Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es
- Website?
- https://aurav.neocities.org/
- Pronouns?
- https://en.pronouns.page/@auravulpes
- Species?
- Kitsune/Incubus mix
- Combat sport of choice?
- Kickboxing
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)
Joined Jun 2019
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
we don't actually know if high school academic integrity records are usually available to or inspected by employers and colleges, but that was the story they told us in high school. this was basically the only place in high school where fucking up an assignment came with threats of being eternally damned by all society, instead of just failed.
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
and like okay, if you included even one sentence that was written by some unrelated author in a published academic paper without quoting and citing, you'd be in pretty hot water, we get that. but uhhhhh last time we checked, most people's high school assignments don't have the kind of stakes riding on them that makes that true of academic journals
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
most of our teachers in high school told us something like "incorrectly-formatted citations are plagiarism" and gave us this whole fire-and-brimstone sermon about how we would be branded for life as liars and foul imps if we fucked it up even a little
and that's really just not an okay thing to do
it's an actual factual abuse of authority
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
we're angry about this because of how many high school english teachers, including our own father, we have heard using "don't plagiarize!" as a conveniently potent threat to make bored students listen to drivel about MLA formatting
it's really disingenuous to do and we're sick of it
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
plagiarism is when you knowingly lie and explicitly claim that someone else's work is yours. failing to properly identify a quote _in an assignment that specifically required quotes_ is really just fucking not that
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
big one: speech classes
no. giving a speech containing quotes and failing to identify their sources, especially if the sources are listed in the written materials provided to the teacher, is not plagiarism. it's careless, and it's fair for it to result in a poor grade, but it's not something you put on a student's permanent fucking record. jesus christ
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education hot take, subtooting high school teachers
trying and failing to cite sources correctly, or not individually citing quotes that are still presented as quotes, is extremely not the same thing as plagiarism
quit threatening kids with extremely serious accusations just because they didn't understand MLA format on the first try
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Autism humour 1
'You don't look autistic?'
'With your powerful allistic facial expression reading powers, hopefully you can tell I look exasperated'
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re: Autism humour 2 / food reference
'Do you have mild autism?'
'No it's spicy bbq autism actually'
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I appreciate that Tusky allows me to automate clicking "show more" on content warnings for stuff I probably didn't actually want to see. I don't, because I at least want the chance to realize a second too late what I'm opening, but I appreciate it nonetheless
poorly thought out infohazard ment
It boggles my mind that people believe in roko's basilisk and still have the nerve to not just call themselves rational, but insist than anyone who disagrees with the basilisk is irrational
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meds update 2
I'm almost done with Doxycycline. I finish my course saturday evening. I've gotten to the point where I can take it with just water on an empty stomach without throwing up. Some occasional nausea still, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was. I can basically function normally on it.
ADHD (-)
Holy fuck. I have done, like, 2 major things today (meeting this morning not included) and I am already exhausted. I have literally washed dishes and done ONE homework problem. What the utter fuck?!
Seriously, though, my classmates were talking about this being a 2 page problems, and I did it in half a page by just going "Yeah, protons and neutrons have *basically* the same mass and binding energy doesn't *really* matter here, so, you know, it's fine." Mind you, what I got for nuclear density was on the order of what's in the book, so it's correct enough
I legitimately just wrote "Assume a spherical orange of radius 3.75 cm" on a physics homework. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this whole "physics" thing
I suppose it's kinda like cheese or butter. How did we discover those. Like, who first had milk go bad, but discover that they could make something else out of it? It's weird. Very weird.
Things I don't understand: snack mix. Don't get me wrong, it's good and all, but who went, "Yes. Let's take a bunch of small pretzels and bits of bread, make them crispy and coat them in seasoning!"? Like, it just...doesn't seem like a particularly obvious idea. Kinda like croutons. "Ah, my bread is stale. Oh well, I'll coat it in seasoning and put it in my salad!" Like, how do you decide this is a good idea?
I met with the LGBT people this morning. It was short. But, everything went well enough. I'm supposed to be getting information on a gender clinic nearby that can get me free HRT and, at some point, my email and stuff will get changed to my chosen name! Woo!
- Website?
- https://aurav.neocities.org/
- Pronouns?
- https://en.pronouns.page/@auravulpes
- Species?
- Kitsune/Incubus mix
- Combat sport of choice?
- Kickboxing
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)
Joined Jun 2019
