#Education and Enrichment

[rocketbirdie]

mutuals do this to me

#we have been blessed with yet another pannenkoek video. #go watch it and become highly educated on the intricacies of mario 64 hitboxes. spread the knowledge as you would a religion. #enrichment

[pokemonranch]

Howdy, boss. I'd like some input on my Metagross, King Joe. He did a great job at an exhibition match the other day, and I'd like to do something nice for him, but I'm not really sure what the best way is to show a thousand-pound metal quadpod you care. Joe likes treats and headpats and stuff fine, but I guess I'd like to do something a little more... bespoke? Any ideas?

Like other super-smart Psychic 'mons, Metagross can be tricky to find something for them to enjoy. They have very distinctive personalities, and you know him better than me, so I'll give you a couple ideas and you can choose and retouch any of them to fit Joe's likes!

If he likes problem-solving or using his Psychic powers, there are puzzle toys to exercise their minds, similar to a many-sided Rubik's cube, but a Metagross may be too smart for those. Other options are, weirdly 'nough, Porygon-friendly machines and other programs! As said, Metagross are extremely smart, and they can use their brainwaves to communicate with other of their species; but they can also use it to mess with technology as well. Using stuff made for Porygon and Rotom can help him exercise his brain(s) without risking your own laptop being fried.

Lastly, if you don't mind it not being a surprise, you can... Ask him? They are smart enough to comprehend your intentions and you can take him to one of those super big Pokemarts, like the one in Veilstone, to pick something he wants.

#honestly for a steel supercomputer dreadnought I think nothing short of college education is enough enrichment tho #pokemon rp #pokemon irl #rotomblr #clay talks #ask #metagross

[insanenightcore]

my new fun hobby is something i call "opening a portal to look at my own subcutaneous fat"

#$hblr #i want to cvt #self h@rm #beansblr #now that ive figured out How to hit beans i just keep doing it #i like it. fun. enriching #educational even #in conclusion. im having a good time #txt

[ink-asunder]

The post that goes "maybe it seems pretentious to you because you only watch bluey," but this time including the inverse "maybe you only think bluey is 'deep and meaningful for a kids show' because it's the only kids show you watch."

#im not even referring to steven universe or avatar or wahtever. i mean actual preschool baby shows #the way the bear in the big blue house was a unique safe haven for autistic kids and created Such a healing atmosphere for so many youths. #the way seasame street has been built consciously and intentionally to provide education and emotional support for underprivileged kids #(or hell. even normal privileged kids that just aren't old enough for school yet.) #most ppl dont even know bluey was originally pitched as a show for adults!! #it was pitched as something families could watch together but it was primarily a learning tool to teach good parenting skills. #and it still has that! its very supportive and validating of its adult audience because Thats Who It Was Supposed To Be For. #so many preschool shows are actually consciously made not only to limit imitable behavior but also to actively psychologically enrich kids #and ppl who watch bluey never give other shows the credit ffs

[came0dust]

i cannot keep drawing this dude on my phone but god do i love drawing him (+ bonus colors)

#my art #sketch #samsung notes #castlevania #alucard #i was doing gesture-y drawings but i drew him with a sword and shield and then i just wanted to Draw Him and. hes doing something to me man #i need to play sotn but im determined to play at least the first few games in order but i still havent beat 1. i fell out of it 😭😭😭 #i want so badly to have a proper understanding of his character so i wont just be drawing like 'man.. pretty.... hair.. flowy...' forever #but also i refuse to make an educated guess on his characterization bc it will Not be educated. my exposure to him is so narrow #and also mostly forgotten. most of it was years ago and what i do know is surface-level at best. any nuance will literally be speculation 💀 #but i Need to draw him. for my enrichment. hes so designed. so it ends up being just. Mysterious Handsome Man Looking Somewhere #seriously holy Shit. the more i absorb his design the more i have to draw him. ayami kojima was Cooking in the studio like damn #by the way these last two posts were scheduled. about two days after i did both of them give or take. i did this the night before last post #im trying to pace myself a bit better (its not really working 💀) #for context: the colored version was literally not even a thought when i originally put this post together #i did it the day after making the sketch and then three days later (the earliest you will see this) the post posted #oh shit right that means #medibang paint #shoutouts to multiply layer mode i would not be able to just do this without being able to keep my sketch #if i had to redraw it i would not have done the colors lol #anyways stream wandering ghosts bye bye love and peace 🤞

[asfarion]

every time i think abt how unschooling affected me i just get so sad lmao. everyone i can possibly think of has had such a drastically different life experience and i cant relate to anyone because of it. no matter how much i try to explain it, nobody actually gets it. i barely even feel like a human.

