Academia for 300

A recovering PhD by yelling into the void. 35.

[macleod]

Good Vibrations Cabinet Glitch furniture by Ferruccio Laviani

[papayajuan2019]

two things

buenos dias

[whowantstobeaphd]

Let's fucking go!

[animentality]

[whowantstobeaphd]

I am obsessed

[thememedaddy]

[bernard-jackson]

[ds-90210]

Garak: With great power comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

[sonypraystation]

white people have the sauce sometimes and dont even know it

[sonypraystation]

i just saw a youtube short of brandon sanderson on a podcast. the whole time hes talking hes doing book signings. what a flex. so many bitches on my dick i gotta multitask

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

brandon sanderson is actually just built different. once on a podcast with patrick rothfuss they were talking about tools to write better and he said "i try to limit myself to 8 hours of writing per day." he took time off of writing during the first year of covid and accidentally wrote four unplanned books. he teaches a class at byu. his wife has a codeword to get him to stop writing in his head because at any given moment you might think he's doing something normal but no he's also writing another novel. stephen king said he's insane

[gryfndorgodess]

via queenofattolia: #stephen king said he's insane: most damning sentence ever written

[b0nkcreat]

eyes emoji was the perfect invention for nosy people. like 👀 whats going on over here 👀👀 i just wanna know #LetMeKnow 👀👀👀

[loreleywrites]

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

[spektrolith]

Moomin enjoyers could get so much more out of the stories if everyone stopped cutesy-fying them so much. This is something I have a strong opinion on. Everyone seems to focus on "aw fluffy little nice creatures" and "Moomin and Snufkin are in love" which YES they are. Obviously. All of that is true.

But the original Moomin stories are undeniably dark. They're often about being sad and depressed and so, so lonely, about looking for a home, about never feeling fully understood, about growing up and having flawed parents. About never being fully able to understand some people. Moominpappa at Sea, the whole Groke situation, Moominland Midwinter, the last few Moomin books in general. The Hattifattener's whole deal. Their world is full of sad and strange things. It's just also about seeing the fun and feeling love in a world like that.

I think the average Tumblr user would love the Moomins even more if everyone stopped pretending that they're Disney-type creatures, and instead embrace the incredible Finland-Swedish weirdness. Tumblr I know you love weird stuff! Get into the strange side of the Moomins!

Also Tove Jansson would be on my side here. She was so annoyed by the Moomins getting commercialised and twisted by everyone. I enjoy a pretty Arabia Moomin mug as much as the next person. I love the wholesomeness of these stories, too, and I don't want to tell you how to enjoy these books. Keep a place in your heart for the darkness in these stories, is what I'm saying. You might love them even more if you do that.

[zipper-neck]

I remember one of the books, Comet in Moominland, was about a giant meteor coming to kill everyone and trying to prepare for certain doom. I was like "Damn, this is heavy, I wonder what inspired this??" It was published in 1946, shortly after the invention of the nuclear bomb, so I do wonder if that's the connection. I actually thought it was published later during the Cold War because the book would be very relatable to anyone who did bomb drills hiding under their school desks.

[hamyheikki]

From the official Moomin site:

[catmota]

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2  (1918)

Georgia O’Keeffe

[big-fucking-nerd]

Hey disability tumblr, I’m getting an AFO this week, possibly today, and I’m really trying to be normal about it, but I’m not feeling very normal about it. It’s really my own fault because I’ve fucked up the nerve in my leg by sitting weird while having EDS, but also in the process of looking into that they discovered that something might be *really* wrong with my nerves and it is too much to think about. If anyone wants to share some positivity about braces/mobility aids, I’d really love to hear it.

[putdownthecatitscratches]

I've only used a walking cane but they're great! You can even hang your hat on them (I put my baseball cap on there), and they make you feel like Lady Danbury.

(If you get one meant for outdoor pursuits, like a Mountain Warehouse one, they're easy to adjust in terms of height and they sometimes come with extra "feet" for different grips!

[whowantstobeaphd]

I use either one or two walking sticks depending in the day (and some times none at all!). It's amazing to be able to go out when I usually couldn't. It's really changed my life.

Plus you can get them in cool colors!

[titsay]

(i know it won't 🥹)

[deactivationgocrazy-deactivated]

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[doubleca5t]

I think I've got a compromise

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

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[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.