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1. pzmyers 🦑 (pzmyers@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 13:11:55 EDT pzmyers 🦑

   As we enter the last few weeks of the semester and face endless agonizing meetings, perhaps we should ask that this poem be read aloud into the minutes.

   https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/04/22/o-my-fellow-academics-this-poem-will-rip-your-heart-out-with-its-truth/

   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 13:47:52 EDT Bob Jonkman

      in reply to
      Struck a chord: "We assume that humanities faculty
      Do not concern themselves with
      Grossly material things
      Like health and money and the houses they live in
      Because they get to read books all day,
      And that’s hardly a job at all!"
      1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 13:50:50 EDT Bob Jonkman

         in reply to
         I was at a political event yesterday, where it was mentioned that government provides funding to the important academic curricula like software coding in kindergarten and subsidies for business programs. But I noticed that the event's headline performers weren't coders and business folk, but poets and musicians...