You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’

I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…

I absolutely don’t use notepad++ as my main IDE… Honest.

I feel personally attacked by this!

“Oh so that’s where my remaining mental health and self esteem are!”

“Humans engaging in tongue combat to determine fitness of mate. Note the closed eyes, scientists believe this is because of how bloody this ritual could become; humans closed their eyes to keep the blood out.”

And they wonder why…

Damn, just saw this after posting the same link XD

“Ok class, remember that after geology we’re going to be doing astronomy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtmRmOHK78

Really neat post, I’d not heard of a few of these (never knew libre office draw could edit pdfs!).

Couple of extra ones:

Note taking and pdf annotation: Xournal++ is amazing, it’s also great to use on larger whiteboard screens. Plug and play support for scribe tablets on both windows and Linux.

Emulation (up to ps1): Mednafen is lightweight and comes with a gui. It also supports recording, though not netplay.

Ebook management/reading: Calibre - allows easy importing and exporting of ebooks to devices, also has a great built in search letting you find DRM free versions of a book.

Heh, I did this once - mostly because 10+ PowerPoint animations really chug the university issue laptops, and I was presenting somewhere new (software is not your friend).

It was really 15 slides with about 20 animation steps on each - the students didn’t seem to hate seeing a set of fully worked maths problems with colour coding linking parts of the question to the resultant equation.

He’s looking up, and seeing the giant rain of sheep labelled “teaching load” and “marking AI generated essays” incoming.

Question sheets in Word - “Hello, and welcome to indent roulette”

Question sheets in LaTeX - “\item{} goes brr”

Resits… So many resits…

Students who I’ve never seen before asking how to pass my course.

Exactly - if you don’t want to date a trans person don’t. If someone conceals it, that’s not an issue with them being trans, that’s an issue with them being dishonest. It’s ok to dislike dishonest people.

I only wanted to triforce.

Now I need to fix dad’s laptop before he gets home!

The use of the word cis has its roots in an obscure Usenet group; it’s genesis (apparently) rooted in a desire for more inclusive language for trans folks (the notion that “gender” Vs “transgender” was too othering).

It hit Tumblr like a train in the 2010s, and became a symbolic phrase in trans counterculture. “Cisgender” was less than popular with non-trans people, as it robbed them of the illusion of normality and turned the word “gender” into a social trap.

It later found derogatory use in the phrase “cissy” (a counter for the popular derogatory term “tranny”).

It’s a fun word with an interesting history, and it has helped contribute to the wider acceptance of trans folks.

"We can trivially show that…’

Turns out, after a page of algebra, it wasn’t “trivial”.

Yup, Google are launching their yearly attempt to convince folks YouTube premium is worth it.

Think of this time not as an annoyance, but as a time to reflect on how shitty Google has become.