art hoe things:

Alyssa Hillary, Criptiques (via stimmyabby)

I caved and put the ZR characters into the hunger games simulator. Some highlights:

power couple

phil no

this is going to end well.

no one messes with sam’s runners.

…except maybe the runners themselves.

that’s right, working together like the badasses they are

oh sHIT

wait WHAT

let’s not get cocky there, five. it’s just a snuggle.

aww.

WAIT W H A T

that’s right asshole, you better feel guilty

what a fucking surprise.

what if we had vision like bats, like:

hey what do you think of my haircut

JSUT  A FUCKIN SECOND LEMEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT LOOKS GREAT HAROLD

your fave is problematic… hydromatic… ultramatic… why it could be greased lightning!!!!

first rule of fight club

this was so cute lma o and made me giggle

This makes me happy haha

Alex Garant x The People’s Printshop.

Alex Garant has just released a gorgeous hand embellished print entitled “Kaleidoscope” with The People’s Printshop.  She customized each and every print with acrylics, pencils and metallic inks.  Check it out!

I made a new straight pride flag. please put this on your blog if you support the straights. i’ve seen too much heterophobia on tumblr and i want to know who our allies are uwu. WE NEED PROTECTION TOO!!

No! No, no, no, no, no! Do you know what this will do? This will make every above-average student choose between being an unpaid, uncredited tutor or an unpaid source of cheating. I have been in group projects in non-ability-segregated classes. I have almost always ended up either doing all the work or being teacher or taskmaster to the other students. This produces results that look good on paper. It does not produce real learning.

Also, yes math tracking sometimes allows kids to gain status. So do varsity sports. Who cares? Allow me some verifiable signal of my abilities, please.

(Sorry for the outrage. Every time I see education proposals, I picture me being born a few years later and having to deal with the results of the proposals. I know, typical mind fallacy, sorry. Needs of the many and whatnot. But I still don’t think this is a good idea, we need to get people who actually know math somehow.)

Boldface mine because AAAAHHHHHH.

When I was in high school, the district next to mine did away with tracking, with the explicit goal of turning students into uncredited tutors. “We hope that high-achieving students will serve as role models to their lower-achieving peers.” Besides the obvious issue of holding higher-achieving kids back, it also makes lower-achieving kids feel like shit. You can’t coerce higher performance by comparing kids to their peers.

The only real issue I have with tracking is that it can be difficult to change your track. I don’t think kids should be pigeonholed if they’re slow at first and catch up later. But JESUS CHRIST, forcing everyone into the middle is not a solution.

Or the other way around!

I would probably have learned a lot more math if they’d been willing to drop me into lower math classes. 

i chime in with a haven’t you people ever heard of

man door hand hook car door

Ode to Spot, Data Stardate 46154.2 (via trekuniverse)