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I am so making one of these for my classroom. (I already have a single-shot version.)

And Jesus. Musn't forget Jesus.

As my grandmother used to say: "Profanity is a crutch, used by inarticulate motherfuckers."

I hate people that are like "oh you shouldn't curse. Use proper words. Only people with a small vocabulary uses curse words" like no Karen fuck is exactly the word I'm looking for.

Because saying you are and idiot is one thing

Saying you are a fucking idiot is another

The calling of bullshit is not meant as confrontational, sorry if it seemed as such. What would be another way of saying "There's no way that a professor could have an office that free of clutter!"?

{6-27-22}

Studying entomology lately. Of course, I had to include the professor’s old lab. Hope everyone is having a productive summer 🤍

Based on personal experience, I have to call bullshit. I have never seen a full professor with a lab/office that tidy. (Personally, I try to keep my classroom as close to a college professor's as I can. Just so my students can be prepared.)

{6-27-22}

Studying entomology lately. Of course, I had to include the professor’s old lab. Hope everyone is having a productive summer 🤍

Five years ago, finding a surgical mask lying in a parking lot would have been confusing.

Tetris, only it's a first-person shooter.

"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing."

-George Bernard Shaw

In public education, student "Permanent Records" are referred to as "Cumulative Files", or cum files for short (pronounced 'kyoom').

I-

thank you twitter, this is the only recommended topic post I’ll accept

It's sweet, but all I can think of is "Quaid! Start the reactors!"

🥺♥️

@glendathegoodone, @moosemittens23, @ms-cellanies, @russalex, @ladyoftheteaandblood

Another classic concept space model kit! I built this one as a kid, and have a couple in my current kit stash, so I can build them properly.

I have this game right now, less than 20 feet from me. Haven't played it in years. Kinda fun!

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Game, 1975

This picture has been circulating all over social media and I have more to add:

Delete all period cycle tracking apps off your phone today.

Do not tell anyone why you want to take your trip, especially over text/apps.

Do not tell anyone the real state/destination of your trip.

Have everyone on your trip turn off their phones. Use written directions or a burner phone. Do not use burner phone to open any personal apps. Dispose of after trip.

Only use cash while purchasing ANYTHING on your trip.

Take “vacation” photos to post later. Be cautious of geo-tags/only post screenshots of the original photos.

Some people might say this is being extra or overly precautious, but this really is the reality we are facing. People have been imprisoned with murder charges in certain states- some for literal miscarriages. If you are a person that ends up in this situation, the state can and will use your data against you as evidence in court. Do not leave a paper trail. If they want to treat us like criminals, we’re gonna move like criminals.

I’ve seen multiple people genuinely asking whats wrong with playing their music on a speaker/their phone in public rather than through headphones. While it baffles me that you can’t reason it out I’m taking it in good faith that you genuinely don’t know - so here’s a list of reasons you shouldn’t:

- It sounds bad. It doesnt matter if people like the song, you might be close enough to your phone speaker for it to sound largely as intended, but everyone else is getting a distorted mess. 

- Unwanted noise is extra stimulation in the already overpowering public space. Yes this is particularly bad for neurodivergent people but I actually want to acknowledge that this effects Everyone. Everyone has a stimulation threshold and unwanted music easily pushes people closer to it.

- Its distracting/disruptive. People want to focus on their own conversations, listen to their own music through their earbuds, or just be alone with their thoughts. Your music is intruding. 

- Differing taste. This one is less significant but people around you just dont always like the same music you do. In extreme cases they might actively hate a song you’re playing. 

- People have the right to as close to silence as they can get. If they’re in a shop playing obnoxious music they can leave, they can change the radio in their car, they can skip the song on their playlist. They have no control over what you are putting on and in bus situations they can’t get away from you. 

- Any other number of reasons; Maybe your music is offensive, maybe its uncensored and there are children about, maybe someone just got horrible news and your perky feelgood song feels like salt in the wound, maybe someone’s sick or hungover or in pain and your music feels like a drill to the skull.  You might think your music is good, it might make you smile after a hard day. Nobody is saying dont listen at all, just put in earphones. To everyone around you its the equivilent of a drunk guy singing loudly and off key at the back of the bus. Maybe it makes some people smile to think he’s having a good time, maybe some people are scared his lack of boundaries will mean he could act out, maybe some people wish he would just shut up. 

Think of an activity you love to do. Get the image firmly set in your mind. There will come a day when you do that activity for the very last time. Odds are you will not realize it is for the last time. How would you view it differently if you knew?

They are not endangered. There are millions of them. They (and more importantly, their fusion-powered cities, space stations, lunar colonies, and antimatter-powered spacecraft) keep well-hidden, thanks to their advanced cloaking technology.

Semiconductor Architectural Standards of the Pre-Carboniferous

Funerary Traditions of Ancient Scythian Tiktokers

Decades ago I worked retail. I know for an absolute fact that the photo of the woman came with the frame. I sold a lot of those.

Definitely gonna have popcorn. Mainly because in my area the heat is gonna turn any corn into popcorn...

You're only saying this because it's true.

Why do I blame the Republican Party? Because the Republican Party is to blame | Opinion

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

The warning is for those who claimed offense at the following observation, made in this space a few days back: “What Americans have lost — to be painfully accurate, what Republicans have trashed in pursuit of power — is the willingness and ability to share a common national identity.” It would seem to be self-evident truth. But not everyone agrees.

“Constantly blaming Republicans,” griped one respondent.

“You ONLY blame the Republicans,” complained another.

