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Reading pope power rankings. Absolutely losing it that the word for eligible popes is "popeable."

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

important update from outside the local co-op

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

me: ah, a complicated email in norwegian. i will use the "translate" button on outlook to translate this email outlook: "translated to norwegian" 😌

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

do you put your uni logo on your lecture slides? does your uni ask you to do this?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

To keep fragile or small items protected, some of our material is stored in boxes like these. This tiny ‘Book of Nouns’ from 1800 may seem normal size on the shelf, but in reality it’s only 6cm tall! [C.C. 423 BOO]

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

saw a girl yesterday casually propping up an unboxed flat screen telly on a rented e-scooter and then speeding down an icy slope into town

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

don't know how anyone buys a flat in norway without having a breakdown

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

got a seminar group? want them to get excited and talk to each other and to you? try 3-4 Zaffar Kunial poems you will certainly not regret assigning 3-4 Zaffar Kunial poems

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Happy tenth birthday to a real one

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

Mary Shelley's basilisk: terrified by roko's basilisk, you do everything possible to make the super intelligent AI but it puts you in the torture simulation anyway because you didn't make it a wife

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

getting back home closing the door and leaning against the inside of it totally exhausted like

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

Victor Frankenstein 100% would have got himself scammed in a crypto memecoin rugpull

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

once again had to get the enormous young people at my local shop to reach up and get my package out of the automated package locker: will my humiliations in this country never end

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps a mad question but anyone know of grants for supporting conference attendance? Think my uni might just laugh at me if I ask them for support given our circumstance!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

me: outlook: hi, it's 11pm on a thursday night and we're for some reason emailing with a reminder of the time someone reacted with a thumbs up to your email four days ago

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Don't think the quiet part has ever been louder than in the "Palestinian refugees accidentally allowed into Ukrainian refugee program" story

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

The racial exclusions of the border regime have malfunctioned. Somehow the British state extended a minimal act of kindness to a family of the wrong sort of humans. Bipartisan resolve that this will never happen again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments