tfw your new & exciting research idea has already been exhausted by like aristotle or something

lol I have supervision with both my supervisors in 25 minutes and there are tree surgeons shredding bamboo outside so loudly that the house is vibrating.

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

Ok I know posting about coughing is getting boring but MY GOD I would literally pay so much money if somebody could stop me from coughing. I’m so tired and uncomfortable, I can’t sleep and I can’t go anywhere.

still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria

Really thought I’d see more (even once) jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled because of this hymn

So I took apart the Kodak Pony to clean it and lost a really vital spring and possibly the peg it attached to, so that's a disaster ffs.

I disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera last night. Seems to be in working order! Looking forward to trying to take some photos with it.

Urgh I need to do writing today but I changed the sheets and cleaned the sink and now I am exhausted.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Up much of the night coughing again. This is awful.

I miss when Charlie Brooker did his “wipes”

I think a tickly cough might be up there in the ranks of “unconventional torture techniques”

🎶It’s Foucault, it’s Foucault time🎶

On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

As rubbish as this is, there is something pleasingly ironic about a weather radar being destroyed by weather.

Wait, were we getting raptured today? I mean, I wasn’t.

Being ill is just boring now.

Funny how autism is always down to something our mothers did, isn’t it?

I am running extremely short on fiction to read. Recommendations appreciated, I’m not a fantasy or horror type (at all) but will read pretty much anything else.

What if… it’s not even that bad to be autistic?

Submitting to a photo exhibition at uni with the theme “hidden treasures”. Can only submit one. I think this is my shortlist but I can’t decide which. (These are all Flickr screenshots so not actual quality)

I'm sure you are all on absolute tenterhooks regarding my research epistemology/ontology/theoretical perspective/methodology. Currently: Constructionist/relativist/elements of postmodernism and critical theory/critical inquiry and loose genealogy.

Submitting to a photo exhibition at uni with the theme “hidden treasures”. Can only submit one. I think this is my shortlist but I can’t decide which. (These are all Flickr screenshots so not actual quality)

Does anyone else have words for which meanings just will not stick in their head? One if mine is "hermeneutics". Very annoying.

I really, really hate any sort of Facebook group where people take pictures of strangers to call them wankers (or even to not call them wankers). I don’t care if they’re wearing a dry robe or a wolf fleece, don’t take pictures of strangers. Absolute creeps.

Urgh being ill is so boring. It’s like a crappy flu-y thing where I just feel so bloody tired.

Argh why is my throat still sore?

Gannets!

She’s serving Benadryl realness

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

I can't believe I'm losing my voice for the second time in 3 weeks. This is so rubbish.

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

Gannets!

Bought 3 old cameras for $20 on Trade Me. The Vest Pocket is super cool, but probably not useable (these were the cameras soldiers had in WW1). I think I should be able to get the Brownie and the Pony working.

Beach! Beach!!!

over on instagram they're quoting maya angelou to advertise beef tallow based skincare and useless non-nano zinc sunscreen

Ow, who put a load of pain in my head and face?

Urgh I think I am getting unwell again. I’d imagine being in close proximity to kids who spit water in your face in a humid environment may be to blame here.

We are watching Jurassic Park. May I be the first one to say that seems like a terrible idea for a tourist attraction?

Think I’m finally getting there with my research epistemology. Ironically I’m fairly sure I’ve gone in a circle and it’s going to be “critical qualitative research”, probably constructionist and probably poststructuralist. Likely a fair bit of Foucault and Sara Ahmed.

Actually not skint so allowed myself to look in the Dangerfield outlet shop. Urgh, so much in my like exact style in there. Just got a nice dress and a cardigan.

Ok. Trying to get a blood test done in NZ take 2.

Kind of impressed so many people open my substack emails, like… I would not necessarily open an email of my own writing.

I'm procrastinating, so I did some writing about feeling too old and not old enough, and revisiting old worries about delaying having children. open.substack.com/pub/puzzledb...

Making a very big decision at the moment (which native AoNZ bird I am going to vote “bird of the year”)

Somebody looking at TikTok with no headphones.

Hmm. Maybe I am not a critical realist. Love to be at the “existential crisis” phase of my PhD.