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‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

#original art #a thing about history

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march moodboard

#pedagogy #vrindacore #this sounds smart and i will quote it

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

#palestine #academia

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tbh i didnt know you were supposed to be jerking off while you look at porn

#me #doing love and bedrooms #on media

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

#me in conferences #academia

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Skull, watercolor and ink by BowingMoth

#original art

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Online job applications were a widespread crypto-eugenics program that took hold during the late 20th and early 21st century. These applications were notable for heavy use of videoconference interviews, little to no emphasis on exams and assessments (with rare exceptions, usually implemented to obtain unpaid labor from applicants), and a general disregard for time, scheduling, results, or basic human dignity.

Despite widespread contemporary criticism, the online job application was only abolished after the Job Board Riots in the latter half of the century.

#excellent post op #modernity and all the problems that come with it

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#sannacore

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#I hate it here #aging userbase etc etc

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so there’s this story that my grandmother loves telling (well, in recent years. for the first seventy years of her life she did not talk about her childhood at all.)

the story is that a family friend of theirs was Austria’s finance minister*, and Jewish, and after the anschluss he realized he was in trouble, but like many of Austria’s Jews he seriously underestimated how much trouble. by the time he realized it was too late to get out safely. He was also old and in failing health, so dramatics weren’t ideal.

so he asked a family member to drive him to the mountains on the Italian-Austrian border, and he’d cross there. It was easy enough to avoid the Austrian authorities going out, but you didn’t have a chance of avoiding the Italian ones, and they stopped him. 

“Oh,” he said to them, “Benito knows me. Tell him I’m here and he’ll call me a car.” And indeed, they called Mussolini and he called him a car. My reaction the first time I heard this story - and the reaction of everyone I’ve told it to - has been “so Mussolini opposed the Holocaust? He was helping smuggle Jews out of Austria?” And, no, he didn’t and wasn’t. But he knew this guy, they were old friends, the guy was in town, so Benito called him a car. Which is more characteristic of humans than the version where Mussolini was secretly a decent person, really. A million is a statistic, but this guy? I know this guy. He’s a great guy. There’s the phrase ‘the banality of evil’, and I think it applies, but the word that’s always come to my mind is the myopia of evil, the tendency to treat People well but just not look out at the world and see billions of People, not believe that the principles you apply to the ones you know apply to all of them everywhere.

#hmm #modernity and all the problems that come with it

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Man I don't care about Israeli academics. Who cares. People are dying in Gaza and the West Bank and Israeli academics run their palestinian/palestine allies out all the time for years. Ilan pappe literally has been saying the far right push of israeli society was inevitible... since the early 2000s. They are not being "punished," they're experiencing consequences for their complicity. So annoying that all you people do is criticize the movement and pretend to be part of it.

#palestine #academia

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fun fact: Boston Museum of Science calls their evening lecture series “SubSpace”, which would be a totally innocuous math term except for the fact that, to make sure you know these lectures are higher-level and not aimed at their usual audience (kids), they chose to subtitle it “SubSpace: Adult Experiences”

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#kink #something with knowledge and information and everything else

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there is a way in which the pastoral romance of small communities made up of simple folks living off of the land is a vision of horrifying unfreedom

#previous tags oof... #modernity and all the problems that come with it

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this is a list of all and every anti tony stark user on this site. this screenshot is really tall. the size is 500x27000.

here is the picture. have fun blocking these toxic blogs. just zoom a couple of times and you should be able to see all the blogs!

#real #fan culture #marvel universe

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I had a scientific theory I needed to sketch out.

#This graph is so real #on media

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If you think about it earthquakes are tectonic plates frotting and the lava coming out of the volcanos is cum

#Livy are you watching this #posts i want to put under a microscope

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#from the river to the sea #palestine