#A huge liability

[thatsbelievable]

[tswwwit]

Does this mean there’s some TLC producer frothing at the mouth to get familiarAU Dipper on My Strange Addiction? Bc if I saw a dude was married to a killer rocket launcher robot my first thought would be “wow, he really should not have that.” But also my second thought would be “wow, that guy’s a real pervert”

You absolutely know there is! The hard part is getting Dipper to agree to show up.

[doctorcanon]

I ADORE Catherina but man I hate her outfit. What is with the metal thong????

[motherforthefamicom]

opened up minecraft on my computer for the first time in like over a year i think nd got so so fucking scared cuz it was saying i didnt own it anymore (turns out i just logged into my bedrock account on accident) and then we had to deal with trying to figure out how to even log into my java account and we almost thought we completely lost it or smthn

[sesshy380]

I should not like shifts where all I'm doing is working stock as much as I do, especially since it means coming in a bit later in the day. Though today's goal is to haul-ass and get as much of the back room onto the floor as possible.

[gothicprep]

i'm impressed that clickhole hasn't declined in quality over the years at all, even though the onion has. back during the kendrick/drake beef, they published a summary of it where drake's diss at kendrick was america ferrara's monologue from "barbie" and kendrick's diss at drake waas lizzo's "truth hurts" in russian.

iirc the media company who owns the onion & clickhole hired ben collins as their ceo. if that name is unfamiliar to you, collins worked as a journalist for nbc who primarily focused on misinformation, conspiracy theories in the public consciousness, etc. he wasn't particularly good at it, imo. he also did something very strange after the mass shooting at the gay bar in colorado springs a few years back where he cried on television about how it was his fault. somehow. he didn't lose a loved on in this or anything. it was just... deranged.

like, why would you hire that guy to run your comedy media network? i guess that's funny if you squint, but in a dark way that makes you sort of want the world to end tomorrow.

[dykeseinfeld]

rwrb is like. a good romance but the premise of it lowkey. drives me insane and seeing it on the screen might break my brain lol

[dreamhot]

to me, if the CC you're writing about is able *easily* to find what you wrote, you haven't done your part. sites like tumblr and ao3 which were designed for fandom and not ccs are fine, donoing to a cc to tell them about the thing is not fine, mailing someone your fanfic is not fine, dming an author your fanfic of their story is VERY not ok (jeopardizes that author), private tweets or blocking the cc is fine.

right like. there are Always ways to make it difficult for your stuff to cross paths with the cc. if the cc chooses to go looking on ao3 ... that's on them !! but we certainly shouldn't be spoonfeeding stuff like rpf to the ccs (unless we're talking about dream, who is VERY much an outlier in situations like these)

[memequeen92]

ough I've been wanting to work on fics again but my body is being particularly shitty this year since I had covid and I just don't have the energy

[clownfangs]

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[truthdarespinbottles]

Literally dreading going to work tomorrow

[lo-carb]

Ughhhh the neighbors took it upon themselves to fix up their electric fence after they've had to call their giant dog away from going apeshit at my horse several times. The thing just runs up to bark and pace the fence while my horse just stands there and doesn't really care. And no surprise the dog yet again just squeezes under the electric with ease to come over and rabidly freak the fuck out and started jumping on our fence at my horse, again while pony just stands there. Like, my horse seems to like that particular corner to stand around and fall asleep at, which doesn't help because I'm sure that once the dog is let outside to do his business he just goes straight for the horse. I get that we're in the country but there's still some extent that you should keep your dogs around, hell even a neighbor a few houses down that I've met has complained about them roaming. I can't wait till I eventually catch the chance to speak with them 🙃

[frownyalfred]

having Bruce learn, understand, and speak Kryptonian is such an interesting and heartwarming development, but it’s also kind of a huge liability?

Lex Luthor doesn’t speak Kryptonian, but if he ever found out his pal Bruce Wayne did, somehow? That’s a kidnapping.

Supers are all off planet/out of contact and someone comes looking for them speaking in Kryptonian? Bruce is up on the Watchtower negotiating in fluent Kryptonian.

Someone needs to go handle the Fortress AI while Clark is gone? Bruce gets locked in there for a few days. Even though it can speak English, it prefers Kryptonian. (He’s fine…probably)

[fantasticalleigh]

mutuals what if we all took a field trip to medieval times together

[gallusrostromegalus]

IIRC, you were in academia, yeah? My Evolution professor is *requiring* use of ChatGPT to review for our exams, and I don't know how to say "are you out of your mind" and "I'm not paying $500 a credit for this" without devolving into a sludge of incomprehensible rage. Do you have any advice as to how I could handle this?

NGL, Using AI sounds like a legal liability for the university. I'll open this one to the floor to people who have more experience with explaining why we don't us AI for stuff, but this is absolutely something to take to the dean and be a huge pain in the ass about.

[libraford]

I have a lot to say about the decision our BOE made about Lifewise, but I'm going to go over the useful information here first and then the shitshow in a later reblog.

Last night, the board of education in my city decided to rescind allowance of Lifewise in our public schools.

Lifewise is a non denominational Christian youth group that operates during school hours, and only during school hours. Their mission is to bring Jesus to public schools, and they are able to do this legally because the education happens off-campus. They typically do this during lunch, recess, or electives. The program is voluntary.

They were allowed in our school system through a former board member, two years ago. The program has come under some scrutiny, which I will cover in a reblog. So the topic of rescinding their decision came up this year.

This was a huge debate. I will get into it later.

But I wanted to state the reasons why our board chose to rescind the decision and end business with LifeWise, so that if they (or others of this type) come to your school system and you don't want them there, you have a model for what has worked in debate.

1. An important aspect of the decision to rescind this particular decision does not restrict religious learning before or after school, or on weekends- and only applies to religious programs during school hours.

2. Unlike accommodations made for Ramadan (an example that was brought up in debate), LifeWise is not a core observance of religion.

3. The social times of school, such as lunch or recess, are just as much part of the learning process as structured class time. Play is imperative for a growing mind, and playing with kids from other religious backgrounds is especially important.

4. While Lifewise supplies their own buses to and from locations, transition times in schools (getting children to and from lunch, recess, bathrooms, electives) are some of the most stressful times for teachers. Adding another, for which only some of the students are part of, is a strain on resources.

5. Entrusting your students to a third party who has not been vetted by the schools is an intense liability. Not just the obvious danger of a dangerous person, but- are the trained in first aid? What do they know about seizures, autism, allergies, diabetes...what are their policies on conflict resolution... there are a lot of variables to think of when you leave your students in someone else's care, even for just an hour.

That's all the notes I have for that meeting. If one of these programs is courting your school board, it's probably a good idea to have these points in mind now, rather than later.

I'll talk about the rest later.