What Is Even Going On Anymore

found yourself getting blocked for seemingly no reason?

does your profile look like this:

you're getting blocked because people think you're a bot

do yourself a favour and change your profile images to literally anything except the defaults. give your blog a name, give yourself a bio even if it simply says "new, figuring this out" or something. please, just do ANYTHING that shows everyone you're a human. then you wont get blocked anymore and you'll have a lot more fun here!

oh and while we're here, another hot tip: reblog things. likes do nothing here, there's no algorithm

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

I know air conditioners aren't inexpensive. But they are a good investment. Spending $400 now can make the next ten years of your life remarkably better. If you can't afford that, that sucks. But if you can afford it, do it.

It's weird to say "people are dying" in response to a video where I explicitly say "people are dying." I literally bring up that other places have this heat without the deaths because they have A/C, and have repeatedly said in the past that this is a needed investment in places like the UK now because of how many people are dying because of the heat. That is literally part of my whole point.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C when you add it. We have brick houses in Wisconsin too. Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C. Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

Buildings that trap heat are also good at holding in A/C.

I still hate most of the foods that I wouldn't eat as a kid. Almost all the variation in my diet came from trying foods I wasn't exposed to as a kid.

In fact, there are lots of foods I would force myself to eat as a kid that I don't bother with anymore because I don't like them

I started noticing it on my own post that blew up about my old teacher's extra credit policy. Too many people asked this for me to want to answer individually, but, like, I want to be clear, for almost everything you want to ask from one American's account of their education, the answer is Yes and No. Do American teachers actually teach literature primarily with multiple choice tests? Well, several of mine did! Don't they use more essay and short answer questions? Well, other people's did!

We have 50 states that all have their own standards on education (though Texas and California have outsized influence on certain nationwide standards). There is the divide between public schools (more standardized to state standards) and private schools (they do their own thing to some extent, the extent they're allowed to can depend on the state). There is a spectrum of private schools that are the fancy ones that are meant to provide better education, and ones that are made with a focus on religious indoctrination (Catholic schools often have some elements of Both). There is a temporal divide, there have been huge changes in the legislated standards of education from when the millennials and older on Tumblr would have been in school, to what the teens and early twenty-somethings experience/d, to what the current teachers on here are expected to do. (No Child Left Behind is the most major and notable but not the only legal change).

People speak of online "spaces" but online does not have physical space in it and that is the problem.

It's like if all the conversations people ever had in public had to take place in a huge warehouse-sized room where everyone could hear and see everyone else at the exact same volume and with the exact same clarity no matter where they were standing.

Some people are seriously discussing political action. Some people are goofing off. Someone is panhandling, someone is venting to their friends about something awful that happened to them, someone is giving a speech about a topic that interests them, someone is crying about the pain in their life, someone is just thinking out loud to themselves, a bunch of people just want to watch movies or hang out with their friends. Someone is trying to sell some junk. A bunch of people are passing around newspapers.

And all of these people can hear and see each other perfectly so that they don't even know if they themselves or anyone else is in an intimate conversation with people who sympathize, if they're having a town hall meeting, if they're attending a lecture, if they are behind the podium giving a lecture, if they're hanging out at the bar with friends, if they're in their friend's car, or if they're just in a public park watching the clouds.

If someone who thinks they're in the movie group makes a comment about the movie, the people who think they're in the audience at the lecture hall will think the movie watcher is the lecturer behind the podium. So, they will turn to their friends and say "wow, get a load of that guy, they just said..." but the people who think they are at a town hall meeting will think "wow, this is clearly an important concern," but the person who thinks they are crying to their friends is like "Seriously? We're talking about a MOVIE when my life is falling apart?"

Some quick merthur

rocky is both touched by the sentiment and disturbed by human medical practices

inspired by this grace quote: