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what are you supposed to do on the days that absolutely no food sounds appetizing but youre sitting there hungry and getting a headache but everything does not sound appealing

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You up? Alex Krokus

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my prof just explained on the syllabus that he’s included more pionts in the class than we needed to pass, so we could skip up like?? 20 small assignments/quizzes/participation!! and still get a very high grade!!

the idea was that we could focus on assignments that played to our strengths - only do the participation stuff if we like to talk out loud - only do the quizzes/readings if we want to do the class remotely - only do online discussions if we like to talk and share opinions but struggle with anxiety in class ect.

and that’s cool enough but then he pulled up DnD character sheets with drawings he’d done of these hypothetical student player classes and how our various accessibility needs could be gamified to ‘max out’ different aspects of the class to get high grades and like!!!!!

hell yeah!!!! let’s treat accessibility in higher education not just as a necessity but as the fun, engaging, and creative aspect of learning that it is!!! I love this!!

#interesting #education

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An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

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Overwintering, 2022

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"you're good at art you should go to college you should start animation you should get a job in the industry you have so much potential" I SHOULD BE IN THE WOODS. EATING POISONOUS BERRIES

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The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

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I kind of hate painting my nails and I am really bad at it but it’s the only thing that keeps me from picking at or chewing on them, so it’s sort of a health necessity at this point…

#ough me too

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Not to be all ‘old woman complains about phones’ but honestly somebody needs to say something to the (mostly) younger generation about using phones in the vet clinic.

If you’re in a consult room with your pet, we mostly want you to be handling or comforting that pet. We definitely want you to be telling us what’s going on with that pet.

I understand and ignore people taking one or two pictures of their pet on the exam room, but it is Not Polite to photograph or film me, as the vet doing my job, without asking. It’s frankly unnerving and weird.

I don’t mind people filming an explanation while I point at diagrams or whatever, if they’ve asked. But some people will try to film the whole consult, which is not the done thing. Firstly a consult room is meant to be private, secondly I want the pet owner to be involved with the pet, not their phone, and thirdly I don’t know what the things they’re filming are for. I assume it’s for Instagram content or something.

Particularly unnerving are people that try to film euthanasias. Firstly, I’d really prefer those people be present in the moment, for the pet’s experience. Secondly, what is anyone going to do with that footage? Rewatching it over and over won’t be healthy and won’t offer any additional closure, and deleting it will feel weird when it was such a significant moment.

Don’t get me wrong, phones are super useful for filming pet behaviour at home that they won’t display in the clinic, or showing me all the many colours that your dog has pooped out this week.

But the continuous, almost absent minded filming through a whole consult is not something that should be normalised.

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The Battle of the five Armies countdown - day 21 of 30

Bonus: 

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TOTK - Eternal (part 2)

part 1 here

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TOTK - Eternal (part 1)

part 2 here

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Terrifyingly, my panic reflex with fire that is somewhere it shouldn't be is to attempt to smother it with my hands or whatever I have in them regardless of the size of the fire.

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

#i have never actually used a fire extinguisher #despite 1 firespinning for years and 2 having a fire extinguisher available every time I've dealt with a kitchen fire #funniest and most scary fire experience in retrospect is the time I caught butter on fire in my microwave #and then opened the door put a tea towel on it and then shut the door #and then realized a dry tea towel is potentially fuel and reopened the door to smack the towel with my hands to make sure the fire was out #you are NOT supposed to open the door of a microwave fire btw because it can go foomph at you from the inflow of oxygen #you're supposed to turn it off close the door so the fire suffocates and unplug the microwave #genuinely I have been so fucking lucky with fire #ive never gotten burned from this refelx somehow

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okay you know those virtual science labs they made you do in high school?

i bet they’d have mad science versions at evil high school