Ex-theatre kid, actual creative writing major, mostly reblogs (she/they 🥰🐬)
https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/
This makes me cry, actually.
Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.
whenever a post gets more than 1k in notes support kind of just Stops entirely so i'm remaking! currently i am a freshly illegally-fired mixed queer and my phone is close to getting cut off i also pay rent storage and utilities
its lean out here and i'm looking for work but my important documents are in storage and if my phone gets cut i cant get medical help find work even get around the state anymore so if u have something to spare please do
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ALTzee past due has been paid a payment plan has started next goalllll is Storage Unit due on the 2nd of september
tysm everyone plz keep boosting i am getting interviews trying to find work
ALTi gotta up the goal to cover this but plz i need to keep my phone on for this job i got and potential future jobs
myyyy loves i paid the storage unit! so thats safe but transportation to my new job brought my lil bit of money left over down and my phone gets cut off on the 6th or 7th i need 130$ for that
ahhh im rly close tysm im $33 short fr ty everyone boosting plz keep going ill update needs like once i get a feel for this job but ty im grateful to keep going
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ALThi guys i am $33 short for this payment i am so close and i dont wanna pay a reconnect fee as well 😞
i need you all to be aware that a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands was recently commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the responses are frightening.
(as a reminder: more than 75% of Dutch Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, which is the highest percentage of Jewish Victims per country in Western Europe. it’s also where Anne Frank lived and went into hiding before she was deported.)
according to the study,
23% of Dutch Millennials & Gen Z (12% overall) believe that the Holocaust is a myth or has been greatly exaggerated.
22% of Millennials and Gen Z (12% overall) believe it is acceptable to support neo-nazi views.
54% of all respondents do not know 6 million Jews were murdered. 29% believe it was 2 million or fewer (that number jumps to 37% when only looking at Millennials and Gen Z).
only 50% of all respondents support recent efforts by Dutch public figures to acknowledge and apologize for the Netherland’s failure to protect Jews during the Holocaust.
53% of all respondents and 60% of Millenials and Gen Z did not list the Netherlands as a country where the Holocaust took place.
Holocaust denial and erasure is getting worse. I would expect this from the USA maybe, but i’m surprised and very very concerned to see this coming from the Netherlands, which is very highly ranked in terms of education and research. please like and share and post about this, we need people to know.
Alright US mutuals, if you are interested in, morbidly fascinated by, or anxiously doomscrolling through AI news, including Stable Diffusion, Llama, ChatGPT or Dalle, you need to be aware of this.
The US Copyright Office has submitted a request for comment from the general public. Guidelines can be found on their site, but the gist of it is that they are taking citizen statements on what your views on AI are, and how the Copyright Office should address the admittedly thorny issues in rulings.
Be polite, be succinct, and be honest. They have a list of questions or suggestions, but in truth are looking to get as much data from the general public as possible. If you have links to papers or studies examining the economic impacts of AI, they want them. If you have anecdotal stories of losing commissions, they want them. If you have legal opinions, experience using these tools, or even a layman's perspective of how much human input is required for a piece of work to gain copyright, they want it.
The deadline is Oct 18th and can be submitted via the link in the article. While the regulatory apparatus of the US is largely under sway by corporate interests, this is still the actual, official time for you to directly tell the government what you think and what they should do. Comments can be submitted by individuals or on behalf of organizations. So if you are a small business, say a print shop, you can comment on behalf of the print shop as well.
Do a illustrator a favour and do this.
I remember someone on here saying zoomers treat teachers the way boomers treat retail workers and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. Seriously, some people act like teachers are servants for their students and take “the customer is always right” mentality and turn it into “the student is always right”, when no, they’re not, especially when the attitude of some students boils down to, “I can’t believe this bitch Karen expects me to actually show up to class, read these texts, and analyze them 🙄 I’m going to speak to the manager email the department chair if you hold me accountable for missing class and not turning in work all semester”
I’m thinking about college students because my mom has been a professor for +30 years and she’s like, clearly the first person to have ever told some of these adults “no” in their lives lol. She’s always willing to help students who are struggling but trying, but she has no tolerance for students who do things like *checks notes* literally laugh in her face when she told them they didn’t meet the minimum requirements for an assignment, and then act shocked when she kicked them out of her office for that lol. Or students who were shocked that they were marked absent for missing class because they went on vacation or decided to sleep in–literally, a student had a mandatory conference scheduled, missed it, and later sent an email saying, “Sorry, I decided to sleep in.” My mom was like “?? So you decided it was fine to waste my time??? And now you expect me to go out of my way to reschedule with you??”
And that’s the thing. A lot of these zoomers are mentally stuck in high school and think teachers aren’t people and have no lives of their own outside the classroom, so they should have to bend over backwards to accommodate students who feel like they have no obligation to meet the requirements of courses they signed up for. It’s the same thing when students are outraged that they face penalties for missing deadlines (when they don’t have accommodations from the university for a disability, of course), but teachers don’t make deadlines because they hate students, it’s because they have deadlines, too, and need to have the assignments turned in to give students grades! You don’t have deadlines because your teacher is a bitch, you have deadlines because that’s how the adult world works, and it doesn’t revolve around you.
Some of these zoomers even lie to get out of their responsibilities, too. Recently, again, a student emailed my mom like “oh I’m late to your class every day because I have a class before that, which ends in the first 5 minutes of your class, and my professor won’t let me leave early :(” And my mom was like, “….The university’s computer system literally would not let you register for a class with a scheduling conflict like that. I double-checked this with the head of the department.” And then the student got real quiet 🤡
Like, ya’ll are supposedly adults lol, fucking act like it instead of acting like rude, entitled, overgrown 9th graders to teachers
@wingsy-keeper-of-songsI don’t get why zoomers think it’s okay to act like this at all. I would have had my ass handed to me if I pulled anything like this.
