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Been MIA for while. My country just had a mini revolution against a Fascist state that took care of my writer's block. Shared my first article on substack today. Would love to hear what y'all think about this.

A Millennial’s Experience of the 2026 Gen Z Protest at Jantar Mantar

#india #cjp protest #fascisim #revolution #dark academia #history

technofeudalism

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.” Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

breelandwalker

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

thegaylibertarian

liminalweirdo

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

#sail the high seas #long live Jolly Roger

So.. anybody else facing the issue of their work being detected as AI by AI detectors or am I not human?

#academia #phd life #phdblr #ai #chatgpt

helenvaughans

the thing is that everyone does actually want the skill set that comes with a humanities degree but a) they refuse to acknowledge that actual WORK goes into acquiring those skills and b) they want to do it all without actually reading a book

Never been a smoker but the stress got me reaching for the non-existant cigarette on my nightstand

#suggestions for healthy coping mechanisms are welcome #those pics of that one Canadian boy are not helping #dark academia #phd life #phdblr #phd student #phdjourney

marscia

is this the year i read proust

marscia

Every year I say this and then end up not reading Proust… anyway… is this the year I read Proust

#realistically no #but a girl can hope #marcel proust #dark academia

wordsthat-speak

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— The Painted Drum (Louise Erdrich)

First rule of writing a PhD thesis: We don't write the thesis. We do everything on God's green earth except write the fucking thesis.

#me watching myself go on sidequest after sidequest #like gurl what is you doing #academia #dark academia #phd life #phdblr

mitrakats

rip leyendecker u would’ve loved hollanov

#oh this is perfection!#heated rivalry

nonaferatu

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

nonaferatu

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

the-secret-historian

As a socially anxious person who used to feel nauseous at the very thought of speaking in class, I am now a socially anxious teacher who has to speak in front of an audience on a regular basis. Constant reminders to self: your students are looking at you because you are talking and moving. They are not judging you. They are too young and too concerned with their own self. Kindness to yourself allows you to be kind to others.

Some days it's still hard but the only way to get around it is by automating the behaviour.. by doing it again and again so next time you feel as though you can't, you have evidence otherwise.

#social anxiety #academia

kap-wa

Calligraphic Scorpion, attributed to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor.

sabertoothwalrus

yknow how the greener parts of apple skin are tan lines from where leaves and branches obscure the sun? I’m surprised I’ve never seen anyone utilize that for printmaking

sabertoothwalrus