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Mango and I live in one of the rainiest places in North America so the sunlight is a rare treat ☀️🍄🌱
Thank you so much to @mangomondays and @calicosabre for the info on the cat bed, as a thank you here are some pictures of Margarita (Margo for short)!
I think the funniest possible thing to do in a low stakes situation when someone subtly insults you is to ask them to elaborate.
In Seattle I was explaining environmental DNA and a woman said it “tickled” her to hear someone with my accent (rural Appalachia) “talk about science.”
So I said, “oh! 🙂 What an interesting perspective. Can you tell me more about what you mean?”
As you can imagine it went badly for her very quickly.
@vampireapologist Are you a scientist in the eDNA field as well? I'm wrapping up my microbiology/Biochemistry PhD thesis on eDNA in Canada and I don't think I've ever met another scientist working with eDNA, just a bunch of names in papers from universities far away. 😅
Yeah c'mon
Got a job interview this afternoon, gonna take all the luck I can get!
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
idk. it makes me sad when it burns. it's beautiful and people worked hard on it. protect this precious creature.
like. why y'all want them to suffer? what'd they ever do to you??? this is a good goat! a lovely goat! be kind to the goat!!! i can't be the only person who wants to see this thing survive, can i???
The best goat. I hope it lives and that everyone trying to burn it ends up burning themselves.
Richard Savoie.
[ID: a series of realistic paintings of snowy city streets, parks, and houses. all of them are lit with syrupy warm gold light coming from the streetlights, car headlights, and windows. there are people going about their business in some of them, and others are empty. /end ID]
The be more specific, these are Quebecois landscapes!
1st: Montreal street in the snow, recognizable by the iconic metal staircases.
2nd: Feels like Quebec city, on of the streets between rue st Jean and St Louis maybe.
3rd: Distinctly Quebecois vibe but can't place it for certain.
4th: Montreal again, the staircases.
5th: Not sure but I've been in this park before I am certain.
6th: Quebec city, Cote de la Montagne i'd guess.
7th: Probably Montreal with the skyscrapers but I can't place the intersection.
8th: Could be anywhere in Charlevoix.
9-10: Unsure, probably Montreal.
These are so familiar, it's the kind of landscape I grew up seeing everyday, if only I could afford one of his paintings, maybe one day.
Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.
BURN BAGEL BURN
OH WHY NOT?
I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.
Bagel what are your powers
FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.
THE BAGEL POWERS ARE WAY TOO MUCH FOR THIS WORLD
I GOT A JOB THE DAY AFTER MY QUEUE POSTED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND I JUST REALIZED IT WHEN I SAW IT AGAIN HOLY GOD
The bagel hasn’t let me down yet!
Cannibalism
destroy false idols
No it's carrying its young!
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4,000 votes isn't a large enough sample size especially considering that queer spaces are close gknit resulting in a selection bias. To solve the potential selection bias, we simply need more people to see the poll and participate in it.
Quite simple, it needs to break containment.
I think around about a million or so votes would do the trick.
-caleb
Sandman…
I might have gotten a little carried away with this concept, but I had fun and that’s what matters.
I want this on a fucking t-shirt
The only thing that could make this better, in my humblest opinion of course, is if the Blood of Bigoted Politicians was *Unethically* sourced.
Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)
MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck. Not bad luck. I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!
“See him face”
I sure fucking do see him face
Him face
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)
Reblog him face for good luck in 2022!
Not fucking ignoring this, last 2 years have sucked. 🤬🤬
Goat burned, reblogging him face, so far not dead. Good luck!
Reblogging him face whether it’s good luck or no, because him has a very cute face
Anybody want an exhaustively in-depth, step-by-step breakdown of how to write a research paper for a college literature class?
Okay, so you start by identifying the work that you're going to write the paper on. Most lit classes will announce in the syllabus that you'll have a paper due at the end of the term, and usually it will be a text that was covered in the class. The FIRST thing you should do is skim the wikipeda pages of all the assigned readings. One of the BEST things that you can find on a wikipedia page about a work you're considering for a research paper is a section discussing debated meanings or controversy about the text - this means that there is a LOT of material on the work you're going to break down.
