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Is it silly if i thought of your tumblr user as like mrrp the sound cats make

Yes.

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Why your user so hard to memorize 💔💔

Because you're a (r-word)

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The reason why it's getting so hot isn't because of global warming. It's because everytime I hear someone complain about how hot it is, I raise the global temperature by one tenth of a degree.

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YOUR PFP IS SO AHAHEGWJAVWJWVSISVEKVSKSBSKW DBSHSHEB CROWVEN <3333333

Glad I could make you literally explode from it.

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NYC once again proving why it's one of the most based places in Yankee-land.

This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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I'm making this my pinned because it frustrates how many people nowadays seem to think that sharing your personal information is some cool trend. IT'S NOT. It's idiotic, and you're screwing yourself over because of this. It's even more ridiculous when it's clear alot of.people who share personal info have a traumatic life, YET they still share all this info that people can take advantage of.

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Dear disabled people in school, please know your rights! If you have an IEP or a 504 plan with your school, your accommodations are not suggestions; a teacher cannot refuse them. If a teacher, coach, or other school staff chooses to ignore or disregard your accommodations, you can and should report them to the school.

The school, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, will not/cannot tell the teacher that it was you who reported them, nor can the teacher question you or your class about being reported.

Remember it's against the law for the school or anyone representing/working for them to deny you your accommodations, no matter your age or grade, no matter the disability, and no matter how the school is funded.

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The evolution of (trans) man.

(Well, this one, anyway.)

Age 9: "Tomboy"

Age 15: Strictly enforced femininity

Age 30: Hitting the mental limits of being closeted all his life and about to crash HARD

Age 47: Fifteen years now since starting transition. Far more good days than bad, no regrets.

The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.

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God is on the side of transgenders.

I think the sky is trying to say something? 🤔 👀 🏳️‍⚧️

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HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

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Finally some good fucking news

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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

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my little brother tried to show me a "cool trick" where he entered my name and hometown into chatgpt and tried to get it to pull up my personal info like it did on all of his friends, then was absolutely shocked when it couldn't find anything on me

so. keep practicing basic internet safety, guys. it still works. don't put your personal info on social media, keep all your accounts on private, turn off ai scraping on every site that you can, enable all privacy features on social media apps. our info still can be protected, we have to keep fighting for control

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how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

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What the media won't show

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"Can you help me find my dog?" is a common ruse that kidnappers use in order to isolate their victims.

Logically, it makes no sense. Someone who lost their dog would put up fliers. Or loudly and repeatedly yell their dog's name. Or ask a crowd of people for help. They'd never even consider asking a child who's alone.

But children are not taught to think logically when an adult wants something. Children are taught "when an adult tells you to do something, you do it". Children are taught that it's their duty to sacrifice their own comfort in order to please adults. Children are taught that adults can be as illogical as they want and children still have to respect them.

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"Teenagers are assholes."

Yeah. Of course they are. They're treated like shit. They recognize that things are grossly unfair but haven't yet had the chance to figure out what should be done about it, and no one helps them figure that out because everyone is too busy gaslighting them and denying that anything is wrong.

Being an asshole is a natural response to that.