fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism
disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die
The rest of B-Shift hearing about Ravi committing domestic terrorism for the sake of Chimney even after Bobby offered to take the fall and just thinking, “Oh God, they finally got him. They roped Ravi into their sick little co-dependent work family. We’re never getting him back.”
“I’ll tell you something, I wrote this particular scene at 2 o’clock in the morning in my kitchen and I wrote ‘age of the geek, brother’ and I started crying at my counter. It was one of those moments where I’m like, am I really writing this scene?” - John Rogers, The Long Goodbye Job DVD Commentary
An ex-colleague of mine was complaining to me the other day about the ai problem in her students’ papers, and I told her, “Just make your students hand-write them in class. Easy.” She looked at me like I was insane and tried to explain how that would never work, but I just said,“That’s how we did it for a thousand years. The invention of word processors doesn’t erase all that.”
To me it seems obvious. Readings are done out of class, handwritten essays are done within it. No more ai papers.
I give all my exams in blue books. A lot of my colleagues have started doing the same. The struggle to interpret student handwritting is worth avoiding the whole plagerism academic protocol nonsense.
Man of all the unexpected Secondary and Tertiary effects that AI Slop could have I think the best and funniest would be if it forced all schoolwork to return to being done in school and thus by necessity killed Homework.
i think it’s healthy to be critical of how a site is run and/or the leadership because no institution is perfect and we should all want better for everyone. but when i see people online be virulently anti-ao3, especially around the donation drives, all i can think is that these people are anti-fandom and anti-fans. you want a modern library of alexandria burned to the ground? oh okay. you’ve got some fascist thinking you need to work through. stay away from me forever tho
sometimes i remember my first ever experience with a time loop story when i was like 8: Help! I’m Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser.
The title says it all; kid goes to camp, makes friends with “cool kids” and gets peer pressured into being a shithead and a bully, wakes up the next day with things reset to arriving at camp.
But the thing is, this book is part of a series. Most of the books are this same kid getting caught up in body swap shenanigans, but he had gotten caught in a time loop once in a previous book. So he knew the score. He just needed to not be a jerk today. Cue him being overly nice to the point of blatant insincerity, making everyone wildly uncomfortable. No growth, just trying to appease the forces that be. Loop continues looping.
Yadda yadda, finally figures out how to be a genuinely nice kid who stands up to bullies and makes friends with the nerdy kid, etc etc, got everything perfectly right.
When that loop doesn’t work he immediately throws himself off the bus to camp to kill himself. Loop again.
Finally, having resigned himself to never escaping the loop but at least he can dedicate it to being a good kid with nice friends, a thought occurs to him. There’s one thing he hasn’t done a single time in all the loops.
He brushes his teeth before bed. And wakes up the next day.
and frankly, i think more time loops should be hinged on morality-neutral mundane tasks. escape the time loop by taking your meds. free yourself by taking a shower. my man todd was a visionary
