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TCAF is over now, so here's my new comic I debuted there!

Amsterdam-based Fairphone has begun its U.S. expansion with the launch of its Fairbuds XL headphones through Amazon and plans to introduce its smartphone line later this year.

The company hopes to tap into the country’s growing “right to repair” movement, which supports consumers’ ability to fix rather than replace their electronics.

Fairphone’s approach is not about competing on power or performance, but about offering durability, ethical sourcing, and longevity.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

my brother and his friends in this field trip group were truly great kids. but they were not above run of the mill teenage boy shenanigans. it’s the end of senior year, you and all your buddies are at the amusement park, you’re naturally going to want to act like a complete moron

there was one kid in the group who was especially prone to goofing around. committed to the bit, some may say. my mom knew that if nonsense was going to break out, he’d likely be at the center of it

so she goes up to this kid at the very start of the trip and says “hey, i’m kinda worried about this chaperoning thing. this might be a lot to ask, but can you help me keep an eye on everyone? you wouldn’t have to do anything big, just be an extra set of eyes for me.”

friends, this kid proceeded to run their field trip group like the fucking us marines. everyone is at the meet up spots at the designated time. everyone waits in line for the rides like a bunch of boy scouts. the second the horseplay gets too out of hand, this kid is getting it back under control

it’s incredible how differently people act based on the expectations you set. instead of going to this kid and saying “hey, i know you’re trouble, so i’ve got my eye on you,” my mom went “hey, i know you have influence in your peer group, so i think you can help me.”

There was me (support staff) and one single teacher who did not view them as pains in the ass, but who viewed them as great, fun, delightful kids. The two of us would give them tasks and errands to do, and every single time we did, those kids would become model citizens. The school had a funraiser, and at one point we had to send a good few hundred bucks from the collection point to the admin office. I sent it with one of the "worst" of the naughty kids.

One of the old school teachers who disliked troublemakers saw me doing this and was AGHAST. Didnt I know how bad this kid was? Didn't I know that he was going to STEAL all that money???

Actually, you ornery old lady, no, I dont know that. In fact, I know that this is one of the best kids in this school. I know that this kid stays late and comes in on weekends to help crew the drama productions, and I know that he comes in early to help set up the free breakfast that one of the other teachers established, even though he himself rarely takes so much as a slice of toast from that array of breakfast foods.

I know that this kid is super trustworthy, actually, but that everyone assumes he's a troublemaker because he's also the posterchild for unmedicated ADHD.

So no, actually, he's not going to steal the money. I know that that money will make it to the accounts office without so much as a cent missing, if he has to climb over a barbed wire fence to make it happen.

The teacher was flabbergasted that I would be so "reckless" with hundreds of dollars, but guess what. Sure enough, every cent made it to the accountants office. It had been counted by volunteers at the collection point and it was counted again at the accountant office and there wasnt a single bit missing.

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!