tinder's all you need to get the flame going (nr, broun/gucci, 5k)

a pre-Partizan fic of the relationship built between Kal'mera Broun, mercenary engineer, and Gucci Garantine, Kesh noble.

read it on ao3!

tinder's all you need to get the flame going (nr, broun/gucci, 5k)

a pre-Partizan fic of the relationship built between Kal'mera Broun, mercenary engineer, and Gucci Garantine, Kesh noble.

read it on ao3!

Urgent Help:

Hello everyone, thank you for taking a moment to read our story.

I am Hazem Shawish, and I am trying to save my family from this war.

We live in Gaza, where we face significant challenges due to the current situation.

My family consists of 11 members, including my mother, two daughters, four sons, and three children.

In the shadow of conflict, our family has faced unimaginable hardships. The passing of my father, a victim to the cruel grasp of hunger and inadequate healthcare, left a void in our lives, underscoring the fragility of our existence here. My brother, Samer, battles bipolar disorder, a condition exacerbated by the ongoing war and the severe shortage of essential medications. Without access to the necessary treatment, his life is at risk, and we live in constant fear for his well-being amidst the chaos that surrounds us. These personal tragedies have deepened the urgency of our situation.

Every day is a struggle for survival, and each night is filled with prayers for a brighter tomorrow. We hold onto hope, believing that one day the clouds will dissipate, and we will find the peace we long for.

Our home, which was a sanctuary for us, was destroyed, forcing us to live in a state of uncertainty and fear. We have lost the laughter of our children.

we had a supermarket that helped as to live and earn money, but it was bombed and we have nothing now, pic of our supermarket

We also face psychological challenges, as we have lost our father, and my brother Samer, who needs expensive medical treatment, is facing imminent danger. My mother, who has endured so much, fears losing another child. We are all suffering from malnutrition and contaminated water.

We dream of moving to Egypt to find safety, where our children can pursue their education.

We seek your support as individuals who understand the value of compassion and community.

Thank you for listening to our story, for your understanding, and for standing with us.

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Our situation is dire, and famine is threatening our very survival. We desperately need your support to keep my family alive. Stand with us until the last breath. 🙏💔

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Hello, I am Ali. My account has been blocked twice, and I appeal to everyone who has a heart of mercy

I appeal to people who look at us with sympathy. Life is difficult that no one can imagine, and we have hope for you that my family will escape from this oppressor. As you know, there is no margin for life. They suffer from everything from fear, hunger, thirst, extermination, and what is more difficult than that is that I said cleanliness.

This is my family. As you can see, they wait for food every day. There is a big queue to get it. My family and I thank everyone who contributes to the hopes, even if it is just a little. And to the people who are not able to donate, we thank them for conveying our message to the supporters. Do not leave my family alone. Please help us. Please.

Ali Helles -- €1,433 / €100,000 since 16 June 2024 (1% funded / 3 months)

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Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #133 )

They are innocent children who are not guilty of anything. Please do not leave my family alone. I hope that there are merciful people, and I hope that you do not leave them alone.

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Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #133 )

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Currently €2,582 raised of €100,000 as of October 20th! Ali's fundraiser is low on funds; please keep donating and sharing to help Ali's family! The last donation was 36 minutes ago.

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Mohamed, his wife Mariam and their newborn baby Ibrahim are struggling to survive in Ghazzah.

Both of them are doctors, and they've been unable to work since October 7th of last year when their home was destroyed. They now live in a tent and struggle to afford basic necessities like food and water.

Baby Ibrahim who was born during this siege cannot have formula, diapers, or clothes because of the rising prices and danger in Ghazzah.

In order to evacuate, they need to raise €45,000. So far they have only raised €20 with their last and only donation being 9 days ago.

Please do anything that you can to help them, whether that be by donating or sharing their campaign. Everything helps contribute towards their survival.

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Displacement Diaries [3]:

In the midst of ongoing war, tents have become a refuge for many families who have lost their homes due to bombing and destruction. These families live in harsh conditions that offer little protection from the weather, lacking basic necessities like water and electricity. The tent, although a symbol of resilience and challenge, also reflects the state of humanitarian collapse we are experiencing.

As for us in particular, we have undergone five displacements, and with each move, we hope it will be the last. Living in a tent is not easy, especially with a large family that includes children and the elderly. We strive to adapt, but the biting cold at night and the extreme heat during the day make life inside the tent a continuous challenge. With winter approaching, our fears grow as rain and winds become an additional source of suffering. The tents do not provide adequate protection from the harsh cold or water seepage, making living conditions even more difficult.

Amid rising prices, basic necessities like food and medicine have become scarce and nearly impossible to obtain. Humanitarian aid is dwindling, and prices are skyrocketing, putting us in a difficult position as we seek new ways to secure the bare minimum for survival. Even simple daily needs have become a burden for us, and with the arrival of winter, we require additional items like warm clothing, blankets, and heating devices that have become a distant dream.

Urgent Needs for My Small and Large Family:

1. Tents and Shader: We need to secure 2 tents and Shader to protect our family from the rain, as the current situation threatens our safety due to the drop in temperatures and heavy rainfall.

2. Blankets and Clothing: We require sufficient blankets to keep our family warm, in addition to suitable clothing and footwear to face the harsh weather conditions.

3. Total Amount Needed:The total cost for these urgent needs is estimated at $6000.

Current Danger: The lack of these essentials over the next week puts our family at significant risk, especially given the current conditions we are facing, which could lead to our drowning due to the rain and rising sea levels.

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Is that what you got arrested for? For not being good enough at the fascist school?

punishment

me: “sorry ): can’t come!! got so much to do at home”

me as soon as im home:

happy trail isnt enough. i need happy meadow. happy forest.

Conserve our natural spaces #environmentalist

forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

I actually learned a fun therapy trick for this!

The statute of limitations on arson is 6 years.

So whenever I remember an embarrassing or shameful thing I’ve done, I ask myself if it was worse than arson. If it wasn’t, and it was 6 or more years ago, I forgive myself.

Also just the comedic shock of going “well, that was a stupid and mean thing I said, but 6 years is the statute of limitations on arson” helps.

Sometimes college professors like to hop on my posts lamenting the sorry state of syllabi these days and joke about how they haven't thought that far ahead in the course themselves, or talk about how they struggle to complete a schedule for their students.

With all due respect, that's your job. If you can't do your job, you should have a different job. If you need help, ask your colleagues or your department chair or *someone* because I know that professors aren't given a hell of a lot of education on how to educate, so you probably *need* help.

But every single time I make one of those posts I get anywhere from ten to thirty messages, replies, reblogs, and asks say "oh man, that's exactly why I had to drop out of school; I couldn't keep up with the assignments because I didn't know when they were due until the week they were due."

I have been a college student in three separate decades, and "not having a schedule of assignments in the syllabus" is new to my experience. That shit didn't fly in the 2000s or 2010s and I think it likely has to do with professors being overly reliant on apps.

AT A MINIMUM your syllabus should have:

Your assignment schedule doesn't necessarily need to have the exact page numbers of every reading or a full assignment sheet for each project, but it should have things like:

December 1st - Major Project 3 second draft due December 9th - Quiz 10 December 12th - Major Project 3 final draft due December 15th - Final Exam

If you end up presenting a more thorough schedule with readings and homework later, that is acceptable to present a week or two into the semester but it is absolutely insane to me that students these days don't know what homework they're going to have to get done over Thanksgiving break during the first couple weeks of class.

If I had three professors at once who didn't give me a schedule, how on earth would I know if I was going to have to read three chapters of a novel, take a midterm and turn in two stats homework assignments, and complete a history research paper the same week that I'm planning to travel to see family? If I'm aware of this from the beginning of the semester I can make sure not to pick up extra shifts, or I can plan to leave a day later to accommodate the midterm, or I can start working on the paper early to complete it before the due date but if I don't know what's going to be due when, I'm going to have a big problem.

If you don't give your students a schedule you are communicating that you don't care about their schedule, and that you think it's their responsibility to contort their life (and their job, and their other classes) around your class, and honestly my advice to students in that situation is "drop in the first week and pick up another class". That's actually part of why I recommend signing up for one more class than you can really manage - if you get a professor whose class looks like it's going to be a disaster because they don't have a schedule, you can bail before the withdrawal period and get a refund for the class.

I'm only in one class this semester but the professor's response has fully dropped me into "Fuck it, I guess I'll fail" mode and I don't even know if I can pull myself out of my current D grade because I don't know how many assignments we have left in the semester.

This is a shitty way to run a class. If you can't do better than this, you shouldn't be running a class.

Professors who use Canvas or any other canvas/blackboard/whatever online tool to post assignment sheets and accept work come to rely on the tool instead of writing a syllabus.

"Well it's in the modules"

Cool do you have visibility on for all of the modules from the start of the semester? That is definitely worse than just having one schedule to write things down from but I can work with it.

Or do you only reveal the modules a few days before they start, so the first week you have week one and two available? Because that means that I can only plan out one week in advance, which is not enough time for me to know whether I'll be okay to go to my hobby meetup on the first friday of next month or if I'll have a major assignment due at midnight that day. Was I planning on using a weekend six weeks into the semester to go visit my sister? Too bad because after I've paid for plane tickets I found out that you scheduled a project that I need specific equipment for to be due on that Sunday.

Also: you are a college professor. You shouldn't keep your modules hidden because you should allow your students to work ahead.

"But they might do things poorly, or in a way that I don't want them to." Well warn them about that and then let them fall on their face if they have to. They ARE adults and they can figure out whether they'll be able to work ahead successfully or will cope with the results if they fuck up. But if you hide the assignments and they just experience your class as something that happens to them, not something they can plan for and anticipate and prepare for, everyone is going to have a bad time.

