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rip calvin coolidge, you would have loved cosplay 😖
The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River in order to build the Garrison Dam.
The final settlement legislation denied tribes’ right to use the reservoir shoreline for grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area.
After the dam was constructed, the three tribes were scattered, their communities and extended families flung to different shores of the 200-mile-long Lake Sakakawea.
This is what your freedom and democracy is built on.
Love how they're trying to get rid of OSHA right while my US History class is learning about dangerous factory conditions from the Industrial Revolution. We hear about how a young girl fell into a machine and was horrifically dismembered, meanwhile there's conversations going on in DC about getting rid of the act that was made to try and prevent that from happening... I think these politicians need to take a 9th/10th grade US History class because clearly they know nothing about what things were like before all these measures they are trying to get rid of.
i have a teacher kinda like this and i feel like she’s under appreciated
To the hero professors
So, I’m taking U.S. History one and two over the summer at my community college, and the professor is this older white man. Naturally, this is history, and my first assumption walking in to the class is that I’m gonna be stuck listening to this guy drone on for two months of boredom. Great.
Within the first five minutes I knew I was wrong. So, so wrong.
“I don’t want you to be stuck memorizing dates,” he says. “I want you to know the story, the people, the conditions and reactions so that maybe we can all learn from past mistakes.” I was baffled. A history class that doesn’t require you to be able to rattle off dates? Not only that, there’s no homework and we don’t have to read the text book. The only things that are going to be on the test are things that come straight out of his mouth during class. He introduces himself, and proceeds to go around the room and greets every person one at a time. He will do this every day for the rest of the summer one and two semesters.
Then the lecture begins. I say lecture, but it feels more like story time in kindergarten. He begins to speak with such prose and personality that I forget this is a college course. He’s taken something that has so much potential to be mundane and turned it in to a book that I can’t put down. You bibliophiles know what I’m talking about. And then this glorious fucker ends the class in a mid-sentence cliffhanger.
Every class he carries on this way. It feels as if I’m there. Signing the Declaration, fighting against brothers in the Civil War, listening to FDR’s fireside chats, storming the beaches of Normandy… And he remains unbiased. He wants to make sure we see there’s two sides to every story; understand the conditions that lead to those reactions.
We took a test today, a week from our final exam. He goes around the room in his usual affable fashion, but rather than just ask how we’re doing, today he asks if there’s anything he can do for us. Most folks like myself say something along the lines of nothing, or I’m good. This girl next to me jokingly says, “You can buy me a coffee.”
“How much is it?” He asks.
“About five dollars.” She answers.
And without hesitation, this professor, this wonderful man with a love of teaching, and a love of his students, pulls out a fucking twenty dollar bill, hands it to her and just says “Go get your coffee, and bring me the change.” Then continues on his way like it’s nothing.
And it may be nothing. Maybe I’m blowing something small out of proportion. But in a world where it feels as if every class is just dragging you along in the gravel behind it, and the professors seem to just be going through the motions; to see someone actually do something kind and ask nothing in return is so refreshing and uplifting.
I don’t know. Maybe this is just a boring shit post, but I really needed to share my appreciation for this hero of a teacher. A teacher who after over 30 years of teaching is still happy with what he does.
tl;dr: Some teachers leave a long lasting impact on your life; change the way you think, the way you see the world. Appreciate them for what they are. The unsung heroes of a failing education system.
Learning about the Great Depression in US History when you're a person who's part of multiple fandoms is like:
Joey Drew was the cause of the depression as Alastor just sat back and watched while they both laughed at society's suffering, everyone else being disappointed in the two of them.
I'd like to see literally anyone disagree, because am I really even wrong?
“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960
via reddit
We don't talk enough about the implications of the annual Thanksgiving presidential turkey pardon
The thing that the turkey is getting pardoned /from/ is being Thanksgiving dinner, the thing the turkey is being pardoned for is a mystery. What are turkeys' crime that gives them the death penalty unless pardoned mr president? Is being a turkey an inherent crime? They were nearly the national bird!
Also, after a turkey attacked a president during the pardon ceremony, the turkeys that will be pardoned in the future are bred and raised to be docile and calm in front of large crowds and next to the potus, indicating that birds can be artificially selected to be genetically capable of being legally freed from their original sin of being born a turkey
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(總算是畫完了，這真是一項大工程啊… 在對話那邊做了一些改動，X從另一個時空的林變成一顆類星體了呢…) Read from left to right.
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Sorry if things look a bit wonky.
(總算是畫完了，這真是一項大工程啊… 在對話那邊做了一些改動，X從另一個時空的林變成一顆類星體了呢…) Read from left to right.
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Sorry if things look a bit wonky.
(Planning on drawing on a small comic about this. The 'X' refers to the Lincoln who was assassinated)
林肯: 瑪麗, 這劇還可以嗎? 我是挺喜歡的.
林肯: 呀! 這是整部劇最精彩的地方啊!
布: 這就是暴君的下場.......永別-
X: *轟!*
林肯: 欸? 怎麼回事?
林肯: 這男的是誰? 還-還有一個和我一模一樣的人?
林肯: 你-你怎麼回事? 你是誰? 從何而來?
X: *朝林肯豎中指隨後縱身一躍*
林肯: 他- 他跳下去了! 這裡可是二樓啊! *向下看去*
林肯: 嗯? 消失了....? 就這麼憑空消失了? ----- X: 嗯? 我可沒有使用發射器啊?
?: 你應該很清楚這裡是哪裡和自己為什麼在這裡吧?
X: 這裡是黑洞內部也就是奇點吧, 把我送到這鳥不拉屎的地方幹啥呀? 別問了, 我干擾了歷史的進程, 創造了一個平行時空對吧?
