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made little folded zines for a terror watch with friends a few months ago! (i didn't post them till now bc they were only formatted to be printed and i was too lazy to flip things around..)

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I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

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you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

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madara with a navel piercing

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Oh??

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Maori Hei Tiki

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Study for 'The Comeback of the fisheries' (1894) by Joaquín Sorolla

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[comm] sasunaru you will always be famous

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Hashimada art

I ♥️ Naruto doomed tragic yaoi

Plus a throwback I posted this little doodle about a month or two ago

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twitter seemed to like this one so thought id repost here too lol

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The artwork shown is "Smoke Lake" by Tom Thomson, painted in 1912. Thomson was an influential Canadian landscape painter, known for his depictions of the Canadian wilderness, particularly the Algonquin Park region. "Smoke Lake" is a notable example of his work, capturing the vibrant colours of a sunset over the lake. The oil painting depicts Smoke Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario, with the sky in shades of pink and orange, contrasting with the dark line of trees on the shore and the golden reflections on the water.

Tom Thomson had a brief but influential career, and his works, such as "The West Wind" and "Pine Jack", are considered icons of Canadian art. His untimely death by drowning in 1917 added a layer of mystery to his story, with several theories and speculations surrounding the event. Despite this, his legacy endures, and his paintings continue to be celebrated and studied as important contributions to Canadian art.

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So, my second childhood husband...

(It says: Hashirama, I want your wood)

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Bona diada dels Països Catalans!

Sant Joan és una de les poques festes (de fet, l'única que no és una celebració religiosa) que se celebra de forma conjunta arreu dels Països Catalans: des de la Flama del Canigó a la Catalunya Nord, a les fogueres d'Alacant, les festes amb cavalls de Ciutadella i la crema de bujots a Sant Lluís a Menorca, el ball de Sant Joan Pelós a diverses localitats de Mallorca, les baixades de falles al Pirineu i Andorra i totes les revetlles populars celebrades arreu de Catalunya, el País Valencià, la Franja i l'Alguer.

És una festa lligada al foc i a l'aigua, que simbolitza el final de la sega dels camps ("Pel juny, la falç al puny") i la celebració del solstici d'estiu. Des de la dècada del 1980, se celebra també com a Festa Nacional dels Països Catalans, amb el foc i la llengua com a elements centrals que ens agermanen, i com a símbol de resistència del poble català, que no s'ha deixat vèncer pels segles de repressió i persecució dels estats espanyol i francès.

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Happy Day of the Catalan Countries!

Sant Joan (Midsummer, June 24th) is one of the few holidays (in fact, the only one that isn't a religious feast) that is celebrated together all around the Catalan Countries: from the Canigó Flame in Northern Catalonia, to the Alacant bonfires, the horse festivities of Ciutadella and the burning of Bujots in Sant Lluís in Menorca, the Sant Joan Pelós dance in various towns of Mallorca, the falles in the Pyrenees and Andorra, and all the eve parties and festivals celebrated all around Catalonia, the Valencian Country, la Franja and L'Alguer.

It's a holiday linked to fire and water, and which symbolizes the ending of the fields' reaping season that used to happen during all of June (we have the saying "In June, the sickle in your fist") and the celebration of the summer solstice. Since the 1980s, it's also celebrated as the National Holiday of the Catalan Countries, with fire and language as the central elements that unites us, and as a symbol of resistance of the Catalan people, who has not given in to the centuries of oppression and persecution from the Spanish and French states.

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People from L'Alguer celebrating Sant Joan's eve (holiday on the summer solstice night).

Photos by Gabriele Doppiu and Mauro Madau on Instagram.

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very much a fan of this post so i felt compelled to make my own. print it out and give it to your coworkers or hang it in your cubicle and go "don't make me tap the sign"