Masha The Hero

They forgot the part where the ambulance actually stopped to let the cat in

oh good I was worried

What a good cat. What a kind cat. How can anyone not love cats they are so good and loving.

they also forgot the part where they only found the baby because masha was screaming her head off bc she knew this baby was in danger. she went around outside the alley the next morning and yelled at passerby until she got one to follow her to the baby. she kept him warm all night and then made sure someone found him. she was adopted after this bc she was a stray and is in a loving home and is a hero

Hero cat

Thank you, Masha, you’re such a good girl.

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Kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they pile up.

Cats see us as colony members.

Masha saw a kitten that was on its own, no mommy, no other kittens to cuddle with. She instinctively knew that was a cold kitten. She knew that a kitten alone on a cold night was very likely to die. Because a kitten would have died too.

So, all she was doing was what any good colony member does - protecting the abandoned kitten. Then when the abandoned kitten’s mommy didn’t come back, she called the rest of the colony for help.

People have this bizarre idea that housecats don’t have a social sense. They do, and it saved this kid’s life. And possibly Masha’s too, as life on the streets is dangerous for a kitty.

We say “good dog” all the time, but Masha was being a very, very good cat…not just by human moral standards but by feline ones.

In The Departed (2006), Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg play two different characters— a subtle nod to them being two different actors, despite my wife being unable to tell them apart on the first viewing of the movie.

op this is the funniest post you’ve made yet

Lmfaooooo

i can understand the use of large house for a family but what do those single rich fucks with the goddamn true mansions do with all that space exactly? like let's table all valid criticisms of the spending and constructing of them aside and just focus on what exactly you do with that space

As a real estate photographer I can tell you with a confidence that most of that space is entirely unused. Extra kitchens which have never seen a meal, billiards rooms with untouched felt, an office that no one has ever worked in, a second, or third family room, that no family member has spent any significant amount of time in. I once shot a place with a walk-in closet so large the dude had an 8-person dining room table in the middle of it.. like.. no one is hanging out in your closet homie.. maybe downsize?

this is a fantastic answer, thank you for replying. sadly it confirmed my fears that these people are all insane

See this is the most depressing thing about rich people, they don’t even do it right. I’d have a whole room of dollhouses. How do they not do that, isn’t that like, the whole point of money

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This woman has too much power and she is wielding it exactly like I would want her to

Holy fucking shit, I did not realize they were the same person until EXACTLY just now

Kenneth Cole ad, 1996

swing and a miss, ken

I think toy doctors are so nice actually like i remember being a little heartbroken kid when one of my beloved stuffed animals got old and torn up and my mom just threw him out. And i know what it would have meant to me, to have someone lovingly stitch him back up instead so i could love him just a little longer. And I'm really glad there are little kids out there who get to see pictures of their stuffed animals and dolls with little fake hospital beds and casts as they "rest & heal" before returning to them good as new. Like what a sweet thing to do with your life.

This is so nice 🥺

It’s also so good for normalising the idea of illness, hospitals and recovery not being bad or scary places, even if sometimes they’re not very nice, because the people there are doing kind things to make you better so you can go back home. No one knows which kids are going to end up dealing with major traumatic illnesses or injuries, and having a safe framework for the idea of a hospital, a safe, painless, vicarious hospital experience is such valuable preparation

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This thread is gold

Sorry to rant but a lot of the comments are like "haha this student's just mad whatever"

Quite a few professors are so unbelievably confident in their teaching abilities that they refuse to accept any criticisms. A lot of the responses these professors got are mean and unnecessary, but a lot of them don't seem to be taking it on. Something has pushed these students to say what they said. One of the professors even said "A student once climbed out the window to get out of my class" like its a funny joke. How that isn't a wake up call for them, I will never know. If that is happening to you, you need to reevaluate what you're doing.

A lot of professors have never had any formal teaching education, and are placed into these positions purely because of the quality of what they do in their field. Just because someone is a world-reknowned archaeologist and expert in Ancient Egyptian, doesn't mean they are qualified to teach. How would someone coming straight from the field know how to cater to students of differing learning abilities, without formal education on the matter? Why is it that for students aged 4-18 teachers need to complete years worth of training in classrooms and at university to be considered worthy to teach, but once that student has entered university it's their fault if they don't understand the information that's just being read to them from a textbook the professor wrote?

The most fustrating part, I find, was when a professor of mine that I'm fairly close with told me that when the evals, which are anonymous, come in, the professors make a game of matching the negative comments with the failed students. They don't take on anything that is written and brush it off as "oh, they're only mad bc they failed." This is embarrassing and just because you have tenure does NOT mean you are exempt from learning and bettering yourself. I've struggled through years of university. I've had a professor for Egyptian publicly shame students who asked for further explanations. I failed a class due to personal reasons and when I asked the professor just to tell me where I went wrong on the exam so when I redo the class I can do better and instead of answering he told me that I should only come back when I'm prepared to commit. It's been 4 years and I've had these professors over and over again with no change to their behaviour or teaching pattern.

Your job is to teach. Your job is to make information and your knowledge accessable to your students and your job is to help them learn. Sure, if the student doesn't show up or do the homework or something, fine, that's on them, not you. But if you are frequently getting students brave enough to say "I don't understand" then you need to find a way to make them. You are required, in your position, to help them. If your reviews are suggesting what you're doing isn't working, change it or change your job. You are not exempt from bettering yourself and you are not above listening to your students.

As someone who once was deducted grades for not being able to flawlessly perform a Beethoven sonata while SIGHT READING during a class, this by a professor who also punished students with extra course work for sneezing during his class: all this.

[id= tweet by arothmanhistory "Many thanks to the anonymous student who told me, on a course evaluation, 'Your classroom charisma has all the captivating qualities of a house plant, which, I am certain, would teach this course in a more engaging manner if given the opportunity.'"

With a reply from Joanna Grossman that says "I had a colleague once who received this evaluation 'If I had only six months to live, I would want it to be spent in your class because it would feel like an eternity'"

Then the second image is a screenshot of another reply from John I Sanders that says "I love course evaluations. I lived them as a student, and now I love them as a professor. My favorite was 'I wonder what he's really supposed to be doing with his life. This can't be it.'" /end id]

I also want to add on that not only are professors not sufficiently trained as teachers, it's actually sometimes DISCOURAGED.

The only teaching related experience you usually get is TA-ing as a grad student, and students applying to grad school are encouraged to try and find schools that require less TA hours and/or to try to get a research assistant fellowship instead of a teaching assistant fellowship so that they can spend less time TA-ing and more time doing research (also research assistantships are often seen as more prestigious and/or get better stipends).

Recently I was talking with my current PI about how I applied to a specific school because they also have a chemical education program (ie: research into and courses related to how to teach chemistry and how students best learn and understand chemistry) because i wanted to be a good teacher and mentor. He told me it was a noble goal, but a complete waste of time. He said I could be a good teacher without it and that in the future when I tried to get a job as a professor most schools would actually consider me LESS qualified because of it, because they'd see any time I spend on chemical education as wasted time I could have spent on research.

Academia needs a serious attitude adjustment on what their goals and priorities are because right now teaching and being a good and compassionate mentor is not being prioritized like it should be.

ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige

I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”

Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.

when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.

I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.

But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)

And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.

This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.

https://xkcd.com/150/

I would like you all to view my office. I’m thirty and my rainbow room is awesome, people can fight me

I’m thirty and my first big furniture purchase was a custom coffin shaped coffee table that opens up and is lined with purple crushed velvet. I would have loved it at 13 and I love it now. Growing up doesn’t mean you have to abandon what makes you happy.

GROWING UP DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.