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Faculty expressing solidarity with students during this movement cannot go unnoticed.
Free Palestine
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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy
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Ask Game for us Self-proclaimed BOOK WORMS 📖🐛
Name the best book you've read so far this year.
Favorite fantasy book(s).
Favorite fantasy sub-genre(s). (high fantasy, urban fantasy, portal fantasy etc.)
Favorite science fiction book(s).
Favorite science fiction sub-genre(s). (dystopian, superhero, aliens etc.)
Favorite romance novel(s).
What kind of common romance tropes do you enjoy and what kind do you dislike?
Favorite queer fiction book(s).
Favorite detective novel(s).
Favorite classical literature.
Favorite historical fiction.
Favorite horror book(s).
Favorite thriller(s).
Favorite humor and satire book(s).
Which genre(s) are your favorite?
Favorite trilogy.
Favorite finished book series.
Favorite unfinished book series.
Do you read new and less known books or only the big bestsellers?
Where and how do you find new books to read?
The book(s) on your school reading list you actually enjoyed.
Favorite example of a Chosen One trope in a book.
Favorite heist story book(s).
Favorite Young Adult book(s).
Favorite Middle Grade book(s).
Favorite novella(s).
What was the first book you remember reading as a kid?
Goodreads or StoryGraph (or something else)?
How many books do you have on your 'to-be-read' list?
How many books do you have on your 'currently-reading' list?
Do you mostly read through e-reader; reading app on phone; on your laptop; a physical copy; or by audiobook?
Name your favorite author(s).
How often do you read by listening to audiobooks?
Favorite book narration voice actor(s).
Least favorite trope in your most favorite book genre.
Your absolute most favorite character(s) from any book you've ever read.
The only example of your least favorite trope being written in such a way that you enjoyed it.
How many books have you read this year?
Do you read reviews before picking up a book?
Did you ever want to be a writer?
When you get ready for a week long trip to somewhere how many books do you download/pack inside the suitcase?
Do you buy hardcover book copies for previously purchased paperbacks and library books you enjoyed reading?
Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.
The book(s) whose stories have become part of your very makeup.
What book(s) would you sell your soul to get a TV or movie adaptation of?
I like _____, recommend me a book to read, please (insert a book, or trope, or character, or... anything you like before asking for this one).
What are the last three books you read?
Do you leave reviews for the books you've read? How often?
Do you prefer hopeful, humorous, very emotional or darker books?
What kind of book have you never read but always hope to find at some point in the future?
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as a kid i thought i would graduate from kid problems like cleaning my room to adult problems like jobs and taxes. but instead i have a job and taxes and still have to clean my room. cleaning my room is a lifetime problem. i will never stop having to put my markers away before bedtime. this is a rude way for aging to work.
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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨
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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
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hey hey hey
Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)
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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?
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So this was originally a response to this post:
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Which is about people wanting an AO3 app, but then it became large and way off topic, so here you go.
Nobody under the age of 20 knows how to use a computer or the internet. At all. They only know how to use apps. Their whole lives are in their phones or *maybe* a tablet/iPad if they're an artist. This is becoming a huge concern.
I'm a private tutor for middle- and high-school students, and since 2020 my business has been 100% virtual. Either the student's on a tablet, which comes with its own series of problems for screen-sharing and file access, or they're on mom's or dad's computer, and they have zero understanding of it.
They also don't know what the internet is, or even the absolute basics of how it works. You might not think that's an important thing to know, but stick with me.
Last week I accepted a new student. The first session is always about the tech -- I tell them this in advance, that they'll have to set up a few things, but once we're set up, we'll be good to go. They all say the same thing -- it won't be a problem because they're so "online" that they get technology easily.
I never laugh in their faces, but it's always a close thing. Because they are expecting an app. They are not expecting to be shown how little they actually know about tech.
I must say up front: this story is not an outlier. This is *every* student during their first session with me. Every single one. I go through this with each of them because most of them learn more, and more solidly, via discussion and discovery rather than direct instruction.
Once she logged in, I asked her to click on the icon for screen-sharing. I described the icon, then started with "Okay, move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen." She did the thing that those of us who are old enough to remember the beginnings of widespread home computers remember - picked up the mouse and moved it and then put it down. I explained she had to pull the mouse along the surface, and then click on the icon. She found this cumbersome. I asked if she was on a laptop or desktop computer. She didn't know what I meant. I asked if the computer screen was connected to the keyboard as one piece of machinery that you can open and close, or if there was a monitor - like a TV - and the keyboard was connected to another machine either by cord or by Bluetooth. Once we figured it out was a laptop, I asked her if she could use the touchpad, because it's similar (though not equivalent) to a phone screen in terms of touching clicking and dragging.
Once we got her using the touchpad, we tried screen-sharing again. We got it working, to an extent, but she was having trouble with... lots of things. I asked if she could email me a download or a photo of her homework instead, and we could both have a copy, and talk through it rather than put it on the screen, and we'd worry about learning more tech another day. She said she tried, but her email blocked her from sending anything to me.
This is because the only email address she has is for school, and she never uses email for any other purpose. I asked if her mom or dad could email it to me. They weren't home.
(Re: school email that blocks any emails not whitelisted by the school: that's great for kids as are all parental controls for young ones, but 16-year-olds really should be getting used to using an email that belongs to them, not an institution.)
I asked if the homework was on a paper handout, or in a book, or on the computer. She said it was on the computer. Great! I asked her where it was saved. She didn't know. I asked her to search for the name of the file. She said she already did that and now it was on her screen. Then, she said to me: "You can just search for it yourself - it's Chapter 5, page 11."
This is because homework is on the school's website, in her math class's homework section, which is where she searched. For her, that was "searching the internet."
Her concepts of "on my computer" "on the internet" or "on my school's website" are all the same thing. If something is displayed on the monitor, it's "on the internet" and "on my phone/tablet/computer" and "on the school's website."
She doesn't understand "upload" or "download," because she does her homework on the school's website and hits a "submit" button when she's done. I asked her how she shares photos and stuff with friends; she said she posts to Snapchat or TikTok, or she AirDrops. (She said she sometimes uses Insta, though she said Insta is more "for old people"). So in her world, there's a button for "post" or "share," and that's how you put things on "the internet".
She doesn't know how it works. None of it. And she doesn't know how to use it, either.
Also, none of them can type. Not a one. They don't want to learn how, because "everything is on my phone."
And you know, maybe that's where we're headed. Maybe one day, everything will be on "my phone" and computers as we know them will be a thing of the past. But for the time being, they're not. Students need to learn how to use computers. They need to learn how to type. No one is telling them this, because people think teenagers are "digital natives." And to an extent, they are, but the definition of that has changed radically in the last 20-30 years. Today it means "everything is on my phone."
#tried to explain this to my dad and it’s rough#like. I’m 25. I have the last bits of this knowledge that was taught in schools#love being a cusper#also. trying to have patience while teaching older people AND younger people how to access stuff on the internet for work is hard#like. the paths people take to get to things are insane#there’s a lot of links you have to click into#and when people flat out tell me ‘I’m old. I don’t understand computers’#I have to force myself not to say ‘doesn’t mean you can’t learn’#and I’m sorry you HAVE to look up your pay stubs on the website. it’s just the way it works
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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
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