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“What you can do is enter the command correctly…”
This part cracked me up.
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No, but you don't understand how brilliant this actually is. He rewrote the song with some misheard lyrics in partnership with Specsavers because he's been experiencing hearing loss and needs to get hearing aids and wanted to raise awareness for hearing loss and the stigma around hearing aids. Like. My man. I love you.
Glad the full song is in the notes. Hilarious!
Oh, that's even cooler ! Thank you Sir !
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uses the royal "we" sometimes just to freak out the transphobes who think I use they/them because I'm possessed by demons
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[excessive citations]
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this radiates such chill chaos
if a foreigner ever asks you to explain america but only has 24 seconds just show them this
ghouliish–heart
Some of my favorite responses (also there is apparently a bunch of discourse about exactly where this is with guesses like Nevada/New Mexico/Roswell, but this is in Baker, California!)
😂😂😂
jacksoopticboop
there is both incredibly chaotic but insanely wholesome
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standing in a cramped bathroom wearing wool socks, underwear, and an unbuttoned collared shirt, hands on hips, whispering “maybe i do have topological intuition”
having now read through my entire blog, I must retract my previous comment: this is the best post I have written.
i didn’t literally read through my entire blog again but i’m still pretty confident that this is still the best post I have written.
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There is almost nothing left to discover in geometry.
Descartes, March 26, 1619
#damn i can't believe i missed international fuck rene descartes day#nothing i was doing that day was as important as hating rene descartes#*checks journal*#ahhh i had a good phone call with my prof friend#okay fine one thing#why yes i am scrolling through old posts don't ask questions no it's not past midnight
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curious. anyway,
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unbotheredmuse
you forgot the best part tho
(via @butchmuppet)
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i call this one "nobody likes you when youre 23"
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my profs’ advice/comments on impostor syndrome –
- “i’ll tell you how i’ve learned to deal with this sort of thing. i didn’t develop a sense of joy in my academic study until i realized that what really matters is the work itself. it’s not about trying to impress anybody or trying to earn a specific grade. it’s all about loving the work, the reading, the writing, the critical conversation. and i think you do love those things, and you do enjoy your academic work when you can get out of your own way about it. now, where i’m at in my career, i have to think about what gets me up in the morning, and that’s not publishing 20 articles a year or seeking external approval. what it is, is writing, reading, and teaching about what I love, my own little academic world that i’ve created.” – prof c
- “i wrote shitty papers in college, and i still got a phd. you’re not supposed to know everything yet! you’re still learning! you know what, write that on a post-it and stick it on your laptop. you don’t have to know it all yet. you don’t have to be perfect.” – prof s
- “while i can assure you that you should not feel like an imposter, i can also confess that the syndrome is common at all levels of academia – so you should not think yourself abnormal to be experiencing it.” (x)
- “i hate to say/write this, but it’s sort of true: that you having these impostor-syndrome reactions, these worries about disappointing those you respect … to me, that sort of signals that you do have traits common to many successful academics! even people who have masses of success behind them – and, come to think of it, particularly the people who have a lot of cred *and* outside affirmation of it – suffer from impostor syndrome *if* (and the if is important) they genuinely care about the quality of their work. so: if it’s possible to think of these feelings as symptomatic of a characteristic many good academics share, then please do. (…) the important thing is this: how counterproductive it can be for self-sabotaging people to think of themselves as being ‘born’ to do something. it makes any possibility of missing the mark immediately existential. academic work is something one chooses because one has a strong interest in a certain field of study, an ability to study and produce credible work (as judged by ‘authorities’ in said field), and a social possibility to choose to proceed in that direction. sometimes, i, at least, find it helpful to remind myself of the simple facts of this. (…) i do think it’s important to put the activating gesture of entering grad school very firmly in your own hands. you are choosing this. you are choosing it because you want it, others have said that you are capable, and you have the practical possibility of choosing it. this is enough. the work will be enough without the existential heft, and the existential heft will not make the work better.” – s
- from my lit teacher’s wife, an english prof at ucb who graduated from yale – ”yes—i feel like this often—and so does every person i’m close to in academia, and every graduate student ever. the key is to just feel the fear and do it anyway, especially when ‘do it’ means ‘write.’”
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I’ve been reframing thoughts from “they could do it, but I can’t because I’m not good enough” to “they could do it and so can I because we’re both humans just trying our best”, or from “I can’t show up unless I’m perfect” to “I don’t have to be perfect, I just have to show up”, or from “the future is hopeless” to “there is hope even if I can’t see it”, or from “I will always feel this bad” to “everything is temporary”, or from “it is taking too much time to get better” to “it took time to get sick, it will take some time and patience to get better”.
But that reframing takes time too. It takes effort. It takes doing little things to make yourself feel better even when at first doing those things seems silly. Sometimes, you will fall off track, but you will get back up on your progress after resting as much as you need. Remember that this is about progression and not perfection. Remember it takes time, it takes a lot of trying, grieving, self-acceptance and self-forgiveness, but it is worth it, because little by little, you start to change, you start to get better. Don’t hold yourself to the highest of standards in your recovery, please keep in mind that you deserve to enjoy life, that you deserve to heal, that you deserve this progress, even if you’re not doing it perfectly, even if it seems slow, even if at first it feels hard to believe that you deserve good things. You don’t have to earn your healing by being perfect at it. Take your time. Rest if you must. But keep going, you’re doing great just by trying.
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Reposting this because I need to materialize it somewhere.
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[ID: A small kitten sitting on the floor with the caption: He doesn't even know basic math. end ID]
