Bye
I am sad. I struggle with leaving, but staying puts money in their pockets. To stay is to reward belligerence. @support, how awful for you. @staff, how awful of you.
There is much good left in this world and on the internet; go find it or make it or however it is you interact with it.
I came here for the welding and learned more than a shitload about people.
Too fast mark two
For whatever reason, T isn’t letting me reblog my own post. Now I’m off to the dojo to attempt to put together your helpful suggestions.
I sure hope I come off as the best of you doing so, I’d hate to make you look bad on our last day.
Too fast
For the past few months, we have occasionally and/or regularly a high ranking instructor visiting our dojo on Saturdays. Our Sensei defers to them to lead the class, but those classes are presenting a problem for me.
Sensei will show something, direct us to practice, and then…interrupt at best, just as likely on to something else. It is rare indeed that anyone gets to finish four waza, and I’ve never seen a full four and four through without interruption. Weirdly, this is only for the open hand practice. For the weapons practice, the pace is normal and flow is possible.
It is discouraging me, and this morning I was seriously tempted to just leave. I do not believe it is good instruction, but I also believe walking out can be interpreted as insulting.
What this is doing is definitely teaching me something. But the lesson is absolutely not aikido.
Suggestions?
I would maim a co-worker for saying that to a customer.
its 2018 can we please stop pretending twitter threads are a reader-friendly way to communicate an idea
twitter threads are right after slideshows on the list of most annoying ways to get your point across
As opposed to reblogging yourself to clarify a point for emphasis?
did u have to click thru to read my comment or even scroll? think before u speak
achilles: when I die, mingle our ashes together so that we may be together for eternity
historians: f is for friends who do stuff together
We’re seriously escalating the astronomically out-of-touch “academia is hiding all the gay from you*” meme on this forsaken hellsite to “Academics Who Study Ancient Greece Are No-Homoing Achilles?”
reALLY? *REALLY???* That is not remotely a current or mainstream school of thought. I mean, fuck, if you go to JSTOR and search for “Patroclus” your third result is an article called “Achilles and Patroclus in Love” from 1978.
This shit is dangerously anti-intellectual. It’s hard enough for the humanities to retain funding as it is, the last fucking thing we need is an erosion of the perception of its authenticity/necessity coming from the Left as well. And believe you me, that is exactly where this road leads. It’s the exact same playbook that the far right uses but with a different hat.
reblogged for commentary
It’s not the historians, it’s the high school curriculum.
IT’S THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Yes. The historians are the ones who discovered the stuff that the evangelicals won’t let your high school teachers tell you about.
Also not telling you this story: Hollywood.
John Addington Symonds wrote A Problem in Greek Ethics in 1873. It wasn’t published until 1883; still, that’s 145 years of classical scholars knowing about Achilles and Patroclus in public, in England, where from 1861 to 1967 sex between men was illegal.
Nevertheless, in 2004, the film Troy, starring Brad Pitt as Achilles, focused on Achilles and Briseis and erased his relationship with Patroclus. In this delicious Guardian review, titled “No Gods or Gay Men, But A Whole Lot of Llamas,” Alex von Tunzelmann complains that Achilles has “undergone a radical straightening process”: “No gods and no gay men. You’ve got to wonder why they bothered making a film about ancient Greece in the first place.”
I do not have time to get started on what happened in 300.
Hey @staff
You’re focused on things like ‘female presenting nipples’ and sex educators while you have totally forgotten about the reasons your app was deleted off the app store. Why don’t you guys actually get rid of content that encourages self-harm and outright endorses it? You change one letter in a tag and you can avoid a lot of the rules you guys have set in place for content like that. Just change one letter in bulimia or anorexia and there is so much content that you haven’t flagged as inappropriate for this website. That and thinspo. If you type in anorexia into the search bar you get the classic ‘are you okay?’ message, but if you type in anorexya, you don’t. People glorifying these mental illnesses are avoiding being flagged by using tags just like that one. And no, these aren’t people telling their stories and how they’re working to get better. These are people who are actively endorsing it as a legitimate way to lose weight and that is an extremely harmful thing to put into someone’s mind. If you really wanted to create a more positive Tumblr you would have taken down the things that made it negative in the first place.
They intend to piss it away and pocket a bonus. @staff, how does it feel to be complicit in the theft?Is now a bad time to mention I actually don’t hate this site? I hate the owners. Hate the staff. Hate the incompetence of whoever is in charge here.
But I love the site, love the format, love my mutuals, my followers and all of the amazing content creators here. I don’t know what I’ll replace this with if anything.
NO BUT YOU ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW FUNNY THIS IS THEYRE LITERALLY FILLING A ROBOT WITH BULLETS, LIKE BULLETS THAT YOU FIRE FROM A GUN. NOW NORMALLY FIRING A GUN TRIGGERS THE BULLET TO EXPLODE CREATING A PRESSURE THAT CAUSES THE TIP OF THE BULLET TO BE FORCED OUT OF THE BARREL AT A HIGH SPEED.
WHaT CAVE JOHNSON’S TURRET’S DO IS LOAD A TON OF FUCKING BULLETS INTO THE CASE OF THE SENTRY LIKE IT”S A GODDAMN GUMBALL MACHINE AND THEN USE A FUcKIN SPRING LOADED PISTON TO FIRE IT THAT IS SO UNNECESSARY AND INEFFECTIVE LIKE NO WONDER CHELL CAN RESIST SO MANY BULLETS THE LIKELIHOOD ITD CAUSE ANYTHING MORE THAN A BAD BRUISE IS LIKE ONE IN A HUNDRED
but it’s 65% more bullet per bullet
Wait a second are you telling me
that Portal is such a perfect goddamn game that they even have an explanation for why a video game protagonist can withstand being shot multiple times??????????