The book is 1984, which is neither. It's anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.

Ya know, sometimes I wish the joke *didn’t* write itself.

“Okay, you know what?  I just got back to the planet and I’m too tired to deal with this.  You can find us when you’re ready to talk like a civilized person.”  Dick held his hand out for Jason, who took it, his scowl melting back to a wary look.

“You’re not going anywhere with him.”

“And how are you going to stop me?” Dick asked, raising an incredulous eyebrow.

“You think I’m just going to let you kidnap my son?” Bruce asked, every word clipped and furious.

Dick rolled his eyes and chuckled mirthlessly, “I’m not kidnapping him, he’s my brother—”

“Not legally.”

If the room had been tense before, Bruce had just taken a knife and torn it to shreds.  Jason was gaping, his eyes wide with shock.  Bruce’s face was a roiling mass of emotions, locked behind a seething mask.  Dick—

Dick’s face went blank, smile dying, expression closing off from the split-second of hurt that had bloomed across it.  He let go of Jason’s hand.  “Right,” he said flatly, turning away from them all, “Well, you know how to find me, Little Wing.”

He walked out without another sound.

not to ruin this poll but i love the idea of a FL playthrough youtube channel

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

HELP

To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar. There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems. And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar. It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man's sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.

Classes where most of the credit is in tiny "homework" and "quiz" assignments that are due 3x a week and "in class activities" are the devil's work. Incredible way to rigorously train your brain to forget how to read and write as soon as you are asked to have an original thought or complete a self-paced assignment.

Classes like this are always somehow the most stressful class ever even though everything is low stakes and nothing is challenging. Their purpose appears to be to sabotage your upper level classes by passively draining your mental capacity and making you dumber. God help you if the format of the assignments is difficult for you for some reason, because you will have to do that assignment 400 times and the professor will be completely boggled by the mere idea that disability accommodations might be needed, because they are purposefully designed to be "easy."

I get that classes designed to hold your hand through every. single. step. of reading, studying, researching, and drafting are formatted that way for the benefit of high school students that apparently trained to be steered bodily by an Authority through every step of the learning process, but since self-guided, self-regulated study and writing is going to be expected of you anyway at some point in college, isn't this just making students practice the maladapted skills longer at the expense of the adaptive skills

I'm a college comp teacher and I think you are right on the money. The hardest thing for my first years to adapt to is the self-driven nature of my class and writing prompts. They want to be told what to write and how to write it to get a good grade; most of them don't understand composition as a process of learning to translate your thinking into writing or have had it pressed out of them by the educational system (typically in middle or HS). they're all more than capable of this kind of work and usually find it freeing but they have to get over the mental block first.

exactly like I have soooo much sympathy for the students leaving the NIGHTMARE that is high school without a clue in the world how to have their own independent thoughts or how to complete work without highly invasive levels of control and surveillance, but formatting college classes to be more overbearing and less independent is hurting them and everyone else.

they think they're rewarding "engagement" and willingness to "participate" but it's actually just punishing anyone who learns in a slightly non-typical way.

If my professor says "The test is in 2 weeks, study for it" I can do that however I like in a way that is suited to me, but if my professor says "okay do this group discussion and complete this worksheet and fill out this packet and watch these videos and post a short response and do this quiz and and and and" that is literally just eating into the time I have available to study for the test.

It feels like it's making my brain cells die because instead of evaluating for myself how well I understand something and what I need to study, my mental effort is being expended by remembering to complete a thousand things that are mostly evaluated based on whether I did them or not.

maybe this sounds callous but if a student just doesn't study for a test at all unless they are forced to that's on them? A college student is an adult? If they don't know how to study there's plenty of resources to help and college is mostly a safe environment to learn to ASK for help with things you don't know how to do?

also rewarding perfect compliance with the formatting of every study/practice assignment is bad IMO because it makes it hard for you to learn what actually helps you. Like if you're being basically forced to study a certain way and you do poorly on the exam you don't have a lot of room to troubleshoot like "hmm maybe studying in groups with other people is actually distracting to me instead of helpful" because you don't have a choice.

I'm autistic. We didn't know it. I had a D in the spanish classes I took for failing to keep track of all those mini quezzes or turn in this worksheet or that one. I also got a state award for being the upper single percentile of Second lang Spanish Speakers of my year when actually tested. That class was never about how much of the language we understood it was about being Graded on Executive Function and Go Getter Participation Attitude.

Corporate friendly personality skills training instead of actual competence in the subject matter. Building hundreds of salesmen and no technicians and then wondering who the hell is gonna do all the work to make stuff to sell?

Like if your thing is People Skills, cool. (I had to build it as a special interest myself) But it cannot and should NOT be everyone's thing and not having it shouldn't fail you out of a program designed to make good sales talkers and cubicle cogs when said program claims to be measuring Learning.

yes, there are that many really disabled people on the internet actually

When I was less sick I used to think, "It seems like such a large portion of people on the internet are disabled, it can't possibly be that large of a percentage of the population" and then let my ableism demons tell me it was because they were faking (the same ones that told me I was faking, until I made myself really ill.)

But now that I'm sicker and wiser I realize I was logically just wrong because

Anyway maybe this will help you understand and/or explain to abled friends and family.

I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it's SO good to learn fanfiction history.

the thing I hate about how some people ask diagnostic questions for autism is the phrasing. for example, someone once asked "do you often like to wear ear/headphones or ear plugs?" and no, I don't. I hate wearing them because i get super paranoid and start having very bad intrusive thoughts. on that superficial level, I would say no, I do not like to wear those. but that's not what the question actually means. the root of the question is really just "do loud or repeated noises irritate you?" but for some reason, people like to say it in the most sly underhanded way possible. asking those serious intentioned questions in such a obscure way completely ignores people with multiple disorders. it assumes everyone is completely the function standard human who is only experiencing one issue at a time, rather than a complex divergent person

The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

It's "mne-eeh-t." "Mne-eht" said with that soft tongue on the upper palette French sound or "mee-yet". I put the "n" because the pretty tongue roll on the "y" kinda sounds "n"-like to me.

I've been saying it Mee-yet in my head. Like the French word for "crumb."

i think at the end of every war they should dump a cooler full of blood on the president

I think every week the US is at war the president should have to kill a random aide with a hatchet.

"There is a young man, probably a Navy officer, who accompanies the President. This young man has a black attaché case which contains the codes that are needed to fire nuclear weapons. I could see the President at a staff meeting considering nuclear war as an abstract question. He might conclude: 'On SIOP Plan One, the decision is affirmative, Communicate the Alpha line XYZ.' Such jargon holds what is involved at a distance.

My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, 'George, I'm sorry but tens of millions must die.' He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It's reality brought home.

When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, 'My God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President's judgment. He might never push the button.'"

--Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, 1981

holy fucking shit