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It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

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Is it?

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the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

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Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?

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listen you can't be buying pixel art games with "Pixel" in the title

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today one of the student workers at my job told me that if she’s struggling to remember something important in her course work she’ll wait until her professor asks a question related to that topic during a lecture and then she’ll purposefully raise her hand and answer it wrong because, and I quote, ‘the combined shame and embarrassment of getting an answer wrong in front of more than a hundred of your peers will make sure that you’ll never forget what the right answer actually was’ and if that is not the most next level balls to the wall bonkers extrovert thing I’ve ever heard then I don’t know what is

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i taught a baking class for 12 year olds today and we made your garden variety chocolate chip cookies, but i’m a big believer in Questioning Everything and the who/what/where/why/when/how behind things, so the first part of the class was purposely letting the kids do things the wrong way, to show and explain why we do things the way we do.

“why do we bake cookies at 180 for 9 minutes when we could do 400 for 2 minutes?” -enter the godawful lump of coal with a still gross wet and uncooked inside

“why do we have to scoop out little cookies instead of doing the whole tray?” -ok well that one you can technically do if the spread is even. you just end up with one giant, structurally unsound cookie. “PLEASE CAN WE MAKE GIANT COOKIES” (we did make 1 giant tray cookie)

we talked a lot about why consistency is important, but i don’t think it really hammered home until i said “okay everyone gets ONE cookie, that’s fair, right?” and then handed out cookies of hugely varying sizes. + baked one fat lump of a cookie that still wasn’t done at the 9 minutes, vs the regular one i put in that came out charred by the time the first was actually done.

we also made a row of cookies where each one had one single differing ingredient omitted, like a cookie with no flour, or a cookie with no butter, and laid them all out on a single tray to bake together to see how each ingredient affects the outcome.

two of the little girls added cocoa to their cookie doughs until it matched the colour of each others skin to make best friend cookies, and that almost made me tear up a bit 🥺

got briefly distracted (…for over half an hour…) talking about how eggs form when someone cracked an egg and it had 2 yolks

expertly tolerated being asked how old i am (just turned 31 the other day) which was immediately followed by asking if i watched the moon landing live on tv

was so focused on keeping track of all the kids that in the end i forgot to make a cookie for myself, but it’s ok because one of the girls gave me this

tiny……….

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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Yknow I thought you were cool at first, I like trains and public transport is important.

But I highly encourage you to rethink your anti-military statements. Because when the next war rolls around, people like you are going to be the reason morale and draft numbers are so low. And trust me, when America loses, it won't be fun for you.

Just like every other American war of the past 60 years, the next one will just be an excuse to kill a million brown people on the other side of the world, I want America to lose that. Imperialism is bad actually

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how to write math real good (algebraic-dumbass' guide)

the more commutative diagrams there are, the more correcter the math

be sure to include a rant about capitalism in the middle of the document

drop quotes that will make people laugh on the internet (e.g. "given a homomorphism, one must salivate, like Pavlov's dog, to know its kernel and image" from Rotman I think?)

use more creative variable names with the fontAwesome package

Instead of leaving proofs as an exercise, gaslight the reader into thinking it's obvious (it's not)

include an epigraph that is a lemon demon lyric

indicate crucial steps of proofs by using the word "Behold"

refer to your technical lemmas by clear and concise names that end in -inator

if writing lecture notes, include stage directions

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my academic article getting looked at by faggots call that getting queer reviewed

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There is apparently an unofficial fox linux mascot

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