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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

Popsicle sticks, cereal boxes, binder clips, some boxes of staples, and a chair

#10 crochet cotton. 6 4-hole cards (cereal boxes lol)

Took about 6 hours to make 1.3 yards of this

Don't know if I'll keep this up or not. I don't mind the actual weaving portion but warping was rough and this was only 24 threads. We'll see. Maybe I'll build a shitty loom. Maybe that will make warping less painful (this and other lies we tells ourselves)

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This love of painting is innate. You can hand a baby a bunch of finger paints and they'll bang something out, delighted at their ability to alter their little corner of the universe. Just don't let them go for too long, because then they'll develop performance anxiety about having screwed up the simplest goddamn composition I mean I am eighteen months old, I should be past this kind of mistake.

Folks since the dawn of history have been enjoying smearing brightly-coloured shit on darker shit. Or maybe you're supposed to be going light to dark. I can never remember. This feels right, and if it looks right, it is right. At least, that's what I'd say if anything I made looked right. Either way, that's how we got cave paintings, which everyone really likes to look at. Everyone, that is, except for the original artist, who if they were alive today would probably be dying of embarrassment at how many obvious errors in anatomy they made.

Are... are your organs covered in blood??? Since blood tends to flow thru the blood vessels, and if your body is healthy and all your blood vessels are imtact then your organs shouldn't be covered in blood, right? But just saying that feels wrong.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

False cognates happen all the time, within one language and when comparing two or more languages.

The word "tienda" is NOT actually related to "tener/tiene."

"Tienda" in Spanish means "tent," and it comes from the same Latin root word as the English word "tent." Every Latin-based language, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and even Romanian, has a similar word.

"Tener/tiene" does mean "have/keep/hold," but it is unrelated to "tienda." "Tener" comes from an entirely different Latin root word.

However, the word "store" is the same in both instances. It refers to a place where items may be kept OR a place where items may be purchased (though the latter is mainly used in North America).

I'm not a linguist, but it's as simple as looking it up with a reputable source. It is so helpful to know root words instead of just guessing!

However, tener and tender are actually ultimately related, both derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root *ten- meaning "stretch". The meaning "have" coming from earlier meaning "to hold". Presumably the connection between stretch and hold being something like stretching your hand out to hold something?