#pointless negativity

That’d be a horrid way to go, hm?

this is an oldie but a goodie. videos of animals that are clearly in distress being circulated as if they were cute. bad. bad!!!

can't believe you made me think up four of these in a row

where to fucking start. let's start with "american arch programs require students to learn french and german in order to ~understand the scholarship~ despite the fact that the vast majority of german arch scholarship is for obvious reasons flawed, and completely disregarding the actual languages necessary for effective fieldwork in the students' area of research; the same programs also often disregard and undervalue the additional languages bilingual or multilingual students come into the program with". also true for classics programs. makes me fucking ballistic.

the fact that my goddamn fucking internet went out bc of the extreme weather warning happening here RIGHT as i was trying to reply to a post and now i need to do this shit on mobile

the only negative thing i have to say about learning a language is that inevitably it leads to “having to use that language,” a fate which is worse, or at least significantly more incomprehensible than, death

anyway it stresses me out how many sports use athletes’ bodies as expendable resources and how hypervisbility/fame + significant salaries incentivize athletes to... idk. i am getting out of kvetching and into Theorizing but i dislike a lot of the way sports encourages specific kinds of embodied... violence? wear and tear? pressure? it’s bad and i really think we should place more value on the long-term health of athletes.