But not ALL....
If your response to Israel's brutality is to center how this affects Jews, you're part of the problem. If your response to "Free Palestine!" is to whine & cry "but not all Jews!" instead of "Yes! Free Palestine!" then you're part of the problem. If you are invested in maintaining zionism as an acceptable political position without being willing to own that position yourself, you're not only part of the problem, but you're a fucking coward.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.
THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.
The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.
AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.
THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.
YOOOOOOO
I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS
LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL
IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS
holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS.
I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT
SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP
WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????
ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE
OKAY I SWEAR TO GOD THIS THING WORKS YOU HAVE TO PATIENT BC I WISHED THAT I COULD MOVE AWAY FROM MY SHITTY TOWN TO A WARM PLACE AND GUESS WHAT THIS JULY IM MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA OKAY GUYS IM NOT MAKING THIS UP I AM SO CONFUSED ACTUALLY THIS IS GREAT BYE
LEMME TELL U SOMETHING THIS SHIT WORKS
Ooooooo it does!!! Making another wish!!!
Imma try this
Guys this actually works. Im making another wish ☄
🥀🌟
Make a wish🌟
Is this more of an app review or a book review? Today I bring you a review of Beelinguapp, an audiobooks app for language learners.
Sometimes studying can be a boring drag and you just want to do something a little less tedious than drilling grammar or a ton of vocab flashcards. Maybe you want to get into reading books in your language of choice, but you’re worried that it might be too hard to just pick up a book written in your chosen language and read it without guidance. In that case, I could recommend this app to you!
As I already said, this is an audiobook app. There are free stories and paid ones both available to choose from. There are stories of all different types and difficulties, including classics and even sciency stuff, as you can see in the above image! The cool thing is that when you choose a story, you can also choose which languages to download it in! So far, I’ve downloaded all of my stories in English, Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese. When you go to listen to a story, you can choose what you want your learning language to be and what your reference language is. When you listen to the book, it will be read and displayed to you in the learning language, and you can do split screen so the learning language is on top and the reference language is on bottom. You can mix and match languages, so you could even have two learning languages up at once!
There are a lot of things you can play with as you read. As I already mentioned, there’s the split screen option, and there is a night mode, text magnifier, voice speed control, and text highlight that follows the reader. The text highlight sometimes isn’t timed correctly, however, and of course if the languages you have set as your learning and reference have different word order or other major grammatical differences, you won’t be able to really use the highlight to, for example, match words you don’t know. Still, the highlight does make it easier to follow where the speaker is in the text with your eyes even if the timing is a little off.
As for the actual audio quality, I’ve found it to be passable in all the stories and different languages I’ve tested so far, though some aren’t the absolute best quality. That isn’t to say the audio is bad, just that you can expect to hear some noise in some recordings. I’m assuming that the audio quality will be better with stories that you have to pay to download, but I’m too cheap so I haven’t tried any of those yet :B Anyway, in all of the stories I’ve listened to so far, the narrators speak at reasonable storytelling speeds, and if you aren’t super picky about audio quality, there should be no big problem.
The major downfall of this app is, in my opinion, the lack of a dictionary function. You can long-press words to add them to your own dictionary in the app… but then you have to add a meaning for the word yourself, which is obviously not too helpful at all if you don’t already know what the word means! Sure, maybe you could take a look at the reference language text to see what the word means, but these stories aren’t translated word-for-word and sometimes matching up words between different versions of the same text could be hard. What I think this app really needs is an easy-access dictionary that, if you long-press a word, it pulls up a dictionary entry for that word. Of course, since there are so many stories in so many languages on this app, providing dictionaries for all of them might be hard…
Ultimately, I think this is a pretty good app with a few flaws that, if fixed, would make this a really excellent language-learning tool!
PROS:
CONS:
As always, happy studying <3
The Crocodile Hunter style of writing involves chasing after cool-looking ideas that wander by and tackling them into submission.
I don’t recommend it for the long-term because it’s exhausting, but if there isn’t at least a LITTLE bit of Crocodile Hunter in your writing, I’m probably not going to read it.
everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn. he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit. and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies
I don’t like adding to posts but I also have a funny story like this, so I was watching the movie the Blair witch which takes place in burkettsville maryland, which to me is so funny because that is were my grandfather lives and the town is literally just old people and cows with their main street consisting of a post office. Well anyway he told me that after it came out people were coming in like bus loads to the town to find the witch and my grandfather lives up in the Mountain area and people were up in his property trying to find the witch and it made him angry so he went out and hung up stick people and stacked rocks and it freaked the people out so they started thinking something was out there when really it was my 80 year old Italian grandpa who wanted people out of his woods.
We had ghost hunters come to a historic house in my town to film and if you think every high school kid in town respectfully stayed at home that night instead of going to fuck up that filming you’re dead wrong.
this is comforting, actually, sometimes paranormal things are just a bunch of bored people dicking around in the woods.
New favorite cryptid: locals
Hello, Tumblr. See this thing?
It is the best goddamned thing you’ve seen all day.
Say hello to the Infinite Jukebox, an experiment in looping songs. See those curves cutting through the circle? What this bad boy does is analyze the song for similar beats and sounds, then randomly skips between said beats forever.
Yes, you heard me. Forever. With this piece of musical genius, you can literally play the same song for as long as you want - It will create the song that never ends.
Some examples include:
And if that’s not enough, you can upload your own MP3s to this bitch and it’ll loop those as well.
Have fun, kids.
heads up - you can’t put this in a tab in chrome, then switch to a different tab and forget about it, because it’ll stop. But if you open it in its own window it’ll happily go on indefinitely.
INFINITE WHATS NEW PUSSYCATS
YOU COULD DO ANYTHING WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY BUT YOU DO THAT WHYYYY
This is INCREDIBLE
Having auditory processing difficulties can be difficult, but you know what? I’ve managed to avoid having obnoxious pop music stuck in my head for most of my life because whenever I’m in public and it’s playing, I miss the tune and all I hear is low-key mumbling hellnoise.
And now for an announcement from your friendly neighborhood IT worker.
If you use Ad Block Plus, you should uninstall it and download and install uBlock Origin immediately. (There are Firefox versions of all the extensions I’ll talk about here, just google ‘em. And some for IE, Edge and Opera.)
Ad Block Plus is now now only letting advertisers pay them to whitelist some ads, but is now letting advertisers pay them to put their own ads on websites INSTEAD of what you would normally see on that website.
Please remember that it’s possible to spread malware, including Crypotowall type malware, through ads on websites. Yes, ads are how websites make most to all of their revenue, but until ads can be trusted to not destroy your machine, you should not view them if possible.
Please make sure you get uBlock Origin and not just uBlock.
I also suggest installing a flash blocker like FlashControl. This will keep flash from automatically loading on websites you visit. Unfortunately, malware can be spread through just about any version of flash. Make sure you keep flash up to date, as well. FlashControl will be slightly disruptive to your browsing habits, but most things will load with just a single click. You can always disable it on a website if it’s being too disruptive somewhere.
If you really want to protect your privacy, install Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger will stop trackers / cookies from knowing who you are and where you’ve been on the internet. It also can be slightly disruptive, so if a site isn’t working correctly, disable one or both of FlashControl and Privacy Badger.
Even if you don’t want to do FlashControl and Privacy Badger, PLEASE do yourself a favor and move to uBlock Origin. Hope this helps!
Please read. Ad Block has sold you out to the ad industry, and this is not an exaggeration. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/adblock-plus-wants-serve-you-ads-wait-what-1581285
fact checked. yep, it’s for real. uninstalling asap.
Not sure how old these replies might be. Thoughts?
I see people confuse these things all the time, so this is just an attempt to differentiate them. Because I have them both. And they’re worlds apart, completely different, even though sometimes they have similar results ona superficial level.
Auditory Processing Disorders
So a lot of people know about CAPD, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, and a lot of autistic people are diagnosed with it, or could be diagnosed with it. CAPD basically means that whether or not you have any actual hearing problem, your brain has trouble making sense out of what you hear. It often results in problems like:
And that’s just a short list of problems, there’s a lot more. But basically the thing about auditory processing disorders is that they are not language disorders. They affect your ability to understand language through auditory channels. If they’re severe enough, they can prevent learning language for the same reason that a hearing loss can prevent learning language. But they are not, themselves, language problems. They’re hearing problems, they’re just brain-based hearing problems instead of ear-based hearing problems.
Receptive language problems
Receptive language problems mean trouble comprehending language. This means language in all of its forms: spoken, written, or sign language, although depending on the person, some of those may be easier or harder than others for various reasons. But basically, a receptive language problem isn’t based in hearing, it’s based in the words themselves.
The best way I can contrast an auditory processing disorder with a receptive language disorder is by extremes:
1. You hear all the sounds in the words perfectly, you have no trouble differentiating any of the consonants, you have no trouble with any aspect of actually hearing the words. If you wanted, you could repeat back the words verbatim with no trouble. And yet you can get no meaning out of the words at all.
2. You understand that words are supposed to have meaning, you can think the words just fine, things like that. But when you actually hear the words, they sound jumbled, garbled, muttered, mumbled, or like gibberish, or you have trouble differentiating some of the words from others, or things like that. But you know they’re words and you can get meaning out of them if you could only hear them properly.
The first is a receptive language problem.
The second is an auditory processing problem.
When I was growing up, I had severe receptive language problems and much milder auditory processing problems (and severe visual processing problems). They interact with each other in various ways, but they are not the same thing.
Having a receptive language problem means that you have trouble understanding all language. Sometimes it even means that you don’t know language exists, or could exist. Words are just sounds – sounds that you may be able to make out perfectly well, but they don’t have meaning. And that’s the difference: Whether the problem is the sound, or whether the problem is that you can’t get meaning out of words. A receptive language problem is a problem of meaning, not a problem of sensory processing.