When I was getting my bachelor's degree there was some kind of administrative screwup and I ended up not taking a 200-level critical theory class until my last semester of undergrad. It was a prereq for a lot of classes and mandatory to graduate but it just slipped under the radar.

The professor assigned us a $300 literary theory textbook and said "you're going to need this for the rest of your time in college, so it's important to invest in this book" (for the record, it was not - I almost never referenced foundational literary theory papers in my college career, and after 200 level was never instructed to write any paper through a specific critical lens) but the rest of my time in college was the ten weeks of that class. I did not need to buy a $300 ($200 used) book on literary theory.

But the professor had given us a syllabus. And the syllabus included a VERY complete assignment schedule, including the page numbers of all the readings for the semester, which included lots of standalone essays that we had institutional access to AND the 70 or so pages assigned from the $300 textbook.

So I packed up my nice camera and I reserved a room in the library and I took the reference copy of the book that the library had and I took photos of every page that was assigned; when I got home I assembled the readings into PDFs that I labelled with the date that the reading was due.

That quarter I was taking five classes and planning my wedding. I got married a week after graduation. Five classes on a quarter system schedule meant that I was taking 21 units. I was working full time, and I had recently fractured two vertebrae and occasionally missed class because I couldn't stand upright and walk on campus.

The ONLY way I survived that quarter was by sitting down after the first week of classes and taking four hours to write out every single assignment, reading, group project, and exam date in a schedule that I carried with me constantly and referenced obsessively.

If I had had just one professor that quarter who hadn't provided me with a schedule of assignments it could have very well tanked my performance in all of my classes and delayed graduation.

I hear plenty of professors complaining online about students these days, but I can hardly blame students these days being checked out when so many professors these days are checked out as well.

You're right, and you should say it. Admittedly, most of your profs are also underworked and underpaid--that's a huge crisis of adjunctification--but that doesn't mean that having a good syllabus isn't crucial for everyone's sanity during the semester, including your fucking profs'.

A good syllabus is a structure that you, the teacher, can collapse onto. It means knowing that the exam will be on X day, so you'd better have that exam written by X-7 days and proofed before it needs to be printed. It means that when you're exhausted and cranky because a student is whining at you and you just want everything to die in a fire, you have a Rule printed out to go by, and if the student whines more, you can point to the Rule. (The Rule should be as fair as you can manage when you are well rested and well fed and have met none of your students yet, anticipating everything that might happen to a well meaning student approaching the class in good faith over the course of the year, including "my abusive boyfriend is trying to sabotage my performance", "my house burned down", and "I am having a medical or mental health crisis and I have no idea how to handle it." This doesn't necessarily mean that the Rule should be unfair to other students, but you should have a thought out plan for what happens when Life hits your students and ideally a policy that can absorb a certain amount of Life without your needing to deal with it personally.)

The syllabus is something you might need to amend as you go, but you should always know where you are in the class and what you want your students to take away and internalize from each lecture. You should prioritize accordingly on your test materials and project rubrics, too. If your exams or projects have any flexibility (i.e. short answers, essays, etc.) whatsoever, you should write the rubric at the same time as you write the exam. Then you grade ten answers/projects by that rubric. Does it need adjusting? Is there a common problem you didn't anticipate? Adjust it now, re-grade those ten answers if necessary, and use the rubric evenly.

These elements of course structure are things that an educator, especially a neurodivergent educator rolling with chaotic expectations on the fly, needs in order to be effective. They aren't optional or fluff that can be cut. If the apps make that harder for you to achieve, the thing to do is step away from the damn app.

And for chrissakes it's 2024. Don't assign a 300 dollar textbook. Don't buy into the lie that your students will use that textbook ever again, unless it's like, a 100/200 level foreign language textbook that was designed to move with them between levels. And even so, there are good open-source textbooks for literally everything that are free.

Students have a huge financial burden on them and it's not getting better. Assign open source, use PDFs, use a low-cost text, or explain to them that they can use the library's reserve copy.

this was WAY too good to hide in the tags because this is absolutely something a university disability resource center can help with! DRCs don't always understand what kind of accommodations an individual student really needs- but if you have one, and you get accommodations, you can say "I need this in print form" and that's something they can understand and will often do, because that's a tangible thing that needs done exactly once. They LOVE tangible things that need done exactly once.

If you aren't registered with your school's DRC (or equivalent), do so! It gets you all kinds of legal protections for your disability access needs, like printed materials, alternate print format, note-takers/scribes, the list goes on. They can be a huge pain to navigate and you will have to advocate for yourself a lot, but there are genuinely thing you can get them to do that will dramatically improve your experience that nobody tells you about during orientation.

i’m like if a writer did not write and did other things instead