since submitting my honors thesis i have read goethes elective affinities and started bleak house life is fucking good

submitting my thesis was the most heartbreaking experience of my life—complete ego death

the girl who just wrote a 150 page undergrad honors thesis

We all know this is fascism.

Does anyone have tips for submitting your thesis when you feel like it’s a blight on your entire family?

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

Dune 3 poster doth come out swinging yn defense of the artes

OH MY GOD A TORNADO DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN YELL IN THE LIBRARY BASEMENT

what a terrific night it is to live in a windowless library basement.

DETERMINATE! LEMONADE MOUTH!

Hamnet broke my heart.

*breathing into a paper bag*

teaching my boyfriend's mom a bird's opening was one of the best parts of break

i’m so judgmental

I don't want to offer spoilers but if you liked the Putting on the Ritz sequence in Young Frankenstein you have got to go watch this movie.

YEAHHHHH

“still sane” by lorde is so good for thesis writing

will never forget how my dad tried to get me into stamp collecting by buying me pokemon cards (which i loved), and soft launching a stamp binder. unfortunately, i thought the stamps were too boring

I believe that a lot of people aren’t reading books these days because some people won’t even read posts.

no, but, for real, if you think a dissertation is an "original scholarly contribution," what does using LLMs do for you? they're designed to remix and repeat extant scholarship, and often they fail at that. LLMs can't innovate; they *can't* write original scholarly contributions.

Gen AI ys a colde wynde to furthir freeze the sea within us.

Crazy that Rousseau’s first confession was his love for mocha lattes

We're celebrating Women’s History Month with these recently digitized photographs of Cuala Press workers. Established in Ireland in 1908, by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Lily Yeats, Cuala Industries promoted Irish crafts and employed Irish women. 🧵

that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God

Hell yeah dude

i personally have never written anything half good when i haven't been listenin to shostakovich.

if “david” by lorde isn’t about frankenstein, idk what it possibly could be about

nothing better than the sun hitting your hair after a long winter

no one talks about how fucking depressing it is when no one in your family is willing to go to your college graduation.

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

i have made the same meal for dinner every night since i was 17: turkey burger patty from trader joes cooked in olive oil, one whole avocado mashed with garlic and red pepper flakes, and a handful of arugula

today, my skinny white man texted me that took a flight to argentina to see the glaciers 😍 with no advanced notice 😍

Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.

if you haven't written a whole chapter of your thesis to gene kelly's original rendition of "singing in the rain," then you might be a pathetic loser

The “trans women in sports” “””questions””” are really just “are you a sexist asshole who, on vibes alone, assumes anyone assigned male at birth is better at sports than anyone assigned female at birth? are you the kind of loser who wants to keep little kids from exercise and fun?”

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

Operation Epstein Distraction According to Google Trends, online interest in Epstein files dropped by 95% following escalation of U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran WE NEED TO UP THE PRESSURE AGAINST #GOPEpsteinTrumpCOVERUP

four years 🤍

i got in/waitlisted at 5/6 grad schools i applied to. feeling metal

The Bride SUCKS

i don't often read wapo, but excellent reporting, a life-affirming story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

@catsofyore.bsky.social saw this on instagram (@ archaelogyart): "Lighthouse keeper Louis Coulon, his 11 Foot Beard and Cat. France, postcard print, 1904. Photographer: Jean/J.-B. Bonnot.⁣"

i am making myself listen to hit the quan (doesn't deserve quotes) on repeat until i complete my introduction

my undergrad honors thesis is officially 40,000 words. prayers to those who have to read it.

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