andros_rex
@andros_rex@lemmy.world
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
They made the physics and chemistry tests even easier in the past couple years.
When I took the chemistry test - I hadn’t even really studied chemistry. Just two semesters in undergrad, never took organic. Didn’t know what hydrogen bonding was. I just marathoned the Crash Course YouTube series - I hadn’t ever wanted to teach chemistry, but the school decided that they were going to make me teach it and emergency certify me for it. I figured that would mess with my student loan forgiveness incentives, so took the test to be legit.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
Department head at one of the schools I worked at was a creationist Bible college graduate.
He would compliment students for choosing to not wear masks in 2021.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
I’m not the drag queen - I was referring to a different individual - a case that should have been picked up by the media but wasn’t.
I am trans.
I think the answer to your question is that a drag queen is really their personality when they are in drag.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
My student loans are about to come due.
It’s all but illegal for me to teach here. And I can’t get out. I’m so sick of being alive.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
There was a principal at Western Heights (iirc) who did drag on the weekends. No one knew. He was a great principal, had excellent performance reviews, was loved by his community.
Ryan Walters showed up to the school every day to tell them to fire him. And they did.
Ryan Walters is also gay himself. Everyone in the community knows this. He’s a chicken shit human, who helped write the evil woke social science standards, before he decided to have a political career.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
And I love teaching autistic kids. Please put me in a group of autistic children. I would absolutely fucking love to teach science to a group of autistic children.
But I am transgender, so I can’t. I don’t count as a human being where I live. Nothing would make me happier than spending all day teaching chemistry and physics but I can’t.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 day ago:
I will qualify that I struggled with the mild/moderate test (still passed but had to study) because it was quite literally incorrect about ASD. But Oklahoma is mostly about torturing autistic kids anyway.
- Submitted 1 day ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
Bro - I was literally a fucking teacher during the peak of that moral panic. I spend more time every day with teenagers than half of you on this thread do. Every kid knew it was a fucking joke. A handful of children actually did it on purpose, and like every moral outrage/hysteria it became “teens are doing this wild crazy thing!”
Yes, teenagers do dumb fucking shit all of the time. It’s not the shit the media picks up on for the viral clicks.
The real shit teens are actually doing is vaping shady carts and creating massive group chats to bully each other with naked pictures. But that doesn’t sell the same kinds of ad impressions as “there’s a stupid TikTok video that when viral so we are going to assume this is a massive regular thing that hundreds of children are doing.” Talking about those issues involves parents having to, you know, parent but instead it’s gotta be about stupid shit.
The real “hiding under a rock” is being distracted by the newest stupid TikTok video instead of dealing with the things teenagers actually do.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
Did you know that cognitively delayed teenagers exist?
Check real quick - I think “gullible” is written on your ceiling. Watch out, I hear human traffickers are putting fentanyl laced roses on car doors.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?
You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
Do creative people have viable paths to income that aren’t social media?
How does one survive as an artist or a small film maker, when there is no patronage, government funding for museums is constantly on the chopping block, and any form of art you make is going to be uploaded whether you like it or not?
Our society essentially has no paths to success for creative types other than social media - especially with C-suites deciding that they’d rather use the plagiarism machine to make slop than hire actual content makers and artists?
Making things like clip art used to be a job. You used to be able to paint signs. There was work for casual level artists. Now, your options are trying to go viral on social media/hunt for commissions.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 3 days ago:
You get this a joke?
Children were never eating tide pods either.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 3 days ago:
I’m an educator, and I’m forbidden from taking about fracking at work ( ° ͜ʖ °)
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 5 days ago:
My goal I think is to be a science clown. Balloon animals with a touch of biology, comedically “failing” at chemistry experiments, the physics of juggling. The goal has been percolating in my head for a few years, but now I’ve lost all sense of shame and feel like I could confidently fall on my ass and look like an idiot to entertain and educate.
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 5 days ago:
100% serious. I spent like 10 minutes entertaining a two year old by failing to juggle earlier today and that was the most joy I’ve felt since November.
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 5 days ago:
Just not looking for the low effort, Reddit-tier jokes. Wanting actually advice or at least funny jokes.
- Submitted 5 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 6 days ago:
Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 6 days ago:
I get double pay for the holiday, yay!
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 1 week ago:
For the longest time on 4chan’s literature board (which was a pretty useful and interesting place overall), there was a guy who would spam pictures and fan fiction of the girl from Willy Wonka getting turned into a blueberry.
I have weird fetishes, so I don’t judge too much, but wtf.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the US, it’s really that you are taking a pay cut during the year to get paid during the summer.
I’ve never had a real “summer break.” Always either second job, professional development, or school.
- Comment on shrooms 1 week ago:
When my ex husband was around during my trips, he would freak me the fuck out. My body was in terror, I understood more than in that moment. The same lack of respect that I brushed off when not tripping sent me into a spiral.
It was a warning sign I didn’t take.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 week ago:
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 1 week ago:
That’s literally what they call trans men. That is the argument. We are all supposedly autistic, which means that we can’t be trusted to make decisions over our own bodies. That is constantly used to infantilize us, and will eventually be used to take away our ability to access transition.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 week ago:
or even water
We never stopped the “lol treaties with Native American tribes don’t count” bullshit.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 1 week ago:
Animaniacs is actually good tho
- Comment on I need a year staycation to sort out my life. 1 week ago:
Cross stitch/knitting are both good for that.
You’re still sitting on your couch zoning out watching TV, but you do feel mildly productive.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 1 week ago:
The crazy fundamentalists support her now. It’s all over Facebook.
There’s a difference between burning a book as a political statement because the author is actively harming you, and having a meltdown because the book has magic in it.
It also makes me uncomfortable that you characterize this as “sides.” As a trans person, my “side” is that I deserve to live, have access to medical care, and be treated equitably. Treating this like it’s an issue with “sides” is fucked up - one “side” thinks that all trans people should be forced back into the closet or detransitioned against our will, the other “side” just wants to be fucking alive.
