It's raining

happiness is the consequence

[smileinseptember]

it's a constant war between wanting to overshare or never speaking again

[anxeious]

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[kiironekolady]

i spent basically a year weaning myself of the thought process of imagining conflict. like pure imagination of arguments and conflicts with strangers over every possible day-to-day situation. it got my heart rate up, kept me up at night, and it was just such a natural thing for me that i had to consciously stop myself from doing it. i've never actually tended to read bad intentions on other people, and this wasn't really transferring into real life interactions, but at some point it might have, as conflict was what i was internally modelling. and also, it made me feel bad. my mind would just continuously and frequently lead me through these harrowing stressful scenarios, and when i realized it it still took some time and effort to catch myself doing it and force myself to think about something else.

[dick-hardboiled]

There is absolutely a platonic explanation for that

[dick-hardboiled]

But I will also entertain the non platonic for my own edification do u understand

[goldensunset]

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[kiironekolady]

also, if you can't find it and the author is kinda dismissive or unavailable for sharing it with you it probably means the research was iffy at best or total bullshit at worse. try and find it in the references of other papers and see what reviews say about it (yes you should always try and find the original article/study/experiment, but if all you got is multiple reliable sources disproving its claims and pointing out errors in methods then they're probably right)

[fairycosmos]

i often have every intention of doing something. which means nothing

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[kiironekolady]

we do indeed. it's just... none of us are in charge

[herpsandbirds]

[tractorgoth]

Mood. Have to add my other fave Darwin Being Hyperfixated On Invertebrate Taxonomy quote

[kiironekolady]

this is still the experience of most scientists in academia, and we have internet

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Reblog to shrimp check your mutuals

[elveny]

If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isn’t reachable or accessible AT ALL.

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[kiironekolady]

that's capitalism babey. tech starts as a tool to solve your problems and when it stagnates in its own self-importance it can only feed itself by being used against you

[kiironekolady]

Quando estivermos muito depois de tudo, oxalá possamos ainda cheirar a terra molhada.

-André Barata in Palavras de uso, Ípsilon, jornal Público 10 julho 2026

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags what your blog title (not URL!) is a reference to.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

What is "walking distance" to you? (provided that the weather is okay)

Less than 5 minutes.

Less than 15 minutes.

Less than 30 minutes.

Less than 1 hour.

Depends on... add a tag.

other/I'm not canadian and don't measure distance in time.

Voting ended onJul 15

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[kiironekolady]

similarly, me and @kuronekonerochan after spending one week in belgium where fruit was nonexistent or (the one time we found anyone selling it) absurdly expensive and coming back to portugal to binge on 7 different kinds of fruit per day since

[transmechanicus]

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

[vmprblood]

this doesn't apply to jobs like childcare

[transmechanicus]

If i worked in childcare and my 6 hours were up i would start putting babies in ziploc bags and shipping them to Turkmenistan listed as endangered fruits and vegetables

[kiironekolady]

of course it applies to childcare and literally every job. can you imagine for a second that there is more than one person in the world that can do a job?? whoaa revolutionary