Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 33

~ At the registration desk for the YMCA ~

Me: Hello I heard your ad on the radio. I'm here to do "hang out with all the boys" and "do whatever I feel"

Me: *Winks theatrically*

Kid at counter: *Rolls eyes*

Kid: Yeah you want that line-up

Kid: *Points toward alternate entrance with lowered lights, a disco ball over the entrance and loud dance music coming from it; several muscular men in mesh shirts are in line; they are very nice people*

hey everyone i dont know if theres anything i can express

pdx cops collaborate with fash brute groups, surprising no one:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/430143-portland-police-accused-of-collusion-with-right-wing-extremists-after

from the town that brought you a republican party using fascist paramilitary groups as private security:

https://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/30/multnomah-county-republican-party-approves-oath-keepers-and-three-percenters-as-private-security/

when cats are sleeping and they do a little sigh. thanks for reading

Any accounting of the jobs Amazon creates needs to also subtract the employees of every physical storefront that Amazon's redefinition of "shopping" put out of business.

BREAKING: Free Speech Extremist Shocked to Learn that First Amendment Doesn't Require People to Listen to Him

I just saw a tweet advertising some t shirts where a man and a woman were modeling them in separate pics next to each other and I just assumed it was a transition timeline

be the theory shitposter you want to see in academia

Confessing an irrational editing hang-up: When I replace a word or phrase that I've typed, I intentionally do not delete letters that will be used in the new word/phrase even though I could type more quickly if I did. I feel sorry for them every time I delete them. I feel sorry for their siblings that I've deleted. I usually write too much so I have to delete a lot. There, got that off my chest.

A number of younger academic philosophers in North America employ some weird convention regarding quotation marks I don't understand: single for mentioning expressions, double for "everything else", including direct quotation. I don't follow. Direct quotation *is* a form of mentioning, isn't it? Also, I cannot find any documentation for this convention anywhere. Anyone know about this?

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Facts are actually very considerate of people’s feelings and, to be quite honest, they don’t appreciate others speaking on their behalf. If anything, YOU don’t care about FACTS’ feelings.

oh boo i had to unboost that funny cat picture because there was no alt text WRITE ALT TEXT YOU HOSER-LOAFER

hmm thinking about some of the latest fedi drama and decided to ask the tarot cards, but i keep drawing one that says "yes its literally all men" i have never seen this card before help whats going on

(in my adaptation of the shakespearean plays everyone is a catgirl and nobody dies, they all just hug and have a good time)

Hey, folks. Long time, no see. Here's something I posted on Twitter and I thought it might interest some of you!

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Want to surf the Web with the first ever browser, written by @timberners_lee@twitter.com himself? Visit worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ where developers at a hackathon at @CERN@twitter.com have resurrected the venerable #WorldWideWeb browser (later renamed "Nexus").

Read more by me: https://home.cern/news/news/computing/developers-revive-first-web-browser-week-long-hackathon