Sargoth (skateboard aspect) @Sargoth

this would have made for a better discursive anomaly about the man than what I actually wrote
ach
hindsight

back when I was writing my thesis in rhetoric (several months ago, scary times) we spoke about whether it would be worthwhile doing a rhetorical analysis of the man's performance so far

the emerged consensus was that a key component of strategic rhetorical action was some sort of long-held intent on the part of the interlocutor, and that the absence of such an intent would cause all manner of critical and methodological problems

sometimes, it's just too much bullshit

@bgcarlisle for all talk of automation, I fear this will never go away

How come it's never "we have to improve the living conditions of the poor and strengthen civil society to stop terrorism"?
https://[email protected]/what-the-grenfell-tower-fire-tells-us-about-preventing-terrorism-f44c583ff015

@thebestsophist it could be the performative "I need to fill my timeline with something" kind
but
notice me senpai is always a relevant aspect

data mine your favorite theorists for subtoots

@theartguy I
uh
apologize beforehand for the other ones

he was a boy
neither could skate
or do academics
but they figured, the label "skateboard academics" is obstruse enough to confuse anyone who looked into it
though, truth be told, they thought it was obvious

Search your feelings
they are epistemically valid
you can trust them
you know them to be true

I should write something about academic articles about cats
a tribute to scholar dot social

@theartguy after closing the study, your disconnected speakers from your old computer starts meowing

@bgcarlisle oh yea
context
now I'm interested to see if there actually is such a thing ^^

@bgcarlisle like this
10.1177/1354856515579844

When asked about his hobbies, he replied that he liked posting naked DOI links on social media just to see who would be in on it

The scholarly impact of cats: a longitudinal study