#it is a very lonely experience and i cant not recommend it enough to anyone #i gained absolutely nothing from it and im now a totally fucked up 25 year old #all because my folks thought my blank-ass cv with no skills or experience or education past 'home-educated' would make employers salivate #newsflash: they dont!!!!!!!! they actually DO prefer the cv with schooling and qualifications and experience!!!!! #WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. #and i cant even work ANYWAY bc im so fucked up from it all #i can barely fucking function bc i spent practically my whole life locked in a bedroom by myself #but go off and tell me what an enriching experience that was and how much better off i am for not being Like Everyone Else #luka.txt #im just fucking ranting im so fucking sad and pissed off and nobody fucking gets it

[iamidentical]

there's this one person on tumblr who makes my eyelid twitch and it's someone who's loud and proud about using german on their blog (great in principle!)... it's just that they keep sharing blatant falsehoods about the language as fact, often with really bizarrely wrong grammar.... it honestly sounds like they got halfway through a duolingo course and now they're a German Speaker gawd it makes me angry. you can't teach before you've learned ✌🏻

#also the grammar mistakes they make are Not consistent with the vocabulary they use which is also just. textbook google translate red flag. #or at the very least a chronic dictionary dependant #nothing wrong with that! just be honest and don't screw up on the meanings and connotations of the german f slur in ur educational post!! #i really should just stop going to this person's blog but don't you ever just want to enrage urself for enrichment

[fanotastic]

If you wish death upon my reptiles/snakes or make comments about turning them into shoes/purses. I'll say the same about your dog or cat. 🙃

#i take my most well behaved reptiles out sometimes #get smells and enrichment #the best ones meet other people and I proceed to educate people about them #the basic shit ya know #they're cold blooded / they're not slimey / my snakes are not poisonous you mean venomous and no they are not venomous #but then i get fucking assholes who say they'd straight up kill my animals #who fucking does that #what if i walked up to you and said I'd kill you fucking dog #get the fuck out of here #online folk are good about this #if you like my pets you like my pets #if you dont you ignore them #but when i go out in public thats when people feel bold enough to make threatening comments about my animals #fanblog

[silverspleen]

The aforementioned dead patient was something I had been wondering about for a while, the three kinds of death you run into at the hospital as a cardiac sonographer are -

They did not call to cancel the echo order, the nurse is not there to tell you not to go into the patient's room, and the patient is lying in their bed but they are actually just straight up dead and not hooked up to anything and it takes you a minute or two to go, "hold on a fucking second... this person is DEAD" and then you float around the entrance of the room until the nurse shows up to be like "don't go in there!! patient expired!!" and you get to be like "m-hm YEAH I KNOW. Cancel the order." And you are disgruntled at the team for a. wasting your time and b. interrupting the final sleep of some poor person where you were very nearly lightly disrespectful to a corpse (by trying to shake them gently awake and putting stickers on them, as you do to asleep patients)

They called you because there is literally a Code Blue crisis situation happening and there's twenty people in the room, possibly doing CPR or giving meds or giving blood, like a well-oiled machine where you are a massive interloper with your giant ass ultrasound machine being in the way and asking "when do you want pictures? what do you want to see?", and you either get to scan before, during, or after lifesaving procedures, and if you (not the patient, not the family, for this will be a tragedy) are very, very lucky you may get pictures after the patient's heart has stopped moving but before they call the end of the code (and declare the patient officially dead) which means you are there, in the room, not-so-gently (because those pictures are hard to get after CPR) smashing on someone's chest with a piece of plastic as they die and you get to see the heart stop and the blood clot up almost immediately, and it's funny to see something that moves so much not doing much of anything at all.

This patient is already considered braindead and literally being kept alive with machines and they need pictures for organ donation ASAP I hope you know how to burn a CD

And by wondering about I mean, wanted to experience, because I'm a morbid fucker who works in a hospital and wonders about death in a hospital and how it works and what it's like, because that's a crisis situation not many people get to experience in their lives and good news! These are all things I have actually experienced as a cardiac imaging tech in the hospital. Writing it down is funny because I did not expect the trajectory of my life to go in that direction even at all.

#death #the dragoon diaries #the fourth option is that the life saving measures WORK and you get to scan a somewhat unstable but still alive and very in pain patient #healthcare #medicine #I also get to see human cadavers for like education reasons #which like not to be morbid but damn I love human cadavers #I am eternally thankful to the people who donate their bodies to science because it's SO enriching to see post surgical stuff INSIDE a body #like I don't get to see the sutures from a CABG on echo but you can clearly see them in a cadaver and it's cool!! #there's a world of difference between a prosthetic heart valve on ultrasound vs seeing one in person surrounded by red meat tissue #and you never get to see unless the patient is dead and gracious enough to donate their body #ironically surgery gives me the jeebs and I can't look inside ALIVE people #only dead

[echos-gal]

Omega would come up to Tech one day with a minor finger cut that needs attention, and would tell him that she heard that in some cultures, parents will give their child's injury a little kiss after patching it up.

Tech insists that there is no scientific evidence showing that kisses speed injury recovery, and that it was more likely a behavior meant to soothe a distressed child. Omega looks slightly disappointed.

Nonetheless, after a thorough cleaning of the affected area, application of antibacterial spray, precise bandaging, and a slightly awkward pause, Omega's finger does receive a little smooch.

