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sory i bought polymer clay earings from uour wifes etsy store and cast one of her thumprints and used it to access your family safe and i stole your comically large bagof money with dolar signs painted on it

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A1 German Verb List 1

As I've started taking German classes and have done quite a few lessons by now, I think posting vocab lists could do great.

sprechen - to speak

sagen - to say

sehen - to see

schauen - to look, to watch

hören - to hear, to listen

lesen - to read

fragen - to ask

ergänzen - to complete, to fill in

markieren - to mark

passen - to suit, to fit

zuordenen - to arrange, to classify

buchstabieren - to spell

studieren - to study

zeigen - to point, to show, to display

passieren - to happen, to occur, to take place

meinen - to mean, to intend

raten - to advise, to counsel

lieben - to love

heißen - to be called

bauen - to build

fahren - to drive, to ride

kommen - to come

schreiben - to write

machen - to make, to do

rechnen - to calculate

backen - to bake

studieren - to study

stehen - to stand

außstehen - to stand up, to get up

kosten - to cost

funktionieren - to function, to work

pflegen - to nurse, to foster

wachsen - to grow

checken - to check

chatten - to chat (texting!)

üben - to practise

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“dnd exp leveling is dumb,” i say into the mic.

the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

"they’re right," it says. i look for the owner of the voice. there in the second row stands: brennan lee mulligan.

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there is something significant that suzanne begins thg with an interaction between gale, katniss, and madge.

gale specifically calls out madge for having only five entries, implying that her chances of going to the capitol are practically nonexistent (thg, 12). or, at the very least, less than him with his forty-two entries (thg, 13).

suzanne integrates this scene with madge in the novel to show (1) the class division throughout the district that creates animosity.

like, although gale knows that it is not madge’s fault, that doesn't stop him from digging into her (thg, 13).

and it also emphasizes (2) the illusion that some people are safe, or benefit in this system.

but you know who also only had five entries? just like madge?

peeta.

and hell, prim only had one entry. the two people whose names were called that year.

so when the reaping happens, it proves just one thing. no one is safe in this system. not a merchant's son. not even a girl with only one slip in the bowl.

and it just goes to emphasize the theme that follows katniss's throughout the novel: who does this system benefit?

does it benefit a merchant’s son who has always had something to eat, even if it is stale? does it benefit a capitol sweetheart, who is flooded with gifts from people who pay for his company? does it benefit people in the capitol, whose government quickly abandoned them when their city became a war ground?

katniss wrestles with these questions throughout the series. and finally reaches her conclusion at the end: "it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen" (mj, 321).

because no one is safe in a world where people murder children in order to solve their differences. and that means no one.

not a capitolite. not a mayor's daughter. and not even a young medic whose sister has done everything in her power to keep her safe.

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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Death Note AU where hbomberguy makes a five hour long video about youtuber Light Yagami that's initially completely unrelated to the murders (Light would probably plagiarize or have really unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube)

but halfway through he reveals that while researching he stumbled upon evidence that Light might be behind the Kira murders, and then spends like fourty minutes explaining the concept of a shinigami, an hour explaining how he thinks Light used one to commit murders, and then another hour explaining Light's ideology and why the concept of criminals being inherently evil is flawed

He finishes the video by addressing Light directly and telling him that he (Hbomberguy) had his name legally changed before uploading the video, to something that only he knows, making it impossible for Light to kill him

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you guys wanna go to basrar’s?

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the bad kids taking those arcade prizes is objectively so funny bc why did fig gorgug adaine fabian & kristen all get a fun thing that helps them and riz gets The Foreshadowing Blade

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lou in the leadup to the figayda confession is priceless (aka when ayda has a full relationship contract for fig to sign):

bonus, ally:

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the bad kids + text posts: gorgug thistlespring edition

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starting to suspect this found family group im part of considers me to be the pet

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i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

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Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

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Apps i use to learn languages

1. Babbel

This is a language app that also teaches grammar & offers grammar exercises. You can practise the vocab words you learned & it teaches you about the people & culture of your target country.

However, it only offers 14 languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian) and you need a payed subscription to unlock the courses and can only learn one language at a time.

2. Duolingo

This is a language learning app that offers dozens of languages, even fictional ones from Game of Thrones & Star Trek. You can access all courses without subscription and can learn several languages at a time.

However, it doesn't offer any grammar exercises and you can't revise the vocab you learned.

3. LingoClip

In this app, you can listen to songs in your target language & have to fill in the gaps in the lyrics. You get 3 free songs per day without a subscription.

The languages they offer are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Catalan.

4. Beelinguapp

This app helps you practice reading texts in your target language by showing you the text in your native language & in your target language and reading it to you sentence by sentence.

The languages they offer are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, and Swedish.

5. LingQ

This app works similarly to Beelinguapp, but you can mark any words you know and don't know and practice the ones you didn't know.

The languages they offer are English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Latin, Romanian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Catalan, Bulgarian, Persian, Danish, Gujarati, Cantonese, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Malaysian, Slovakian, Serbian, Tagalog, and Taiwanese Mandarin.

6. Quizlet

This is a vocab card app. I really like that it gives you translation suggestions when you type out a vocab word and it recognizes the language automatically. You can also use vocab lists from other users and from specific exercise books or courses, and you can sort your vocab lists into sets and files and share them with others if you'd like. If you subscribe to Quizlet, you can also keep track of your learning.

7. AnkiDroid

This is another vocab card app which i use for learning sign languages. You can put formulas, pictures, videos, and more on the vocab cards and you can synchronise the app with the pc programme.

8. Chatterbug

Chatterbug offers live streams in English, German, French, and Spanish where they explain grammar rules, cultural aspects, idioms, and more. They also offer private language lessons.

9. Slowly

On Slowly you can find penpals around the world that are learning your target language or people from your target language's country that want to learn your native language, so you can help each other.