Severe enough sensory processing issues can lead to receptive language problems, though. Because if you can’t process sound well enough to hear words, you’re not going to hear the words, and you’re not going to develop the ability to understand words unless you find some alternate way to get words into your brain. But there’s still a difference – receptive language problems that arise on their own, are a core cognitive issue, not a hearing or visual issue.
Receptive language problems can do very strange things to cognitive and language development. Some people with receptive language problems can become accomplished mimics who can parrot back what we know other people expect to hear, and mask those problems altogether. (This is apparently a known thing that even happens to people who lose receptive language during brain injuries and the like: It can sometimes take really specific testing to keep them from fooling you into believing they understand every word you’re saying.) Other people with receptive language problems aren’t able to compensate in that way.
Receptive language problems often change in intensity over time, or even over the course of a day, so at some times a person may understand language relatively well, and at another time they may not be able to understand it at all.
My situation at this point in my life is that I can understand language, but it’s always a struggle to do it. It’s like every time I have to understand language, I’m climbing a cliff. And every time I have to pay attention to something else I let go and fall back down to the ground, where language doesn’t exist. And then if I want to understand language I have to climb the cliff again.
Sometimes I’m not able to make the climb, or to make the climb as high as other people.
My receptive language problems also shaped the entire form of my expressive language to the point that speech is unusable and writing is usable but difficult, and that’s a whole nother story in itself.
But basically I hear people throwing around the words ‘receptive language problems’ and 'auditory processing problems’ interchangeably. And most of the time it seems like they’re actually talking about auditory processing problems. I’ve found that among autistic people online, auditory processing problems seem much more common than serious receptive language problems. This is probably because only some people with serious receptive language problems manage to outgrow or overcome them enough to communicate easily online. Whereas lots and lots of people with auditory processing problems learn language and have fewer problems with communicating online. So in online groups of people, CAPD is going to be more heavily represented than severe receptive language problems.
But lots of people have both, and people can have mild receptive language problems as well. And for many autistic people, receptive language becomes iffy under stress, even if the rest of the time it seems fine. Sort of like expressive language can go away under stress even in people with no significant delays in expressive language early in life.
Anyway, I hope I’ve made it easier to differentiate between the two. And I hope I haven’t just added to the confusion. My brain is kind of iffy at the moment, because I’m sleepy.
Reblog if you have ever been scolded as a child (and as an adult) for not realizing that someone was talking to you.
“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org
And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.
(via cwnl)
Fun fact: SAT tests predict college performance pretty well for men, but they strongly underpredict college performance for women. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/20/1948550612469038.abstract
HMMMM
(via brute-reason)
I think I’ve reblogged this before, but that study needs to be shared.
I don’t know if I will be a published author someday, let alone a published author of a blockbuster decade-defining cultural pillar but jesus, I hope I have more grace about it than jk rowling
With unexpected bills, an overdraft fee, having to pay groceries (a very small amount, we are hungry), housing… we now have my bank account with close to nothing in it and my partner’s is now -$55 (negative $55), which I clearly can’t pay off anymore and the fee is just going to keep piling up every day. The overdraft happened because he couldn’t figure out how to unsubscribe to Pandora. My son is still only getting one small Christmas present that I got him last month, surprise bills just kept popping up and we could never afford a good present… We’re trying to sell all of our belongings but my car broke down and we can’t get anywhere. Obviously, we can’t pay for the car repairs. There is no public transportation in the area. I am beyond stressed out and terrifed and angry at my partner for bringing me into debt too for being incredibly irresponsible. Somebody on here tried to convince me to give this a try last week and I was being stubborn because last time I did this (when we first started to become this poor, about 3 months ago) nobody reblogged and I felt terrible and like a huge burden, but now we honestly really have no other choice… we’ve been trying to get out of this ourselves for too long, so I’m sharing my donation pool…
I’m really sorry for asking. If anybody donates, I’d like to thank you from the bottom of my heart… reblogs are very much appreciated. I wish that everyone else has a wonderful and worry free holiday season.
This is genuine (and it took a lot of courage for MC to write). Please, anyone who is in the means to help, lend a helping hand to a sincerely struggling, autistic mother and child this Christmas. No-one, NO-ONE, deserves to go hungry over the Holidays. If you can’t help, please reblog, reblog, reblog!!!
Thank you so much for doing this
imagine big bang theory, but in family guy’s art style
i tried to read this but my entire body got sent to hell so i dont know what it says
Five years ago, a fall down a staircase left me confined to bed for life, requiring 24 hour care I can’t afford. [Medical reports]. Without compensation to pay for healthcare, my existing deterioration would continue and at the age of 22, I am terrified of being forced into a nursing home by far more debilitating impairments in a few years’ time.
The compensation outcome will depend on upcoming medicolegal assessments, to determine if the fall caused my condition. Prior payment is needed and ONLY 15 DAYS remain to gradually raise the required $9,407 by Jan 4 (ET). Delays could lead to dire consequences: i.e. forfeiting the compensation claim and paying OVER $20,000 in Defendant’s legal costs.
honestly fuck any media about disabled people that assumes there aren’t any in the audience
