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academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

medusadyke

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

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rozzed

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

invizigothx

first rule of Cite Club: tell everyone where you learned about Cite Club

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Cincinatti's Old Main Library

Officially opened in 1874, the Old Main Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, was a behemoth of wrought iron and books. A glass ceiling, heated marble floor, and wooden furnishings made for a building fit for a fairytale.

Unfortunately, the library's need for space quickly outgrew its premises, while other issues with the building accumulated over the years. In 1955, it was demolished and the various parts sold off for scrap. The building site is now a parking garage.

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This weekend, the British Library issued a century-late apology to Oscar Wilde in the form of a brand new library card. The Irish poet-novel

elumish

One of my biggest pieces of advice to improve your reading comprehension is to look up every single word you're not sure of.

It doesn't matter if it's the first time you're seeing the word or you've looked it up every day for the last year. If you don't know or are not sure what a word means, look it up.

Andrei Tarkovsky

You can read this article here for free with my subscription.

I read 40 books in 2025, but these are some of my favorites. In no particular order: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, by Zora Neale Hurston

Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang

The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel

North Woods, by Daniel Mason

Sing to Me, by Jesse Browner

The Summer War, by Naomi Novik

Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Knight & the Moth, by Rachel Gillig