Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
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Academia, networking meta
I am actually not bad at networking it’s just very high stakes for me bc ~institutional systems set up to put me at a disadvantage~
And also because email is the fucking worst
Academia (good news tho)
One of my classes was a half semester course so our last meeting was tonight, and the prof very casually pulled me back when everyone was leaving to check what my plans were after school and oh, was i aware of these fellowships his program runs that i could apply for? He’d be happy to write me a reference if I was interested in applying
Except then I needed to double check some info he gave me, which meant emailing him and it turns out someone saying very nice things about you doesn’t actually make emailing them about research opportunities any easier!!!! Going to go lie on my floor and recover instead of doing any homework now. You know, as a very professional academic who’s definitely qualified for this fellowship program would
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@monorail visit beautiful cat.family! we have:
- a catflame who keeps wondering why their httpd broke federation again;
- a writer working on fifteen billion other projects at once, who for some reason decided to take on moderation for this server on top of all that; and
- an orange
religion (?)
Damn the pope really just said all christians should be pro-UBI
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TFW your entire heist crew has "Friends of the Neverwinter Historical Society" t-shirts -- Papyrus font -- to wear for the next heist... at the Neverwinter Historical Society. <_<
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Time to vote on next month's #rec theme over at #Fancake:
🔹 Aliens 👽
🔹 Going Home 🏠
🔹 Politics 🗳️
If you're a comm member, pop by #Dreamwidth and vote. If you're not a member, but want to be, join up and then vote! 🎂 #fandom https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/1937031.html
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In addition to Kelloggs workers striking, John Deere workers are now also striking!! They gave the CEO an over 100% raise (went from 6 mil to 15.6mil) and were only offering 6% raises while eliminating pensions to workers.
I know most of us are apartment dwellers, but they sell branded merch and small tools too, so.
https://jalopnik.com/striking-john-deere-workers-convince-truck-driver-not-t-1847863877
https://www.execpay.org/news/deere-and-co-2020-compensation-335
uh, warning for just sorta blithely ignoring the entire existence of native peoples when discussing the settlement of australia and america
the version i'm reading was kindly pirated for me by my professor so i can't link it, but if you'd like to read this it appears the internet archive also has a copy https://archive.org/details/2917177.0001.001.umich.edu/page/2/mode/2up
long quote, criminal justice
CRIME AND CRIMINALS
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
by Clarence Darrow
Preface
This address is a stenographic report of a talk made to the prisoners in the Chicago jail. Some of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail.
Realizing the force of the suggestion that the truth should not be spoken to all people, I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form. In this way the truth does not become cheap and vulgar, and is only placed before those whose intelligence and affluence will prevent their being influenced by it.
and if you want to get really deep, there's the fact that the un-inflected form 'adon' derives from the word 'ad', meaning 'father'
and 'ad' just happens to coincidentally mean 'child' in mando'a. Which, usually i'm not going to complain about the etymology of a word conflicting with a completely different language but considering it's already established as a pun, and mando'a is highly agglutinative makes me extremely tempted to interpret it as meaning 'child-____'
okay now that i've explained one way that this is weird i feel like i have to explain the rest in the interests of fairness
there's the fact that it's a pun which, i'm not saying isn't a thing in star wars but is a bit weird
there's the fact that its kinda vaguely blasphemous
there's the fact that duke kryze and his daughter, duchess kryze are the *only* people who use the title of duke/duchess on mandalore, and its really weird that they do because they're an unwieldy fit for Mandalore's clan system
Anyway when even babyname sites are calling it a 'culturally loaded choice' maybe your pun isn't worth it?
Do you ever think about the fact that Star Wars really named a character Duke Adonai Kryze
Popcorn, by the way, is one of those items that just bafflingly sucks on induction
I thought maybe I was just being nostalgic for my childhood stove but no even on my current crappy (gas) stove popcorn is way easier & nicer
Options in the Satsuma kitchen:
- Butter/ghee melted w/thyme (optionally add grated Romano)
- Penzeys Sandwich Sprinkle ( https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/sandwich-sprinkle/c-24/p-594/pd-s )
- Tonys
- garam masala
I also used to do kettle corn a lot but it doesn’t really work with my current setup unfortunately :(
if you eat preseasoned popcorn telling me the flavor is an acceptable response
sleepy af
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