Sargoth (skateboard aspect) @Sargoth@scholar.social

Become the skateboard academic you want to see in the world
...or on campus

"Skateboard academic sargoth"
it me
"are you a virtue ethicist"
well,

https://medium.com/@sargoth/why-people-are-so-angry-at-greta-thunberg-and-why-she-is-right-3f6bf6a20f78

Not all contributions to a project have to be big or huge to be meaningful; sometimes, the mere act of someone being around to tinker with the project is enough to signal to those involved that things are still moving and in progress

This goes for both big projects with many people, and for small ones where you are the only one involved

"This is more of a cat than a question"
"Wha-"
*lobs a cat at the lecturer*

*looks at the stats for the latest thesis*
342 page visits
3 downloads

...something is up with these numbers

the new semester has started, and the familiar rituals are starting to kick in. over the years, however, said rituals have matured, ever so slightly, taking on new forms

which is to say, those who used to ask the strangely large university facebook group "hey, does anyone have the course books for course x" have transitioned into "hey, does anyone need the course books for course x"

'tis all part of the circle of university life

I just applied for a non-academic academic job

it'll be nice to not be an academic for a spell

Those who have a dictionary know the meaning of every word. Those who have two dictionaries are prone to confusion and thinking they know less than they did before

what if
hear me out
a footnote
on a footnote

listen, pulling strange levers of unclear function that just appear as if by magic is probably not the safest thing to do

*listens to an interview with someone with an academic Oxford diction*
there's this one thing I've always wondered
do you have to already have that way of speaking before becoming an oxford person, or do you somehow learn it on the job?