The research fairy (🎃 👻 !) @bgcarlisle@scholar.social
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I'm the research fairy, here to make your academic problems disappear
Joined Apr 2017
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Nesting my parentheses in chats with buddies like I'm a gd dot-Emacs config file
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Please tell me your favorite terrible groaner of a joke
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LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
(Reposted from Birdside, thread)
Today, the Polish parliament will read a proposed law that makes it illegal to "promote homosexuality", including - I am not exaggerating - pretty much ANY positive talk of LGBT+ people and their rights in public settings.
And foreign media seem almost entirely silent on this.
The law was drafted a while ago, but didn't get into the Parliament for procedural reasons.
It EXPLICITLY bans e.g.:
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I'm appalled that pun.ch isn't a fedi instance dedicated to puns
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@bgcarlisle be the cryptozoolgist you want to see in the world
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~ At the end of a religious ceremony ~
The priest, gesturing beatifically and chanting, 🎶 This site uses cookies 🎶
The congregation replies, 🎶 I accept 🎶
No one remembers what this means or why we say it
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Browsing the web in Europe in 2020
No I don't want you to "cookies" me
But I also want to spend exactly 0 time "managing cookies settings"
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I hate the web
Hello, this site uses Cookies
You don't get a choice in being tracked or anything
But, cookies
It's a thing I guess
On our site
And now the top 20% of your phone is covered with a jQuery-animated "accept" button
So that you can accept that they are a Thing That Exists
You're welcome, visitor
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No trackers
No cookies
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Markov bot text
ZIYAL: Father, I helped Major Kira and my father was a mistake.
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One of my students used the phrase "he had muscles more defined than any word in the English dictionary," and I'm in pain.
It's awesome, but it's so corny.
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A reminder that transphobia on Scholar Social gets your account deleted (and all its alts blocked)
Trans women are women, full-stop.
I mean, I don't want one that bad
This was a throwaway joke, not a long-time passion of mine
Upon reading the crypto wikipedia article, cryptozoology includes young earth creationism?
Gah
I just want a word for weirdo monsters that excludes cryptocurrency bros and dangerous superchristians
Reclaiming "crypto" but for cryptozoology
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what do you call a birthing uniform?
de-livery
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an excerciser 🤝 Your fifth marriage
being able to work out
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To the Facebook recruiting team I wish a very, "you ran out of people without morals?"
https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recruiting-crisis
Jokes about killing god will never not be funny to me
You can't punch up any higher than that
Oh god I'm sorry everyone, someone reminded me of 
and here we are
A friend of mine saw this and said
"God is dead and we have killed him. He only has two lives left."
And I kind of want that on a t-shirt
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I'm the research fairy, here to make your academic problems disappear
Joined Apr 2017
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