Augustine: don't worry Harrow, i have a plan how to distract John so you can kill Saint of Duty

The plan:

I like how boycotting Target is becoming like, a reoccurring thing done for opposing political reasons

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

chase me if you must, but i’ll be the one to capture you

close ups

ppl keep asking what fandom this is from. it is from a fandom of one (1) and that one is me. it is from my brain. my heart. my very gay and horny soul.

you know what i think you’re right. my dm like them too :)

Like I say my dad was bi bc people will piss their pants if they don’t understand things in plain terms but in reality he was out as gay till mid 20s and then showed up with a girlfriend one day and refused to elaborate and still only liked men other than her and this being the backstory to my parents explains quite literally everything about me honestly also power move

As someone pointed out in the replies im south Asian like I sign on here and watch u flops complain about polyamorous people being icky meanwhile my parents are a woman who dodged arranged marriage and got disowned and a bisexualgay man who both did whatever they wanted at all times. And u expect me to care when you cry about the sanctity of monogamy and commitment

We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

i think penises should be more fun

i present to you: silly straw urethras

dont have a penis? dont worry i got you covered:

popper clits

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

. . .

If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

please enjoy this image I made a couple years ago that I found deep in my computer files

Hi there! CPhT in training here!

Leeches are in fact still a modern medical procedure, and you need special certifications to handle and take care of the medical leeches in hospital settings. They’re used post-op for things like major reconstructive surgery, skin grafts for burn victims, and digit reattachment. The sucking stimulates blood flow to the freshly attached tissues, as well as leech saliva having anesthetic properties. Leeches are single-use, and sadly destroyed afterwards as medical waste, but they are kept very healthy prior to use.

So bloodletting has already been brought back. Hope that helps!

amazing news thank you

Leeches are also not difficult to raise yourself, here is one of mine climbing around their tank:

Unfortunately the website leech.com (also leeches.com and other alts) isn't a good business and may poach from the wild. In the USA you want this source:

picrew chain time!! make yourself a cheeky little icon using this picrew, reblog & tag ur pals!! to start us off: @lightyaoigami @lightyakami @deelavis @dreamfilleddonuts @catboymettaton @vorareromantic @queer-omens-in-the-archives

yay yippee this is cute!!

@limeishpingu @skyborneveggie @jedi-valjean @lawtism @dancing-lex @totheidiot

This is the guy who made the first genetically-engineered babies (a horrific ethics violation that landed him 3 years in prison) and his tweets are so unhinged that I genuinely can't tell if he's trying to be funny or is 100% serious

“I don’t learn this in school :(“

Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?

12 years is not nearly enough time to teach you everything to know about the world, especially when the starting point is “a says ah” and “1+1=2” and “rain comes from clouds.”

There are people who spend their whole lives in pursuit of knowledge and do not run out of stuff to learn. If you want to be well-informed and knowledgeable as an adult you have to actually make your continued education a priority. The library is free, thousands on online resources are accessible to all, and somewhere near you is an affordable museum or culture center or zoo or art display that can give you information you didn’t know.

gave my GF an extremely untruthful trigger warning for severance s2 then forgot about it