redstonedust:

redstonedust:

dear god we don’t talk much but please give me the strength to start that project, the determination to start that project, and the fortitude to start that project. thanks

finishing the project is another story im turning to the devil for that one. there’s no other way.

visenyaism:

The concept of modern AU Jaime Lannister is too absurd to exist with any fidelity. What if LeBron James killed the president and then kept on hooping for fifteen years?

cleolinda:

ftmtftm:

ftmtftm:

Trump isn’t destroying the White House because he feels really strongly about destroying a symbol of American imperialism.

He’s unceremoniously tearing down the imperialist monument TO REPLACE IT WITH HIS OWN.

This is literally actually Nazi shit and you’re too preoccupied with “death to America” blinders on to realize that yeah. They are killing America. And replacing it with something Exponentially Worse that’s going to cause direct and tangible harm to way more people.

Actually making my tags part of the post. I’m also on board the “Let’s dismantle the American Establishment” train, but like, I don’t fucking know, let’s do it in a way that ISN’T SPEARHEADED BY WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACISTS.

I FEEL LIKE THAT SHOULD BE SO OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m rattling the bars of my enclosure. Can anyone hear me? Can anyone fucking hear me? Hello????

In case you’re out of the loop:

East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction

Despite president’s promise to preserve it, the eastern section of the building is now completely destroyed

the Guardian

Demolishing the White House East Wing to build a ballroom embodies Trump’s heritage politics

President Donald Trump is trying to prescribe the style and content of many federal sites to highlight his own authority and promote a parti

The Conversation

5 takeaways from the demolition of the White House’s East Wing

The East Wing of the White House is no more. Aerial imagery showed the wing of the nation’s most famous building, used by first ladies for d

The Hill

visenyaism:

visenyaism:

Being or having been a student the American public education system absolutely entitles you to have whatever opinions or reflections about the system you hold in your heart. But whew there are a lot of people here speaking on pedagogy whose base level understanding for why they did anything they did in school clearly has not advanced past “my teacher made me do this task or think this way or write this thing for no reason other than she’s a bitch”

“Why did I have to do worksheets/comprehension questions” Making sure you understand the basic factual content of something is really important before moving on. Incentivizes a closer reading of the text than you otherwise would have taken with built in scaffold of things to look for the answer to while reading. Processing your thoughts through writing helps them stick better than just reading.

“Why is there lecture” In terms of efficiently establishing facts to get everyone on the same baseline there aren’t many better ways to use class time. Everyone needs to be on the same page about The Facts before you go and practice a skill.

“Why is there homework” so you could practice what you learned in preparation for next class.

“Why didn’t they teach xyz” they DID teach you the skills to recognize the gap in your knowledge and be able to rectify it. Education and literacy are the keys to self-sufficiency and not having to just believe the things people tell you. You are never limited to just the content you learn in school when you have all the critical thinking and research skills you learned as well.

“Why did teacher insist on their interpretation of the text” When you’re teaching a skill (how to substantiate an argument by looking for slash analyzing evidence) the content (the interpretation) should be familiar or given out so that you can focus on building what matters. Vice versa when teaching content. They could also just be right.

“Why can’t things be more engaging/fun” some things will never be as fun as phone. A nonzero but hopefully minimal part of education is always going to be making people do things they would not otherwise want to do. Coping with being bored is itself a life skill.

“Why did I have to ask permission to leave the room” Teacher is legally responsible for your well being and needs to know where you are and how long you’ve been out in case there is an emergency.

fishgirlautism:

this made me laugh so hard i started coughing

probuccalfat:

there’s a phenomenon when it comes to enjoying a male character in a piece of media where it’s so much fun and i love my blorbo and i want to talk about my blorbo and read analysis of my blorbo but i realize very fast and very hard that the majority of fans made up a version of him that appeals to their horniness and it’s become the popular and standard interpretation and i do not care for that guy at all like i’d beat him with hammers actually

hungerpunch:

hungerpunch:

the constant tension between “users won’t click” and “users won’t scroll down” and the arguments it causes during design & development makes me want turn myself into a monastery in search of peace. look, if i remove all the clicks, everything has to be on one page—so then you must scroll. if i do the reverse and make it so that scrolling isn’t necessary, then i have to ask you to click stuff. not all websites can function like a static social media graphic i am so so sorry :weep:

and really these two issues become small when the third, biggest player enters the ring: users will not read.

theodysseyofhomer:

polyphemusthecylcops:

theodysseyofhomer:

strinak:

theodysseyofhomer:

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i’m also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they’re so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

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this is the only funny addition to this post