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i feel so seen!!

(twitter thread)

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is it weird to admit that I want to see him appear in my dreams more?

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Two ladybirds having a shag that i edited cbat over

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writing is so fun

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Congrats to @merylmilesinksune for winning a comic from the @fandomsforpali raffle!!

This is a scene from Chapter 6 of my fic, Maintaining a Professional Distance!! So this was a lot of fun for me to do, thank you!!

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you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

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it's ok when people do things imperfectly. there are plenty of mediocre books and movies and works of art and all those people are fine and did not die from producing something that's just ok. not me though I would die

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made this in protest of censorship

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My contribution to the fandom 👍

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ive recently been able to get over my sensory issues regarding moisturizer by literally just saying "im going snail mode"

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A bus may have only a couple of passengers, especially at the beginning or end of its route. But let's also take fuel efficiency into account.

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Astrology doesn't seem to work.

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Shawn Pyfrom & Ryan Carnes | Desperate Househusbands

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I get why people like Desperate Housewives so much now. The levels of cunt in this show are off the charts. The slayometer is broken from too much serving

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materialism is such a fun word

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a student cited several sources that don’t exist??? Jfc using AI is bad enough but at least check that the source is real

Yeah, this is the second time I've gotten that.

The ones who do this just don't care, not really, not about this class. And I'm TA'ing for an Intro to Anthropology lecture gen ed, and about 1/3 of the students were genuinely into it and 1/3 were showing up for the grade and 1/3 did not give a crap, and that's a pretty normal distribution. But this distribution of AI papers is new. Even last semester it wasn't this bad.

The problem is that college has been full of perverse incentives for a long time, and I'm a grad student who has no power to change that. Learning is less important than Getting The Correct Grade; getting the correct Grades that you can exchange for a Degree in the shortest amount of time is the primary goal. College as commodity. Learning is nice if it happens but it is not the goal, because learning is not rewarded: grades are. And it doesn't matter to the administration, and to your tuition payments and your scholarships, if you learn anything or not. What matters a lot to those things is if your grades are good enough. So of course the students see gen eds outside their major as a waste of time: it's just a thing they have to do to get their very expensive degree, and the degree is the point. The classes, learning, those are not prioritized, not incentivized. Grades are the end-all be-all. It's awful! But it's what this system creates the incentive to do! I hate it!

I've seen a couple people on tumblr smugly say "Academics are smug assholes who hate their students, and the reason they dislike ChatGPT is that it exposes that their degree is fake and worthless." And obviously those people have never talked to a teacher in their lives, but they are missing the deeper, worse point: teachers overwhelmingly want their students to learn. ChatGPT exposes just how many students do not give a shit about the thing we are so passionate about that we made it our careers, do not give a shit that we are trying to teach them, do not give a shit about our time, because the whole college as a structure and an institution that we work for doesn't really give a shit about that either. It's rational self-interest by the students but man it hurts me as a teacher, to know that so many students not only don't care about what I have been busting my ass to try to do for them, but also think I'm stupid enough to not notice.