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pigeon courier's journey through a strange town inhabited only by cats. drawings for STICKII 2025 vintage advent calendar
i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.
the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.
the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.
when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?
So it's come my attention that there are a lot of students, particularly in humanities and social sciences disciplines, who need to hear this, so here goes:
Do the readings.
Oh my God, just do the readings. I promise, it gets easier once you get into the habit of it.
What makes a good student? Doing the readings. Literally just doing the readings is enough to make you a good student.
The readings *are* the course. The lectures are just priming you for the readings. The tutorials and seminars are just how we collectively process the readings. If the readings were intended to be optional, they would have been listed under the "optional readings" heading.
"Oh but I hate this reading! The author's an idiot, they're wrong about everything" Good. Do the reading and then tear it apart in class. This isn't high school, you're not expected to mindlessly absorb things anymore
If you're in physics, do the derivations. Don't believe that any equation given to you is true. Derive it. Convince yourself that it must be true, and understand the limitations of its truth.
The very first lecture I give my students emphasizes that they do not have to accept the readings as truth from on high. They don't even have to like them! Critical reading is perhaps the most important skill I hope they take away from my course, and you can't develop it if you're not doing the fucking readings!
#the number of ENGLISH MAJORS who refuse to read and then complain about not understanding the class discussions#I'm begging y'all. the information is in the words
Also - the amount of grad students I have witnessed using ChatGPT to do the literature review for them, and not bothering to read any paper is frankly concerning.
Do people realise this is the basis of research? Learning about other people's work and getting ideas that are yours?? Sometimes even just a sentence can change your entire perception about a topic!
If you want to have a quick idea about the content of a paper to see if it is relevant for you, do as god fucking intended - read the abstract, the introduction and the conclusion for fuck's sake
Why would you even keep studying - at any level - if you are not curious about a topic? If you take just the lazy road without developing and applying critical thinking skills?
big fat emphasis on previous/last reply/comment!!
(however, really depends on the course, field, and program of study)
I wish every artist a very "drawing something so gleefully stupid you cackle the whole time" at least once this week
Please please please don't click those phishing texts
Please please please don't click those phishing texts
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.
Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)
God I need this so bad for my Midterm so please let this work again for me.
Babe. Babe, wake up. A new Méliès just dropped.
Pioneering science fiction filmmaker George Méliès short, "Gugusse and the Automaton," was discovered in Michigan and can now be streamed.
Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal. By turning a crank, Gu
she pirate on my caribbean til i curse the black pearl
next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.
"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"
I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times
Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.
See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.
It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.
It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.
No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)
And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.
And that is why we hate James Patterson.
I was wondering about this when i saw the first version of this post
fellas is it just me or has job hunting gotten worse
For anyone wondering:
What would your gravestone say?
Fucking weird phrasing, but this is a variant on "Describe yourself in three words". They want a sense of who you are and what you're like as a person
Let's say the president came into our store and asked you to grab something off a shelf. Would you help him?
They want to see how professional you are. Tell them you'd help any customer that isn't harming or affecting any other customer, because that's the job and your work ethic
Remember when Hawaii thought they were going to be exploded? SO CRAZY! Walk us through how you'd close up shop in that scenario.
Competency question. They want to know how you react in an emergency, and are testing your thought process by giving you a specific scenario. They don't expect perfection, they just want to see what elements you consider, how thorough you are, etc.
So... how would Willy Wonka get you
Wild phrasing, but they're asking a variant on "What characteristics do you have that you need to work on?" They're doing it in a more fun way to try to put you at ease, but also more importantly to get a sense of your personality. If you're choosing someone to join the team, you generally want to get a vibe of what they're like before you commit to spending 8 hours in an office with them 5 days a week. Do you laugh and treat this question as a fun game? Do you give a single one word answer while staring at them? Do you deliver an in-depth analysis of how the Chocolate Factory's fae-like logic applies to real world human behaviour? This tells them something
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And, of course, it also depends on the job. Some jobs may require you to think on your feet, so they might be looking for a creative, snappy response. Others simply want a sense of what you're like.
When I was a hiring manager at an escape room, I would spell out the interview process for the candidates; I would first tell them the logistics of the job and how it worked, so if it wasn't going to work out they could leave without doing the rest of the interview and save time. Then I would tell them we were moving into the Getting To Know You questions, and we'd have a mix of those, including the "fun" types. And then I would tell them we were moving into the competency section, and that's when we'd ask the skills stuff. It meant everyone had a clue about what the questions were getting at, and knew what to emphasise. Unfortunately, most interviewers these days do not do that, and I do think it disadvantages a lot of neurodiverse folks - or, even just inexperienced folks who haven't done many interviews
In any case. Yeah. That's what they mean, for anyone unsure
Gift cards are tracked too, in case anyone thought they were clever like that.
I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion
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This is a really fantastic return to form for this genre of post. In recent years there's been less and less effort put into this vital aspect of internet culture, it's nice to see a return to the truly artisanal work of the late 00s.
ⓘ Tip If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.