[the-sloth-king]

Diversity win! The library named after the racist premier who privatized dozens of public services and was involved in the murder of a protester has installed a tampon dispenser in the mens bathroom.

[8syntheticanimal8]

[plushiepngs]

[cabinetduo]

watching fandom get more and more multicultural as people drop shame and embrace the beauty of projection and the truth that whiteness (white Americaness even) isnt the default is so fucking beautiful

[an-ruraiocht]

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

[topgunvolleyballscene]

how often are you getting a headache

daily

weekly

monthly

couple times a year

yearly or less

Voting ended onJul 23

[topgunvolleyballscene]

how often are you getting a tummy ache

daily

weekly

monthly

every couple months

yearly or less

Voting ended onJul 23

[topgunvolleyballscene]

Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

[achillesinhighheels]

[tomato-greens]

btw I am not blaming anyone for this but do you know how bad at teaching most TAs are, and how little support they get at becoming better teachers? sooo much writing instruction is outsourced to people who have never been in front of a classroom before, and to people in the humanities who consider teaching in writing programs to be beneath them, btw. and some of them have been my colleagues and friends, and everyone has to start somewhere, but yeesh. everything’s tight right now but if some minor amount of money could be diverted from [various projects that make universities look good to donors but don’t contribute to teaching], so much could be done !

[queer-as-city-folk]

stop trying to say I have aphantasia, nobody can actually see that fucking apple

[queer-as-city-folk]

if I had aphantasia, that would require people to be constantly ahllucinating, and I think that they are the real issue here

[queer-as-city-folk]

Genuinely though the idea of aphantasia is stupid, I don't think anyone can see an apple, they are all lying to me as a bit

[queer-as-city-folk]

[eminentsleet388]

Question to people with aphantasia, how do you see memories? Like for example if you wanted to remember what you ate for dinner last night, can you visually see what you ate based on your memory of it? Or maybe even something as familiar as the layout of your home?

[queer-as-city-folk]

Again, memories aren't something you see, their like a concept, I know what my house looks like, but unless I'm there I can't see it

Like if I had paper with me, I could draw out the layout immediately, but I can't literally see a map in my mind

[queer-as-city-folk]

Let him out?

[necrowyrm]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

"dog residue" post means so much to my ocd

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[the-sloth-king]

I do think that in a few years pjackk will turn out to have been some kind of cole sprouse esque "experiment" with no real purpose other than to gain attention and/or fuck with tumblr users

[piranesies]

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

Reblog this post to cast Crumb of Serotonin on whoever you reblogged it from

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

today, a severe thursday watch will be in place.

remember everyone...

thursday watch: the conditions for thursday are here, but a thursday incident has not yet been confirmed

thursday warning: thursday has arrived

[the-sloth-king]

My schools library is generally like a really beautifully designed well thought out space but one thing that does piss me off is that because theres so many windows (like seriously the building is ~70% glass by surface area) almost all of the designated quite workspace areas are intolerably hot in the summer.

So you basically have to make a choice between

a) working somewhere quiet and boiling hot

Or

b) working somewhere comfortable but loud and busy

And like I get that it's winter 7/12 months of the year here and that most students are only here in the winter months, but like, the building is open year round , so maybe could we add some quiet spaces to the basement or something please??

[the-sloth-king]

And now today it's 18 degrees and cloudy so the library is 15°C can I fucking live????