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TAKOYAKI🐙
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GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH
If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.
Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.
I'm living for these jokes.
Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.
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May his memory be a blessing.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
"Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak."
From Wikipedia
He was also a pretty great artist
Reblog to include his artwork!
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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.
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platonic third base: when you get to know someone well enough that they start making mortifyingly specific observations about you
yesterday i was chilling with my friend and there was an ice cream van outside and every time the jingle played i'd look out the window and after the third time i did this my friend said, accurately, 'i think you want to get ice cream but you're scared of the ice cream man.' devastating
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Do not obey in advance.
Keep hating It's working
Okay but reblogging specifically for "Tesla in Distressla" because whoever came up with that tagine deserves a moment of recognition.
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I love how much thought was put into making the Switch 2 accessible from a design point of view. If you look at one of the games that dropped during the launch, Drag and Drive, it utilizes the Switch 2’s new gyroscopic mouse feature! Drag and Drive is a sports game about wheelchair basketball, and is played by using the Switch 2 joycons in “mouse” mode; the remote stays relatively in one area on a flat surface like a computer mouse. It’s a game that truely cares about disabled people, not just because it’s actually about wheelchair basketball, but because the gameplay itself is designed to be friendly to a player with limited mobility. The original joycons can be hard to use if you have large hands, arthritis, limb difference, etc. Mouse mode is a really great opportunity to make controller video games more accessible to everyone in the future!
Additionally, I really appreciated the idea of the Switch 2 tutorial game. A game that goes through and shows you how and why each choice is made, how the electronics work, and the deep explanations behind decisions is refreshing after so much ai slop. Plus, it’s a great way for kids to understand how technology actually works, instead of never questioning the magical game screen. I hope it will help teach younger kids why taking care of their possessions is important. I’m honestly excited to play it!
Honestly, is the console pricey? Yeah. But if you’re a family of four, it’s not an unreasonable investment if you’ve already skipped on buying all the other expensive consoles. It also gives your children a way to stream to their friends in a way that also is far more safe than letting your child have a discord account. Plus, they’re bringing back DS Download Play, meaning you won’t always have to buy an entire 60 dollar game, and instead your child can just play their friends copy when they go over to their house. And, if you have limited mobility, you can still play some of the games and possibly attach other adaptive devices with the two usbc ports in addition to mouse mode. It’s pricier, but it could be a worthwhile investment for those who could really benefit from all the new upgrades!
It’s very refreshing to see something designed with real average people in mind, instead of the elite hyper gamer streamer who can afford to spend $500 on a microphone alone.
I know this sounds like ai but believe it or not I do have a brain and can use it even while thinking about Gandalf’s tits
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