manusiakecil:

shieldmaiden19:

myathesleepyoctopus:

myathesleepyoctopus:

official-lyzzystardust:

ralsalot:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

teachers, share the weird crap your kids have done!

I’m not a teacher (yet) but I do work with students and one of them had the nerve to look me dead in the eye and ask me “why would it be a bad idea for me to eat this entire marker?” They’re 11

An 4th grader asked for a high five by saying, “A little slappy to make daddy happy?”

I did not give him a high five.

A student during break had her head in her arms and was shaking a bit, so i asked the kid next to her whether she was laughing or crying and this 8 year old stared me in the eye deadpan and said “im crying on the inside”

Wait i take that back, I cant believe i forgot about the time i brought in a small stuffed octopus as a class mascot because why tf not. It was a class of high schoolers and i didnt imagine theyd actually care much, but one student snuck in a snack and gave it to the octopus as a tribute. Which led to other students doing the same thing, until every day there was a pile of of offerings to Fweej the Overseer, mostly consisting of things like string cheeses and small bags of chips, but sometimes there wouldd be a couple bucks in quarters, one kid brought in some giant pocky i think, and at one point there was a cold stone gift card. This stuffed octopus gained a cult following.

Later i brought in another stuffed octopus that looked exactly the same but bigger and told the class that Fweej the Overseer accepted their offerings and became stronger. These highschoolers lost their goddamn minds.

Oh my god I love this. Thank you for letting those kids be the dorks all high schoolers are.

cyber-yeezuss:

I wanna be 14 again and ruin my life differently… I have new ideas

huffletrax:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-article-13-article-11-european-directive-on-copyright-explained-meme-ban

What is Article 13? The EU’s divisive new copyright plan explained

It’s important to note that they have taken out the legislation that calls for automatic filtering of uploaded content as it has been pointed out that it’s too problematic and a bot cannot distinguish between blatant copyright infringement and transformative material.

This is the scary sentence that has people worked up:

“Online sharing service providers and right holders shall cooperate in good faith in order to ensure that unauthorised protected works or other subject matter are not available on their services.”

Right holders will have to tread very carefully around this as any abuse of this sentence could be seen as a violation of the right to freedom of expression which is covered in article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Basically, there can’t be an immediate sweeping blanket ban on our favourite creators as that isn’t proportionate. Right holders will HAVE to cooperate with YouTube and keep their claims to copyright infringement proportionate. YouTube, in turn will have to be more careful on what gets uploaded onto their platform, and with 300 hours of footage being uploaded every minute, YouTube will need to be VERY picky on what they see as a big enough infringement and right holders will know this.

I know it sounds like it’ll be open season for the big companies once the article is passed, but as the Wired Article says, it’s going to be up to each country to enforce it individually with some having enough of a stringent set of copyright laws already in effect.

What I’m saying is, don’t give up calling your MEPs and asking for the wording to be reviewed but please don’t panic too much, we have a long, long way to go yet.