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Exactly! I've luckily never been to a school where this is done, but my school considered it for a time and I was told that I DON'T HAVE TO. They cannot legally make you. Super important to remember.
dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.
no getting up. no looking at the flag.
everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.
I want you to remember:
The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
well 🧍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.
Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.
That cat is so patient it's unbelievable
Merry Christmas! My gift to all of you is to read this my book rec. Free trial for 125 pages on google it's called the blood of hercules and wait where are you going
IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST
OR ‘PEAKED’
BUT PIQUED
‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA
Was thinking about this line because Harrow what the actual fuck are you talking about, and I realised something.
Not only does Harrow really for real not know that Gideon loves her—in the bullshit context of their lives, this is a reasonable misunderstanding for her to have.
What has Harrow known Gideon's life goals to be since they were children? Hint: There are at least two Harrow is fully aware of.
The first is to be wanted. As much as Gideon hates and wants to escape the Ninth, she also paradoxically craves their acceptance. They're the only community she's ever known. Harrow plays on that desire from the very beginning, mostly by kind of .... well, okay, by negging her about it. Ironically appealing to her sense of loyalty and duty to her house when they both know Gideon never even had that bridge to burn. That kind of thing.
Whether or not she's right, Harrow sincerely believes that acceptance to still be important to Gideon. First flower of my house, the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph. The best of all of us. When Harrow has only seconds left to make amends, she not only banks hard into praising Gideon, she frames it to unambiguously offer Gideon the acceptance she's always been conspicuously denied. Assuring her of her value not just as a person or as a cavalier, but as one of their house, one of their people.
The second thing Harrow knows is that Gideon wants to join the Cohort. Easy, everybody knows that. She's only been telling everyone with ears (and then some) since she was eight years old. It's the bait Harrow dangled to entice her into this mess. She wants to be a hero, to do great deeds like in the comic books. She wants to be a soldier.
Against the backdrop of all that context, Gideon's dying declaration "for the Ninth" starts to sound a hell of a lot more like "for Queen and country." Especially when you remember that Harrow is still the sovereign ruler of the Ninth. From Harrow's vantage point, Gideon could easily be playing the heroic underdog in a war movie. The soldier no one believed in until she threw herself on a grenade to save her squad. The knight errant who proved her chivalry by giving her life in service to her king.
From that perspective, Harrow's line to Ortus makes sense. She's following through on her promise of acceptance, defending Gideon's loyalty to the first Ninth face she sees. She's playing out Gideon's war hero fantasy, where Gideon's act of heroism proved them all wrong about her. In which case Ortus's response, "You are the most worthy heroes the Ninth House could muster. I truly believe that," flows very naturally as a reply. He understands what Harrow is trying to say, and affirms it.
It's not a hero's burial in the Anastasian, but it's the closest thing Harrow has the power to give her. And it's a fucking reasonable interpretation of Gideon's actions that doesn't touch on her feelings for Harrow at all. Fuck me.
guys can we talk about for one second how nona kissed gideon as soon as she looked at her and her reasoning was "You looked like you wanted to be kissed."
lets backtrack. Gideon. Opens her eyes. The first thing she sees is Harrow('s body). Harrow. Harrow. And Nona, who reads people like books (joke is nona cant read) sees how badly Gideon wants to kiss Harrow('s face) and kisses her.
Can we talk about what this meant to Gideon for one moment. Can we talk about the implications of this please. guys please.
PLEASE CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS. PLEASE. GUYS PLEASE -
mama a Body behind you 😰 // pt1/pt2/pt3
Clarified: this scene is the one where Dr. Meridith is showing the remaining half of banana fish to Eiji, Ibe, and Shorter.
Ok maybe I'm wrong but in the banana fish anime, season 1 ep 4, roughly 9:20 seconds in, Ibe asks "what is it" and Eiji responds "it's what the man that was killed handed to Ash" but when would Eiji have been told that??? We've seen every interaction they've had so far and this hasn't had a reason to come up. (Unless I've forgotten something-) HOW DOES HE KNOW ASH GOT IT FROM THAT GUY WHO DIED????
I haven't read the manga in a minute but does it make more sense there and/or happen differently? I own physical copies but I wanna know if anyone else has caught this or if I've just missed something in the first three episodes
Ok maybe I'm wrong but in the banana fish anime, season 1 ep 4, roughly 9:20 seconds in, Ibe asks "what is it" and Eiji responds "it's what the man that was killed handed to Ash" but when would Eiji have been told that??? We've seen every interaction they've had so far and this hasn't had a reason to come up. (Unless I've forgotten something-) HOW DOES HE KNOW ASH GOT IT FROM THAT GUY WHO DIED????
I haven't read the manga in a minute but does it make more sense there and/or happen differently? I own physical copies but I wanna know if anyone else has caught this or if I've just missed something in the first three episodes
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No way the saint of duty's name is "ortus" lmaoo. I'm calling it now that beef boy's name is GIDEON and Harrow's mind is just blocking it out for some reason. And I bet it was him that paper in the first book was talking about.
I keep seeing the anime title "banana fish" going around and I love that as a title. So I've decided to watch it this week. It sounds like this anime will be a lot of fun shenanigans because honestly what anime wouldn't be fun with a title like that?
Rb because I just made (fake) stained glass of the red bill cipher window and ngl that's the best picture ive seen of it
it just now dawned on me that all Those Windows in the mystery shack are not some clever background design choices, or funny haha easter eggs, or visual puns, or chekhov's guns
that is a house Ford in-universe canonically built with his own hands.
he. he made those.
"The lackluster fight turned in the third round when Paul landed jabs and a few combinations as Tyson looked every bit of his 58 years of age.
The near-capacity crowd booed the final decision and even walked out at the final bell. The best Tyson did was stalk Paul, 27, in the first round and landed a handful of punches. But for the rest of the fight he moved around, bit the thumb of his boxing glove and watched as Paul beat him.
According to Netflix’s statistics, Paul landed 78 punches to Tyson’s 18. Paul kept his distance by using his jab and combinations but in the early going he clinched Tyson several times, expecting the Tyson of old’s knockout power."
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Hey, can uh US democracy NOT DIE TODAY??? WTF HOW IS IT THIS CLOSE. HOW.
How does anyone have less than 100??? AND LIKE A FORTH OF YOU HAVE UNDER 10????
I'm a strong believer of my favorite fic is what I'm feeling rn. There is simply too many fics that I love and are well written, so my favorite is often whichever I feel like rereading at that moment
The most interesting thing about Ash and Yut-Lung's relationship to me is the potential that never got realized and the regrets that may come from that.
They were so alike and could have helped each other but that didn't happen. Instead Yut-Lung teamed up with Dino and tried to ruin Ash's life out of petty jealousy. And I have a lot of sympathy for Yut-Lung and I know why he logically would choose to side with an already established powerful person if he wanted his brothers out of the way, and I know how his bitterness toward Ash and Eiji comes from how hurt he's been in the past. But he still did those things and kept going after Ash despite how he'd done basically nothing to him.
And the thing is that Yut-Lung gets to survive. He has Sing who cares about him and wants him to do better. And I wonder if in the future, when he's older and a potentially more sensitive person, if he has regrets. Does he think about how he could've had someone else who would understand him and maybe even care about him? Does he regret burning that bridge before he even noticed it was there?
Simply put, so much could have happened but none of it did and that's the tragedy of it all.