hiiii. i used to be srb2kart until they terminated me.
i also used to be pelontriques, pelontriques-is-fucking-dead.
i’m 23.
they can’t keep banning me forever.
anyways please reblog this i need to get more mutuals and follow my old ones. i was there during the ace discourse, and i will not tolerate aphobia or panphobia.
also trying to be an ally to transfems, because they deserve so much better.
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.
matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.
Going on a transandrodorks blog is like, first post is about how trans women communities online are infiltrated by "baeddel terfs" and when you go to op's blog you find them reblogging actual "JK Roweling did nothing wrong" terf blogs. The next post is long screed about the history of trans women being misandrist towards trans men, but you check the sources and they lead back to medium articles they themselves wrote that itself links back to terf blog posts about how sad it is trans men associate with trannies and that terfs could save them that are made in 2019 that have no sources to anything the article claims. The third post is a joke post made by a dude that said he should be allowed to hunt trans women. The fourth post is about how the situation in Israel is incredibly nuanced and no one has the cultural understanding to get what's happening that's written by a person that threatened to dox and harm a Native American person for disagreeing with them "you're part of a small tribe, it wouldnt be hard to ruin your life." The last post you can stomach is about how all language discussing transmisogyny is intersexist and how all trans women on Tumblr are somehow the worst intersexist bigot you've ever known, the post is written by someone who personally called you "male" intentionally misgendered you in a mini call out and consistently has terf ideology on their blog accidentally.
It's funny because this culture is so clearly in and of itself influenced by GC cultural feminism and transmisogyny that any accusation of "transfem TERF" reads as half incoherent and half a self-aware "accuse them of what you are guilty of" tactic.
There's a reason that their understanding of misogyny and patriarchy begins and ends with sex-essentialism and an indelible female-ness that trans women can never experience, empathize with, or truly "suffer" like they do.
The TERF is barely under the surface, and there is barely a veneer of deniability.
ok so these new tariffs are likely going to be primarily affecting red states. i want y’all to ignore the urge to respond by saying the people in those red states deserve it because of the political representation we have. not because some of us are progressives but because this is an opportunity. if conservatives from these states start complaining about higher prices and financial strain, do not respond with “well you voted for this!” this is your opportunity to pull them to the center. say “wow that is really awful. i’m sure this isn’t what you wanted when you voted last year. you deserve representatives that will have your best interests at heart, you should let them know how upset you are! you deserve to be heard!”
because listen to me. republican politicians don’t give a shit about what progressives in red states have to say. they aren’t gonna change their voting trends for us. but if a bunch of small town conservatives start to get restless and angry with their politicians, if they lose support from their most important demographics, that has a shot at changing things. so swallow your pride and disgust and have a conversation with that republican truck driver instead of taking the pot shot that’ll get you 10 minutes of dopamine. do the hard work.
Time to roll this image out for the conservatives for once.
Make them mad that they've been made fools of, because that right there is an out. A lot of them are going to dig their heels in because if they admit that they were making shit choices then what have they been doing all this time? The sunk-cost fallacy wouldn't allow it.
But! What if they were flat out lied to? There's the excuse to back out! They didn't sign up for this, didn't know that they were voting for a liar (🙃 I know. I KNOWWW). But aren't they pissed now? At the guy who fucking SCAMMED them out of their vote?
yup. the republican party’s big pull is that they’re very good at pointing the finger at xyz minority group to blame them for the country’s ills. people like to know who to blame. conservatives especially like to know who to blame because very often they are not educated enough to understand what the actual problems are, because conservative politicians do not prioritize education.
so with the trump administration doing such a phenomenally horrible job at everything, now is the time to give those conservatives a group to blame. gas prices skyrocketing? trump isn’t following through on his promise to lower gas prices and i’m pretty sure those tariffs he imposed are why! groceries getting way too expensive? trump promised to make them cheaper but he’s doing the opposite!
if their options are imploding with embarrassment and having their entire worldview fall apart or ignoring reality, they’ll choose ignoring reality. if they have a third option of getting mad and blaming someone, that is the one they have been trained to choose. use that.
