Boo

[mursterfish]

My father and I both love Project Hail Mary, but while I love the film and the book is in my TBRs (I’m working through Dungeon Crawler Carl currently) he much prefers the book to the film.

He is also the world’s biggest Stratt fan.

Every conversation I have with him about PHM comes back to Stratt at some point. He NEEDS me to understand how much Stratt risked professionally, personally and internationally. He’s obsessed with this ‘the ends justify the means’ woman. To him, she is the main character and Grace is just the vessel through which we learn about her.

[lesspopped]

affirmation: I am capable of finishing the works of pornographic fanfiction I start writing

[lesspopped]

@ people in the notes saying things along the lines of "no I'm not": INCORRECT. you ARE. finishing it slowly is still finishing it and I BELIEVE IN YOU.

@ people in the notes saying things along the lines of "yes I am": CORRECT. we are GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS.

@ people in the notes saying things along the lines of "I am also capable of starting them": CORRECT. you absolutely ARE. and THEN you are capable of FINISHING them.

@ people in the notes saying things along the lines of "this but it's my art": CORRECT. I BELIEVE IN YOU and I APOLOGIZE for not being more INCLUSIVE.

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[6qubed]

@unpretty complimentary psychic damage

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[switchingtogeico]

[captainhaterade]

[stankpasta]

rb if u hates terfs

[spielzeugkaiser]

Prompt 14: assassin

[pgs-pictures]

i love u combusken even if nobody else does

[yuramec]

A Princess Tutu sketch that i made some days ago. ppff! what a week!

[astronnova]

hey guys

[sleepy-oggyoger]

The False Messiah and His True Believer

[freakedknight]

Very messy dp sketches + cablepool sketch I may or may not finish

[mywadeyisthecentrefold]

some slutty, slutty cablepool for the soul 

[charcoalmuncher44]

i miiiss them

[pectinpeeress]

Came to a horrible realization the other day

[greyscale-dw]

[melongreen]

It's freezing these days... Be careful of frostbite!

[melongreen]

It's freezing these days... Be careful of frostbite!

[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.