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Mikasa: Good morning.

Armin: Good morning!

Levi: Good morning.

Hanji: You all sound like a bunch of robots, “good morning, good morning”, spice it up a bit!

Eren, overhearing and kicking the door down: HEY MOTHERFUCKERS!

i went to a small private school in bumfuck, alabama, and we had a rite of passage. in 10th grade, every student took chemistry with Mr. Jenne, and every year, he showed his students a short video. the older students refused to tell the younger students what the video was, so by the time we got to chemistry, we were all super curious about it.

Mr. Jenne would go through the syllabus and explain how his class worked, then he'd drag out an old tv set and put an ancient vhs tape into an equally ancient vcr (i graduated in 2005; we knew what dvds were, but i don't think this was ever put on dvd). finally, he'd turn out the lights, and let us watch The Consequences of Our Choices, aka

The Pump

afterwards, when we were completely and utterly confused, he'd explain the metaphor. Mr. Jenne said he could always tell who had primed the pump by studying and who was going to die in the desert because they'd been cheating.

somewhere around December, when it was time for exams, he'd show it to us again. after that, he'd show it to us at random intervals -- if he needed to leave the room for a bit, if we finished the lesson early (ha!), or the next time we had exams in May. He also taught organic chemistry and physics, and you can bet your sweet ass i took both of those classes. i got to watch The Pump quite a few times.

Mr. Jenne passed away about a decade ago. He's still one of my all time favorite teachers because he taught us how to think, not what to think, and he didn't hold it against us when we thought something he didn't agree with (unless it was something provable, like science. he would've mercilessly mocked anti-maskers).

the older of my 2 little sisters starts 10th grade at my high school soon, so i did what any good sister would -- i made her watch The Pump. after i explained the metaphor and how much all of Mr. Jenne's students came to love the weird little video, she immediately started texting the link to her friends.

so, after a decade, i brought The Pump back to my school. I feel like I've reintroduced an endangered species to its native habitat.

(yeah, The Pump was originally about Christianity and Jesus and all that crap, and it was put out by the Mormons, but when i see this, i think science, not religion. but i tagged it religion, anyway, just in case)

God making Midoriya's interaction with literally any character in BNHA:

Chrome extensions I actually use as a mentally ill university student

Making websites easier to digest:

Dark Reader - Changes any webpage to dark mode.

Mercury Reader - Simplifies the layout of any webpage to eliminate distractions and irritating formatting.

Podcastle AI - Turns any article into a podcast. This is a lifesaver for being able to process what I’m reading, to be honest.

Spelling/grammar:

LanguageTool - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who regularly type in more than one language.

Grammarly - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who only type in English. Can be used with LanguageTool installed, which is what I do.

Google Dictionary - Define any word on the webpage with a double-click.

Google Translate - Translate an entire webpage or even just a short segment.

Misc:

AdGuard Adblocker - After trying quite a few adblocker options, this is the one I find the best.

The Great Suspender - Automatically suspend inactive tabs to help with performance. <- as an edit, I don’t believe this is available anymore

Honey - Try coupon codes automatically to save money on online purchases.

Built-in Chrome tab grouping - Group your tabs to keep organized and minimize distracting clutter.

Chan: Hey, have you seen Felix and Jisung? I haven't seen them since yesterday.

Changbin: Same here. I wonder-

*Instagram notification sounds*

[realstraykids is live]

Changbin, sighing: Found them.

Felix & Jisung: [recording outside Area 51] RELEASE THE ALIENS MOTHERFUCKERS

“ Eremin is canon,“ I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

"He’s right,” they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row, Hajime Isayama himself

Look at the cardigan Midoriya is wearing

it’s light blue, that’s not a Midoriya color, that’s a Todoroki color

And we all know that Midoriya doesn’t wear long sleeves, he’s a T-shirt boy first and foremost

But it’s around November here and likely getting a bit chilly, and who do we know that has a wardrobe almost exclusively of turtlenecks and cardigans?

So let me just say...

Boyfriend Cardigan

what i read in february 2022:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & economy

what coming out of the ‘caste closet’ was like

world food prices are climbing closer toward a record high

i was surrounded by ‘final girls’ in school, knowing i’d never be one (usa)

petrópolis: a perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality (brazil)

gender & sexuality

why were scientists so slow to study covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

bimbofication is taking over. what does that mean for you?

hollywood played a role in hypersexualising asian women

politics, climate change, & covid

‘whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the taliban’s return to power (afghanistan)

the vietnamese workers japan depends on are falling through the cracks

britain’s ownership of the chagos islands has no basis, mauritius is right to claim them

despite climate goals, europe’s 25 largest banks continue to invest billions in oil and gas

history, culture, & media

‘i remember the feeling of insult’: when britain imprisoned its wartime refugees

archaeologists in egypt discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’

the good place and bojack horseman died as they lived

‘death knows no colour’: the forgotten african soldiers of wwii

ukraine

i’m in kyiv and awake at the darkest hour – as putin’s bombs rain down

dictators aren’t pretending anymore

‘the hope is finished’: life in the ukrainian separatist regions of donetsk and luhansk

how suicide became the hidden toll of the war in ukraine

nigeria condemns treatment of africans

rb this to give the person you reblogged from a very tiny frog

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