#and why I need to learn to drive

[faxxmachine]

And I shan’t be having the expensive stuff I was going to order. I’m ordering the whore pasta and fucking off to the bottle-o to take a nice tempranillo or malbec back to my resort unit and have a long chat with mum. Got earplugs for the (my home town) derros that checked in yesterday too so I can attempt sleeping again.

[faunandfloraas]

Honestly I think a lot of people who have never made a gif for tumblr don't get that it does actually take time and effort, its not just rip it from a video and post it- you have to download the video, in my case I have a video player installed that grabs continuous caps, figure out what parts you need, you have to open those in photoshop or gimp, depending on where you got photoshop you might be paying for it every month and then on top of that is actually sizing, cropping, colouring, sharpening, adding text, etc. etc. like it is something that takes time and effort for which the only real reward is creating something that makes you happy and hopefully people reblog it with a nice or funny tag, so maybe keep that in mind the next time you think gif makers are being mean or unfair for being upset about reposts. It is its own little artform that is fairly unique to this website, and that's a big aspect of why I have always loved tumblr, if all the gifmakers stopped posting things would be a lot more boring around here.

[aetherograph]

Idk if this is a controversial take but I think you should be able to take a test to prove you have the relevant knowledge for a degree and if you pass the test, you get the degree. They do that for high school, why is college any different?

Like let's not kid ourselves, school is for credentials and literally everything that needs credentials that are entirely just 'do you have this core knowledge' can be dealt with this way. Anything that has practical elements can just have the practical elements as classes you can take piecemeal, like CPR training already is, and then you also have to pass a written test.

There's very little reason we need to stick people in a company town (university campus) and pay them in scrip (grades) and make them buy from the company store (tuition) other than to erect unnecessary and inhumane and unjust barriers to knowledge.

If four years of high school can be expressed in test form, then four years of university can too.

[chussyracing]

He's not a Lando fan. He hates him and McLaren which is why we became friends in the first place. But he's a Max fan which well. Ofc Max is good, but I guarantee you he wouldn't survive the Ferrari experience from 2021-24 and come out with 4 titles at the end of it

to be fair, nobody survives that - hence why the drivers changes left and right in that seat. oh but wait, one driver survived through all that and you will never guess who it is 😁

[scionshtola]

good morning. thinking about one of the things i love most about shtola which is that she really just wants to learn and know and understand everything for the sake of it. she’s just so curious and loves learning and that’s what motivates her

[beeduoo]

originnssssss who remembers origins i Loved origins

[superloves4]

Me trying to explain to my very confused dad that I need to do a 8 hr trip to rome today for ceasar

[thatfriendlyanon]

your friendship is a beam of sunlight in a cold room.

[itspileofgoodthings]

there is something about the fragmentary nature of teaching that I hate so much but I think I have to make my peace with because it’s probably where a lot of grace is working/things are operating that I can’t see. In good ways as well as hard ways.

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[autisticlee]

I never had someone say "you don't look autistic" so must be obvious i'm "different/weird" which makes sense why everyone acts so weird towards me immediately. sometimes can notice it right away. i'm asked a question. I take couple extra seconds to react/respond and they make *the face* (subtle uncomfortable face where they realize somethings "wrong" with me. like their eyebrows twitch a certain way because i'm looking at them to pretend i'm doing eye contact)

only had a couple times someone said "you cant be/are not autistic because you can do ___" so I must act very autistic and no one is surprised. I must have "autism energy" since i'm not a genius or good at much, not useful in the way is expected in society, and bad at masking.

[mbat]

im so serious by the way, seeing videos of the no kings protests made me finally FINALLY understand what patriotism feels like. to finally feel proud of my country, hopeful and joyful for what could come in our future.

i saw a video of a kid playing the national anthem on a trumpet at one of the marches, and it was the first and only time i have EVER understood what i was supposed to feel like when i heard that song. ive only ever heard it basically out of obligation, just cause its What You Play during certain events. but this time... i finally understood what its supposed to feel like.

it was like our country, maybe even the world cause i know other countries had protests too, was all singing the same song in unison. just once, we were all aligned. and it was so beautiful

[shepcdr]

thinking again about how easily moulded shepard can be esp if you catch him pre-mass effect 1.. thinks about how good he is at surviving and Enduring more than anything else... the complete irrationality and extreme limits he will go to when it comes to those he has handed his loyalty over to (for better or for worse). Finding friendship and faith in the Normandy crew and to people like Anderson made his story and narrative a good one and kept him in line but this was all coincidence. it could've easily been a miserable and horrific story

[satanic-fruitcake]

its not funny anymore i NEEDD irl trans friends it’s imperative at this point i can’t do this shit alone!!!!!!

[aropride]

sorry for the rant i am reaching a breaking point 👍 (cis person asked me why i dont "just change my name" and seemed baffled when i said i live with my parents. what's not clicking girl draw your own conclusions here.)