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I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

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Edgin whacking people with his lute

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People who think a standard/large sized backyard garden can be anything near their caloric requirements are just as disconnected from where their food comes from as ppl who just eat fast food

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girlknight slumped over the bar at the local tavern, three pints in, gripping her own scalp, "i have GOT to stop swearing oaths of fealty"

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It’s more comforting to convince yourself that all men are assholes then it is to face reality which is that your ex boyfriend wasn’t destined to become an asshole but for a variety of complicated societal and personal reasons he ended up that way anyways even though he could’ve chosen to not be an asshole

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femme in a tight tank top with no bra . Much to think about

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*normie voice* surely impulse is authentic and contemplation is distortion

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Back in the office/ back on my bullshit

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

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i have never cared about superman before but i just got out of the new superman movie and i love him now??

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Mutuals to have floor time with

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Everyone warns you agaist going to the supermarket hungry, but nobody tells you about the dangers of going there too full: I do not want any of these things, for I will never require any food at all!

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the thing about being trans is your a man when it’s convenient to make your life harder your a woman when it’s convenient to make your life harder and your neither when it’s convenient to make your life harder no matter what you are

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Liking a character who sucks is silly because yeah I hate him and yeah I want people to bully him and say mean things but if you say the Wrong mean thing I'm going to get defensive

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i think about the sokal prank sometimes. the sciences and math in academia benefit from how impenetrable the notation and even description of the problems can be to outsiders. most research on most topics is not even wrong; most research is uninteresting and vapid. this is as true of engineering and medicine (where you publish everything, even bad results, in the hope that someone else reanalyzes it later) as it is of queer theory or philosophy or whatever else.

and once you're trained to notice it you'll pick up on it. but in the humanities, you have to write in normal language and excessive jargon is generally considered unhelpful. so while outsiders wouldn't even know how to find a terrible paper written by some math grad student whose advisor is clearly putting them through the paces, getting them to write coherent sentences and format graphs that aren't made for ants, they can almost instantly spot the same thing among papers in the humanities. they can't spot, much less summarize or use, good papers in either though...

it's not like there's an easy fix for this. if you had to explain everything for a layperson in every paper, math papers would come affixed to 900pg textbooks, and humanities journals would need to include their entire canon, including all the nuance you're supposed to learn on accident. i wish it was better communicated to everyone, laypeople but also new students, that most the literature for fields are loose groupings of semi-canonical texts (often with wide-ranging interpretation and valuation running from "yeah this didn't pan out" to "you would need to rework many basic facts about the domain to get rid of it") and not big books of self-contained, objectively correct, and rigorously reviewed facts. but such communication is hard, because in any one instant we are in fact trying to get as close as we possibly can to self-contained, objectively correct, and rigorously reviewed facts.

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im literally still pissed about how "you cant even make a phonecall" seems to still be an acceptable insult/gotcha on here can we please put that one up on the shelf with insulting someone by saying they jobless or live with their parents or whatever asap. please

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fun