“You exclusively blame Republicans,” grumbled yet another.

Well, there’s a reason the Republicans get the blame for destroying any sense of common American narrative. It’s because — pay close attention here — they deserve the blame for destroying any sense of common American narrative.

Sorry, but Hunter Biden’s laptop didn’t do that. Black Lives Matter didn’t do that. Whatever thing Fox “News” last told its audience to fear did not do that.

The Republican Party did it by a campaign of demonizing dissent, shredding norms and boundaries, embracing a politics of white resentment and fear and, perhaps most corrosively, delegitimizing the very idea of knowable fact, so that an ordinary birth certificate becomes an object of suspicion, an ordinary election a seedbed of distrust and the sacking of the U.S. Capitol an innocent visit by tourists.

I have far too many collections to enumerate here, but I'll do the most interesting one: Radioactive materials, including samples of ores, Fiestaware, various dials and switches with Radium paint, and a Revigator, which is a water crock lined with extraordinarily radioactive Uranium ore that you were supposed to drink from, "for health".

if you don’t have @ least one collection of specific items i literally have nothing more to say to you. we will never relate to each other. however, you cool ass motherfuckers who do collect @ least one type of thing, reblog this post and say what that thing is. i’ll go first: clown dolls and good luck charms

if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is

“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”

I still have mine. I fire it up about once a year. Still works!

One of my students asked me this the other day. I don't think they fully appreciated the implications of my reply when I said "Jedi liason to Starfleet."

Minecraft: Picard Edition. Or, going back one step: Aqua Teen Borderlands Force.

I love how the OP concludes that roughly 60% of the world population is "White People".

“i am very smart.”

I've been a teacher for over 30 years. One of my greatest points of pride is the fact that one of my former students is now an engineer for JPL. She helped design and build parts of the Curiosity rover, and was management on Perseverance. Every time I hear about Mars rovers, I kvell just a bit.

And, of course, there is that whole thing that Jesus supposedly said about NOT praying in public and going to pray in private...

“The story the right tells about Kennedy is one of a humble, pious coach who wanted only to engage in private prayer after games — “a brief prayer of thanks,” as his lawyer put it — and was persecuted by his employer as a result. That story is a complete distortion of the facts in this case. But it’s a common one, in which conservatives claim that if they are not allowed to impose their religion on others, then they have been victimized and the Constitution must bend to accommodate them. In 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that school-sponsored prayers, even vague, nondenominational ones, violated the establishment clause’s prohibition on the establishment of state religion, even if they were supposedly “voluntary” for students. This decision was one of the most controversial in the court’s history, and to this day some conservatives blame it for for a range of societal ills from births out of wedlock to school shootings. Then in 2000, the court addressed whether it was permissible for a school to allow student-led sectarian prayer during events such as graduation and football games; the court said no. Students and faculty are free to pray on their own and gather to do so; the question is whether those prayers are official in any way. In this case, the coach’s prayers were not private or individual at all, no matter how many photo shoots he does portraying himself as a solitary figure communing with his god. They were not only public but also clearly a performance meant to attract the maximum attention possible; if you’re praying for yourself, you don’t go to the 50-yard-line at the conclusion of the game to do it.”

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The Supreme Court’s threat to the separation of church and state

I am an atheist. For my entire life, I’ve been told that I MUST respect people who believe in a narrowly-defined version of the Christian god, even though America is explicitly non-religious in our Constitution. And I have done my best to just live and let live, even when they are being reprehensible, cruel, aggressively in my face about everything, based entirely on a belief I do not share.

And I’ve just had enough. I’m done playing nice with people who are doing everything they can to force me and others to live our lives according to their religious beliefs. I’m done being tolerant of intolerance.

I’m done being polite. I’m done respecting someone’s bullshit and quietly minding my business. If these Evangelical Authoritarians are going to push America even deeper into Theocracy, I’m done being polite. I’m going to punch back and I’m going to punch back HARD.

If someone wants to believe in a story and use that story to guide their lives, that’s awesome. Go nuts. Worship all you want, privately, where nobody can tell you what to do. Do it in public, even, AND ACCEPT THAT NOBODY HAS TO LISTEN TO YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS. Freedom OF religion means nothing without freedom FROM religion. 

Fuck these people. Fuck their bullshit invisible sky ghost who tells them what to do, and fuck them for doing everything they can to force me and anyone else to live in the same fear and authoritarianism they embrace.

I was real happy to just live and let live, and that wasn’t enough for the authoritarian evangelicals. Because, for these people, this is entirely about control and white supremacy. No matter how they try to dress it up, that’s who they are. All of them.

And I’m done tolerating them and their bullshit.

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I'm old enough that I'm a Tom Swift, Hardy Boys and Robert Heinlein kid.

You were either a Magic Treehouse kid, a Goosebumps kid, an Animorphs kid, or a Babysitters Club kid.

I'm so glad you said "and". That means you must have done the entire list. I've done several, but not all...

DO NOT INTERACT, if you:

think that the violins are the best part of the orchestra, are from massachusetts, put tupperware in the bottom rack on a dishwasher, solely pee standing up, moved to florida from new jersey/new york/pennsylvania , have gone to disney as an adult, hate mint chocolate chip ice cream, shop at whole foods, put your socks on first and then your shoes (instead of sock, shoe, sock, shoe), hate mayonnaise, like my hero academia, eat your steak medium to well done, go to an ivy league school, hate salt and vinegar chips, dont like the color yellow, have blue eyes, and have EVER eaten at arby’s