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Dark Academia otter

@acerbicotter.bsky.social

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In the War on Empathy, I am choosing to fight on the side of empathy. Opinions are my own & definitely do not reflect those of my workplace. Given the bad faith actors on here, unless I know you or we share a mutual, I will probably block you. Sorry.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 10d

display name does not necessarily imply endorsement in case you're that kind of person going to @ me about how it's classist and eurocentric.

I am an academic, and my mood is frequently dark now, so....

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 6m

Me, someone who has craved praise all her life: “hmmm what if praise is bad, actually, what is left to convince me I am worthy of existence?”

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8m

The nearly universal global leader praise for Trump is creating an almost bizarre environment where we exist in utter bullshit and lies. It’s extremely bizarre.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 8m

That’s a penis thing? I’m assuming it’s a penis thing.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 9m

……31 didn’t fit?

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 36m

this is a thing
I cannot eat because peanuts, but still:

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22119...

Apple Snicker Salad

Candy bars and apples are folded into a creamy mixture of pudding and whipped topping in this dish.

www.allrecipes.com

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 38m

"every accusation an admission" remains undefeated.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 41m

So:

no email back about the weird creepy email
every one of my women colleagues go "oh, that's creepy!" when I explained it
every one of my man colleagues went "oh that's a total scam" when I explained it

*I think there's a clear difference in experience of being a woman online and a man online

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 43m

would not be surprised

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Ettore Boiardi, who became Chef Boyardee

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

No one is a "good person." We are all a mix of good and bad. We CHOOSE to do good or CHOOSE to do bad.

I could become what looks like a "bad person" if I give in to my selfish impulses.

Being "good" is a constant set of choices requiring constant maintenance

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 19h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Not the Onion ☹️

Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2h

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/26e4...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

The "cactus" meme from The Good Place, updated:
Michael: "I want to see a new vegetable. Is that what you have. or do you have Brassica oleracea?
Janet: I have a new vegetable"
Michael: "You're sure? you have the file and not Brassica oleracea?"

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

WHYYYY does my dentist's office make me (via text message) fillout a crapton of forms and photograph my driver's license EVERY SIX MONTHS.

Just keep it on FILE, guys.

I hate doing tons of extra work

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

.....I always kind of suspected it :(

Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 2h

If not every person you meets likes you, then you are a Failure

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

"All stick, no carrot, and we're looking for sticks with thorns on them now"

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

I think Deus has abandoned us to our own devices at this point. I'm not sure how you say "F around and Find Out" in Latin or Aramaic or whatever language would be spoken, but.

I've kinda given up hope of outliving ~ all this ~ at this point

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

campus computer has got a lot more forceful about wanting me to save to the campus one drive. I can only imagine the AI tool allowed to scrape everything on there roared to life this morning.

I would like, as Hank Hill was fond of saying, to kick its ass.

Exasperated Hank Hill: "I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder...On my computer...That I own...In my house"

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

IT'S ALWAYS BOOBS WITH THESE GUYS

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

YES!

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

Quick question: why is the Sec Transport, who was originally a reality tv guy, supposedly qualified to talk on protests?

I mean, I'd ask what qualifies him to be Sec Transport, too, but.....

way too many mansplainers in this administration

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 3h

LLMs gon’ get mental health care before most Americans do

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 13h

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

Of course they are mostly women and in many cases older women, so perhaps that's why no one listened to them

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

why are so many news outlets so surprised-pikachu about this? Since JANUARY fiber crafters have been saying "this is going to kill small businesses, this is going to stop people from taking up the hobby, this is economically bad"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

(Reuters) - U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

That meme with someone poking Tiktaalik with a stick to make it go back in the ocean, except it's a group of Indigenous People forcing the would-be conquistadors back onto their boats and back to Europe, never to return

Dr. Christina Hotalen @drchristinah.bsky.social · 5h

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

so.... I guess you're supposed to hop over the doormat and carry whatever mud and schmutz is on your shoes into the house? Since it's demanding you don't tread on it? :^)

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