The reason to do this at the start of the class is twofold: One, it gives you more time to prepare for the paper, Two, you should know what the readings assigned at the end of the term look like before you panic and choose a work that the class has already covered. I have been in twenty English classes where pretty much no one went over the works assigned for the last couple weeks of the term. This is a mistake! Those works are usually assigned late in the term because they're what the rest of the term has been building to in terms of complexity and meaning, which, again, probably means that there's a metric fuckton of research on those readings.
The next step is to read the work. If you have already read the work earlier in the class, now is the time to go back through and skim it to re-familiarize yourself with the text. You are making very big, very general notes. The notes that I made on this read-through were things like "baited," "performance of empire," "the ugliness of empire," and "performance to one another." You're just getting the biggest, vaguest ideas out, because now it's time to do your precis, which is not as precise as that name would imply.
The way that I approach a precis is as a very, very, very broad statement about what I think the work is saying and what I want to say about it. In this case I think Orwell is saying that imperialism is both cruel and pointless, that it is mutually degrading to those subject to empire and enforcing empire, and that it makes the world worse. Cool. Orwell doesn't like empire, that's not a surprise.
At this point I have a general idea of where I think I'm going to go with this paper (in the direction of performance; i'm going to talk about the way that Orwell fixates on empire as performative) and it is time to go dig up research.
*nineteen articles later*
The reason you do your precis before you do research but that you do not write a thesis statement before you do research is because you need to guide your search, but you don't want to box yourself into a corner by only looking at one specific argument. For instance, for my Austen project I am examining radical politics in Austen's work but I have bought books written by biographers who understand her as a conservative as well as a whole book of marxist criticism of Austen that considers her a conservative; that is not totally in line with my reading of her work or her politics, but it's important to see what arguments people who *aren't* totally in line with my view of the matter make.
So what I have done for this Orwell paper is searched my school library's database for terms like "Orwell and Empire," "Orwell and Violence," "Orwell and Authority," "Orwell and Policing," and "Shooting an Elephant."
I went through the results from most to least relevant for each search, and opened them all in other tabs. I didn't read them, or even skim them, I just opened the database link to the articles in another tab. You DO NOT need to read every single one of these that you open, you do NOT need to read them one at a time before choosing to open another.
Okay, so, now that you've got a bunch of articles to sift through, you start an annotated bibliography. The way that I *personally* do this is to start by putting the info I will need to cite each of these articles/books/etc, into a document. I also create a new folder and download everything that I possibly can.
Two of my sources were books that I have institutional permission to view but not to download, so I have those open in my browser.
Downloading is an important step. Download, download, download. Don't just leave these up in the browser and close them after you've skimmed them and decided they aren't necessary - download them because you could get a third of the way into your paper and realize that, actually, that WAS a necessary part of your paper and downloading will save you the hassle of trying to go find the paper online again (this is also why you START this process by getting the citation/publication info into a document).
At this stage you have STILL not read any of these documents. You are still NOT going to actually read them for at least one more step, you are going to start by skimming.
Your next step is to just skim each of these documents to see if they are *at all* relevant to your research paper.
So, for instance, that paper on "Landscape and the mask of self" is actually a paper on *geography,* not a paper on literary criticism. There's a good chance that it is not going to have anything to do with my topic, so I am going to skim it [pause for skimming] and after skimming it, it's an intertextual exploration of geography and Orwell's story, history, and other writings on empire. This text *IS* relevant to my paper, which I now need to note in my bibliography document.
I'm not going to completely read this paper, yet, or pull any quotes out of it, I just make a note in my document that it touches on themes that will show up in my paper.
Then I move on to another document and skim it [pause for skimming] and it appears that "This Side of the Barricades" is okayish background on Orwell that I might use if I really need to justify a statement, but is more journalistic than literary and is not really on the subject of the work that I'm discussing. It is not useful to my paper, so I make a note of *why* it is not useful in my document.
