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Oh, it’s Stratt apologists now? Ew.

#she is THE bad guy of the story idk what to tell you #except I’m now don’t with the PHM fandom at large I guess #that was fast #let women be evil and bad 2k26 #it’s fine that she’s unlikeable and evil she’s supposed to be that’s the point

garlandgerard

For 24 years,

I have voted, but

With increasing resignation

Because this destructive nation

Only ever inches

Right,

Never the other way around

And slowly,

Just by standing still, I've been

Radicalised

- poem about radicalisation, by theo danes

fawnpalmer

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

depsidase

ardri-na-bpiteog

You also purchase CDs once and as long as nothing happens to them you get to keep them forever.

taykoutmccleod

and if you have a computer with a disc drive, you can move the content of those CDs onto it and then burn it onto future CDs. it doesn't even have to be the same album. you can make a playlist with physical media. you just have access to all of it, at your whim, with no unskippable ads being shoved in your ears. it's really nice!

poetrylesbian

terpsikeraunos

Women have consistently earned a larger share of humanities degrees than men, but the humanities constitute a diminishing proportion of the

Women currently earn the majority of advanced degrees in the humanities. This has been the case at the master’s degree level since 1970 and

sources for gender distribution of classics degrees

donutdrawsthings

I think we can all agree that it's rather inspiring that a wild raccoon with a shortened spine syndrome is agile and thriving out there somewhere.

mediaeval-muse

Fish with arms i guess

english-history-trip

autumngracy

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

#oh shit #wait do I hate Stratt because I am like Stratt ?#no #I am not Dutch and so I would be much more evidently full of panic and have six or seven contingencies #phm #maybe I am a little bit like her but I also know that in a given situation I would prioritise love because I am soft inside

briannyssey

on one hand that "pseudohumanities" post infuriates me bc there is legitimately good analysis being produced #OnHere and I've seen it dismissed as pseudohumanities.

on the other hand I've seen viciously incorrect and ahistorical analysis made by folks getting 10s of thousands of notes because they said it with a tone of authority, so it's not like the pseudohumanities critique is unfounded lmao

briannyssey

tags courtesy of @postarcadian

yeah, exactly! and I wanna expand on this just a little. the "doing humanities in an informal para-academic setting" is something that one gets used to when they're in academia. There are posts on here that I read in the manner in which I treat the conversations had with phd candidates over coffee (weed or w/e vice of choice, i've certainly posted about my subjects of study while high), in that these conversations can be both highly informative and highly generative. I've had informal convos both irl and online turn into papers. While we aren't going to treat these conversations as the same level of authority as we might a peer reviewed paper or a book, we recognize that they can be genuinely productive scholarship. (Which is part of the fun of following other academics on here. Besides that so many of them are delightful, intelligent, and pleasant to be around; but im digressing)

But for someone without the experience, that difference between expertise and someone faking expertise is often not legible. And so we have some folks blithely spouting absolute nonsense that gets treated with the same or greater authority than folks who've spent 8 years in intensive study. And while I'm not yet 8 years along in my studies, I'm enough of an expert in some subjects to be occasionally pulling my hair out in the same way an astronomer will at youtube videos about black holes or in the same way epidemiologists have been driven bald since the start of 2020.

All of which is to say: Not all posts are good ones. And I know it's my job to teach people to read with their thinking caps on. But man I wish people knew how to read with their thinking caps on

#the great tool that two rigorous humanities degrees gave me that I wish I could port to folks easily is critical doubting #not just disbelief of people’s statements because they sounds untrue but being able to quickly think about the angles of a statement #who is it about who is it for who does it serve #who benefits from a certain truth #and accepting that there is not such thing as objectivity #I don’t have the context of this post but I wholeheartedly agree #like yes get in here let’s collaborate and think together #but also let’s be wary of one another’s biases and experiences and standpoints while we do it

The problem is I have nobody left to DM for because I scare them all off by putting terrible fates and horrible choices before them and making them gun-to-everyone-everywhere’s-heads solve the trolley problem by choosing to be swallowed up in a nuclear blast that would make what they did to Kiritimati look like a weekend at Blackpool

#I am generous with loot and cool weapons and side quests and levels and yet I am a monster #power is very corrupting and this is why I should never be a politician #I’d make a terrible go of it

kritzenkriegen

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

#and then the paralysis sets in and I don’t do it

hadesisqueer

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing