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intellibrain · 2 years

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The Benefits of learning coding at an early age

Coding is a communication technique used to communicate with computers through a set of instructions in the form of logical arrangements. It has become an indispensable skill in today’s generation and lakhs of kids have started learning coding at a very young age of around 5 years.

In this article, we will learn the benefits that ALLEN Career Institute, a premier learning organization holding a legacy of 34 years, offers kids, who learn to Code, through their expertise and personalized guidance. Through IntelliBrain, the ALLEN Career Institute aims to give a strong edge to the careers of kids below 14 years.

In the present era, where we strive to thrive in every aspect of life, technological advancement is something that has become common. It is important to keep pace with today’s technology in order to have a bright future. Keeping these things in mind, parents and teachers focus on teaching their kids in a more scientific and simplified manner so as to develop their basic technical skills.

Coding has numerous advantages and can be learned quickly if you choose the right platform. It can prove to be very useful for your kid’s holistic development which can be done beyond studying in the four walls of a classroom.

ALLEN IntelliBrain provides the best platform for Coding that you have stumbled upon. We will learn how the methodologies of ALLEN IntelliBrain’s live coding classes for kids make a difference in their learning abilities!

ALLEN IntelliBrain’s online programming courses for kids promise to develop the following qualities:

1. Increases meta skills and cognitive abilities:

This can include skills such as critical thinking, logical reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. IntelliBrain’s tutors help the kids to develop these skills through assessments, projects, and one-on-one coding.

2. Increases confidence:

By learning new skills at an early age, the analytical skill develops significantly. This develops confidence and boosts their decision-making skills.

3. Increases analytical thinking:

While learning to code, kids automatically learn about various software programs. This makes the whole learning experience more extensive. Your kid will learn subconsciously without getting tired and bored. They will only become more tech-savvy and there will be an automatic increase in their analytical thinking abilities. These qualities are important for a kid to be quick witted.

4. Increases Intelligence Quotient (IQ):

The whole experience will broaden the horizon of learning for your kid as they will know how to relate computers and coding with real life. This will increase their Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and help their power of grasping new information.

5. Increases Creativity and Resilience:

Coding does not only help in building technical knowledge, but it is also important to develop a creative mindset. It helps you in building resilience and being creative with your tasks. Once kids start coding and relating it with real life, they get creative and integrate all important aspects in one place. Even when they fail, they try to improve themselves and get back up with a new solution. Resilience is the ability of an individual to bounce back from a difficult situation. Coding can help you understand how to fall and get up on your own by getting new solutions for all problems.

Coding can be helpful in making a kid’s future more simplified, even if they do not want to pursue it as a career. People have been reaching out to do these online courses and there has been an increase in online programs since the onset of COVID. The following courses are the most preferred ones today:

Python

UI/UX Designing

Mobile App development

Web development

Game development

ALLEN IntelliBrain provides one of the best online coding classes for kids of Grade 1 to Grade 8 (& above). The team of experts ensures to cover all the benefits associated with the learning of coding and integrate it to make the best-suited curriculum for your kid.

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cure-icy-writes · 2 months

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Okay so. A lot of people have been making cute little dungeon meshi aus where it's modern, but specifically the cast lives in one place. Figured I should maybe share mine?

Anyways. Dungeon Meshi but it's midwestern.

-Senshi, i think, is a regular presence in the church but is the kind of christian that the pastor has beef with. He has an apron with two fish and five loaves of bread on it, and can be found at pretty much every barbecue and church potluck. No one's sure if he's really devoted to jesus or just heard the story of a guy feeding an entire crowd and started showing up to church to feed people. He has caused two married men to have their bisexual awakenings.

-The town they all live in has an extremely high density of restaurants, meaning the only thing to do around there is go out to eat. The gang goes out to eat new places a lot together!

-Izutsumi is a warrior cats kid who was probably bullied for hissing and biting the other kids. The gang recognizes that she's not mean, she's just badly socialized and also seventeen. She lives in a group home, but has been running away less ever since she got promised regular meals.

-Related: Chilchuk is a union guy who is covertly making sure every restaurant they go to is up to code. He keeps shutting down places for not having adequate safety measures for their employees.

-Izutsumi has decided she's going to hang out with Chilchuk sometimes and will stop by his workplace. He's insistent that he's not adopting any more children, but has been teaching her how to budget, how to lie convincingly enough to get a job, and the most ethical places to shoplift from with the fewest risks because she's going to steal things anyways.

-Marcille has never been to a cornfield in her life. She's a Chicago kid, who really misses her deep dish pizza and that really good Italian place, but she's here to study some rare microorganisms.

-Marcille studies a very weird field of medicine that involves looking for medical uses in odd places. She's looking to eliminate class divides in lifespan by trying to find more affordable medicines for diseases that primarily affect the lower class.

-Her father died of asbestos poisoning from working in unsafe conditions when she was a kid, so she's especially alert for it, and gets a little neurotic around flu season.

-Laios and Falin used to go to the creek behind their house all the time to catch crawdads, and sometimes he'll still do it for old time's sake.

-Laios flunked out of college because they couldn't handle his autism rizz. He's going to trade school for the culinary arts, but he keeps trying to cook things he shouldn't.

-Laios checked out the massive dragon books from the library and cried when he found out they weren't real.

-He does furry commissions online, but he's not the best with customer negotiations and keeps wondering how many nipples someone's fursona has. Chilchuk helped him build his profile to appeal to commissioners who like speculative biology.

-Falin watched her brother flunk and went "hm, I think I will not." she's an apprentice at a local gardening shop. You think she's a normal sweet cottagecore kind of girl but then she starts gushing about soil nutrients and sustainability and you realize. Oh. Oh this is the kind of girl who would romanticize being buried under a tree and having it consume her bones.

-Laios wears shirts with anatomically correct dinosaur skeletons on them, but he has to order them online and frequently complains that there are no good clothing shops nearby. Senshi heard him say this, and introduced him to fabric paint.

#dungeon meshi midwestern AU

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letoasai · 3 months

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No one remembers Anime Spiral

What do kids even do on the internet? I'm genuinely asking. Everything revolves around social media and that's fine but what do they do. Are their cool things they can do anymore?

There used to be websites and you would just wander the internet on the family computer. Newgrounds. Gaia Online. Neopets. Yahoo Games. Quizzila. Live Journal... I'm not saying they were all great but they were something to do and... no i'll commit, they were great. I wasn't worried about posting pictures of myself when i was busy watching a flash animation of Dragonball Z that someone put painstaking hours into.

A lot of younger kids and teens don't know how to download something and save it to a particular folder on their computer because they've never used a computer. Meanwhile we were somehow... coding our Myspace pages to have a particular background. When did we acquire that knowledge?

In 2004/2005 i went looking for Inuyasha pictures, as one did, and i stumbled upon a site of people posting fanfiction? Sign me up... Anime Spiral was the wild west of chaos fanfic writers. People would make banners for their work that would sit in their summary sections. God help you, but those seizure inducing flashing colors were going to get your attention.

People would write anything, stories, poems, lyrics. People would post art and open commissions for people to ask for things in the comments, and the OP would just do it... There were frantic collaborations. Some were really good. Some were really bad.

There were chaotic originally stories with random anime characters thrown in for fun because who was going to tell them they couldn't? Some people just ranted to anime characters and i will always remember Ask Sesshomaru where you'd ask Sesshomaru a question in the comments and the next chapter he would answer every.single.question. The fact that it was probably a 16 year old girl writing that just didn't matter.

Some people just posted picture of anime characters. They did all the internet searches so you didn't have to! They were harder to find then.

The comment/response section to this day... was the best format i've seen on a fanfic site (imo). It was so easy. I miss it! I miss going to my word processing class and pulling up that site and chatting with people in the freaking comments of whatever...terrible story i'd posted at the time. I was probably so proud of it then but yikes...

The notification system was good and it was easy to talk to people without it feeling intrusive.

Maybe Anime Spiral was Tumblr before Tumblr.

I met two strangers on Anime Spiral a week apart. Internet dangers weren't as obvious then as they seem now. Those two strangers became two of my best friends. It's been nearly twenty years and they are still so prevalent in my life.

I met my best friend on that site. That seems so impossible to me now. We never would have met otherwise and i can't imagine my life without them. We were so upset when Anime Spiral went down. We missed the ugly green and mustard yellow template to this day.

It wasn't a great site, it had it's problems... It had a lot of problems but at the same time, it was a great site. It's hard to find people who even remember Anime Spiral anymore. Going to FF .net or Fiction Press afterwards felt like... a downgrade somehow. The systems overly complicated and it lacked...something.

I do enjoy the hell out of AO3, it actually checks all the boxes for a great writing site, but i'll always remember the chaotic nostalgia of Anime Spiral.

What do kids do on the internet now? Is it safe? Is it just selfies, gossip, and bullying? Do you have a little dragon you can take care of? Neopets could take up a lot of their attention. I don't think 2024 Neopets is the same as 2005 Neopets and that's a shame.

I have no idea. I feel old.

#Rambling #ignore me #i do miss Anime Spiral though #Anime Spiral

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heckinhacker · 1 year

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hi so i was wondering if u could do one like “Eric Cartman x Reader - South Park's days are OVER.” but with kyle, like they are the same and everything, idk if u have already done it

Kyle Broflovski x Reader - South Park might be saved, after all??

Which means we get the version where Kyle meets someone similiar to himself! It's like a 'sequel', (but not really, more like an alternative version with same trope) to “Eric Cartman x Reader - South Park's days are OVER.”

Remember that when I write for South Park, they're teenagers at less(16 y/o minimum), adults at most! it's silly i write it every south park post but better safe than sorry~

I gave Kyle green color for easier reading experience in dialogues!

note: color code might be broken because lately tumblr on pc is being silly goofy

Kyle had a great grasp of how fucked up situations in south park are having occurances

Aaand he's pretty aware there will be noone else who understands him.

Or so he thought.

There is a new student announced to be in his class while you all were in 4th grade or so?

And you seemed not too quiet, nor too shy, but surely smart enough not to push yourself into any weird situations.

Teacher sat you both together and Kyle tries to talk you up-

"Hey! I'm Kyle, it's refreshing to have a new face around. Want to play with us on long break?"

It's nice to have a new group to play with, so you agree.

Ah, kids and their not complicated feelings, right? <3

You tag along, and you grew really quickly to dislike Cartman-

It's not hard to hate him he's UNBEARABLE,

Kyle wants to let out his signature "Shut up, fatass!"

but you beat him to it-

"Shut up, fatso, mama did not taught you to behave, or was she absent in your life like yo papa?"

You had NO idea he's fatherless and it made other guys go "OOOHHHH--"

you made yourself an enemy in Cartman,

but an ally in Kyle.

You seemed to have similiar nerdy interests,

From playing Stick of Truth and heroes,

to DnD (that he played online, because not with his group-- but he invited you into his new online session!!)

Beside Terrance and Philip, Kyle also liked that vampire/werewolf series called "Under Devil's grasp" that seemed mostly for girls or boring, yet he liked it in secret and once he caught you watching first episodes, just...because,

and then joined you, for his own re-watch and your first watch, he liked seeing how you reacted

"HOW COULD YOU?" you asked out of sudden once, in a call,

"How could I what?" Kyle asks, having you on speaker while he does his homework.

" YOU KNEW ALL THE TIME THAT BARRY WILL BE KILLED AND YOU DID NOTHING TO WARN ME, I GREW TO LOVE HIM AND NOW HE'S GONE."

"Well, you said no spoilers?"

"KYLE."

He giggles, "Plus he had death flags since always so-"

He's playing, it turns out Barry barely lived and hid for like season and a half to return in dramatical moment that he watched with you and you SCREAMED.

And he has a blast with your reactions <3

And so on, you bond over similiarities,

Over years you put many blood, sweat and tears into your friendship, and you're glued by hip. Kyle won't ever pick between you and Stan who is his closer friend, it would be even cruel to ask.

You two got along decently, good, not badly, but it always seemed you're more closer with Kyle than Stan.

You grew beside each other and your families became one, big family because of how close you've gotten between each other and made them grow closer. (Or not if your relation with them is bad)

No matter your family (or your own) relligion, you spend Hanukkah with Kyle and it's almost a norm of you being around.

Listen, Ike? Absolutely adores you. Kyle sometimes has a laugh your'e more of an older sibling than he is.

(Absolute bull, we all know Ike loves Kyle the most <3)

Kyle's family wanted to make little ride to nearest amusement park

Of course they suggested you go too! You're a part of the family already <3

You have the fun of your lives, all of you. Kyle's parents mostly chill around but you, Kyle and Ike are using all the activities possible while you can, stuffing yourselves with snacks and sweets.

Bad idea, if you'd ask me

You went to roller coaster and none of you paid no mind in that choice,

but Kyle's stomach DID pay a mind

Especially in a middle where he felt like throwing out

And hell, he did! But he took out his hat and puked int oit so noone got blessed with mix of dinner and snacks.

He was almost carried out of the roller coaster by you--

You decided to go to ferris wheel and call it after a day.

They were two-people cabin on the wheel, so Ike let you two have one while he went with some other random kid.

Ike is your biggest wingman, he did that on purpose of course. Little guy <3

When you're up high, alone, with Kyle, having option to look at all the view, you can't help but to look at little buildings under you, and then to take a peak at Kyle.

Oh boy, were you surprised when you met his gaze-

He blushed furiously and muttered "Sorry- Uh- did not mean to stare."

Of course - you did not mind, but that was SURPRISING.

You did not bother him about it though. Whatever he had in mind - nothing, or something, he will come around.

But you might've realised that you DO have feelings towards your childhood best friend. For sure.

You remember how I mentioned your shared liked series with Kyle, "Under Devil's grasp" ? Soo...

Imagine it was near end, and studio decided to make finale into movie, two and half hour long one.

It's a series you two follow since you were kids, OF COURSE you have to be there in the cinema.

You ride with Kyle to big city, with his freshly acquired driver license and shitty car of his.

You enjoy your WHOLE drive there, time spent in bigger city, it all was just amazing.

Series, even though it was mostly about vampires and werewolves, was called "Under Devil's grasp" and it's very questionable, for years there were just theories, yet the movie after all those years of content literally ended with said title as last words.

Y'all were crying already enough but it was such a HIT in the face

When you walked out of cinema you whipped your tears out of your eyes, so did Kyle, as you giggled and gushed about the ending of your beloved series.

Ride home was mixed, going from peaceful to chaotic, just atosphere was...magical. Lights of highway, music blasting loudly and Kyle jamming to it, while you take a glance with full adoration at him.

You sing a little, then you rest and sooner than later end up in South Park.

Kyle drives to your house first to drop you off, walks out of car to walk you to your door, and gazes at you.

"Thank you...for today. I had fun! I hope you did too."

"I did, you kidding me? Thanks for even offering. I...really appreciate it."

Kyle seems to hesitate, and then sighs deeply.

"...I love you."

" Yeah, good night to you too man- oh wait what the fuck-??"

"I...wanted to say so, and today's spent time with you made me realise I'd hate you to spend the day out of South Park with someone else. I'd hate for you to have late-night drives with somebody else, I'd hate to see you happy with somebody else because...well, I wish you stayed with me. Of course I mean- have fun with others, I just...I wish you'd keep your heart on my hands. It's fine if you'd prefer to stay friends, I hope it doesn't break our friendship. But I uh...I wanted to let you know."

...that was...a lot. Wow."

He thinks it's a rejection, but...

It's not, really

You grab his cheeks and kiss him before he can get into tangent of self-doubt.

Then smile at him,

and say:

"Information saved. Let's grab something to eat tommorow together too, alright, boyfriend?"

You smile and wave him away goodnight and closed your door.

...

"...boyfriend?"

He's so giddy pls <3

Other's reactions:

Ike:

FUCKING FINALLY 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALO.

My little dude was waiting for the moment you hold hands and kiss each other already for TOO LONG

I mean, don't kiss too much in front of him he'd gag, it's still his older brother we're talking about

but at least Kyle pinning over you days are OVER.

He congratulates you and gives you gift cards of "congratulations on marriage!" drew with crayons and pencils

My man Ike is an anime fan, he made you badass gift card <3

Stan:

Not surprised but surprised at the same time.

He's second biggest fan, first being Ike

He learned the news from Kyle himself the same night you became a thing, later Ike hit him up because he was excited BSHSH

He hears Kyle out and congratulates him A LOT

Kenny:

He kind off knew? everyone kind off knew but he was sure you were already dating so...

news were shocking because

"Weren't you dating already? damn-"

he was sure you're married and expecting a kid/j

he doesn't have strong reaction because, as I said, it's not much of a news for him not going to lie

Cartman:

He always tried taking away whatever Kyle loved the most

So he's salty he failed this time

He always makes you both miserable, with slightest show of affection he is making big clown show out of it

Enough that just guys ask you to STOP with PDA because Cartman is being fucking annoying

He's just that salty single friend man for sure <3

Lemme be honest, it's not one of my best works, but I have (I am in a middle of...) 9 days streak of work straight, I am exhausted beyond human belief, but maybe because my ability to hold my ground is shitty, thanks depreshon--

So yes, It's not my best piece, but it was pretty much expected, so :>

I wanted to tag @bath1lda because of "kyle kyle" spam ask hehe- I hope you, and everyone else who read it, a nice "have a good read" :>

#hacker writes #headcanons #south park #south park x reader #kyle #kyle brovlofski #kyle broflovski x reader #south park kyle x reader #sp kyle #sp kyle x reader

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 months

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By: Tom Slater

Published: Mar 30, 2024

‘Forte non Ignave’, ‘Bravely not cowardly’, is the motto of Batley Grammar, a free school in West Yorkshire, founded in 1612. How grimly ironic, then, that three years ago, it became the site of one of the most craven capitulations to religious bigotry Britain has seen since the Satanic Verses controversy.

On Monday 22 March 2021, a religious-studies teacher at Batley Grammar showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as part of a lesson on blasphemy. The cartoons were from Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine whose staff paid the ultimate price for their supposed blasphemy in 2015, when two al-Qaeda gunmen showed up at their offices.

The cartoons had been on the syllabus for at least two years, and no one had batted an eyelid. Up to that point, Batley Grammar – a secular state school – had no reason to suspect it should have to respect Islamic blasphemy codes, especially when teaching about religion, free speech and blasphemy. It was in for a rude awakening.

‘The lesson descended into chaos as pupils took out their phones and attempted to film the teacher’, according to one report. The teacher, according to another, had a heated phone call with the father of one Muslim pupil. Then things spun out of control. Word got out online. Protesters – a mix of parents and activists from Leeds, Rochdale and beyond – pitched up outside the school gates, shutting down the school for a number of days.

All the while, the teacher was menaced by death threats. A local Islamic charity, Purpose of Life, published a statement, outing the teacher and comparing his indiscretion – bizarrely – to the brutalisation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. A group called Muslim Action Forum also published his name, alongside more lurid libels, accusing the teacher of ‘inciting hatred’ and accusing his supporters of ‘blind hatred of the Muslim community’. These groups were, in effect, putting a target on the back of a man they had likely never met. Young men were spotted knocking at the door and trying the handle of the teacher’s house, where he lived with his wife and their children.

The bigoted caricature bore no relationship to reality, of course. According to the teacher’s Muslim neighbour, his was a nice family, who bought cards and sweets for the Muslim kids in the neighbourhood during Eid. Even so, no one should be expected to go through what this teacher went through – facing all the violent intolerance and hysteria of a medieval village, only spread far and wide by social media. He spoke to Dame Sara Khan, for her new report on modern-day mob censorship, which was published by the UK government this week. His treatment, Khan writes, left the teacher feeling suicidal.

He feared for his life, and with good reason. Five months before that fateful religious-studies class in West Yorkshire, French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a Paris suburb by an Islamic extremist. Paty’s ‘crime’ was almost identical: showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his pupils in a lesson on freedom of expression. Adil Shahzad, an imam from Bradford who shot straight to Batley to lead the protests, warned darkly at the time that Britain risked ‘becoming like France’. Shahzad insisted Muslims should make their feelings known in the ‘democratic way’. But it turns out he has a history of praising murderous anti-blasphemy groups in Pakistan.

Where Britain after Batley certainly differed from France after Paty was in the reaction. Thousands took to the streets in France, in solidarity with the slain teacher and in support of free expression. The murder inspired President Emmanuel Macron to mount a personal crusade against Islamist extremism. In Britain, there was just capitulation. The school suspended the teacher and penned a grovelling apology. For some reason, a West Yorkshire Police officer was enlisted to read it out to the protesters. All this was welcomed heartily by Labour’s Tracy Brabin, then MP for Batley and Spen. She said she was ‘pleased that the school has recognised it was inappropriate and apologised’. After an investigation, the teacher was cleared of any personal wrongdoing, but the cartoons were removed from the syllabus. The mob won. And the teacher is still in hiding.

None of this has calmed tensions, of course. It has only emboldened the hardliners. Capitulation always does. There’s been a string of similar blasphemy scandals since. In 2022, Sunni Muslim protesters managed to get Cineworld to pull screenings of The Lady of Heaven, a Shia-made film they deemed to be blasphemous. In 2023, another school, less than 10 miles from Batley Grammar, this time in Wakefield, found itself in the zealots’ crosshairs, after a schoolboy brought a Koran to school and accidentally scuffed it. He too was bombarded with death threats. In the end, the police took no action against those trying to intimidate a child. A child who also happened to be autistic. But they did record a ‘non-crime hate incident’ against him.

A hardworking teacher forever looking over his shoulder. Shias censored at the behest of sectarians. A schoolboy threatened with death and arson. This is the cost of our cowardice, of our institutions’ inability to make clear that no one can expect to have their views forcefielded from criticism and that a free society cannot tolerate violence and threats in response to mere speech, words, cartoons. Blasphemy trials are back – only they are conducted by the mob, rather than a court. We’ve sent out a signal – loud and clear – that threats and violence and intimidation work.

And we’ve done so due to some genuinely bigoted assumptions about British Muslims. The first is that they are incapable of being citizens of liberal democracies – that, unlike any other religious group, they should expect to have their heretics burned, or at least punished. The second misconception is that the screeching rent-a-mobs that now show up whenever a ‘blasphemy’ scandal erupts are the authentic voice of British Muslims. They’re not. In fact, British Muslims and ex-Muslims are often on the sharp end of anti-blasphemy intolerance. In 2016, Glasgow’s Asad Shah and Rochdale’s Jalal Uddin both lost their lives, within weeks of each other, for their respective ‘blasphemies’. Hatun Tash, an ex-Muslim turned Christian preacher, has been stabbed and been the target of a terror plot for railing against her former faith. Thankfully, she’s still alive.

Three years on from Batley Grammar, we need to fight for the right to blaspheme all over again, before any more Brits – Muslim, non-Muslim or ex-Muslim – pay the price for our cowardice.

Said it before and I'll say it again: start revoking citizenship and deporting those who make these threats. They're trying to make our liberal societies into their Islamic hellholes.

#Tom Slater #Batley Grammar #blasphemy #censorship #blasphemy laws #islam #islamic violence #religion of peace #religion #islamic supremacy #cowardice #islamophobia #religion is a mental illness

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izicodes · 9 months

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Don't know if you've touched on this topic before, but do you have any advice on dealing with discrimination within comp sci (specifically sexism)? I have bad anxiety and have constant thoughts telling me how I'll never be good enough or don't belong. My brother who is a senior dev has had a passion for computers since a small child while I just developed an interest within the past two years. My family takes his career seriously but then turn around and tell me how great of a secretary I'll be lol. Thanks for your time!

Hiya 💗

Just some background on me: I haven't had any sexist experiences in during my whole journey of learning software development during my apprenticeship and now working as a Junior Web Dev. I'm the only girl in the Dev team (6 of us in total), the only other woman is the Manager of the Dev team but she does databases + business oriented work so she doesn't code at all. I'm the youngest in the team also so they see me as "oh let's teach the kid of the group" kind of thing. So at work I don't feel any type of sexism, the lads are really open to teach me a lot stuff which I am thankful!

I don't know any other irl developers besides work so I'll move on to online. Online I know a lot more women developers; Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter (or X whatever it's called). Maybe it's because I've like cultured the content I see to them idk. I'm really glad to have that constantly on my timeline as it inspires me to push and do/become better because if those girlies can do it, so can I.

Though all the teachers/instructors I had were all men, they didn't make me feel small or not worthy to be in Computer Science, they were the opposite and pushed me to do it more. My Dad did Computer Science with CyberSecurity at university and he always pushed me to do computer science when I got older - not force but inspired me to do it (wanted to do medicine but too hard so switched to comp sci/programming)!

So, in my experience, I never had a really bad sexist interaction because I did computer science. People are shocked I am in programming in general but more like "Oooooh that's cool! Didn't know you did that!" kind of thing!

Now, this doesn't mean I haven't seen sexist remarks online, because I have but more through memes. I always ignore. Everyone, man or woman, should ignore such remarks/meme and move on. Don't let a bunch of people determine what you want and what's best for you! If you did, they would be controlling your life and not you yourself.

I don't know if that's easier said than done for you because I'm a hard person on people saying bad things to me. I just ignore you literally. I'm polite yes, but what you will say to me will go through one ear and out the other if it's really negative. Pretty much a "I don't care about your opinion, I will do me anyways" kind of person. E.g. if my brothers were to tell me "oh you a girl, don't do computer science" I won't listen to them at all.

And at the end of the day, what are they gonna do? Will your family members that are saying those stuff to you physically stop you from learning computer science? Especially since it's so accessible online so all you need a is a computer? All around the world, women are leaning computer science one way or another to change their lives and/or the lives around them.

They are making so much effort so for me to say "oh well.. you know some lads in my comp sci class say I can't do comp sci so I shouldn't" or "oh well I don't think learning programming is a woman's thing yknow because it's so dominated by men" - excuse my language here but that's flipping ridiculous!

This isn't some feminist or even anti-feminist thing here, it's a plain simple human thing: proving yourself and even the people around you wrong. Go into it and succeed. You're not too old or too young.

Why are their programs like SheCodes or BGIT (black girl in tech) that are making effort to help women push into tech? There's more women in tech now than there has been ever so if you're a woman and want to go into Tech but some lads are saying no? Do it anyways.

If a company has lads like that in them, that's the company's fault for hiring a sexist non-team player - says a lot about that company.

As humans we are never good enough so just get that out of your mind, less stress. Good enough for a job? all you got to do is keep going out it. Keep learning the theory, keep building the projects, keep redoing your resume and applying for jobs - keep going.

You quit, you let yourself down - especially when programming/ computer science is your calling!

I went on a bit of a rant but I hope some of this helps 🥳👍🏾💗

#my asks #codeblr #coding #progblr #programming #studying #studyblr #comp sci #tech #programmer #computer science

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cosplayinamerica · 1 year

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Writer : Amy Densham

Whether your kids live in rural Iowa or downtown NYC. If they have cosplaying parents or only they just learned about Halloween. Astrid and Leah bring that excited, welcoming, Con energy to their student’s computer screens all over the world.

The platform is Outschool. It’s been around since 2015 and started as a go-to for homeschoolers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Outschool grew beyond homeschooling. It became a place for learning and socializing whether you homeschool or not. Now serving over 1 million learners in 195 countries, Outschool has thousands of classes for ages 3 - 18. Learn about dinosaurs from a paleontologist. C# coding from a game developer. Or cosplay from an expert seamstress and a professional actress.

Astrid Turner, bubbly and all smiles, remembers standing in line at a Con: “The cosplay community is one of the most supportive and wonderful communities out there. When I cosplay, it’s not attention on me. It’s attention for something we share. We already know we like the same things. The craftsmanship, the idea that you’re there together, dressed up, having an experience together.”

Astrid teaches Cosplay Costume Design and Creation Workshops and anything else costume-related (just send her a request). She can pleat a skirt, put a bodice in, and bring kids out of their shells with ease. Part of her class includes real-world skills like comparison shopping; if you’re asking mom to buy it, you need to have a plan.

What does Astrid hope her students walk away with from taking her class ? Ask about her experience teaching online classese.

With a classroom maximum of 5, Astrid gives personalized attention to all of her students. Some enroll with a clear costume vision. Others just love Anime. Either way, Astrid helps them follow their own creativity and make it a reality.

Do they need a sketch? No problem. Does the fabric need to be washable? She knows just the thing. And costumes are just the beginning. Her eyes light up when she talks about intuitive, introverted students growing and connecting as the weeks go by. Someone who barely spoke in their first class is now the first one to share their progress and welcome a new student. They find their people and their voice.

Leah Johnson, artful and confident, talks about her experience at Cons: “It feels like everyone is a family. They want to welcome you in. It’s an excitement of sharing. Always. Of what they’ve made, what they’ve done, other cons that they’ve gone to, and people they’ve met. Everyone there wants to inspire each other.”

Leah teaches Special FX, Halloween, and Cosplay Makeup or one-on-one classes by request. Some of her students want to become professional makeup artists. Some want to scare their grandmas with fake wounds. In both situations, Leah is raring to go! And so is her washable Mehron Practice Makeup Head - currently sporting terrifying clown makeup from her last class.

Every class is unique. Some learners pop in with full, top-of-the-line makeup kits and some join with leftovers from the makeup wearer in their house. Part of the fun for Leah and her students is figuring out how to create looks with what you’ve got. It’s a great life lesson too. Sometimes you’ll need a specific product but sometimes you just need to be resourceful. Leah playfully refers to it as preparing for the zombie apocalypse when you won’t have all the tools. Her personality beams through the screen as she uses her makeup head to show makeup techniques, up close, and with student-requested variations. For Leah, the online part wasn’t her favorite. There’s an unquantifiable distance when you’re interacting online. You aren’t in the same space. It’s not the same as in person. But she makes that work too. And it’s a small inconvenience compared to the big benefit: bringing creative, accepting spaces to students wherever they are in the world.

HOW IT STARTED

Astrid and Leah both grew up loving costumes but they didn’t find out about cosplay until much later. In each of their separate hometowns, they were that kid in full costume at the grocery store. Or decked out like crazy on Halloween. Sound familiar?

Astrid remembers her first Ren Faire: “My first costume was a disaster but I was so proud of it! Ever since then, I knew I wanted to make costumes.” Growing up in a rural area outside LA, she always wanted to go to the San Diego Comic-Con but she didn’t have anyone to go with and didn’t want to go by herself. None of her friends were cosplayers - a term she didn’t even know existed.

She taught herself to sew, learning by creating more and more complex projects. Elaborate Elizabethan gowns with striking details for the next faire.

As she grew older, Atrid took a detour, exploring other career paths but she came back to sewing when her kids were small. Making clothes and costumes for them brought back that magic. And the internet showed her there was a whole community out there. No longer the only cosplayer in town, she dove in head first.

Now Astrid and her 3 kids (ages 13, 10, and 7) attend Cons every chance they get. In full costume, of course. She enters competitions in the handmade category and, though she’s modest, has taken home more than one win. In middle school, Astrid was big into theatre, Shakespeare, and creating Renaissance costumes.

An actor, director, voiceover artist, and singer, Leah cosplays characters from Arwen to Cruella De Vil to Mary Poppins. She teaches makeup and cosplay on Outschool but does both professionally for film, theatre, and events. To name a few, she designed costumes for the TV show Kookville and a stage production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She even did makeup and created costumes for the movie Demon Squad, which you can find in Season 13 of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. She believes that cosplay isn’t just about expressing yourself, it’s about developing yourself and creating a full aesthetic. Beyond that, she wants her students to know, they can make a career out of their creative passions. And she’ll help them do it.

Leah talks about her first Ren Faire experience: “It felt awesome because I was trying to be intentional about creating a costume for me. Not for a play. Not for someone else based on their vision. It was my vision. It was what I wanted to do.”

You feel different in your cosplay. The persona, the confidence. It can be hard to describe but Astrid and Leah teach toward that feeling in every class.

Specializing in Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance costumes, Astrid also cosplays Collei from Gensin Impact and loves growing her skills in the anime genre. She even runs a social club on Outschool where Genshin fans can hang out virtually and game together.

Astrid beams: “A lot of kids and adults choose a character and they try to match that persona. It’s a little bit of safety. I’ve had people scream ‘OH MY GOD ITS COLLEI’ and run over to me. Under normal circumstances that wouldn’t happen. But at Cons, it’s so exciting. It’s amazing to connect with other people through that persona.”

*** Leah, with her cosplay weapon collection behind her: “You feel more confident in your character’s costume. It’s a projection of your best self. A lot of work, your imagination, and your brain is now projected on the outside. People can see that part of you that they can’t see in any other situation.”

Leading by example, Leah shows her students that they can make their creative passions into careers. She beams when she talks about a student getting confident enough to make an Actor Instagram account. Or doing professional-level wedding makeup for their entire family.

Teaching online from Arkansas since 2018, Astrid volunteered for the first-ever Outschool Cosplay Convention in 2021. Now called GameCon, the 2-day event featured presentations at different times of day for different timezones. Sessions about costume design, makeup, theatre performance, and more. And, most exciting of all, the costume showcase. Every kid got a chance in the spotlight to show off their creations. Astrid, laughs now: “I burst into tears when I logged off. It was such a rush of emotions. I found my people! I wish I had this when I was a kid.”

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#cosplay #remote learning

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macaroon-sapling · 8 months

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Headcanons - Vanessa & Glitchtrap ✷

Fun facts about a normal girl and her rabbit-shaped friend (not really) who lives in her PC!

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✧ Before she was brainwashed in the beta testing of Fazbear Entertainment's VR game, Help Wanted, Vanessa was just a quirky young woman attending a small college for computer science. One day, she noticed that a weird little glitch showed up on her PC monitor.

✧ To support her college endeavours, Vanessa works at a local crafts and fabric store. She really enjoys her job, and gets along with her coworkers even though she's a little too awkward to talk to them sometimes. Her favourite parts of the job are putting out new fabric swatches and organizing the buttons. She's sorta friends with the manager too, who thinks the girl should really get out more. The only real downside to working at the little store is that it doesn't pay all that much.

✧ Preferring to be alone rather than living with a roommate, Vanessa lives by herself in a small apartment complex near the college she goes to. It can get very lonely, but she appreciates all the time she has to herself. It's good for keeping up with homework and her online discord friends. She's decorated her apartment with all sorts of movie posters, figurines, Hello Kitty merch, tiny plants, a bisexual pride flag, and random cute items. There's a lot of pink, hearts, rainbows, and puppies! Oh, and a lot of Monster Energy cans. So many Monster Energy cans...

✧ Vanessa loves girly alt fashion, and adds little elements of it to her everyday outfits. Things like silly earrings, pastel plastic chains, enamel pins, and homemade kandi bracelets really match with her creative style. Her favourite clothes are often colourful graphic t-shirts and baggy jeans with unique designs on them. She also has thin rainbow striped sections in her dirty blonde hair that she dyes herself every once in a while.

✧ Besides fashion, Vanessa is a big fan of vocaloid music, alt rock bands, slasher movies, and true crime. Her favourite bands are ones like Mindless Self Indulgence, and her favourite movie is the classic Friday the 13th. That brings us to her favourite true crime case, the serial killer William Afton and his infamous string of murders in the 1980s. She had never really gone to a Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location more than like once as a kid, but the horrific tale of the killer former CEO fascinated her. How lucky for her then, that the man himself would show up in a ghostly shimeji-like fashion on her very own computer! Yay......

✧ On a perfectly ordinary day, Vanessa came home from her morning college classes and sat at her PC, just like she did everyday. She promptly opened discord and just was about to start chatting away in one of her fandom servers. Then she noticed something casually appear in her peripheral vision, on the lower corner of her screen, something that wasn't supposed to be there. Were those.. tiny rabbit ears? Indeed they were. Using her cursor, she quickly clicked and dragged on those ears before they could disappear again. What she found dangling on her cursor was obviously a virus. Damn it, where could she have accidentally downloaded a virus? Was it from a badly coded Minecraft mod she had downloaded? Maybe from a virus-laced online game she had foolishly played? The possibilities ran through her mind as she grimaced at the odd yellow rabbit-virus-thing seemingly trying to get away from her digital grasp. That was until the virus suddenly looked up, directly at her, and angrily yelled for her to let go. Fancy that, a computer virus had just made eye contact and called her a bitch! Obviously very startled, Vanessa immediately dropped the virus on her screen and jumped back in her computer chair. She watched in stunned silence as the little bunny guy dusted himself off, then stared at the metaphorical "floor" on her desktop wallpaper (a pastel pixel art fairy forest) in frustration of having been prematurely noticed. Fucking creepy!

✧ Through trial and error, Vanessa soon found out that she had gotten the virus from her first beta testing session of Help Wanted (told you her job didn't pay enough). Through some very carefully asked questions (this is sarcasm, she straight up asked him multiple times until he admitted just enough that she could be sure of the situation), she also found out that the rabbit-virus-thing in her computer was the real actual ghost of her serial killer interest, William Afton. She was.. weirdly ok with this. For a lonely girl with nothing better to do in her free time, this was surely fascinating to say the least.

✧ Over the next few weeks, Vanessa and Glitchtrap (she learned very quickly that she really shouldn't call him William) began to develop what Vanessa would call a friendship. Anyone else would call it the beginnings of manipulation and having an annoying little ghost stealing your money and constantly snooping in your files. Keeping Glitchtrap out of her discord, instagram, and deviant art accounts was like a full time job. While freeloading in her computer, Glitchtrap developed a habit of playing games that Vanessa had downloaded. He'd only really do this when he was really bored and she was away at college. He pretty much only got into Minecraft, even though he'd constantly complain about how "shit" the graphics were, despite how much Vanessa tried to explain that the graphics were "awesome actually!".

✧ In this very short time period of mostly harmless antics with Glitchtrap, the worst thing he did to Vanessa was quietly steal over $300 for a memory extension for her PC. And once the part arrived, he proceeded to sit there like an asshole and command her to install it. Poor Vanessa, it's not like she has that kind of money! She's in college, Glitchtrap! It's not like he remembers what it was like to be a college student. Vanessa did indeed install the memory expansion though. Glitchtrap made sure to order one from a non-refundable website. What a prick.

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf headcanons #glitchtrap #william afton #fnaf vanessa #malhare #fnaf help wanted #fnaf glitchtrap #my headcanons

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pitbullwithawig · 4 months

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As a member of Gen Z I have something I would like to say, which is a lot more serious I feel like than a lot of the things I reblog or post or whatever. But it's something that I feel like needs to be talked about, which is the mockery of Gen Alpha for rudeness and ignoring social rules and politeness and all that. And so I am going to attempt to explain my thoughts in a way that other people can understand which can be hard for me if the thought has already formed in my head and isn't spontaneous as I type. So bear with me.

So like many people I am on Instagram and Twitter and all that and I see a lot of videos and posts and everything about the "brattiness" of Gen Alpha kids and how they're rude and unsocialised. And lots of these people, calling these twelve year old children out for these issues, have placed their finger exactly on the real problem, though I don't think they really have processed that. If they did they wouldn't be making fun of it.

The reality is that these children who at this point are now twelve years old and beginning to interact with the world in a meaningful way, are the first generation of kids who were fully raised with high speed and stronger technology. These are the iPad kids in the wild. Like, even me and my younger brother who are on the lower end of Gen Z were born at a time when the Internet was in its MySpace and maybe early years of Facebook era. Nobody was giving these things to children just because they were still always considered new. New and constantly changing. But now we have the kids who were born in the twenty teens, when technology was a fact of life and yes a handy way to distract small kids. What's more, nobody was aware of the harm screen's like IPad and phone screens can do to a brain in its very important early stages of development.

So here are these kids now, entering the world. And their entire life they've had a archive of information and other people and things to do literally at their fingertips. Since birth even! And these technologies have interfered with their brain development right smack dab in the crucial years where kids learn about language and social interactions and how the bloody world works. But they learned it looking through or around the skewed filter of a phone screen. So here was the first stage of messed up brain development where they learned that the world works the way it does on chatrooms and in movies and tv shows, where people speak to eachother the way they do online, where their brain is always stimulated by something new just a few taps away. I mean, they learned this skewed version of the world as toddlers! This, for lack of a better description, human code has been embedded at the very base of their brain and everything else that comes after is just building off of that.

Then a few years later comes the pandemic. The big bad pandemic that ruined lives and fucked everyone over, especially the people who were still developing. And suddenly the order of the world has changed and their brains are developing around that strange new order. And this causes them to miss milestones in their brain development.

They're not in a classroom anymore. They can't connect with friends. They can't physically connect with people outside their bubble, in any way. No roughhousing on the playground, no visiting parks to swing around in. Their class is squares on a screen, and if they want to say something without other people hearing there's always the mute button. My point is that already limited social interaction (something essential in reaching many milestones in neural development and learning how to interact with the world) has just dropped to almost zero. Now EVERYTHING is filtered through a screen. Right smack dab in the most developmentally important years of these kids lives.

Even people my age have missed milestones! People in Grade 9 and 10 were far too grabby and overactive because we missed the developmental period where we learned how much touching is too much touching, characterized by people wrestling eachother and poking eachother excessively. AKA middle school boys. Yes, that is an essential part of development. And we missed that because of the pandemic.

So these kids' already fucked up neural pathways get wired in all the wrong ways. And we're surprised when they do not have the capacity to behave as a functioning human beings!?

Yes they are being rude. Yes they are being gross and unnecessarily mean. No I am not excusing them (or their parents) for that. But these poor human beings have the wrong base code! Their brains were built wrong, in the wrong way and the wrong order and to the wrong extents! Maybe, instead of making fun of and putting these literal children down for something they can't help (aka their literal brain development), maybe we should be putting effort into explaining why this is happening and Finding A Way To Fix It. AT THE SOURCE! Inform new parents about neural development and natural milestones. Explain why screen's are not good for literal babies. Educate, educate, educate.

And maybe we can save the disaster that is becoming the human race.

#humans #serious post #gen alpha #sephora kids #people #help them #save the world #i dont know everything #but i know this stuff #and its a bad omen

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missmcspooks · 11 months

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The 300 Year Old Werewolf Killer and His Vampire Girlfriend

In Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, the community wasn’t aware that there was a self proclaimed 300 year old werewolf walking amongst them. But during the afternoon on April 23rd, 2006, a grizzly discovery would be found. The triple homicide of the Richardson family, committed by their own 12 year old daughter and her 300 year old werewolf boyfriend.

The Richardson family consisted of the father, 42 year old Marc Richardson, and the mother, 48 year old Debra Richard. They had two children, Jasmine who was 12, and an 8 year old son, Tyler. They were a typical normal loving family and didn’t have any major issues going on within their household. Jasmine went to an all girls catholic school and was said to be a great kid, friendly, caring, and did very well in school. Jacob was said to be a very happy and energetic kid, and was labeled as the class clown and loved making people laugh.

Jasmine’s parents along with her friends all noticed a change in not only her attitude, but her appearance as well. Everyone knows that kids tend to change a little once they approach their teenage years and they’re finding themselves. But this was a very drastic change. Jasmine was a very good kid in school and made sure to never break any rules, never got in trouble at school or at home, was very social and always liked spending time with her friends, and she was a very girly girl, and loved wearing pink and other bright colors. However, she slowly started to change. She started wearing darker makeup and darker clothes, and soon began to wear all black clothes entirely. She started wearing fishnets, chains, chokers, and other kinds of jewelry that weren't allowed to be worn at school. She started distancing herself from her friends, changed her interests, and was becoming more and more like a rebel. Even her music interests changed as she started listening to things like punk-rock or metal music. She also began to take pens and sharpie markers to draw tattoos on herself, but things like pentagons and other satanist related things, and considering she went to a catholic school, that stuff wasn’t taken lightly. The girl who was once sweet, never talked back and followed all the rules, had now started arguing, snapping back at teachers, breaking dress codes, and just being snarky, thus getting into trouble very often.

Jasmine’s Biggest Downfall

Jasmine attended a punk-rock show one evening, where she ended up meeting a man named Jeremy Steinke. They were both very into each other from the get go, and she just instantly became obsessed with that man. The disturbing part to this is the fact that was only 12 years old, and Jeremy was 23. Jeremy was a high school dropout, lived in a bad neighborhood, and was unemployed. But the main reason Jasmine was so into this man was due to the fact that he was a completely goth person. He was basically just like her. He wore all black, the black makeup, jewelry, everything. They exchanged numbers and soon began secretly hanging out and forming an intimate relationship. She would tell her parents that she was going out with friends, but would really be going over to his house. Whenever she couldn’t hangout, they would keep in touch online through social media.

Jeremy also wore a little vial of blood around his neck as a necklace, and told Jasmine that there was real blood inside of it, and that he loves the taste of blood and needs it in order to survive. Jasmine was super intrigued and asked him if he was a vampire, and he told her no, he’s not a vampire… He’s a 300 year old werewolf. Just a few months after meeting him, she changed completely and her original friends claimed that they became afraid of her. Jasmine stated that she took a lot of pleasure in scaring people because it made her feel like she was in control, powerful, and in charge. She started spending time on a website called vampirefreaks.com, which was pretty much just like MySpace, but strictly for the vampire community. On her Myspace profile, she used to have her parents and her friends as her heroes, but she then changed it to Jeffrey Dahmer, Criss Angel, Marylin Manson, Dani Filth, and Batman. On her vampirefreaks.com profile, she described herself as Wiccan, bisexual, insane, etc. She even had blood, kinky shit, and dark poetry listed under her interests column. Jeremy was also very into this website, and it’s where the two communicated the most.

He Huffed, and He Puffed, and He Blew Her House Down

Jasmine’s parents eventually find her social media websites and learn all about this Jeremy dude she’s been seeing secretly. They know how old she is, they know she’s been sneaking out, and not coming home when she’s supposed to, and they had to intervene for the safety of their daughter. As any normal parent would, they forbade her to stop seeing this man, and that he was way too old for her. She was grounded and not allowed to leave the house unless it was for school, and she was to come home directly after school. This infuriated Jasmine and caused her to act out even more, and a war soon happened inside the home. One day, she wrote a message to Jeremy telling him that she had an amazing idea. “It starts with me killing them, and ends with me living with you.” Yes. She was the one who came up with the plan to murder her entire family, so she could be free and live the life she wants, instead of running away like a normal teenager would do. He responded in return, stating that he wants to slit their throats and that they’d forget ever trying to keep them apart.

On the evening of April 22nd, 2006, the family was getting ready for bed. Debra heard some noises coming from downstairs and decided to go check it out, when she was met face to face with a mysterious man wearing a black man, holding a knife. She panicked and she screamed, but sadly she was stabbed to death 12 times. Due to the screaming she woke up her husband Marc, and their son Tyler. Marc runs downstairs and finds this man standing over his wife as she’s covered in blood, and quickly grabs a screwdriver and attempts to fight off the attacker. Marc puts up a really good fight, punching him and trying to stab him with the screwdriver, but sadly he couldn’t overpower him. Marc was stabbed and killed 24 times. Jasmine had been inside of her room this entire time, pretending to be asleep when he came inside and started the attacks. However, her little brother's room was right next to hers, and Jasmine went inside and saw him hiding on his bed because he was so afraid. She held him and covered his ears to refrain from hearing all the screaming downstairs. Shortly after that, Jeremy came upstairs after making sure both of her parents were dead, and that’s when Jasmine decided that her little brother, who she was just protecting, needed to die as well. She claimed that she had no choice but to kill him, because both of their parents were dead, and claimed that there wasn’t any point to keeping him alive if there was no one to take care of him, as she was going to leave and start a new life with Jeremy. She stabbed her own brother 5 times and slit his throat.

The next day a little boy came to their home and knocked on the door to ask if Tyler could come out and play. When no one answered, he peeked through the window, and saw something that no child should ever have to see. He ran home and told his parents, and the police were called. When the police entered the home, they found the bodies and saw a tremendous amount of blood. When they saw the little boy’s throat was slashed, they determined that whoever killed the family had to have known them, because these attacks were personal. While investigating the house they noticed a family portrait that had both parents, the son, and a daughter, which led the police to assume that the daughter had been kidnapped by the killer. They sent out an amber alert and went down to the school to search her locker for any clues or information that might possibly help lead them to the killer. Inside the locker they find an alarming drawing consisting of a house that’s on fire, stick figures inside the house that’s burning, and two stick figures running away from the house. Jasmine now went from a missing person to a murder suspect.

Arrest, Trial, and Sentencing

Police ended up finding both Jasmine and Jeremy within 24 hours of discovering the bodies. They showed no negative emotions while being apprehended. They weren’t remorseful, didn’t show any signs of grief, sadness, or concern. Jeremy actually laughed and bragged about how he got a black eye from Marc punching him in the face. Jasmines trial began in June of 2007, and when she was asked why she had murdered her family, she said:

“I loved Jeremy so much. I thought it was going to bring us closer together.”

When the evidence was brought in, they had a LOT of jailhouse letters that were exchanged between her and Jeremy. Once again, neither of them showed any signs of guilt or remorse for what they have done, and basically just talked about their future together when they got out of prison. She even joked in what of her letters that they were “immortal legends.” This is what it said in one of her letters:

“Never has a person affected me so much. Always, will there be missing something without you with me. My lawyer tells me we’re legends, hah. Closer to immortality, it would seem.”

After that letter they bring in another one that was written by Jeremy.

“I love you more than life itself. I’ve added you to my visitors list so once you’re released, please visit often. Never forget how much I care, or that I love you. Without you, this life isn’t worth living. You said you want to get engaged? Then here’s the question. Will you marry me? If so, then it's a verbal agreement.”

She accepted his proposal. She also took the stand in her own defense on July 3rd, 2007. She told the court that she had a hypothetical conversation about killing her family, and possibly making the deaths look like a murder suicide, or an accidented, but didn’t actually intend to go through with that plan. Then when she was questioned about her letters to Jeremy, she claimed that she was only talking about her five minutes of fame, and that people are going to remember them forever. She told them that she was home when the murders happened, and that she was in her brother's room trying to cover his ears and protect him from hearing the screams from their parents. She then goes on to say that Jeremy came upstairs and started yelling at her to kill her brother, since he just killed her parents for them, so now she needed to participate as well. She claims to have stabbed him, but “not very hard.” She pleaded not guilty to all three counts of first degree murder, but after just three hours, the jury found Jasmine guilty on all three counts. Considering Canada is more lenient with their justice system, she was only sentenced to 10 years in prison, which was the max penalty under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. This act states that convicts who are under the age of 14 during the time they committed the crimes cannot be charged as an adult and can only receive the maximum sentence of 10 years. She also got a credit of 18 months for the time she served while waiting for her trial. Additionally, 4 out of those 10 years will be spent in a psychiatric facility. She would then spend 4 and a half years under conditional supervision within the community.

Jeremy’s trial was in December of 2008. He was instantly found guilty of all 3 counts of first degree murder and sentenced to 3 life sentences. Jasmine was fully released at the age of 23 in 2015 and has been keeping a very low profile presence. She was also told that if she could go 5 years without any trouble with the law, that her juvenile record would be expunged. She was Canada’s youngest convicted murderer. There’s no record of whether or not Jasmine continued her relationship with Jeremy after she was released, or whether they were even still in contact.

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I'm a massage therapist as well, and I was curious if you think going to college or picking up something else is important just in case your body gives out overtime? I was never one for college (my ADHD could never!) but now idk lol

I hear you! I perosnally don’t have any other degrees, but did think about possibly studying nutrition, esthetician or any other body related fields to either combine it or fall back on.

depending on what interests you, But I’ve see people do just fine for decades in the massage world, so it’s doable long term. Some find tools to use (cups, bamboo, Japanese lifting) to elevate their hands/arms wear.

Where I live, you can get a job without a degree but sometimes the pay and access is better with one. Ex. Hospitality degree (gives access to reseptionist/front desk, hostess, manager etc with better pay)

Otherwise, I suggest maybe dipping your toes into something you find interesting like

- sports instructor (sports like tennis, ballet/dance, swimming, life guard, can grant access to privet lessons for young kids/teens etc)

- tutor (pick 2-3 subjects you’re good at, become part of an agency or do it freelance, teaching to both kids and adults depending on your skills/certifications)

- yoga (great for you’re own health and you can offer online/in person classes if certified. Working alone or with a company)

- translation, scriber/subtitle writer (often doesn’t require a degree, depending on level/skills. And if you go through agencies you can usually find tones of jobs)

Again, depending on you’re interests, you could do virtually anything between house sitting, baby sitting/daycare, coding/tech, artist, tour guide, travel massage therapist on cruises or work as an assistent at care facilities.

I personally do astrology, tarot and art on the side (I’m quite selective with it brings in some nice extra income for when I need it or to cushion my savings)

But I’d not suggest getting a costly degree unless it’s starting to feel necessary and you want it (and know you could get thru it even if it meant getting tutors etc)

Hope that helps 🥰

#advice #anon #job advice #skills

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Unlocking Knowledge: Top Engaging Educational Resources for Successful Home-Based Learning

Certainly! Successful home-based learning requires access to engaging educational resources that cater to various learning styles and subjects. Here's a list of top resources across different categories:

1. Online Learning Platforms:

a. Khan Academy: Provides free online courses, lessons, and practice in various subjects.

b. Coursera: Offers courses from universities and colleges around the world on a wide range of topics.

c. edX: Similar to Coursera, with courses from universities and institutions globally.

2. Interactive Learning Websites:

a. Code.org: Teaches coding and computer science in an interactive and engaging way.

b. Duolingo: A fun and gamified platform for learning languages.

c. BBC Bitesize: Offers resources for various subjects, especially useful for UK curriculum.

3. Virtual Museums and Tours:

a. Google Arts & Culture: Virtual tours of museums and historical sites worldwide.

b. Smithsonian Learning Lab: Educational resources and virtual tours from the Smithsonian Institution.

4. Educational YouTube Channels:

a. CrashCourse: Quick, entertaining lessons on various subjects.

b. TED-Ed: Engaging lessons worth sharing on a variety of topics.

c. National Geographic Kids: Educational videos about science, nature, and more.

5. Reading and Literature:

a. Project Gutenberg: Offers over 60,000 free eBooks, including many classic literary works.

b. CommonLit: Provides free reading passages and literacy resources for grades 3-12.

6. Mathematics Resources:

a. IXL: Adaptive learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies.

b. Wolfram Alpha: A computational search engine that helps with mathematics and other subjects.

7. Science and STEM:

a. NASA's STEM Engagement: Educational resources and activities related to space and science.

b. Mystery Science: Free science lessons with hands-on activities.

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b. Codecademy: Interactive coding lessons for various programming languages.

9. Homeschooling Resources:

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b. ABCmouse: Early learning academy for ages 2-8 with a variety of educational games.

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b. TinkerCAD: An online platform for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

12. Podcasts for Learning:

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b. Stuff You Should Know: Explores a wide range of interesting topics for older learners.

13. Educational Apps:

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b. Anki: A powerful flashcard app for learning and memorization.

14. Virtual Learning Communities:

a. Outschool: Offers live online classes for a variety of subjects and age groups.

b. Scholastic Learn at Home: Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.

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torchickentacos · 2 years

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Pokeani Characters as College/Uni Professors!

Hello anon! Here it is. So, quick note, while I am in college, I do online asynchronous only (long story short, chronic illness and a big family means I need a super open schedule). So... I have barely interacted with any of my professors aside from turning in assignments. I guess I’m saying I don’t really know how professors operate in-person? So, a lot of this is based on my high school experience and any innacuracies can be put down to that. Also, I looked at my own college course catalog for ideas here. Without further ado, let us begin! I only went so far with this one since it took me a while. Maybe I’ll add later. As always, feel free to add on! I love reading what you guys have to say.

Ash: An RA (resident advisor). Technically, age-wise this means he’d probably be younger than his professor peers but age is weird in pokemon to begin with so whatever, moving on from that. He’s about the best RA you could ask for, helping everyone feel safe and included. He hosts game nights, movie nights, takeout food nights, you get the gist. He loves what he does.

Goh: Quantitative Reasoning. He’s one of the more chill professors, known to hold class with the overhead lights off and calming lamps on with ambient noise. He originally held class in a lecture hall but honestly, it was kind of intimidating having everyone looking down on him, so he moved to a spare flat square room more reminiscent of a high school classroom. His office hours are almost always open and he finds joy in helping students one-on-one.

Misty: Swimming and SCUBA. Rarely ever in an actual classroom, but when she is she’s always walking around and is definitely wearing her swimsuit under her slacks and jacket. Always wearing flip flops which probably breaks Professor dress code if there is one, but she doesn’t care. She has a squirt bottle (very clearly labeled Gary Oak-do not remove from my room) that she sprays students with if they get snarky with her.

Brock: Geology. Posters full of rock puns are ALLLLLLLL over his room. He’s actually one of the more professional professors-he values the gift of being able to teach his students, and takes his job very seriously. But he’s also the kind of guy whose powerpoints are entertaining as well as informative, and he probably incorporates memes into his material-as well as he can, anyways. He tries his hardest to keep up with ‘kids these days’ and employs Ash to help him.

Tracey: Art Appreciation (one of my favorite classes I’ve taken so far). Covers an array of artistic mediums, methods, and eras, but his favorite to teach is always traditional pencil-on-paper-but he has a soft spot for Ceramics and Ukiyo-e, too. A hands-on teacher that likes to bring in examples and have his students do projects whenever they can. He’s a little absentminded and his students have to remind him to turn off the projector or to turn the coffeemaker off or any other little tasks he forgot.

Gary: Historical Archaeology. Takes his students on digs and is said to be one of the more fun instructors to have, though he’s a particularly harsh grader. He’s known to have a ‘secret’ stash of instant noodles (inspired by @householdpowerhouse ) in his closet, though everyone knows about it. He keeps himself busy with grading and his own research. Someone stole his squirt bottle that he kept for gently spraying dirt off of artifacts and he still doesn’t know who. Only so many people have the keys to his room.

May: Intro to Theatre, taken in the auditorium. She is known to scoot across stage in a wheelie chair and fall out of it every once in a while. Backstage is mostly tools and woodworking for the tech crew, managed by Clemont, but there is a snack pantry. Instead of ‘live laugh love’, she has various shakespeare quotes around her personal office-a big “a rose by any other name” poster behind her chair. Nobody really knows exactly how much gets done in her class, but it’s fun and everyone passed their exams, and some alumni of her classes went into acting so other staff just let her do her thing.

Drew: Horticulture. He holds class in a greenhouse, which he had to fight for but ultimately got it approved so he didn’t have to haul plants back and forth across campus. The roses are always missing. One of the classes is hellbent on figuring out who keeps taking them. Drew hopes they don’t. He’s a fairly harsh grader as well as Gary, but in general his classes are well-liked and he’s pretty well respected, even if horticulture is one of the lesser-taken classes. Careful, though-bring sunscreen to his class or you’ll get burnt under the hot sun blazing down through the glass ceiling-but he’s got aloe vera plants for that.

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traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors · 9 months

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tw: school shooting

hi!! so i’m kind of looking for some advice/also just a place to get all of my thoughts out about the topic and talk about what happened since i can’t really get myself to physically talk about it in person???

so basically, quite a few years ago, i went to a middle school that was attached to the high school where a very very very bad school shooting took place. it was one of the worst shootings of the 21st century and affected my entire town forever. the shooting itself and the two suicides that followed were (and still are) the only thing that my town had ever gone through so no one really knew how to react yk??

it was a holiday that day and when the shooting first began i was in my science class with my best friend of 10 years drawing up cards relating to the day. they announced the code red over our loudspeaker but they did not explain anything that was happening to us and we were not allowed to use our phones.

we spent the next 3-4 hours with no communication to the outside world, huddled behind my teacher’s desk. we could hear the faint gunshots, screaming, and police sirens from the high school but no one would tell us what was happening.

after those 3-4 hours we were allowed to get up from behind the desk and use our phones. that was when my best friend had looked at her phone to see texts from her sister in the high school telling her that there was a shooter in the school and she wasn’t sure if she was going to make it.

trying to get in contact with all of our loved ones was so difficult and i still think about the hopelessness to this day.

our school had released us loosely as if it was a regular dismissal, but there was no where to go. i was only 13 at the time and all the roads around the schools were closed off by police. the only way to get anywhere was to walk miles and miles by ourselves.

i didn’t really know how to get around all that well, we didn’t live in a very walkable town and there were hundreds of kids surrounding me, trying to figure out where to go and how to get home.

my friend and i finally found the parent of another friend of ours and walked 2 miles with them to get back to their car before they could drive us home.

i went out to dinner with my family for the holidays that night as if nothing had happened.

i didn’t realize the signs of ptsd until much much later. i finished out my year of school without a problem and i was convinced i was fine up until the beginning of the next year.

going back was, difficult to say the least. the shooting took place on a wednesday afternoon and the next year, every week, i would call my mom on wednesday telling her my stomach hurt and i needed her to come pick me up. it got to the point where i wouldn’t go out anymore, especially not to any place without windows for me to see any potential threats or ways out of the situation.

i still thought it was just regular anxiety. i wasn’t technically at the scene of the crime, how could i be traumatized?? i officially went to a therapist and she did end up diagnosing me with ptsd, anxiety, and depression. i ended up going to a six week outpatient program and switching to online school for the remainder of middle school.

flash forward years later to today and i am graduating from a real high school this year. i was feeling much better (i even was able to start celebrating the holiday again with my friends) so i stopped treatment quite a long time ago now but for the past two or three years i feel like my ptsd has been pushing out of me more?? like it feels almost worse?? i don’t understand because i thought it was supposed to get better with time and it did at first but now it feels like it’s coming back.

i know the obvious solution to this is to just start going to therapy again (and i will) but i’m scared that nothing will help. i am unable to repeat this story to anyone who asks without feeling absolutely ridiculous for feeling the way i do about the situation (i mean, i technically wasn’t even at the school) and that anxiety just keeps me from telling them anything at all.

talking about it in general is very painful as well and i don’t know how to explain it to people, especially not in person. but i don’t know how else to cope.

for the past few years, i’ve been having panic attacks multiple times a week at school and it’s hard to get anything done because of it and because of my complete lack of motivation.

when it started up again, i thought it was just me being stressed out from my (equally stressful) home life and issues with my adhd but then i started to notice the patterns again from before i started treatment, they just look a little different now.

i have to physically leave campus for our code red drills, i have been leaving school early due to anxiety nearly every week, even the thought of someone telling me i can’t leave the place i’m in at any given time will make me absolutely spiral into a horrible panic attack, it’s been getting harder and harder to motivate myself to get up and go everyday, and i have fallen back into being unable to celebrate the holiday anymore.

i’m scared that even if i do go to therapy again, nothing will help. i go off tocollege soon and i don’t know what i’m going to do if i have to deal with this alone, especially in a new place with new people who have never experienced anything like that. at least in my hometown, everyone pretty much gets it because most of them went through the same thing.

so that brings me to my big question: how do i get myself to actually tell this whole story to a therapist in a way that will help me get better? i feel like i’m drowning and i need a way out.

sorry that was a novel but very cathartic, thank you for listening❤️

Hi anon,

I am genuinely so sorry to hear about what you went through. That is terrifying and I'm so glad that you survived. It takes a lot of strength and bravery not only to live with this but to make the decision to share your story and seek support, so thank you for reaching out and know that you are not alone. Also please know that there is no need to apologize for the length of this ask and you are welcome to take up as much space as you need.

It's absolutely understandable to be traumatized by this experience, even to develop PTSD. It was an incredibly unpredictable and dangerous situation, and while looking back you can say you survived, that still doesn't erase the emotional weight and the uncertainty of whether or not you were going to make it.

It makes sense that school triggers you, given what you've been through. I feel like there's inherently some level of anxiety and tension around being in school with the influx in school shootings, but to experience it yourself can certainly make the idea of going back to school all the more unbearable.

While experiencing something like this can absolutely be traumatizing on it's own, trauma is really defined by how the survivor perceived and internally responded to the event. This is because everyone is so different and factors such as genetics and environment can impact resilience, which is the ability to cope with stressful events. So something may not be traumatic to one person that may be severely traumatic to another, and both are equally valid. It is completely okay to be traumatized by what happened to you.

It's also important to remember that healing isn't linear. I have PTSD too and for a while after my trauma it got worse, then it got better, then it got worse, then it got better. Healing is a process that takes time and sometimes going backwards is simply part of the next step.

As for seeking therapy, the main thing is to take your time. A therapeutic relationship starts by building rapport and getting to know each other, which may gradually make you feel more comfortable explaining to your therapist what you went through. That being said, you don't have to share anything you don't want to. Perhaps something you could work on with a therapist is getting yourself to open up to them, if that is something you feel is necessary to your treatment and healing journey.

In the meantime, please consider practicing some self care, including being kind, gentle, and patient to yourself as you process your trauma and heal at your own pace.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions, feel free to add on. Otherwise, I hope I could help, and we're here for you if you need anything.

-Bun

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