What I also start doing at this point is sorting out "useful" and "not useful" with visual cues. I use a highlighter in my document, and I also change the titles of the PDFs so that they will be sorted in my file explorer with useful stuff at the top and less useful stuff at the bottom:
And that is all for the moment. I'll write more once I've skimmed all my possible sources but I'm getting worried that tumblr is going to crash and eat this post.
This is excellent!
I'd like to add something that might be helpful to people, @ms-demeanor can refute if they aren't in agreement.
A reference management software like Mendeley (there are other but that one is free and open source and I love it) can help the annotated bibliography step. It allows the downloading (and automatic sorting) of papers, you can open them and read them inside Mendeley (it's a pdf reader as well), you can annotate them directly along with the reference info, give them tags, sort them into folders and sub folders etc. You can also add an entry for non-downloadable papers along with the link you can use to access them for those papers you can only read online while still having a centralized annotated bibliography.
And the best part? The best part is that when you write your paper and need to cite, it does your in text citations AND the bibliography for you. You just have to click "add reference" on the Mendeley word plugin and it'll add the inline citation according to whatever style you need to use (which can be changed later). If you add a reference in an earlier part of the text? No problem, it'll automatically recognize it and reorder the bibliography if the style you are using demands it.
It's such a godsend and anyone that does any kind of research paper for ANY topic or field should use it. It's easy to use and I cannot recommend it enough, I teach about it in every undergrad class I'm involved in and to all undergrads that come through my lab.
This just in heterosexual culture still unappealing and weird
women are harpies that are stealing my Man Strength in order to make themselves stronger. I saw one woman who had done this five times, and could now bench-press more than me in the gym. Terrifying.
when a man loves a man they have infinite strength, but when a woman loves a woman they have no weaknesses. chose wisely…
The Unstoppable Gay meets the Immovable Lesbian.
It's somewhat ironic that the lesbians are the immovable ones.
Cause you know...
UHaul.
A while ago, some people asked me to explain D&D and other RPGs… so of course I had to make it into an infographic!
This is by no means a comprehensive guide. The game can be as simple or complex as you want, but there ARE some pre-established basics you should know about - and those are best discovered on your own terms!
Watch/listen:
★ Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast - a ttrpg game in the Pathfinder system. Beginner friendly! Learn how to play along with the players!
★ Critical Role - a D&D game played by voice actors - Incredibly famous! Highly praised! Both videos and podcasts available.
★ The Adventure Zone - a TTRPG podcast by the McElroy brothers. The players are new, but the rules are bent a lot, so make of that what you will.
Read/learn the rules:
📚 D&D 5e Player’s Handbook - pdf
📚 Basic Introduction to Character Races - website
📚 Overview of Character Classes - website
How-to and Tutorials:
🎲 Rolling a character - YouTube video
🎲 How combat works - YouTube video
🎲 Being a good player - YouTube video
And last but not least…
How To Play D&D Online! - YouTube Video
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Of course, there are tons of other resources - endless writeups, dozens of YouTube videos and blogposts, and entire subreddits dedicated to this information. The important thing is to take things one at a time. Or not - just dive right in! Most seasoned D&D players are thrilled when others want to join them on their adventures and will be happy to help a new player find their tabletop legs.
[Image Descriptions: A tweet from Alice Wong saying: "The delights of being disabled: I found out the BiPap machine I use at night and day (both models) are RECALLED (US only). Due to disintegrating foam inside!! That people...who need respiratory support...are breathing in." A retweet from Erik Ekins (QueerlyAutistic) saying: "The fact that people are finding this out through Twitter, about the machines that literally help/enable them to breathe."]
Here's a link to the recall page:
Current as of June 14, 2021. Tweets are from June 15 and June 16, this reblog is on the 18th.
Also, the tweet says "recalled (U.S. Only)" but the article says "recall notification (U.S. only) / field safety notice (International Markets)", so I'm guessing it's not that only machines sold in the U.S. have this problem, just that the terminology of the required warning varies country to country. This is probably worth looking at even if you're outside the U.S.
So I can confirm that the recall is in effect in Canada, it's just different terminology. The company that sold me my machine didn't even seem to be aware, I had to learn about it from tumblr.
Propagate this in case it can help someone like it helped me.
