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African giant pangolin 

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

also, here's where to find me on other platforms!

a lot of these are very neglected, but I’ll probably become active on Bluesky

love when u get an audio message n ur reading the transcript n like halfway thru there is just a bunch of road rage expletives before they get back to the point :3

literally my favorite thing

I think about this everytime someone comes into my lane

my soft and comfortable mama

ID: a baby tiger laying on an adult tiger’s arm. The baby tiger looks content. End ID.

Um, actually, if you'll look at the definition of pedantry in the Oxford English Dictionary...

I did once as a teen get into a little argument with my then-best friend about whether there's a semantic difference between "pedantic" and "persnickety", and it took us way too long to notice how what a self-own the whole conversation was

hey man what if i cried

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

If you were not aware, edits and version history are visible in word documents. For both work and school documents, I work in one document, writing and organizing and polishing and editing and putting in filler like "PUT QUOTE HERE" or "I HATE THIS FUCKING PRODUCT" and then when I need to present the document to other people I copy the whole text and paste it into a clean document with no history so that people can't look back over my early versions or angsty mid-process meltdowns.

However, I *do not* delete the original version, it's good practice to keep your work document to show that you, you know, worked on the document in case something like this ever comes up.

Just a heads up, both for people who didn't know about version histories and for people who might be deleting their working files after finishing their projects.

Someone brought up to me the other day that it might be risky for me to publish my "how to find hardware" document on tumblr if it's something I created at the behest of my job; part of the reason I'm not concerned about that is because the original worked document was created in 2018 and has been sporadically worked on since, so I can conclusively prove that the public document I'm creating is not sharing work product for a project assigned to me in 2025.

I have completed another crochet monstrosity

A sweet interaction on the knitting Reddit

you... made accessibility gear for a cat. I LOVE this. 10/10. Improving the life of a family member via your skill!

Waiting for Chapelle Roan to get old enough to start singing about the back pain she's getting from whatever fucking pretzel ass posture she has in the chorus of Casual

"knee deep in the passenger seat" girl HOW

I know she's really short but you're telling me you're on your knees in the foot space of the passenger seat and you're still bending your head down to pussy level?

Northernlion Voice: Maybe I'm insane for this one but; one week of good sleep with three meals a day and moderate exercise. Shit kinda goes crazy.