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Millennia-old dragoness, rife with arcane power and knowledge, able to manipulate reality at a whim. Her creation? Dragongirl in a bikini

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you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

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this qrt has absolutely fucking sent me

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this terrible distant blurry shot of two pigeons is one of my favourite photos out of any pic I’ve ever taken I think

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Ouran high school was my favourite anime when I was like 14 which is really funny because thats also the age I basically was in a Haruhi fujioka situation. Not like fully literally but the meat of it was the same

I was the one single middle-class kid in a super high-end rich kid private academy with like pressed uniforms and building wings and everything. I didnt get any sort of scholarship, my dad just got a job as a teacher there and teachers kids got to enroll for free because the tuition was like 30 grand a year and you arent affording that on a teacher salary. So I understand her on a very visceral level and perhaps enjoyed OHSHC so much because she was SOOO me fr. These damn rich people

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Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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An important thing I’m learning with teaching Ollie commands and requests is that brains not wired for human language need very distinct word with minimal overlap, or at least gestures attached to differentiate them, because I just asked him if he was “doing better” and ruined his entire day because “D-n-ER” are the noises I make for “food time now” (dinner) and it is two hours from food time 😭

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choking a girl's dick is known to improve mental health btw

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kermi on a, kermi on a cross your beauty never really scared meeeee

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some of your goofy asses for the past 20 years

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A sad, rough, spur of the moment ukulele song about Pearl and her feelings about Rose. Set around Rose’s Scabbard. <3 Download at Soundcloud.

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worth, it’s something you can earn it’s something like belonging but nothing like belonging to and love is wanting to protect to fight until you’re wrecked coming back reformed, reborn, and stronger too

and it’s not easy it hasn’t been easy it’s not getting easier to go on without you

hate, and guilt and grief and rage I tried but couldn’t save you from what you were searching for those things I couldn’t understand you smiled and held my hand and that’s the touch I’m hurting for

and it’s not easy it’s hasn’t been easy nothing’s been easy and I’m full of doubt too

and it’s not for me this world you adored I am trapped on theses shores without you

why, I would have followed where you lead if I could bleed I would have bled if I could give myself instead if I could you what he gave you anything to save you anything to keep your curiosity at bay anything to have you and to hold you if I could I would have told you anything, anyone but him

and it’s no surprise I love him, how couldn’t I and I see you in his eyes, in his wisdom and his kindness and the way he’s always right and it’s not easy to realize it’s getting harder all the time harder to miss you

and it’s not easy it’s true but nothing was ever easy with you

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"acab includes fandom police" "acab includes bossy people" "acab includes-" no it doesnt. no it fucking doesnt. there is a way for you to express your disapproval of a group without equating it to the government sponsored institution that loves to torture and kill black people

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A Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 fansong by yours truly.

 A little late and a little peaky, but I still like it. <3

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The words I speak put shape to someone else’s thoughts. I am uniquely defined by the person I am not. My face is lined with the evidence of someone else life and my racing mind finds paths of personality and faithfully connects familiar dots.

All I want is to have something that is mine from the start every part of me chosen not assigned. all I want is to know for certain that the wanting is my own And I own what is mine and what is mine is mine alone.

I’m known to speak in a simulated sort of sounding voice. Its been so long I can no longer tell if its by choice. I could pretend to be any sort of person I suppose. But whats the point I’d still be an imitation of a human I’d still never fit my clothes.

All I know is that there’s nothing that’s been mine from the start, every part of me chosen by design. All I what is to be the person no one though I’d ever be. I don’t want to be anyone but me.

So please…

Is there something new for me under the sun? Is there a rock unturned? Is there a new trick up a hidden sleeve that this old dog can learn? Is this a story I’m doomed to repeat? Or is this a bridge I can burn? And can I find treasure in trash of another man? I hope I can.

That’s all I want.

All I want is to have something that is mine from the start, every part of me chosen not assigned, All I want is to know for certain that the wanting is my own and I own what is mine and what is mine is mine alone and what is mine is what I want and what I want is what I want

That’s all I want…

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