I’m not back but I have a plank of wood from a very old piano that’s essentially Mustang-sized and I don’t wanna lose this.
this is the abridged pop quiz i’m giving my students tomorrow, in intro to ethnic studies—i would really encourage my non-native followers to consider these questions as well, and to challenge themselves in trying to answer these without the help of the internet (of course look it up later, but i think it’s important to take a minute and recognize things we are ignorant on before blindly googling it).
i’m also doing a class-wide (image-based) quiz to see who can name famous Native people versus Indian mascots, and culturally appropriative fashion brands versus the cultures from which the trendy item in question originates. i have an hour and fifteen minutes to cover all Native experiences of racism post-1850—that in and of itself is a racist requirement of me. what i have learned to do with the time allotted to me is push students to recognize just how incredibly ignorant they are re: Native peoples, cultures, and political issues, rather than try to cram a bunch of stuff in their heads. It’s better for them to walk out stunned and humbled at how little they all know than with frantically scrawled notes they’re not gonna keep or remember.
I would fail this quiz so hard.
Bolding mine.
This is beautiful, and if I ever get back into teaching I am stealing this idea for every class possible.
Seven years ago, Joe Corbo stared into the eye of a chicken and saw something astonishing. The color-sensitive cone cells that carpeted the retina (detached from the fowl, and mounted under a microscope) appeared as polka dots of five different colors and sizes. But Corbo observed that, unlike the randomly dispersed cones in human eyes, or the neat rows of cones in the eyes of many fish, the chicken’s cones had a haphazard and yet remarkably uniform distribution. The dots’ locations followed no discernible rule, and yet dots never appeared too close together or too far apart. Each of the five interspersed sets of cones, and all of them together, exhibited this same arresting mix of randomness and regularity. Corbo, who runs a biology lab at Washington University in St. Louis, was hooked.
“It’s extremely beautiful just to look at these patterns,” he said. “We were kind of captured by the beauty, and had, purely out of curiosity, the desire to understand the patterns better.” He and his collaborators also hoped to figure out the patterns’ function, and how they were generated. He didn’t know then that these same questions were being asked in numerous other contexts, or that he had found the first biological manifestation of a type of hidden order that has also turned up all over mathematics and physics.
Giving this other script a try, but it’s severely slowing down Chrome so I might still stop being on Tumblr.
Nope, that one didn’t work either, so I’m done with this trash pile of a website. Hit me up on any other social network @depechemoses.
Giving this other script a try, but it’s severely slowing down Chrome so I might still stop being on Tumblr.
I installed a script that supposedly prevents all autoplay, both audio and video, which is perfect. I’ll see if it actually works or just slows down Chrome even more ‘cause of more otherwise unnecessary extensions.
Nope, doesn’t work, goodbye forever.
I installed a script that supposedly prevents all autoplay, both audio and video, which is perfect. I’ll see if it actually works or just slows down Chrome even more ‘cause of more otherwise unnecessary extensions.
So Tumblr is now doing audio ads on the dashboard that I can’t turn off.
Bye forever. @staff I hope whoever implemented that gets murdered.
A generic-lookin’ ass dude with black hair suddenly finds himself surrounded by a harem of beautiful, humanized versions of different types of soda. All of them have gigantic melon titties except for Pepsi-chan, who is constantly teased by everyone else for her flat chest.
…ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
Concept: bi/pan/ace kids feeling safe and welcome in their community.
