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“critical theory is teaching our kids that America is evil!!” friend, Nietzsche dispensed with the idea of evil over a century ago

there’s a whole world of content out there

i simply think that academics would get a lot more done if they could simply overcome the 1‐centimetre barrier of the browser address bar

this isn’t anti‐intellectual it’s just anti‐academy

i was going to say “peer‐reviewed journal” but actually peer‐review is good so long as your peers aren’t academics

i probably won’t even mind on account of being a 🔳

if i ever publish a paper in an academic journal you’re allowed to ban me from mastodon

there are a few symbols on my Caps+Option keyboard that i frequently use but i forget about a lot of them

gdi kibi you have sparkles literally on your keyboard at Caps+Shift+Option+8 you don’t have to open the emoji picker

the emojipedia blogpost about ✨sparkles✨ seemed to think that its sarcastic usage derives from ✨sPonGEbob TexT✨ but i’m fairly positive that it predates that by a fair bit

we’ve been using sparkles for so long over here on mastodon that we even have trans ones

did emojipedia really just learn about ✨sparkles✨ in october

@Satsuma did you see this? https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojis-are-folklore/

< Type “hi” to get started…

> Look around

< Sorry, I didn’t catch that!

> Say greeting

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> Say hi

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> hi

never imagined text-based adventure technology would one day be repurposed to provide shitty customer service over SMS and websites

none of it makes any goddamn sense