strawberry bee of the pallisades is out to get us blondes ME (with apologies to mitski and sufjan stevens)

do-you-have-a-flag:

No warm ups, no ukulele ability, no breath support just mashing up strawberry blonde and the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us 

Look at you, strawberry blonde, Fields rolling on
I love it when you call my name
Can you hear the bumblebees swarm? Watching your arm
I love it when you look my way

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Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm

take this more like a proof of concept than an actual legit cover of either dsfdfds

Flags this is incredible 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

unpretty:

unpretty:

when i was in middle school nickelodeon on directv broke and it froze on the same frame for five hours. which would not have been so bad, except it was during the episode of spongebob where he goes to live with the jellyfish. specifically the scene where he’s naked and covered in sea urchins and flopping all over the place trying to get them off. and it froze on the frame where spongebob was facedown on the ground, naked. so he was laying there like that in complete silence for five hours. we would change the channel back every so often to see if he’d gotten up, but he was still like that when we went to bed. none of my friends had directv so when i asked them the next day they hadn’t seen it, but my brother and i were pretty convinced that spongebob was dead.

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nicework-bonedaddy:
“coke-and-candy:
“ This seems fair to me, because don’t forget they also provide counseling, after-school activities, social services, and they go to additional teaching courses and seminars to update their techniques and learn...

nicework-bonedaddy:

coke-and-candy:

This seems fair to me, because don’t forget they also provide counseling, after-school activities, social services, and they go to additional teaching courses and seminars to update their techniques and learn how to deal with students with special needs…

So yeah, teachers need to be paid more and before someone shouts “Hey! I know teachers who make $80-100k per year!” Ask yourself this… how long have they been teaching? Do they have a masters degree, are they part of a teacher’s union, do they teach in an affluent area of the district or in a private school? 

People need to stop thinking about the average teacher’s salary being 45k per year, it’s not. Look at the mode of the salaries in your area and it will tell a different story. The administrators are the ones making 100k per year, but new and substitute teachers are making barely 35k a year and that is before you deduct how much they spend to properly supply their classrooms. 

The U.S education system is bullshit because of the way we treat our teachers. They are some of the most important people in society and they need our support and a decent wage. 

My high school sociology teacher told us that she only made about $28k per year after taxes.

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ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

Also, a note: if you are doing random research online for a thing and you find the full text of someone’s dissertation or conference presentation or journal article, please save a copy to archive.org

There’s a Wayback Machine extension for Firefox and it makes archiving stuff like that super, SUPER easy, and I have learned my lesson because there have been WAY too many times that I’ve found a good source and attempted to come back to it a month later only to find that it had disappeared.

Also another note: if you are doing random research online for a thing and you are thinking about buying a book but you aren’t sure if it’s worth it, see if archive.org has it in their library.

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And look, if you DO want it, they’ve got a link to it right there.

For the record: the Archive.Org library is how I got through my first week of classes without textbooks. It turns out they had older editions of my textbooks in the library and I could check them out to read the chapters I needed.

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jaubaius:

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! 

Also, by the car stopping for them, that hedgehog has two other species actively working to help it stay alive for no gain of their own. 

Reminds me of that professor who said the beginning of civilization was when someone took care of another. The broken thigh bone thing.

“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others.” - Margaret Mead

Always a reblog ❤️⭐️

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