Bear with me. Or don't.

he/him || I reblog whatever tbh

[dramatic-dolphin]

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

[apricops]

“I did some research to pronounce this name correctly” = 👍 great! even if the pronunciation was still off (and learning to pronounce a foreign language correctly takes a lot of practice) people generally appreciate it when someone goes the extra mile for accuracy, and honestly, languages are cool

“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help

“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them

“One thousand apologies for my butchering of this beautiful effervescent tongue, I will now flagellate myself as punishment for my crimes” = 👎 chill

[junestrings]

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

[junestrings]

you can make a little oasis right where you are, and it matters

[headspace-hotel]

every year of restoring native plants I see a great increase in the insect populations, and loads of new insects i never saw before (all of them harmless--the insects that are harmful or parasitic on humans are the main ones being unaffected by the decrease in insect populations)

(a large part of) the problem is Plant Sameness. we must restore plant diversity

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[mikkeneko]

#At this point they're just feeding him prime ministers - via @copiccrow

[mrsterlingeverything]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

BREAKING NEWS: screenshots from your phone not an appropriate format for submitting work in college classes.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

#i’ve had a number of students do their writing assignments in their phone’s Notes app#probably more than i’m aware of because i only find out about it when this results in tech problems they’re unable to navigate#i thought THAT was buckwild#but SCREENSHOTS of their phone is another level

This was screenshots of a notes app. For a research paper outline.

[kermits-cup-of-tea]

rb'ing with these tags because its not that hard to take things seriously

[tellmeayarn]

I help people at the library with assignments (and printing other important documents) all the time and you must understand that people simply don't understand that it is unprofessional or even why it would be. And the stakes out here are higher - if I had a dollar for every person I completely failed to convince that a screenshot of their resume is not the same thing as a file, I would be very rich.

[nerdfromtheburgh]

I work at the IT help desk at a university and I have to agree with prev - especially since the majority of students are young people who have basically just hopped from high school (where things are likely much more structured and spellee out) to this next level of education where suddenly they have all this freedom and are often sort of expected to just figure it out (or even already know things). It's part of why I personally struggled so much during my first attempt at college. People won't know things if they aren't taught them.

Also fwiw I asked a couple of our student workers if they had ever done this or know anyone who has. They both said no and were very confused by the question. Not saying it doesn't happen since obviously this is an incredibly small sample size, but it does make me curious about why this might be prevalent in some places but not others.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

@nerdfromtheburgh my classes in the fall are for incoming freshmen and one of the specific goals of the program I teach for is to help new students adjust to the very different environment of college. Part of that is teaching them "soft skills" like time management, how to email an instructor, how to set up file storage for your readings so you can find them later, how to use the library catalog, taking advantage of events on campus, etc.

However, the class I'm teaching right now is entirely online, and I think that's partly the issue of where this is coming from. Online school (for both students and instructors) tends to be much more loosey-goosey, and I get far more students phoning it in than in my 30 person small group classes in the fall.

[bi-archaeologist]

Speaking of screenshots, i am more taken aback by the fact that the student did not CLOSE THE AI TAB before they took the screenshot?!?!?! I have not been quiet about the fact that using AI is the fastest way to a zero for me.

[rockrockgrace]

He's in a ball!

[smol-ghosts]

Oh he’s down bad

[dogpuppy]

[swan2swan]

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

[luimnigh]

[ladydevoir]

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[acanfullofspiders]

I fear we may have gone too far...

[smalllfieldmouse]

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

[smalllfieldmouse]

everyones gotta stop reblogging this bro they're gonna find it and get so mad they try to strangle me again

[sunthoon]

Project Hail Mary fans after finishing the book and the movie

[nikoisme]

scrapped painting,, thought i might as well post it

[nikoisme]

i want to put my thoughts behind this: this was supposed to be a piece for pride month, titled "you were loved". the sky is the color of the aroace flag (just upside down)!

basically, i wanted to show an aroace person — an old aroace person, to be precise. being aroace myself, i am always told that i will forever be lonely and miserable if i don't get a partner. so showing grace, who is aroace to me, as old and happy and fulfilled and oh so loved by his best friend, was really important to me <3

[dramatic-dolphin]

i have a banger collection of out of context reddit comments but very few of them top this one:

[bitchautism]

can everyone get woke again. I miss her. I miss woke.

[bitchautism]

and by woke I mean aware of racism. the original meaning. don't do stupid bullshit here. woke = aware of racism . ok

[memecucker]

[ottisbuns]