Rhodium103

doctorjaymarie, 10 months ago to random

With zero authority I hereby issue a call for all your best jokes!

I spent the majority of yesterday enraged by topics like killer cops, mental illness in America, racism (always racism) and reproductive rights. I need to temporarily put that aside and have a good laugh.

So give me what you've got. And tag @MikeyMcFilms 😂

Rhodium103, 10 months ago to random

There are two schools of thought for why we have education. One essentially says it's a public good, the other is that it trains workers for future jobs.

Now, to be clear to anyone working on industry: I have no qualms throwing out our entire curriculum and reinventing it purely and exclusively to provide training so that graduates can work in your area immediately. My price is £9,250 per student per year.

Rhodium103, 10 months ago to random

I think my life's stretch goals have to be:

1. Write fantasy series
2. Deliberately do not mention ethnicity or skin colour of the characters
3. Wait for the Netflix adaptation
4. Write another installment that then specifically contradicts every casting choice in Step 3
5. Cackle in chaotic neutral

Rhodium103, 11 months ago to random

I might log back into my departmental Twitter account and start tweeting extensively about stereochemistry until it's banned.

Rhodium103, 11 months ago to random

I should quit academia to become a professional author.

• No one is quite sure it's a real job
• Shamelessly promoting yourself on social media with things that you suspect no one will ever read
• Sitting in front of a keyboard all day guilt-ridden for not writing the words you're supposed to be writing
• Crushingly comparing yourself to more successful peers every day because they're talented and you're the worst

I mean, it's the exact same job, right?

#AmWriting #AcademicChatter

Rhodium103, 11 months ago to random

Mortgage... Annuity returns... Time off in lieu... Income protection... No-claims bonus... Parents’ evening... Standard variable rate...

Rhodium103, 11 months ago to random

You can tell there was a long staff meeting this morning because I've spent the afternoon googling "caffeine overdose symptoms"

Rhodium103, 11 months ago to random

Me: "So, that's my theory. What do you think? Is 'woke' nothing but a distillation of a language game but found in a real functioning language, referring to no fixed concept or tangible object in the world? Isn't it something that's given meaning purely by its surrounding context, which is to, and only to, elicit the next move in an exchange where rules and context have been developed for and by its participants?"

Zombie Wittgenstein: ".....you learned fucking necromancy for this!?!"