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I think asking an oppressed demographic to prove they're not bad is, in fact, still an act of contributing to their oppression.

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passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

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"In a statement, his family said: "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love."

As he performed from a throne on stage at Villa Park less than three weeks ago, Osbourne told fans: "You've no idea how I feel - thank you from the bottom of my heart."

It was a gig put together with performances from some of his favourite acts, including Metallica and Guns'n'Roses, for the 76-year-old's "final bow"."

Sky News

Mirror

Independent

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I'm sorry, professor, I consider publishing your course a day late, having a mandatory live zoom meeting during business hours to stay enrolled for an asynchronous class, and requiring students to use a $60 ***pdf*** that you wrote as their textbook to be exceptionally unprofessional and since I've still got 14 days to get a refund I'm totally not paying $150 to take your class.

Also, for all the newbie professors out there: a syllabus is not just a greeting and a list of assignments. If you haven't given your students AT LEAST your office hours, your late work policy, and your preferred method of being contacted, then you have not given your students a syllabus it's just sparkling announcements.

But really. Sir. SIR. You teach Speech 100. This is one of the most basic classes with like, 20 of the most widely available accepted textbooks and you want me to pay sixty dollars for a pdf of a book that you rewrite every semester so that there are no previous editions?

Buddy this is interpersonal communication, not introductory rhetoric. Why is one of your *four* total assignments about Socrates?

Maybe it's the fact that I've taken Spch 100 interpersonal communication three times already, maybe it's the fact that I grew up with somebody who taught Spch 100 interpersonal communication from 1981 to 2018, but buddy what the fuck are you doing?

"Some of our lectures will only be available for 24 hours so it is up to you to stay on top of it."

Friend, you are teaching an asynchronous online 100-level class at a community college during a pandemic. Get off your high horse, a third of your students are probably parents. There is no reason whatsoever to limit access to course materials to 24 hours unless you are doing it to be a controlling asshole.

Also YOU published your class a day and a half late! You don't get to publish your class late with an incomplete syllabus and tell students to "stay on top of it." Especially not since that means that people have two fewer days to buy your PDF textbook and only one full day to prepare for your mandatory 1pm on a Tuesday zoom meeting!

Why do you require me to have access to a printer for an online class? Oh yeah it's because you expect me to print out and draw on sections of your $60 ebook.

SIR. No thank you.

Kids, new students: this is a level of bullshit and disorganization from a professor that you do not have to put up with. This is a neatly ordered series of red flags that say "this professor is going to be absolutely unbearable."

Also *any* humanities class where your whole grade is 4 assignments should get serious side-eye. You should be able to pass most 100 level humanities classes by just turning in weekly assignments. 4 assignments means that by the time you figure out how the professor grades you're probably close to halfway through the class. Look for classes that require weekly participation as a major chunk of the grade because that way, even if you fuck up a project in a major way, just showing up can save your ass.

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Belle was too fed up with all of them 📖 (Insp. by Hey Riddle Riddle!)

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so i have a cousin in med school studying to become a sturgeon but i honestly think there's something fishy about the credentials of the program they're in

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two realities we must confront.

the first - this is a sitting congressman, a Republican, and a Jew, and this is how he responds to credible reports of starvation:

shanda. this is utterly despicable. disgusting bigotry and callousness that should not be allowed to stand and that everyone should object to - and returned hostages and the hostages’ families have been pleading for an end to this exact type of rhetoric, and for the end of this war. this doesn’t help them, it’s not bringing anyone home, it’s not saving anyone, it’s all exacerbating more and more pain.

unfortunately, comments like this are too common, especially from the right. take a look at the harassment Gabi (yehudimomrim) is receiving for the post she made today urging attention and compassion to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, for example.

the flip side of it is stuff like this:

this is heinous antisemitism, prejudice, and media bias, and it’s too late because it already went viral and the usual suspects are lapping it up as proof of how evil and racist the Jews are.

people need to understand that both terrible things exhibited here feed each other. that’s how hatred and bigotry works. every time someone like Randy Fine belittles real suffering, someone like O’Brien will go, “see? that’s how (((they))) are!,” and every time someone says an awful lie about the Jewish people, someone like Randy Fine feels justified in responding with cruelty to others. round and round it goes, a vicious cycle.

I don’t know how we stop it. I don’t know how we address it, much less fix it. it is horrible and heartbreaking. but I know we need to be aware of it.

the hardest thing to do, especially when faced with so much grief and anger and hatred, is to refuse to cede your humanity. that’s also why it is one of the most important things that you must do.

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Sokka and Zuko get SO much funnier when you remember this is both of their first times talking to another teenage boy in years. Sokka had all the other boys leave the tribe when he was little and Zuko just hasn’t talked to other teenage boys. They wanna be friends but have absolutely no clue how to talk to other teenagers. I love them so much.

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i've died on smaller hills, so i can't judge. but i do think it's funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan's absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs

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"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fête? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.

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Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

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we recently rewatched the Big Bang/San Lorenzo Jobs and one of my favorite things about Nate v Damien Moreau is that Moreau is always going "in a fair fight I'd crush you" and Nate keeps responding "probably, which is why I cheated like hell" and it works every time

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