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All of you can get fucked. Send me this fucking garbage and I will report you for spam and block you immediately. Your country your problems.

I’m gonna start bullying you.

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

"In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis."

-Rebecca Solnit

@artist-issues

Happy Anniversary. This is the original post. On this day in 2011 I was doing a charity drive for the natural disasters in Tōhoku and drew this. A few hours later I turned it into a gif and posted it here.

Here’s the original doodle before I drew it into a GIF

Happy 14th birthday Nyan Cat! The original post originated here on Tumblr

I forgot to take a naproxen before my nap, only to be woken by my alcove being filled with near freezing rain. Cramps are so bad rn 😫

7 inches of water. The building told me to call when my unit floods. I'm to sit here and wait for the alcove to fill with 7 inches of water before it's an issue.

I'm glad that people are still having fun on tumblr even after we found out about the frightening ghoul that reblogs posts but doesn't say anything

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Best of both worlds

Takes a guy who's obsessed with saving people even if it risks his life and a guy who is literally allergic to asking for help in any situation and puts them in My stew puts them in my fucking stew and stirs it

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.

don't like the "parents aren't qualified to (home)school their children" argument, because like have you ever attended/taught in a school? neither are most teachers lmao

teachers as a group are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met in my life. you can buy the same curriculum books they use and teach just as well, especially if you only have to manage a couple of kids and not like 30.

As a public school teacher I agree.

There is nothing magical about education degrees that make us smarter than anyone else (and not all of us have education degrees - mine’s in psychology, I did alternative certification a little over a year after I graduated)

The number of teachers who told me they had to retake their certification tests 3-5 times before passing…look, I get some people aren’t good test takers, but the tests, at least here in Texas, are not that difficult.

That aside, most of our job is just figuring out the best way to convey the information from the curriculum to the kids. We’re not expected to know it all off the top of our heads. Maybe we do a little side research on topics we’re less familiar with so we’re ready for questions, but even then usually we’re just like “hey that’s a great question, let’s find the answer together!”

The toughest part of being a public school teacher is trying to design lessons for and manage the behavior of 25-35 kids (at a time - I have 120-150 throughout the day) since they all learn differently and are motivated by different things.

Here are just some of the advantages that homeschool parents have over public school teachers:

A) you know your kids better than I would (I see a given student for about 45 minutes each day)

B) You have fewer different learning styles to take into account

C) You can move each kid along at their pace rather than trying to keep the whole group together AND on track with a pacing calendar provided by the district

D) You have more options for how to deliver content. You don’t need permission forms and a bus driver to do a field trip. You can sit and watch a documentary as a family without anyone saying you “can’t just put a movie on”. You can do science experiments and other hands-on activities without having to buy materials for 120 kids, or limiting yourself to activities that can be done in a 45-minute class period.

E) You don’t have to grade 120 lab reports or essays while also planning for the next lesson. You don’t have to schedule parent-teacher conferences or respond to parent emails. The buck stops with you and you get to make all decisions about how and what you teach your kid (yes some states are a pain in the butt about documentation, but honestly even the worst that I’ve seen make it pretty easy to CYA)

F) You can skip a day when you need to, and your kid doesn’t miss instruction when they’re sick, you have a family emergency, or you just want to take vacation (oh, and you can take vacation during off season when places are less crazy because most kids are in school).

G) When you do go on vacation (or anywhere else), you can keep the learning going! Learning isn’t just readings and worksheets and quizzes. Go to a museum, visit a historical site, contact a local business and ask for a tour. Have your kids help you calculate the tip at a restaurant or figure out what the total will be at the store after sales tax. Have the kids draw or write when you’re waiting for something.

Teachers are trained to provide education within a particular context. We do need that training to do our jobs. But the things we need training for simply don’t apply in a homeschool setting.

Yes, parents, you are smart enough to homeschool your kids.

He was waiting all day for his package

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.