and-we-all-grew:

socialjusticeprincesses:

get fucking vaccinated

This is the best infographic yet

minadi:

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provocatoria:

crackerhell:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

How A Middle-School Principal Persuaded Students To Come To School

by David Kestenbaum

Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos.

Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city’s department of education.

“It was in a bad place,” Rux says.

Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, “If you come to school you’ll be better off 20 years from now.”

He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox. And he threw in an element of randomness: The first kids in line when the doors opened might get 20 tickets.

It worked. Kids started showing up early.

“It was … like, ‘Get out of my way, I’m trying to get into school,’ ” Rux says. “It was nice.”

Rux also created his own currency. He called it Rux Bux. Teachers hand them out when kids are well behaved. They can be traded in for school supplies, or special lunches. A sixth-grader named Wander Rodriguez is trying to save up 5,000 Rux Bux — enough for a personal shopping spree with Rux.

The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. This recognition is another, subtler incentive to come to school.

“I like this school,” Wander Rodriguez says. “They treat me like home, they treat me nice, they always give me stuff. … They always say ‘hi’ in the mornings.”

The school went from an F to a C. Daily attendance went up to over 90 percent. Then the hurricane hit.

The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Some kids’ homes were destroyed. One student who stayed at home through the storm told a teacher, “My apartment complex was in the middle of the ocean.” Rux’s car was destroyed. The first floor of his house was flooded.

After the storm, after school started up again, Rux’s goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent. Every day, his staff texts him the attendance numbers. The day I visited last week, 89.2 percent of students attended school. Close, but not close enough for Rux.

The storm has been tough on everyone, he says. But that’s no excuse. Kids have to be in school.

not going to see this man in no news nowhere

Oh, treat the kids like human beings instead of livestock and they end up wanting to be there? That’s a novel idea. I love this!

this hits home so hard for me rn

Bless this amazing man.

benjiscloset:

turningtricksbreakingdicks:

prettyboyshyflizzy:

Oh shit they actually brought up a white persons criminal history

The Guardian doing it big

drag him

agentromanoffs:

the most accurate thing ever!!!!!

auspoliticspixie:

For the first time ever, Australia has been named on the Human Rights Watch list in 2014 and 2015.

The report criticises our treatment of asylum seekers, the high levels of Aboriginal incarceration and death from treatable and preventable conditions, the lack of support for the disabled with 45% of Australians with disabilities living near or below the poverty line, refusal to adopt marriage equality, and our new anti-terror and data retention laws. 

http://theaimn.com/take-heed-mr-abbott/

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its really not???

its not

especially when staff and everyone working on the show says its not, its really not.

seeing as how a lot of shows ( especially ones aired on cartoon network ) are also known to have a majority audience of adults? ( ahh sorry, this part ws worded weird, im not very good at writing as you can tell. CN has a very large adult fanbase, and they know it. )

like if youre going to straight up tell me CN is trying to prevent children from seeing obscene shit then lmao you can stop.
regular show is pushing so many boundaries and people let it slide , its the exact same. 
feel free to shit on people outwardly making porn of younger characters but when people enjoy 18+ art of 18+ characters , as well as creators of the show encouraging it, then well lets try to figure out why people still dont enjoy it. 

“ KIDS can see it and its revolting “ 
agreed, and a majority of artists drawing SU porn are doing their best to hide it to keep it a safe show for kids to google and explore. but its not my fault when i put warnings up all over my art/site, and kids still get to it because they go looking for it. 
there are curious kids out there, everywhere. not all of them are saints. and no, im not saying they are to blame, the responsibility still lays on the artist, there are thousands probably way more , curious kids looking for porn content of the show.

“ ok, people hide it. but its still bad! “ 

can i ask why??? if people are keeping it contained to 18+ characters on their own site and keeping it hidden from people who dont want to see it , then why do you care? maybe ask someone to tag it or unfollow them or block that kind of content??? ( and before i get an ask about it, holy shit. i see way more anti-nsfw blogs go ONTO the nsfw steven u blogs and tags for the sole intent of making super COOL edGY XD posts about how they can never unsee what they have seen. again. artists tagging stuff accordingly. only for people to intentionally go look for it. 

“ its still pedophilic. its fetishizing of a childrens show. “
how?? none of my work features children, and only of age characters. as does a lot of other peoples’. how the hell is it pedophilic. 

“ its still bad to draw nsfw art of the show, it ruins it for children”
tagging it properly and keeping it hidden to a community of 18+ fans/artists, literally does not effect the show/children watching the show. at. all. if it ruined it for anyone, it was probably posted without responsibility OR!!! you guessed it. searched for. 

