Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 8

"Vodka?" actually, the singular is: Vodkum

"Pelosi?" actually, the singular is: Pelosus

Straight people sure do love to redefine the goals of queer political movements downward to the point where they're already met, don't they?

Straight person: "Yes I think you'll find the reasonable position to be that queer people want to be equal to, and by this I mean, absolutely indistinguishable from straight people. That's to say, if I can tell you're gay, you're being gay wrong."

~ Today ~

✅ Making reasonable goals, given my energy level, time constraints, etc.
✅ Achieving them

People that take the Glasgow-Edinburgh train have developed this anarcho-communist ticket sharing economy and I love it. It's because return tickets cost literally only 10 pence more than a single, so people just buy returns and leave the other ticket at the station they arrive at.

It's fucking beautiful and more folk need tae know about it

If you're in a teaching role (or other academic sort of position) beware of M-Journal citations. It's a fake article generator based on Wikipedia content. It's designed to give a realistic appearance. The link is: https://m-journal.org and there is an article about it here https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/wikipedia-fake-academic-journal

Academic misconduct as a service (AMAAS).

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/wikipedia-fake-academic-journal

Was reading a headline speculating about what might happen at the end of a 2-term Trump presidency

> ...there is one thing I don't understand: how could they have let things get so bad?
> That's a good question. I wish I had an answer.
– Julian Bashir and Benjamin Sisko, 2371 ("Past Tense, Part II")

> The Bell Riots were a pivotal series of events on Earth that took place in September of 2024 ... in San Francisco's Sanctuary District A

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots

"More streaming TV services" is the opposite of what anyone has ever wanted

Also, never forget:

> Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy". Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was a woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy", hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy#Military_investigation

On the one hand, ACAB

But on the other hand, Hot Cop by The Village People

@bgcarlisle it’s not even that zotero is particularly good, it’s just that it isn’t actively evil or planning on tossing half its user base in the garbage anytime soon.