theonion:

Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andrew from, sources confirmed Thursday. “Who is that guy? His face seems so familiar,” said Trump, pausing in the middle of shaking hands with various royal dignitaries to get a closer look at the disgraced Duke of York, whose name, as well as the activities they engaged in together, had been eluding him for the past couple days.

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haunteddollsgeorg:

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

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lastoneout:

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and “I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones” and “it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters” and “radical feminism isn’t transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors” and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I’d say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I’m one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

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talvin-muircastle:

Some of you are heading off to college/university soon.  Some of you, this will be your first experience of college or university.

So here is some advice:

Find Out What Resources Are Available To You, And Be Willing To Use Them.

YOU PAID FOR THEM, THERE IS NO SHAME IN USING THEM.

Office Hours?  Definitely use those.  I remember an instructor saying that they were thinking about curving the grade on an exam, but since they got paid to hold office hours for students to come and ask for help, and they spent the whole two hours playing solitaire…y’all deserve whatever you get.  You paid for those office hours.  Your tuition paid for that.  If you have a question, show up. Professors are far, far, FAR more merciful on average to those who show up and have an honest conversation in the office beforehand.

Counseling Center?  You paid for it.  Your money paid for that.  Look into it if you think you need it. Look into it if you think you might need it.  If you have been to therapy in the past, and you are concerned how college life is going to affect you, go talk to them right away.  They’ve heard it all before.

Free concerts, free climbing walls, free hot dogs, free movie night–ok, you don’t have to use all of that.  But you paid for it, it’s not really “free”, it’s just part of the package, so…spare your budget and give something a try!

Financial Aid Counseling?  Use it.  They are paid to be there.  Your money, either directly or through your scholarships and financial aid and your and your family’s taxes, they paid for that.  So go talk to them.

English/Math/Writing Lab?  Reference Desk at the Library?  Free course on how to use the school’s library? Oh, get your butt in there.  

Career Services? Need help making that resume?  You paid for it!  USE IT!

Your Academic Advisor.  You should definitely be on good terms with them.  

Not sure what the resources are?  Not sure which one you need?  Ask!  Ask at the Dean of Students office if nothing else!  Ask a professor!  Ask a Graduate Assistant who was an Undergrad at the school!  Somebody will know the answers!  (The Counseling Center probably knows, too!)  

YOU PAID FOR ALL THIS STUFF!
DON’T WASTE IT!

Our only child starts college next week, and that reminded me to do my annual reblog of this.

Entering Junior year, and this stuck with them. They use it.

Interview for a campus job or internship? Ask Career Services for advice on how to handle difficult questions. I paid for it, I am going to use it.

Special Events? I paid for the food they are giving out. It is not free, I helped subsidize this.

Etc., etc.

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katherinecrighton:

Favorite “humans being human” history posts, please

I’ve seen the collections of favorite tumblr fiction posts; now I’d like to see what your favorite “humans being human” historical posts are. (Because sometimes it is Nice to be reminded that compassion is not something easy for us to lose; we laugh at the same bad jokes; there are entire fossil records of our kindness.)

Here are my favorites– add on yours.

• The story of the RMS Carpathia, with a follow-up (aka one of if not the best pieces of short nonfiction historical writing in the modern age and one that reduces me to tears every goddamn reread)
• Bronze-age grave of teenage gamer girl lovingly buried with her sheep ankle bone collection
• The 1st-2nd century CE Roman tombstone with a bar joke that reads like a Dril tweet
• And even earlier: A 4500-1900 BCE Sumerian bar joke
• “Please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you”
• Reconstructing Otzi’s shoes
• The Paleolithic grandmother and the child’s fingerprint
• Stone-age toddlers had art lessons
• Ice-age children played in megafauna-footprint puddles
• There once was a little boy who loved ducks
• The oldest human burial found in Africa is a toddler; they made a pillow for his head
• Henry Kenelm Beste’s father loved him very much
• “A Timeline of Humanity”
• “I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.”
• “I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today. It’s right-handed. I am right-handed”
• A 3rd century dog carved on a marble tomb; a 1st century dog lovingly described and named for posterity
• Patrice, a 1st-2nd century dog, was dearly loved
• And: we found a Paleolithic dog, buried with its bone
• Humanity, unified across time by everyday experiences
• The Golden Record sent into space in the 1970s
• Ancient Egypt had archaeologists
• Egyptian figurine of a woman waiting for her bread to finish baking
• The graffiti of Pompeii
• Ancient Greek tourist graffiti at the tomb of Ramses V
• Hidden messages on circuit boards
• The earliest examples of someone chewing on the end of their pencils
• “im having feelings about the uffington white horse again”
• The vast relatability of Medieval marginalia (and cats peeing on things)
• Potoooooooo
• What our ancient ancestors would think, seeing us prosper
• Engage with older art; it keeps you from forgetting their humanity
• “They were just like you and me. They write don’t forget eggs, and wondered if their neighbors secretly hated them or if they are reading into it too much. They loved and were loved and they wondered. They wondered about you.”
• “Why do you study history” web-weaving
• And ending on a high note: Ea-nasir and his shitty copper

pigswithwings:

comic about driving i guess

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depsidase:

Every time you have GenAI make you an anime waifu with three titties and a dumptruck ass a family doesn’t get to have a drink or bathe.

Every time you ask Copilot to write you a PowerShell script to stroke your boss’ ego, a city experiences a brownout.

Every time you chat with your AI “girlfriend” a farmer doesn’t get to water their animals.

Using these tools actively hurts you and your community, while at the same time enriching some shitheel who would happily step on your neck to make an additional dollar. Don’t use them. Actively remove them from devices you own. Disable them whenever possible. Go out of your way to avoid them. It’s honestly not hard. You’ve been using the internet just fine without GenAI hallucinating at you.

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sundayinthcpark:

housewives were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic