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4 votes
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Babatunde Lea Quartet - Confrontation
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
15 votes -
'Siri, I'm getting pulled over': A new shortcut for iPhones can automatically record the police
17 votes -
Mooncast #24 - Vibronics (Moonshine Recordings)
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Sources: Leaked Harry Potter game is real, not developed by Rocksteady
17 votes -
Moral Code X - Pervyj Sneg (Early Snow) (2007)
3 votes -
serre-moi /// sehr moi
cool to see i'm not the only person writing poetry on here anymore. shoutout to @precise and @zoec for sharing their works recently. def looking forward to more in the future. bishop. do you think...
cool to see i'm not the only person writing poetry on here anymore. shoutout to @precise and @zoec for sharing their works recently. def looking forward to more in the future.
bishop.
do you think i'm pretty?
do you think of me at all?
i've been laying here and shrinking
oh my god i'm feeling small
every bit of stock that i had
in myself, i auctioned off
invested it in you, hoping
you'd return my calls.mama i just need a hug
baby need a little love
miss how every day you'd tell me
"baby you look cute as fuck"
now you're gone i'm feeling rough
wonder if i'm good enough
used to be so confident
now i'm into hella drugs
every time i look into the mirror
i start pouring up
yeah she was your better half
you're the worse, and quartered up.
your nose is too big, hair thin
need a tummy tuck
need someone to show you love
warm kisses and tummy rubsyou were my rock and now i sniff rocks.
we had a ball, and now i pop bars.
suicidal thoughts, and crashed cars.
i'm not good enough for any heart.
catch a bag, catch a nose job.
dark eyes, need to nod off.
5'6 never get tall.
take my brain with a sawed-off.god i wish somebody told me
that the world was gonna roll me
up into a piece of paper
light my ass on fire - smoking.
laying in the dark and dosing
tryna keep my eyes from closing
took you to my favorite cities
love was in St. Louis, growing.
boy you're getting kinda fat,
acne's bad, already know it.
chipped a tooth back in the crash
people cannot help but notice
looking down at my whole world eroded
can't seem to control it
guess this is the life i've chosen
getting high and never copingmama i just need a hug
baby need a little love
girl what happened to the old
days of us not giving up
you gave me euphoria
fuck, i never needed drugs
i know we had some hard times
i guess i didn't love enough
i know that we would argue, we
would yell, and i would wanna cry
but at least i had someone
to hold and didn't wanna die
hope you have a better life,
peacing out for now cus i'm
gonna take a couple drugs and
pray to god i die tonight6 votes -
The secrets of cooking rice — the cause of recipe failure is not what you might think
10 votes -
Queer representation in middle grade and young adult books
I'm a teacher, and two years ago I had a student come out to me as trans. He recommended the book The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey to me, saying that it was the first book he'd read that was about...
I'm a teacher, and two years ago I had a student come out to me as trans. He recommended the book The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey to me, saying that it was the first book he'd read that was about someone like himself. The same goes for another student with John Green & David Levithan's Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Another student this year shared a similar sentiment about Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake.
I don't know how well-known this is outside of educators, but there has been a recent explosion of books for middle grade and young adult audiences that have openly queer characters and themes. When I was growing up we pretty much had only Annie on My Mind, and even then there was a good chance it wasn't stocked in the library. Now there are hundreds of books published each year and available in school libraries across the country.
This is great for two reasons:
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I've had many students who have been able to read about characters that they can directly identify with.
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I've had many students who do not identify as queer (to the best of my knowledge) read and empathize with these characters.
I can't say whether it's because of the books or if the books are simply an indicator of changing social norms, but I've watched acceptance of queer individuals of all types increase over my years in the profession.
Last week was Banned Books Week, and our librarian gave a small presentation to the students about why books get challenged or banned and gave some prominent examples. When she brought up Drama by Raina Telgemeier and mentioned that one of the reasons it was challenged was for "including LGBT characters," my class's response was audible shock. Ten years ago, the response would have been laughter or derision.
Students self-select books from the library for free reading, and I'm always checking in with them to see what they've picked. Right now, I have a student reading Alex Gino's George, one reading the aforementioned The Other Boy, and another reading The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. I have no idea how these students identify, but honestly, it doesn't matter. The fact that they were able to check those books out and read them is pretty powerful to me. The fact that they chose them on their own is also pretty awesome. Nobody is making students read books about queer characters. They're choosing to!
In fact, one of my favorite things to hear from students about books like those is that they were "boring." Why? Well, because that's pretty much the default adolescent response to any book these days (let's be honest: it's hard for reading to compete with Fortnite), but mostly because it means the student is reading the story free from any prejudice. The book is not seen as inflammatory or controversial or even brave. It's just a story about any regular person--the kind that many kids often find, in this day and age, boring.
And, for someone who's spent a lot of his life having his identity made by others to be A Significant Issue, it turns out boring is a pretty cool thing to be.
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A Brief History of High Availability
8 votes -
Ultimate Fishing Simulator
4 votes -
Living with Slenderman
7 votes -
GOG.com giving away Shadow Warrior 2 for the next 48 hours
26 votes -
Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter
13 votes -
Where did the term "86" come from?
3 votes -
Experimenting with liquid rockets
11 votes -
Korean McDonald's VS. Burger King in Seoul, South Korea
5 votes -
The Army may have found its next rifle in a Colorado garage
18 votes -
Red Letter Media discussing original Psycho
9 votes -
How 'Supergirl' is changing the game for transgender youth
11 votes -
Ultimate Cheese Wellington - Primitive Method
3 votes -
The End of the F***ing World - Netflix
Has anyone else seen this show? It came out last October. I just saw it about a month ago, probably a little less. It has got to be one of the best thing I've seen all year. Top 3. I love the...
Has anyone else seen this show? It came out last October. I just saw it about a month ago, probably a little less. It has got to be one of the best thing I've seen all year. Top 3.
I love the entire theme, the atmosphere, how everything is done. The direction is incredible. And the actors are ridiculously good.
In the show the two main characters will narrate their thoughts as they are happening in the moment. There is brilliant joke where Alyssa is narrating her thoughts and she thinks something along the lines of, "If This were a movie we would probably be American." Because the show is set in Britain and she is thinking to herself, what if this is all a movie.
The show is a dark comedy. And it's just got this incredible motif for lack of a better word. Has anyone else seen it? What are your thoughts? I really like Alyssa's character. Just how she is so empathetic, and she thinks far enough into everything to weigh both sides in a way not a lot of people would do. She basically givea the benefit of the doubt and weighs both sides more than she should.
15 votes -
Creature Canyon - Lonely As I Am (Jam In The Van live at KAABOO Del Mar)
2 votes -
Financial News presenters Kai Risdal And Molly Wood are currently doing an AMA
4 votes -
Twenty questions (of maddening, delicious geometry)
9 votes -
More birds are getting drunk in Minnesota town, police issue warning to residents
14 votes -
The lie generator: Inside the black mirror world of polygraph job screenings
6 votes -
Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t.
28 votes -
Raised by YouTube - The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected
11 votes -
'You Just Don't Touch That Tap Water Unless Absolutely Necessary'
14 votes -
Use Fathom for site analytics?
https://usefathom.com/ https://github.com/usefathom/fathom Fathom is a new no nosense analytics platform that is thereby fully GDPR compliant and stores no identifiable user information. It's...
https://usefathom.com/
https://github.com/usefathom/fathomFathom is a new no nosense analytics platform that is thereby fully GDPR compliant and stores no identifiable user information. It's fully open source, with self-hostable and paid options, and shows great overviews of page views and top referrers.
They have a live demo running the stats for their main site available at https://stats.usefathom.com/#!last-7-days
11 votes -
The Big Dig jazz show episode 4: Hammers and Keys (featuring great jazz pianists)
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Disney - The magic of animation
13 votes -
Brad makes garlic miso | It's Alive
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West Texas vineyards blasted by herbicide drift from nearby cotton fields
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Black Mirror S3E05 "Men Against Fire" discussion thread
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 - Men Against Fire After his first battle with an elusive enemy, a soldier begins experiencing unfamiliar sensations...
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode
Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 - Men Against Fire
After his first battle with an elusive enemy, a soldier begins experiencing unfamiliar sensations and strange technical glitches.
Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.
You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!
If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:
- How does the title relate to the episode itself?
- Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
- Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
Please rate the episode here!
8 votes -
Yiddish Language was Invented by Slavo-Iranian Jewish Merchants, Scientists Say
8 votes -
Brett Kavanaugh’s 1983 letter offers inside look at US high school clique
19 votes -
How game design transformed Hillary for America's supporter engagement
2 votes -
‘The trauma for a man’: American male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Brett Kavanaugh
23 votes -
Russia 'tried to hack Foreign Office', says British diplomat
13 votes -
Amazon eliminates monthly bonuses and stock grants after minimum wage increase
25 votes -
The long shots
4 votes -
The new font that promises to boost your memory
19 votes -
A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services
14 votes -
CirnOS - a minimal OS made specifically for the Raspberry PI
10 votes -
Fake honey scandal widens to Australian-sourced brands
6 votes -
Request for more visible group names
I've been noticing that people aren't really looking at the group name that a post is sent to. Most notably there's a weekly ~anime post asking what everyone has been watching or reading. Just...
I've been noticing that people aren't really looking at the group name that a post is sent to. Most notably there's a weekly ~anime post asking what everyone has been watching or reading. Just about every time there's people that post responses that are off topic (not anime or manga).
Here's an example. At the moment half of the posts are not related to anime or manga. It shows that it is something that needs to be considered.
Maybe have a uniquely colored border on the top and sides with the group name in bold perhaps? Also having the same color as the background on posts on the home page?
40 votes -
Tesla's Model 3 is becoming one of America's best-selling sedans
15 votes