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[nonstickwaffleiron]

as an archivist I am begging you

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!

[kosmogrl]

[exhaled-spirals]

— Simone de Beauvoir, in a letter to Nelson Algren, July 3rd 1947

[metis-metis]

Locking in to be an academic weapon.

The academic weapon in question:

[covvboytears]

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

[queeranarchism]

One of my pet peeves is when people describe cave-dwelling homo sapiens or even late hunter-gatherers with only names like 'grug' and 'ogg'. They're homo sapiens! They have the same brains and mouth and vocal cords that we do.

The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.

Why does this matter? Because the idea that we as a species are constantly becoming superior is bullshit and is tied up closely with a lot of very harmful ideologies (capitalism, eugenics and fascism, to name a few). We're not becoming a superior species. We're passing on information and inventing more stuff and figuring out how to live longer, but those are social processes, they come from humans taking care of each other and valuing the preservation and free exchange of knowledge. They don't come from being fundamentally better than our ancestors, we're not.

[headspace-hotel]

This is true and you should say it.

[my-random-fandoms]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

[mothwizard]

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[studiesofanintrovert]

Back in Academia for a year and I am so done

Perhaps this mentality will change, but right now, after 9 months into my Master's degree as someone who stepped back into the world of academia after three years of working, I have zero direction. Zero want for research, zero motivation to do anything, to learn. All my passion for life has been drained out of me. And what's funny is this is probably extremely obvious for someone removed from the situation, that this is the wrong choice for me. And yet I persist. Why? I don't even know. I'm running away from something, looking for something, and I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the fact that I haven't really put any effort into this new chapter of my life despite promising myself that things would be different this time, that I would take this seriously. But realistically speaking, I haven't, to be fully truthful to myself I have been lazy, indulging in the easy way out, entertaining the seven sins. In every way, I admit that I despise this version of myself. That thought exists in the subconscious of my brain, there is a blanket of shame around my brain, forcing it to forget to all the work I did put in because I always waited till the last minute. Where panic took over and never finished a task to my full potential. And each time I walked away being extremely disappointed in myself and the grades I received always surprised me because in hindsight I don't think any of my work deserved a grade.

Each time I sit in class I have moments of clarity where I tell myself I must take things seriously, I must do more at home, I must do more reading and more learning. Each time I am back in my space, I'm back to those awful habits, scrolling, endlessly scrolling. Looking for something to bring me back to the mindspace where I want to do things for the sake of doing it and not forced by the fear of failing.

[defectivegembrain]

I love love love etymology because it's like every word has a back story intertwined with so many other words and through that you see ideas and culture and history and people and it's so beautiful okay I love word stories

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[carolinecrane]

PDFDrive stopped working a couple months ago, but you can try oceanofpdf.com instead.

[edwardian-masquerade]

“One thing I know,that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”

– Socrates

[cheruib]

the show (going out to get groceries. making myself a nice dinner. showering and opening the windows. being kind to myself in everything i do) Must go on

[beaft]

“[When asked to draw God]…the children drew, for the most part, faces and figures - many with beards. One child drew a delightful cat, another an intriguing genie popping out of a bottle with two faces (one male, one female). Seven-year-old Daniel handed me the paper blank side up. As I made to turn it over he stopped me and said, “No, that side. It’s air. God is air.” The content of the adult drawings varied massively. As well as a few human figures of mixed gender, many people drew natural landscapes, such as mountains, trees, and the ocean. Some created shapes such as hearts, or spirals, or a dot indicating infinity. One of my favourites was a picture of a dog with the words, “The only thing that could get through to me when I was suffering.”

— “What does God really look like? For one thing, she’s black”: Dave Tomlinson, Reinventing God

[lifeinpoetry]

““Hell is other people” is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also “Heaven is each other”. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings. And that’s possible on a sustained basis only in collectivity.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre; in “Talking with Sartre” (p. 130) [edited] (via insearchofwisdom)

[flowergrenades]

*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

[caden]

Reading books as a kid u would always get to the end then turn the page n see the authors bio nd their little picture id always think damn… they were ugly the whole time?

[jesus-hiii-deactivated20180908]

I always wanted to fuck them. Not a dirty fuck, but a fuck because they had made me fall in love with their mind entirely

[caden]

huh ?