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One in a Million Chance

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Of all the combinations in the world I could have ended up with, I managed to eat an Orange Juice flavored Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Bean IMMEDIATELY after eating a toothpaste flavored one.

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I Can Only Learn So Much!

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I find myself in an interesting situation… As it happens, with each new year comes a proportionately small number of muggle-born first years with virtually no prior knowledge to fall back on. So, amazingly enough, I am in a position where there are currently witches and wizards in this school who know less about magic than I do!

It’s a bit of a double edged sword though. Since I’ve been spending the last year having adventures in magic land, I’ve fallen a bit behind in my own field. Long story short we had a few 11 year olds show up this year with a better grasp on what’s happening in the tech world than I have.

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This collaboration of Peter Hollens and Hank Green singing Hobbit drinking songs is so good. I love these guys.

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The crew gathers to support Nog before he heads off to Starfleet Academy (DS9 4.8, “Little Green Men”).

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Rogue: “You need to teach your son to write in common”

Paladin (of tyranny): “He can write in abyssal”

Rogue: “Some of us can’t read abyssal”

Paladin: “That sounds like a you problem.”

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Um… how the fuck is there a lure on an unreachable pokestop? Like, I’m watching this thing, and there are no boats near it. Why is there a stop even out there?

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An Innovator for the Ages

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Cooking ramen in a coffee mug using a Kuerig- come at me “adulthood”.

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Just Doing my Job

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This is a reminder to all students that Hogwarts is a school and therefor no alcohol will be permitted on the grounds. If any is found while I’m running lines below the floorboards I will be forced to confiscate it and dispose of it properly… with Coke or Orange Juice, depending on what’s in the bottle.

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This is how my staff flung out of my hands and hit my co-player character, knocking him unconscious. -_-

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I run Dungeons and dragons. After 2 of the dice had rolled ones…(one of my own too) we automatically banished them to a cage and showed the other dice of what can happen if they roll bad. Shortly after, 3 more nat ones occurred. Punishment came swiftly.

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Tonight at my weekly DnD game, my attacking and damage dice did something they weren’t supposed to.

Shame on both of you, opalescent d20 and d12.

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Why am I a fascist for wanting to steal a train!?

(via outofcontextdnd)

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Knock Knock

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Somebody should probably inform the bronze Eagle at the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room that riddles are no longer a good way of determining who is smart enough to let in. I had to enter to fix something, and all it took was a quick Google search.

Speaking of Ravenclaw, Billy Boradview’s ‘Bott Spot’ app kind of flopped. He’s really excited about his latest project. I can see the potential of this one. I’m totally down with watching Twitch Plays Wizard Chess.

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Allons-y!

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MAGIC CAN MAKE THINGS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE! How have I not realized this? Somebody get me some wood, a Grunnings power drill, and a can of BBC approved Pantone 2955C blue paint. I’m making a Time Lord clubhouse!

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Troubleshooting

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That does sound like a weird problem Professor. Is the computer on? Can you turn it on? Is it plugged in? Is the power strip it’s plugged into plugged in? Is it plugged into something other than itself? Unplug it from itself and plug it into the wall. Oh it’s working now? Lovely.

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This is Aida, a 10-year-old Syrian refugee. Rosianna and I met her at the Azraq camp in northern Jordan, where she and her family had just arrived after more than four months at the Syrian border.

The situation at the border is a catastrophe–Aida told us she’d watched some of the friends she made at the border die at the border of exposure and thirst. She thought she would die, too. (One of her sisters was killed in the war.)

Aida is bright and funny and constantly cuddled by her younger brothers. When I asked her what she wanted most now that she was finally at Azraq, she said, “I want to go to school.” She’d never been in school–the war started the year she would’ve started. She then asked me when school started in the camp. “Can I go today?” she asked me through the translator.

The UN Refugee agency is critically underfunded, and the quality of schools suffers as a result. Kids go to school only for half a day, and classes are huge–sometimes as many as 100 kids per room. Dropout rates are extremely high, because kids are needed for chores and work.

Aida will be safe at Azraq. But because of funding shortfalls, she will not receive enough food assistance or the quality of education she deserves.

In the coming days and weeks, Rosianna and I will share more stories of the refugees we met in Jordan. As one mother told me when I asked how Americans can help, “Listening helps. Knowing you are listening helps.” Of course, donating also helps, as does voting against leaders who demonize refugees.

In the U.S. right now, our political discourse is driven by the lionizing of some vague Us and the villainizing and dehumanizing of a supposed Other. But when we talk about decreasing aid to assist refugees, or not allowing refugees to resettle in the United States, we are not talking about some distant and menacing Other. We are talking about Aida.

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