“ it still ruins the show and i dont enjoy the nsfw content for it.”

then dont look at it. because literally what this whole argument boils down to is “ sex is bad. “

squeaky-fangirl:

anthemofthefates:

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julstorres:

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ifeelbetterer:

“Starting to root for this guy” as in “They sent me to kill her and I made another call” kind of root for this guy? Did he and Coulson make a deal after the whole whoops-Black-Widow-is-now-an-asset-sorry-Coulson deal where Coulson made Hawkeye promise to tell him when he started rooting for the person he was supposed to shoot in the head? How many times has this been a problem for Hawkeye? Is he, like, known in SHIELD for being the agent who might adopt the target you sent him to kill?

I firmly believe that this is what happened with him and Natasha. Like, Fury gives Clint the order, the next thing he knows Barton’s dragging Natasha in being like BOSS CAN I PLEASE KEEP HER I PROMISE TO CLEAN UP ANY BODY PARTS SHE LEAVES LYING AROUND PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEASE

And his instincts aren’t bad, he manages to pick out people who will actually be assets, so it makes Coulson think twice when he says it?

HEAD CANON FUCKING ACCEPTED.

#DAMMIT BARTON STOP BRINGING IN STRAYS

“IF YOU WALK THROUGH THAT DOOR YOURE AN AVENGER”
Coulson (heard in the distance): “godDAMN IT BARTON”

crazyhamlet:

worldhero:

worldhero:

crazyhamlet:

artist-refs:

Phoneme Chart by TheEndIsNearUs

This is a nice chart!
Lipsync is one of my not-so-secret passions. I also hate front mouths. They’re harder to inbetween, I find, and they’re not used nearly as frequently. Here’s some ¾ mouths I made.

These are the basic shapes I was taught, and I use. Standard lipsync shapes;; 

You have your closed mouth to open, to clenched teeth, to oohs, and your (often optional) F, L, and TH mouths.

Tips!

• Your top teeth don’t move;  I mean, stylistically it happens sometimes (Gravity falls does it fairly well, as much as I haaaaate that), but your lipsync will prolly look better if they don’t.
  
  
• My clenched teeth (SH) mouth is always a bit wider than my biggest AH mouth. It adds variation and helps your shapes blend more nicely. Conversely, my biggest AH mouth is narrower than my SH mouth and my closed (M) mouth.

• My L mouth is a tiny bit more closed than my biggest AH, and not as closed as my second biggest AH. It fits between them nicely so that if you have to go from an L to an AH mouth, like you would for the word “Like” or “Love”, it doesn’t pop or look weird.
  
  
• My R and oo mouths move forward on the face a bit, it adds dimension, and if you leave it all in the same place and have the mouth just shrink into a circle it miiiight look weird.
  

Aaaaand I think that’s it?  Never go from a SH mouth to a TH mouth, it’ll pop and look weird…uhhh;  

Also! It’s alright to skip some shapes;;

So below is a lipsync I made using the above shapes;

It’s clear what they’re saying, the mouth is moving nicely, but there’s only one problem. Veeeery rarely do they give you enough time to use all the mouths you want to make it move nice. Voice actors talk fast to fit everything in and holycrap do we hate  love them for it.

So here’s a fast one.

Those two gifs should start at the same time, and notice that the second one stops while the first one is still saying “doing”.

I not only cut out the mouth between the biggest AH and the clenched teeth, but I combined the word “Are you” into, like, 3 shapes. I also trimmed some inbetweens overall. The lipsync still reads, though! You can still tell what they’re saying even without audio (which would help it a bit, haha~)

Cutting out that stuff ended the lipsync a whole 14 frames sooner (more than half a second!). It doesn’t sound like much, but with 24 frames per second and dialogue moving at the speed of light, you don’t have time to dilly dally. This isn’t a preschool show;;


Aaaaaand I think that’s it. Liiiipsyyyyyync~~~

Now to go back to actual work and stop talking about things most ppl don’t care about;

I AM CRYING TEARS OF RELIEF BECAUSE I NEED THESE REFERENCES FOR MY SENIOR FILM’S DIALOGUE~

Reblogging this again because I’ve been using this reference for the last 2 months to help with my lip-synch in my film, and I’ve just tested one scene where I used the reference…And my mouth-drawings have improved tenfold ever since.

To the OP who made this chart…I wish I could hug you right now because you helped make my film look much better. c8

This post makes its rounds every so often;; I’m glad people are getting use out of me not wanting to do the actual work I had!

adorabledelanos:

how i feel after watching jurassic world

streaksofmoonlight:

mxcleod:

just do it

This is the best one