*headdesk*

Today my speaking partner in class was a native speaker and he was smart enough to not out himself to the professor. Like how I don’t tell the professor that I understand Spanish but haven’t spoken it much. We keep secrets. We keep our easy A stepping stones to higher levels. We don’t put ourselves in a situation where we’re getting lectured about joining a higher difficulty class that we don’t want.

I hope your professor doesn't spend too much time on tumblr!

She doesn’t use social media we’re fine

helo

Did you really make a whole sideblog just for this bit

no it is me I am your profeser and i am disssapointid in you for being in my class when u know already the smpanish

Mhm. What’s my first name then?

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

if you, like me, are hesitant to enjoy what kinda sounds like "relaxes food standards" on the surface, I'm happy to report that this isn't "everyone can do what they want with your food supply without oversight" but rather a case where in NYC you had to have a permit to sell food and a second, superfluous permit to sell frozen desserts. This action simply removes the need for the second permit, rolling it into the first permit in order to help small businesses. Yay!

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

thats the happiest fucking cat ive ever seen

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

@inneskeeper

...I want to refute this but no, I....yeah

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

the four horsemen if the apocalypse was chill

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

it's cool how in the 6 years since this tweet was written it's become significantly less useful not because anything has gotten better but because the majority of products on Amazon are now from fly-by-night brands called "ZZPORK" and "GLUM4PANT"

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@kittybroker ... ?

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