing. because, as we've seen here, it might not be nothing. it might have you dying 40 minutes after collapsing, a day later.
head injuries regularly kill, because people think it's not that bad.
they died suspended. they suspended nex instead of calling an ambulance.
they wanted to be a veterinarian, or a marine biologist. they watched anime. they were in the school's gsa club, native american student association, and drama club.
Haven't posted a Palestinian recipe in a while. I think positivity like this is needed as Palestinians are more than just their genocide and trauma.
These are Ka'ak Al-Quds, Jerusalem Bagels, made by @mxriyum on TikTok. You should give them a try :)
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As someone who ran track and cross country for 4 years in high school, this always fucking mystified me the most out of all the insane shit PE had us do.
Track and field club taught all new runners how to properly warm up, stretch, pace, etc. Its a process, and doing it properly takes 15-20 minutes to make sure your body is ready so you dont hurt yourself.
PE didnt do jack shit, they just said "go run a mile" so 70% of the fucking kids sprinted flat out the first lap and basically walked the other 3. Multiple people did it in boots or tennis shoes. I'm amazed more of them didnt pull a muscle or worse in the process.
I dont know what the purpose of PE was, but it sure as shit wasnt proper exercise. And I think a lot of people suffered for that. If they spent the time teaching us about the importance of physical health, proper nutrition, how to safely stretch/exercise, etc, we would all be better off now.
Let's be real, PE exists to shame and torture the fat kids, and for pretty much no other reason.
*Insert that thing with all the people who dread gym*
this one?
the purpose of PE, as it currently exists in the American school system, is to prepare kids to join the military. that's not some sort of moral-panic hyperbole. that's...pretty explicitly the purpose.
most of the prominently nightmarish features of PE, such as running the mile or doing sit-ups, originate with the Presidential Fitness Test. This test, which president Eisenhower implemented in schools in 1956, was created after a different fitness test (the Kraus-Weber test) revealed that Americans were less fit than Europeans -- specifically the Swiss.
The difference between the Kraus-Weber test and the Presidential Fitness test is that the Presidential Fitness test was specifically designed to test military fitness. While the Kraus-Weber test measured total fitness by testing things like core strength and flexibility, the Presidential Fitness test doesn't really make much sense in the context of ordinary fitness -- only in the context of military fitness. Do you remember being tested on how far you could throw a softball? That test mimicked throwing grenades. And it's pretty easy to see why Eisenhower went this direction. In 1956, the Cold War was in full swing and WWII was barely in the rear-view mirror. There was a real possibility that we would be at war with parts of super-fit Europe in the near future. Eisenhower wanted the nation's children ready to fight in that war.
The main issue with the Presidential Fitness test is that, as pointed out above, it really doesn't teach kids how to stay fit or incorporate physical activity in their day-to-day lives. A soldier at war might need to run a mile with no warm-up, or perform a pull-up, but for the average middle-schooler? The tests were just kind of...pointless exercises in misery. You're only really good at the Presidential Fitness Test if you've been practicing the specific exercises tested. And what 12 year old child is doing pull-ups for fun and pleasure? So instead of inspiring America's children to train themselves into a super-fit army, it just humiliated kids who didn't perform well.
There's been a recent push for PE classes to focus more on life-long fitness (things like actually teaching kids to warm up, exposing them to different types of physical activity, etc). Unfortunately, the Presidential Fitness test has already done its damage. It continued to be used in schools until 2013. That's 60 years of teaching kids to associate physical activity with shame and dread. The idea of military PE classes is pretty much baked into our cultural memory, giving us all a background dread of physical activity. and guess what, eisinhower?? that's just going to make people less likely to be physically active!! Maybe if we're trying to emulate the fitness of the SWISS, we shouldn't have gone with MILITARY TRAINING FOR CHILDREN!!
anyways. take some comfort in the fact that nobody will ever judge you for your mile time again. and if they try, ask to see them run a mile. directly away from you.
fucked up onion my belothed
btw US citizens, this petition for the ceasefire bill automatically sorts your congress members by those who have already signed and those who haven't!
because in cases of self immolation it is perhaps most important to amplify the cause for which they are committing the act, here’s what the protestor in dc had to say.
[ID: In a live stream video, the protestor stated, “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all.”
The protestor ended their statements to the camera with: “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.” /End ID]
(protestor is currently in critical condition according to the dc metro police dpt)
he has passed away from his injuries. source.
that tweet IS in a thread with video of this protest. he is blurred when the fire begins but it is an extremely harrowing watch, especially as you see him collapse to the ground as cops train guns on him. you hear him scream in pain as a cop demands he comply with orders.
it should never have come to this.
I will not watch this video, and I am not saying anyone else needs to, but I must engage with the act and its story.
This active duty U.S. airmen is the second to self immolate in protest of this genocide.
He is the second to self immolate for this cause.
“this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
Aaron Bushnell's final social media post before his self-immolation.
looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.
and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:
(ANERA donate link)
my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.
it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.
Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.
yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.
it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.
do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.
I participated in a workshop once with people who had all been sentenced to death by incarceration—life without parole—and everyone in the organization was remorseful, actively engaged in education and activism efforts, and also (shockingly!) had strong opinions on the life circumstances that had led to their crimes and how they could have been significantly altered by things like funding schools and after-school programs, stricter gun control, juvenile justice/diversion programs, healthcare and housing. And yeah, it was a group of mostly Black men who had been overly targeted and policed for most of their lives.
Like… murderers are never going to legalize murder. That’s a strawman argument. There a lot of other things on the ballot that their votes could sway significantly.
And I’m not saying everyone who has committed murder is secretly a good person or that I would agree with everything they would vote for—but that’s also true of people who have not committed crimes or have not been incarcerated for them! Right now, the worst non-incarcerated person you know has full voting rights, and someone who was convicted as an 18-year-old under Richard Nixon has gone 50 years without the ability to express their an opinion on topics that fucked up their lives beyond repair! Including things that are ACTIVELY fucking up their lives, because when politicians outsource prisons to private companies, provide or deny money to address in-prison sexual assault or drug addiction, ban or promote abusive practices like solitary confinement, etc, that affects… drumroll please… incarcerated people!
Anyway. Yeah, human rights are human rights and humans deserve rights.
Can we have an exception JUST for people who committed voter fraud?
(There aren't a lot of folks who have actually done this, but I think that's a reasonable punishment fitting the crime sort of thing.)
No. This goes back to the drag example. Think of how many people the Republicans have accused of committing voter fraud in the last election cycle and how fucking bad it would be if they had EVEN MORE incentive to frame and attack people for voter fraud.
Also if someone has committed voter fraud than either 1) they submitted a very low number of votes (a few people were convicted of this after 2020, most stole only 1 vote on behalf of a relative) therefore they are easily caught and the cost-benefit of threatening EVERYONE’s voter rights on behalf of this incredibly small number of people isn’t worth it. Or 2) they committed mass voter fraud—which they didn’t, this doesn’t happen—and required something dramatic like physical access to a large number of machines, in which restricting their access to those resources via other means is vastly more effective than preventing them from mailing or punching in an individual ballot.
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I fuck wit title-only text posts. this shit is like talkin in an apartment hallway loud as fuck out the window
What the heck is he eating in this luke why are you eating pills and crackers
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