#it's cultural education! this is enriching for her! < tech's inner thoughts #he's a GREAT big brother 😭😭😭 #tbb tech #tbb omega

[lord-woolsley]

Listen, listen… the DnD boys talked about an Alpha (they meant the Greek letter) and I totally misinterpreted it and had to (as a consequence) explain the existence of the Omegaverse to them today, and I think I just lost ten years of my life. That‘s a can of worms I opened.

#keku.text #personal #oh well… #as the trope; fandom and LGBTQ slang educator of the group I think I enriched their lives today #someone send help

[gwydionmisha]

Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58

#Meghan Buell #Trans Activist #Transgender Resources Education and Enrichment Services #Trans #News

[palominocorn]

Red and green are opposites! Just, in pigments rather than actual light colors, or dyes. This is a distinction that is rarely taught in the US! Most or us only have "art" classes until age 10, if ever, and most of them will only ever use crayons, fingerpaints, etc. All of which are pigment based, not dye. So US kids learn Red-Yellow-Blue (a color system almost unique to painting) instead of CMYK (the color system for dyes, light) or RGB (for limited light, popularly electronics).

This is also why US under-10s are so INSANELY destructive to markers; way moreso than kids overseas. Markers ARE dye based, so all the colors "come out wrong" and then the kid gets pissed. Which I can't wholly blame them for. They're a kid, and they were not just told but SHOWN that mixing RYB makes black, and yet now it's making Horrible Greenish Brown instead.

I hypothesize that this is also why US students at all ages are almost morally opposed to the existence of highlighter markers.

Anyway, it all comes back to a refusal to teach in US schools, at the end of the day.

The "destruction with markers" thing has started spreading, unfortunately, I've heard tell from my relatives back in Europe that kids have gotten more aggressive with their coloring stuff. Though whether this is a factor of worsening color education or worsening treatment of kids, I am not sure.

I have seen some older texts talking about the red-yellow-blue color system where the colors very much look like CMY, which I thought was absolutely FASCINATING. Did the colors fade? Or did the definitions of the colors change?

[long rant about Anglophone definitions of "blue" being indigo omitted because it's too rainy outside for me to be a grumpy Eastern European on main]

Most people I know, both here in the States and back there in Europe, haven't had much art education past the age of ten or eleven (elementary school, where I grew up). My high school has two semesters of art as a graduation requirement, but it was a joke. The smart kids took AP art history, which from what I've heard had less actual history and more rote memorization of five hundred paintings. All the other classes were basically "goof off" ones.

So the "lies to children" form of art education basically becomes the It Is Known of adult art knowledge, and capitalism means that only people who want to Do Art For Money have any motivation/time to do any actual art and learn about it.

(Seriously, almost every time I mention that I do art of any form, people ask if I have like an Etsy store. No?!?! I don't?!?! I have a full time job, and I do art to RELAX and NOT THINK ABOUT the fact that our gas chromatography machine broke AGAIN, who the fuck keeps leaving the lamp in that thing on, we have SIGNS and everything - can you tell I'm posting this while not paying attention to work?)

#Even as a kid I hated crayons chalk and fingerpaints #Texture Bad #I was a pen and pencil girl even then #I paint NOW but watercolor color theory is a whole Thing #Anyway capitalism bad for many reasons #Art education is important #People need enrichment #Etc #Replies #Art

[405blazeitt]

the ranboo/slimecicle/sneegsnag wolfquest vod is reminding me that not everyone knows basic wolf ecology and behavior like

they've got 3 wolves and they decided to attack some bison

(all 3 wolves were killed multiple times)

#i used to visit a wolf research/education center every year that was given a bison herd at one point #so they started letting 2-3 wolves into the bison enclosure once a week during the summer as enrichment for both parties #2-3 wolves have no chance against an adult bison and the same wolves were never used too many weeks in a row to be safe #the staff would get the bison to gather together beforehand too so it'd be harder for the wolves to single out any one of them #i think someone reported them and they had to stop but the closest anyone got to injury was a bison losing a small tuft of fur #a lot of popular wolf photos come from this place so i'll often see some wolf meme and be like. hey that's ayla. i've met her.

[officialralsei]

omg this is like when we feed party members different food items to see how they like the taste but with songs

a/n: this is EXACTLY like that. you're enriching him.

#first you teach him abt gender and now you're educating him in music. good job gang maybe we can teach him how to be a normal kid after all #(unlikely) #ralsei enrichment corner

[asinglesock]

NA28 my beloved ❤️❤️❤️

#a sock speaks #grad school tag #idk about how good my greek is but I am getting so much enrichment out of it. #if I'm taking one life-changing skill from this MTS program it's my foundational greek study #the way slowly reading a chapter out loud makes me notice new details in the text! things that could've been obvious #the way basic grammar lessons give me opinions on how to interpret a text #I don't get why it's not more common for christian laypeople to study greek #(probably the same reason other education settings are underfunded or censored) #I get that language study is not accessible to everyone. but why aren't we doing more to make it accessible? #I wish I could've studied greek in middle school #ok vent over I just got overexcited for a sec there 😅