i thought i was shy and awkward and insecure my whole life now i'm in a place where i love giving presentations and speaking in front of cameras 😭😭 so happy to be who i am now (not that i love the former shy girl i was any less)

i read it just last month and had the exact same thoughts😭😭 i guess i can see it being incredibly original and impactful for the time but it was so meh for me personally

being on this site as a student who craves academic validation is so fun. what do you mean i can just post my silly little thoughts and some incredibly cool professors will like them or even reply sometimes. like hi hello did i do good am i getting an A in bluesky class

excruciating living in a country where education is expensive. doesn't matter how well you do academically if you have no money. i understand this well enough by now but it's soul crushing every time

received an email informing me im on the dean's list, experienced academic euphoria until another email 6 hours later informing me of all the thousands in fees i owe them and how they're suspending my blackboard access etc etc so yeah im at a bit of a loss

heading of an article in The Times: 'Why not let workers live in the office?'

why not let workers die in the office, too?

Man to man A masterly new history of male-male sex ought to recast our thinking about the emergence of homosexuality

‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 is astonishing: one of the most compelling and accomplished pieces of social history that I have read.’
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6502...

found these beautiful steinbeck mandarin classics in the library

#booksky

"Where does such tenderness come from?"
— Marina Tsvetaeva

#poetry #booksky #poetrysky

[during sex] "yes Socrates. you are quite right Socrates."

currently reading of mice and men
#booksky

"art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important."
#booksky

being kind and patient isn't my first instinct, particularly when everything is burning down around me, but that's exactly the same reason it must be done. i will not allow myself to fall into patterns of cruelty and harshness

spending your childhood sitting in the comfiest of positions only to later discover they all give you back pain is one of life's greatest betrayals

im sorry to hear that :( where did you move from?

thank you!! i'm obsessed with chronologies too😭 i've read marcus aurelius and am "supposed" to read more from that period next according to my chronological reading list but recently i've been hearing a lot more modern names in my critical thinking class so i wanted to catch up :D

🥺💓

overdosed on starter packs and may have followed too many people... hi hello i swear i'm not a bot... no you don't have to follow back... will trim down the following list later based on interests and so on

glad to hear :D the fly in particular was lifechanging for me!
what other directors do you enjoy?

if i followed you for seemingly no reason: hi! i'm trying to cultivate my bluesky feed, specifically following people with similar interests in the arts and humanities who i can learn from :D

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

’tis true that we are in great danger,
The greater therefore should our courage be.

embarrassed to say i took the notion of "the history of western philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to plato" too seriously and never progressed beyond the greeks in my philosophy self-teaching journey.. have to make another reading list: descartes, kant, hume, hegel, and soooo much more

i still want more mutuals/friends here, so please interact if you enjoy/post about any of the following!

— books (classic literature!)
— philosophy (especially greek)
— cinema, film, movies
— everything academia related
— history

#promosky

'The Office' was pro-office propaganda whereas 'Severance' is the realistic show about how being at the office makes you go insane

Night photos of the streets and canals of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, lampposts, parked bikes, and overhead accent lighting.

Night photos of the streets and canals of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, lampposts, parked bikes, and overhead accent lighting.

Night photos of the streets and canals of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, lampposts, parked bikes, and overhead accent lighting.

Night photos of the streets and canals of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, lampposts, parked bikes, and overhead accent lighting.

One underappreciated aspect of Dutch urbanism is the care and attention to detail around lighting.

This includes the thoughtful way buildings are lit to enhance their beauty, streets are lit to increase road and social safety, and seasonal accents are added to battle the long dark nights of winter.

Because I think we could all use a little good news right now

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...