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Dear scientists,

Please, for the love of God, please, make your papers more understandable.

Fuck you

Sincerely,

A college student on the verge of tears

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SAW TRAP write 1-2 paragraphs on a discussion post and respond to two of your classmates

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48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

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12/19/2022

Barely posted anything original on this blog in years, but I feel like it's worth an update - I sent an email to a potential faculty advisor for grad school today! This is a huge step for me because I've been terrified to reach out to faculty at other schools for a long time. Cross your fingers that she responds to me!

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Resource List for Learning Dutch

Hi Language Enthusiasts,

Do you want to learn Dutch but don’t know where to start? Then I’ve got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its links below. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. I hope everyone can enjoy it and if anyone notices any mistakes or has any questions you are free to PM me.

Here is what the resource list contains;

Handmade resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning pronunciation.

Websites to practice reading.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial Language.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jbhBehQ-_llP1l2ZicCwRaLsFWMZy1mELcSgbZ9VZS8/edit?usp=sharing

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heyyy [I say with the complete intention of info-dumping about marine science]

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When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

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4 Ingredient Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas

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Here, a cheater course on caring for natural fibers!

1. Wool. Treat it like it has the delicate constitution of a Victorian lady and the conviction that baths are evil of a 17th century noble. (If I get in WATER my PORES will OPEN and I will CATCH ILL AND DIE.)

2. Cotton; easygoing. Will shrink a bit if washed and dried hot.

3. Silk; people think it’s like wool and has the constitution of a fashionably dying of consumption Victorian lady, but actually it’s quite tough. Can be washed in an ordinary washer, and either tumbled dry without heat or hung to dry.

4. Linen; it doesn’t give a shit. Beat the hell out of it. Historically was laundered by dousing it in lye and beating the shit out of it with wooden paddles, which only makes it look better. The masochist of the natural fiber world. Beat the fuck out of it linen doesn’t care. Considerably stronger than cotton. Linen sheet sets can last literal decades in more or less pristine shape because of that strength.The most likely natural fiber to own a ball gag.

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Strawberry cheesecake frozen yogurt

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So I just got a text; apparently my father just dropped by the house, handed my husband a large box full of slightly under-ripe peaches, said “For the love of god take these I was picking up windfalls and I have another bushel at home” and left. 

The joys of having parents with a fruit orchard. 

In a couple days once they ripen, I’m thinking peach pie :)

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this is true

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13 college professors killed in horrific youtube autoplay incident

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Secret set of useful items for adult life that are good to have:

1) A hammer, not too big, maybe an 8oz one. Because you will need to hit something with a hammer at some point - maybe a nail’s coming out of the wall, maybe that bag of frozen fruit you got melted a bit on the way home and refroze into a solid lump in the freezer. At some point, you will need a hammer. I got mine at the Great Canadian Dollar Store for $1 Canadian. Good hammer, serves its purpose.

2) A pair of regular-sized screwdrivers, one phillips (has the + shaped tip) and one flathead (has the - shaped tip). As with the hammer, you will need to screw or unscrew something at some point, and these two types of screwdriver will cover most of the stuff you’ll encounter on a normal day. I got these at the dollar store, too, reliable allies.

3) A mini-screwdriver kit, a small one with maybe six screwdrivers in it. These will have your back with all the fiddly little screws you don’t normally think about - glasses, calculator battery cases, small bits on sewing machines. One of those items you generally think of as useless, right up until you need it, at which point it becomes the most valuable thing in your house. You can get a good set for about $8 usd.

4) This one will sound like a joke, but a model tool kit for plastic models, a simple one with nine to eleven pieces. They are full of strange, esoteric tools that can just… come in handy at weird times - a metal file to smooth a rough edge on something plastic or resin, a nice exact-o knife with some spare blades, a polish cloth, tweezers, good stuff. And you can get a good one for $10-$15 usd easy, which is way cheaper than going and buying all this stuff separately.

5) A box of q-tips. They’re just weirdly useful for stuff, but, again, one of those things you don’t often think of until you need one.

6) A cleaning toothbrush. This can be an old toothbrush that is a little too worn to get its job done anymore or a cheap new one. The important thing is, the cleaning toothbrush does not go in the mouth. It is used with a bit of soap or detergent to gently clean spots on clothes, dirt from the fiddly areas of jewelry, watches, cool figures/statuettes, small spaces the scrub-cloth doesn’t reach, and that sort of thing. It is a powerful secret weapon, cherish it throughout its life, then pay respects when it is finally replaced.

8) A pair of utility scissors, possibly with orange handles. The big kind your parents didn’t let you get as a kid, but not so big as to be unwieldy. Grown-up scissors. Used for everything from cutting cardboard to removing a small chunk of uneven hair to cutting plants outside. Costs about $11 usd to get a good pair, very worth it.

9) An appropriately-sized bag or box to keep all this stuff in. It won’t have to be very big, a shoe box will hold all this with loads of space left over, but you wanna keep it consolidated, you know? The scissors especially, they will try to strike out on their own for regions unknown if left to their own devices.

All together, this kit will probably end up costing from $40-50 usd, if you go for the cheapest version of everything I’ve suggested and hit up the local dollar store (like I did). That may still sound like a lot. However, with the exception of the q-tips and the toothbrush, all this is stuff you will never have to buy again. The newest, non-toothbrush-or-q-tip item I have on my list is the tool kit for plastic models, and it’s about four years old - the rest is more in the range of fifteen years old and have never needed replacing.

None of this is likely stuff you’ll need on a daily basis, but it’s all stuff that you will need eventually and which is really useful to just have on-hand when you do. One day you’ll need a screwdriver to pry a stuck lid off something, another you randomly require a pair of tweezers or nippers from your plastic model tool kit, and what could have required an hour-long work-around or a trip to the store is over in a couple minutes and you can get on with your day.