?: "擅自", 還有擅自破壞並改造工具, 你那把是我原本給你的時間裂縫發射器對吧, 你居然還把他改造成了一把獵槍, 真有你的啊臭小子.
X: 哎呦那不是為了搞掉那個叫布斯的人類嗎? 要得到那寶貝不方便, 就只能先用手邊的工具進行魔改咯~
X: 呃嗚- 你幹嘛?!
?: 時間裂縫發射器, 沒收.
?: 我現在要去處理你所創造出來的時空, 在此之前, 好好反省自己的所作所為, 直到我將你釋放出來.
X: 知道了知道了, 你快走吧~
?: ......(一如既往的悠哉. 嘖, 好羨慕.....) *離開*
X: ......嘖, 終於走了, 那瘋女人.....
X: 嗯....要在這鬼地方等上多久呢? 幾億年? 幾兆年? 穰? 澗? 那由他? 不可思議?
X: .......管他丫的, 先打個盹兒把. ----- ?: .......你可是我最喜歡的學徒啊......沒想到你會為了這種小事改變歷史....
(Eng. Translation below 👇)
Lincoln: ....Hey, Mary, is this play alright for you? I thought you’d like it.
Lincoln: Ah look! The best part of the entire play!
Booth: Sic semper tyrannis.....Farewell, Mr-
X: *Fires launcher*
Lincoln: Wait- wh- what’s going on here?!
Lincoln: Who- who is this man? And another man that looks- just like me?!
Lincoln: What are you up to? Who are you? Where-
X: *makes a middle finger and jumps out of the box*
Lincoln: He- he jumped off......This is the second floor!! *Looks down from the balcony*
Lincoln: Ah....he....disappeared, out of thin air.....??? ----- X: What? I didn’t use the launcher this time!
?: You clearly know where you are and why you’re here, don’t you?
X: I know~ this is the bottom of black hole a.k.a the “singularity”~ why did you send me to this godforsaken place anyway? Hold on, I know, I altered with the course of history and created a whole new timeline, right?
?: “Without authorization”, and unauthorized modification of tools. That was the Time Rift Launcher I gave to you, right? And you managed to turn it into a shotgun, amazing job, little shit.
X: Aw, I needed a gun to get rid of Booth! But it was hard to get one at that time, so I had to modify the launcher-
X: Hnnerg!! Wh- what are you doing?!
?: Time Rift Launcher, confiscated.
?: I have to go get rid of the timeline you created, and from now on, reflect on your actions until I decide to get you out.
X: I know, I know~ Just leave already~ I can’t reflect if you’re here~
?: .....(As carefree as ever, damn, I envy you so bad.) *leaves*
X: .....Finally, she left, what a lunatic....
X: Hah~ how long do I have to wait here anyway? A hundred million? A billion? Quintillion? Decillion? Novemdecillion? Googolplex?
X: .......Whatever.....I’ll just take a nap first...... ----- ?: ......You were my most favorite apprentice......can't believe you altered the course of history for such a trivial matter....
(When Ardea was first made.)
Abraham sliced some of his parts off, melts it and then recasted it, then he took some samples of his microbes, rewrote the genes, and implant it on the recasted part, then he just wait for it to grow.
Bedtime Story
The Fantastic Reality of Aesop: Non-World Harmonize
(Just a small story I wrote based on the song) And then Perio went to the church, only to discover piles of dead robots, and a small robot holding another one's corpse, crying and pleading for mercy. As one of the Rebels, Perio knows he has to kill her, but her sincerity shook him to the core, his faith wavered. "No one is at fault! The world is at fault! All of us are!" She cried out, just at the moment Perio pulled the trigger…. Watching her lifeless body, Perio pondered "What does it mean to be human?"
Lincoln reading to Ardea so she can learn how to speak and read eventually.
行為模式和外觀
德米爾(Demir)是來地球最久的，但是大多時間都是一個人行動。通常都是偽裝成普通人躲在人群中同時觀察他們的行動，因此他對人類有一定程度的理解，不過說到偽裝他是最厲害的，是連人體最複雜的系統都完美復刻的程度。(可惜了，你的金屬血液還是出賣了你。)
亞伯拉罕(Abraham/Abe)因為和人類相處時間較久(幾乎是天天打交道的程度)所以和人類很相近，外觀上也是一樣(牙齒和內部除外)。
阿爾迪亞(Ardea)是亞伯將身體一部分削下來，重組基因然後拼湊而成的人造生命，跟她相處時間最多的就是亞伯拉罕(花很多時間教她東西)，因此她對人類的理解都是從亞伯學來的，而且因和人類相處的時間也不多，所以她有時會說出或做出超出人類理解的東西，不過她也每天學到很多新東西就是了(亞伯：對不起，小孩子不懂事)。偽裝方面也是亞伯一直幫她矯正和調試才終於搞出一個接近人類的外觀。
Snowy Abe: Here, a lemming for ya cuz ur epic.
Humans: Everyone else and Mary Space Monsters: Demir(The Hunter), Abraham Hybrids: Abraham's kids, Jefferson Artificial Life Form: Ardea
"It's alright, I'm not sick, I just see better like this."
What should I name him :⬦?
If youre ok with requests, could you draw the cyborg Abbigail from your dreams again? Her design is simply perfect
👌ok
"I've folded my thoughts into a paper plane, can you receive it on the far side of the stars?"
(Note: I actually folded a paper plane for this.)
(我為什麼要搞這個。。。。)
實驗開始前/Before the Experiment Start
實驗總體來說是成功的，唯一的損失就是受試者失去了一隻手臂和嘴巴而已。 目前還不清楚是否保留自我意識或認知能力。
Other than losing an arm and mouth, the experiment was a success. Currently not sure if he still retain his consciousness or cognitive ability.