And honestly like 50% of why there's no people that I currently have any courses with is because I don't follow anyone that teaches courses I currently take

Not fully same (too many too serious people in my field follow me on here, including people that have classes I could attend next semester) but I post a lot of stuff that I just think about

this is a very dark accidental joke about foreign news priorities about Africa

Like I could post about the reading I do but it's just not really topical (but there will be new photos to be posted soon)

The new CK3 expansions they announced yesterday look and sound so good, can't wait to be a merchant

I sometimes think my posts on here need more substance but also that would raise the expectations people have of my posts and honestly that's an even worse prospect

Big fan of getting together with friends and drinking wine

Funny that they poast under the guise of "authenticity" when the politician most successful on social media actually has excellent production value and message discipline, he just really loves fixing potholes and waste management logistics

In Chinese #mythology, the City God (城隍) stands at the threshold of two realms, protecting the town above while ruling the underworld below.
First revered as the spirit of city walls and moats more than 2,000 years ago, this deity later became a yin official, an unseen 1/2

No one wants to hear this, but Mengzi was literally correct

Unfortunately Xunzi was also correct but that’s another story

In academia one of the most fu*ked up things is that we don't get paid for our publications. Did you know that? I could drop a link below, and if you're not signed into a university account, you would be prompted to spend 25, maybe 80 dollars to read an article I wrote that I got paid NOTHING for.

with the water issues IT’S THE FARMER’S FAULT BLAME THE FUCKING FARMERS is like Newtonian physics: it won’t get every single particular right, but for practical purposes it’s all the information you need most of the time

Atlas on bark, Jasius/GettyImages

Wing tips looking like red reptilian heads

Did you know, the Atlas moth, the largest insect living in Hong Kong, in Cantonese (蛇頭蛾) translates as "snakehead butterfly", given its characteristic cobra-like eyespot & batesian mimicry. It looks very dissapointed.

Toaster with integrated AI agent

I love dialogue in the Dune books because it's like

Jessica: "wow doctor yueh, you are such a trustworthy man"

Yueh, internally: oh jeez louise man i really can't be trusted im such a traitor

Jessica: "I am so glad to entrust you with the wellbeing of my family"

Yueh: oh no girl don't do that

yeah dudes get real uncomfy when you tell them "the birth rate crisis" is because children are getting SAed less

Uni Printing card renewed, I can once again be a menace >:)

Monasticism has a certain appeal

I learned in covid that discord is NOT a substitute for being outside for extroverted mfs such as myself, esp when everyone else on the server is happy about staying home all day

The Minions provided substantial material and financial support for the Japanese occupation of Korea.

speaking as a lifelong global traveler: getting to the airport early has saved my ass from massive travel disruptions so many times that I now view it as a key travel survival skill.

Also, I love airport bars.

Not liking Jazz gotta be one of the biggest skill issues ever

bluesky really has a massive bot issue, lol

the desire to control immigration is dumb, dumb, dumb

"Website not available" :(

Opferschutzstelle Zara verliert Finanzierung und muss Arbeit einstellen Die Beratungsstelle gegen Hass im Netz und Rassismus war in den letzten Jahren vom Familienministerium gefördert worden – nun droht bis Juni das endgültige Aus

Die Regierung will Hass im Netz stärker bekämpfen - und streicht der Opferschutzstelle Zara die Förderungen. Sie muss alle Mitarbeiter:innen kündigen und nimmt ab heute keine neuen Fälle mehr an, berichtet @muzayen.bsky.social

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Instagram-Post: „Zara steht vor dem Aus“

Es ist alarmierend, was ZARA gerade schrieb:

Das Bundeskanzleramt hat vollständig & mitten im laufenden Jahr die Förderung der Beratungsstelle #GegenHassimNetz gestrichen - das ist österreichweit die wichtigste Anlaufstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt

Es ist wichtig, dass die Förderung bleibt!

Opferschutzstelle Zara verliert Finanzierung und muss Arbeit einstellen Die Beratungsstelle gegen Hass im Netz war in den letzten Jahren vom Familienministerium gefördert worden – nun droht bis Juni das endgültige Aus

The austrian government constantly talks about needing to do more to fight online hate crimes, but now also cuts all federal funding for the largest organisation that helps victims of online hate crimes
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Opferschutzstelle Zara verliert Finanzierung und muss Arbeit einstellen Die Beratungsstelle gegen Hass im Netz und Rassismus war in den letzten Jahren vom Familienministerium gefördert worden – nun droht bis Juni das endgültige Aus

Das darf jetzt aber echt nicht wahr sein!

Das Bundeskanzleramt streicht Zara, dem Verein gegen Hass im Netz, die Förderung und die Beratunsgstelle muss wahrscheinlich schließen.
Das darf nicht wahr sein.

FDR quoted