Some people are just dicks, of course, but my mom thinks the increase in this behavior is from the pandemic. Her colleagues have been lamenting similar behavior in their classes, too, like students refusing to turn on their cameras for virtual classes and just not doing in-class activities online. They really just sit there with no microphone or camera all class, do nothing all senester, and expect to get full participation points or whatever.
My mom is seeing a really academically behind group of students this year, but again, she’s willing to work with the ones who try. For the ones who miss class and don’t do assignments and lie in their excuses, her theory is that these are students who got away with not doing much work for two years and just lied and didn’t face any consequences from their overwhelmed high school teachers during the pandemic. So they came to college thinking they could do the same minimal amount of work, miss class whenever they feel like it, and still skate by with a C, and they’re shocked when professors are like “no, you missed half of our classes by the midway point of the semester, you need to withdraw or take the F.” It’s a generation used to having their parents call up their high school teachers and complain whenever they get a bad grade. Once again: very “I’m going to speak to the manager.” There’s usually an appropriation of the language of social justice, too, like people saying deadlines are ableist because they have anxiety. In my mom’s experience, the students who actually have accommodations from the disability resource center aren’t doing this—those students work hard—it’s the ones who do nothing all semester and are outraged by their bad grades at the very end. And for the record, my mental health was in the gutter in college, but I never acted like this lol. Maybe it was because I knew teachers are actual people, idk
I’m definitely going to second that pandemic point. I work as an RA, and my primary purpose is to help out students and make sure they get connected to campus resources. I have a lot of good eggs, but I will say, this year’s batch of freshmen is by FAR panning out to have some of the most flagrant displays of inconsideration than I’ve seen in my whole career.
It’s to the point that me and my whole division had a long meeting discussing the sudden influx in immaturity and disrespectful behavior and how best to wrangle it. There’s no pattern or predictable measure for who’s being troublesome—any income, any race, any gender, ALL of those categories have at least two or three individuals that are overwhelmingly destructive and unmindful. The only common factor is that it’s THIS year’s batch—the one fresh out of over two years of pandemic high school.
We have a crackpot hypothesis that the individualism that came from pandemic isolation was truly detrimental to students’ social and empathic development. We have no proof but we seriously cannot think of any other explanation for this. Please be kind to people who work with college students—this year in particular, we’re being put through the wringer.
My Dad worked as a teacher for over 25 years before the pandemic. I once asked him what the most important thing about school was, what the most important thing kids learned was. He told me it was how to live in the world with other people.
He’s also said that if a kid comes to class who was previously homeschooled, YOU CAN TELL, because the kid will be less skilled in waiting their turn to talk, for example.
So, it seems that schools’ most important job really is socializing kids, as we now have massive amounts of data on what happens when every kid is homeschooled.
whenever a post gets more than 1k in notes support kind of just Stops entirely so i'm remaking! currently i am a freshly illegally-fired mixed queer and my phone is close to getting cut off i also pay rent storage and utilities
its lean out here and i'm looking for work but my important documents are in storage and if my phone gets cut i cant get medical help find work even get around the state anymore so if u have something to spare please do
ALTALTnot to bodyslam a dead horse but my job fired me in such a shitty way and im hungry and crying and i just wanna get some shitty delivery i dont wanna try to figure out food that wont hurt if there even is any i havent grocery shopped in so long
i just could rly use $20 for some stupid food for today
ALThiiiii PLZ DONT TAG my last post got rly long and lots of notes and length kinda makes it stagnate and fucks up dashes so but anyway the goal overall is 690$ but rn im focusing on my cut off phone thats gonna be 116$
i just got kicked off my work contract(still employed just not working) bcuz of my leave of absence and shit is HARD and i appreciate yalls help so much 🫀
ALTtotal raised: 122/690
currently working on: phone bill
ALTtoday, 4 days after stating i would not be transferring, i found out from a supervisor that by denying the transfer i resigned from my ENTIRE job????? so i am unemployed again with no savings and idek what to do?
it just hit me how late with rent i am...and my phone is so overdue plz help
ALT🥺🥺🥺ty everyone for all of the help in my payment next goal is rent
my loves!
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ALTi paid half my late ass rent and im using what i have left to buy some groceries(omg i have not gotten groceries in So Long)
i have one more phone payment(118) to cover then i gotta worry about my storage unit again(76) and the last half of augusts rent(150) but i have a 🧿job interview tmrw morning🧿 so 🤞🏼 i rly appreciate the help ive gotten over this shitty time plz keep boosting and if u can spare a couple of bucks like to help me get thru until i can get another job like 🫀 ill send u a tiddy pic if u want(or booty w/e)
Hi! I’m a Black autistic enby who has been experiencing financial instability caused by ptsd which has made it impossible to for me to work full time. I’m currently asking for help with rent, bus fare, and my cell phone bill so I can pet sit and continue to look for part time work while in school. I know times are tough for everyone right now so thank you so much for sharing and for your kindness. Also if you want I can pay you back when I get my refund check from school just leave a note!
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Just paid my phone bill thank you!! Thank you so much for everything! Trying to raise $400 for rent by the first. Again I can pay you back later on this month dm me. I’ve been late too many times this year and face the possibility of eviction!
fanonical
like fundamentally i hold published books and fanfiction to different standards, because they are very different things
i feel like this should go without saying, but some people in fandom don’t understand it. a published book has the expectation that you (or your local library) pay money to get it, and so i have higher standards of quality for it
but fanfic is published for free online. all it is asking of you is your time. so who cares about grammar issues or pacing weirdness or continuity mishaps, because the person writing it was one person, or one person and an equally-unpaid beta reader, so like, it literally does not matter