Guys. This works.
I live in the fucking Bible Belt. This place is so atrociously red that I am the weirdest person that most of the people I know have ever met.
I’m not even the weirdest person I’ve ever met. But we are few and far between.
And I’m telling you, they are angry about the same exact things we are. They just have a different narrative.
Now, FINALLY, we are coming to a point where there won’t be anyone else to blame properly EXCEPT the people in power.
And nothing, NOTHING, makes these guys listen closer than when you point out it was their special guy who did this to begin with and doesn’t that make you angry? This fucker lied to us!
Us. Not you. Us.
Because they did lie to us even if some of us didn’t buy it.
Make it us, the truck driver and the other guy next to him in the Kroger, against the evil dip shits in power.
That’s how they work.
Make them identify with YOU.
You may look different and like weird books instead of football and have a rainbow pin, but you’re here, in their community, dealing with the same grocery prices.
Make them see that.
And then point them in the right direction.
“Fucked up that the (insert policy) seems to be backfiring. I feel lied too. You?”
I know I keep saying this but I keep seeing it: stop being ableist in your anti-AI posts. half of the people I see reblogging these are disabled themselves and it makes me so angry! "I don't even know where chatGPT lives, I can make my own grocery list" great for you! I have no idea where it lives either because I've never used it! but also making your own grocery list involves multiple complex skills a lot of people do in fact have trouble with. writing a 900 word essay involves a lot of complex skills a lot of people have trouble with. writing professional emails involves a lot of complex skills a lot of people struggle with. yes, I assume most of the people using chatGPT to write their high school essays aren't cognitively disabled and most people making these posts are thinking about A Hypothetical Neurotypical Person Being Lazy etc etc but that doesn't matter, the fact of the matter is that thinking yourself superior for being able to write a grocery list is in fact ableist.
you have all GOT to be able to talk about this and be able to make your points without acting like you're better because you don't find these tasks hard. "I can write an essay without asking the lying machine 🙄 you guys are weak and can't do anything" good for you. I can dislike the lying machine and think that practicing skills that are difficult is an essential life skill without putting down people who struggle with academics etc when I talk about it 🙄 you guys are all being really ableist. skill issue.
the disability community here has SUCH a problem prioritizing certain types of disabled people, especially disabled people who are higher functioning linguistically etc, and it's incredibly frustrating when people who I know are usually good about this or who try to be good about this throw it all out the window when it comes to LLMs. stop it. stop.
reblogging this again because I just saw one that did genuinely use the word "moron." this post will return every time I see something like this.
I just think that if nintendo is going to create a feature that even gets a dedicated button as part of the selling point then you should not need to pay a subscription service just to use it
having a button that you can’t press unless you wanna spend money means that nintendo has recreated the experience of accidentally pressing the internet button on your flip phone and you go you fuckfuckfuck as you try to back out as fast as possible before it charges your parents
(for those of you who have been living under a rock since late 2019, automattic owns tumblr)
Fucking lol.
Elon Musk is possibly ‘exiting’ the cabinet and will be reduced to an informal advisor.
Hmmmm
HEY, FELLOW HATERS OF INSANELY-BRIGHT CAR HEADLIGHTS, SOMEONE HAS STARTED A PETITION TO REGULATE THEM.
It's an official petition through the Australian Government's e-petition page, which means if it gets enough signatures, it will be tabled in government.
You do have to be an Australian citizen to sign it, BUT!!! PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOURE NOT, because these kind of things have a roll-on effect, and if Australia legislates LED headlights, then other countries may follow.
FYI, the petition asks only for your name and email, and once you've clicked the sign button, they'll send you an email to confirm your signature --- you need to click the confirmation link in the email to have your signature counted.
