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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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Today's polish is beautiful. 😍 The maker describes it as a red-pink linear holo with orange undertones. I'm guessing "undertones" means a shimmer, but I don't know for sure. What I do know is that the rainbow flare in this one definitely had an orange tint to it, which was SO PRETTY. Hopefully you can see what I'm talking about in the picture/video in direct sun. I love this maker's linear holo polishes so I'm not surprised I enjoyed this one. This is Chamuel from A-England.

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Today's polish has UP! 🦄✨ I really loved the combination of the violet jelly base with the blue to green UP pigment. I did something a bit different with my video so you can really see the blue to green shift because that's what makes UP so distinct. This polish also has a great formula. I needed three coats to get the violet as dark and rich as it looked in the bottle, but it self-leveled really well and had that gorgeous squishy jelly finish. This is Nightshade from Bee's Knees Lacquer.

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Propane tank pig family

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30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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Today's polish was interesting but I'm not sure that I like it. It has a green jelly base with a purple to yellow shifting shimmer and green reflective glitter. The base color is actually quite bright, but when the shimmer is purple it makes the green jelly base look dark and kinda swampy. But then at other angles the shimmer is yellow and the whole manicure brightens up. You can see this change the best in the last two pictures. I'm still on the fence with this one. 🤔 Would you guys wear it? I'm not sure I'd be excited to reach for it again. This is Rainbows End from Potion Polish.

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NEVER LET YOURSELF BE STOPPED BY WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IF YOU STARTED EARLIER!!!!! THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE IS NOW

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Today's polish is one I wasn't super happy with, so I did an interesting experiment, which I also wasn't super happy with. 😂 Initially I was really excited by this polish. I have no official description, but I was seeing a bleached orange base with a pink to yellow shifting shimmer. It also was glow in the dark! The formula was a little patchy and thick but looked good after three coats. When I went to check out how it looked in the dark though, I was surprised by how little it glowed and overall felt disappointed. So I thought I'd play around with the glow in the dark aspect of it and paint a design using both regular polish and glow in the dark polish that glowed green. I really like the concept of this manicure, but I'm not thrilled with how it turned out. And although you can see the two glow in the dark colors in the picture, irl the green glow in the dark polish was so much stronger than the purple that the green was all you saw. I may have to do this idea again with a different base polish. This is Pyro and White Lie from Cirque and Glow in the Dark Taco from Holo Taco, over Sammich from Atomic Polish.

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Reblog to hug prev

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The goal stated plainly by some, merely implied by others, is to eradicate trans people completely. Whether through death or detransition, they want to return to an imagined time when men were men and women were women. This won’t work. Of course it won’t work. Because that time never existed and trans people have survived through periods even harsher than our own. But I’ve grown frustrated with this fixation on survival. I don’t want to talk to a collective “trans youth” like they’re hanging off a balcony and need to be coaxed back inside. Of course, it’s imperative that we continue to live. Of course, I want trans people impacted by this decision to know there is a future beyond this moment. But there’s something condescending about this focus on suicidality and merely living. 100,000 people lost their healthcare today. Even if every single one of those people live, these laws are still cruel and discriminatory. They still make life harder for people who already have to navigate a hostile world.

Drew Gregory, Most of Us Will Survive

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Today's polish looked like a pastel rainbow. 🌈🤩 It has an idigo tinted base (it looked silver to me) with shimmery pink to gold shifting shimmer and subtle linear holo. In fact I didn't even notice the linear holo while I was painting my nails. Inside my house, I just saw how the shimmer would shift through all the colors of the rainbow, like in the first picture. But as soon as I stepped in the sun I could see the extra sparkle the linear holo added. This is Paisley Monkey from Royla Lee.

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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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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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what if I completely ignore the problem