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hello my foul little beasties, i am taking a (hopefully brief) hiatus to deal with some health & personal issues. in the meantime here are some terrible awful no good wholesome fun facts i've been meaning to share:

bone china is called bone china bc yes it contains bones!

i'm not saying that autistic bees exist but autistic bees exist

for 15 years sweden thought russian submarines were invading its waters; it turned out to be herrings farting

cows have regional accents

sometimes massive fields of ice eggs wash up on beaches. literally just ice shaped like eggs. that is a thing that sometimes happens and i derive joy from this peculiar world

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everyday i wake up and plan on doing Things but then i just

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Beautiful from Ordinary Days

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The peasants have developed a parasocial attachment to you, my liege

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love the trope where an authoritative side character pointedly pretends not to help the hero they’re not supposed to be helping by saying shit like “well I can’t just let you wander around up to the THIRD FLOOR where you could just FIND THE THING YOU NEED in the FIRST ROOM ON THE LEFT. And under no circumstances should you USE THE KEY FROM UNDER THE MAT. I wish I could help you, but I CAN’T. Now excuse me, I need to take this phone call for the next 37 minutes EXACTLY.”

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Hawkellion's Guide to Writing Personal Statements (and other similar nonsense)

Following a conversation I recently had with @socially-insufficient  on this hellsite, I had the idea of putting together a general guideline on how to write personal statements for an academic institution, mainly for people who never had to write anything like this before and are applying to high-ranking unis.

This guide will focus on UK universities, but a lot of my points are applicable across unis all over Europe, particularly the Netherlands and Denmark. I am also taking an undergrad perspective, but some of these are applicable for Masters/PhD applications too - turns out that selling your soul isn’t all that different throughout your career, you just get more experience at it.

This guide will also feature gratuitous swearing, stemming mostly from my deep-rooted anger at the education system - you have been warned.

Keep reading

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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bro backwards is orb.......... what does this mean for our society

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feminine urge this masculine urge that let’s stop being weird about gender online for a second and focus on what’s important

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Art by Pascal Campion

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albertdrosphotography

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The Swan, No. 1, Hilma af Klint, 1915.

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Sudden wave of an immense love for humanity has hit me once again…

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the way you can resent your parents but also sympathise with and ache for them… so sick