Daniel Gwynne

CP is known as "Cellphone" in the Philippines. CP in East Asian spaces means "coupling." CP is also a medical term that means "Cerebral Palsy." This is exactly why we tell people to use CSEM/CSAM instead, but every time we do, we're met with hostility and ad hominem attacks.

on the first day of class my astronomy professor asked us why the night sky was dark. if our universe is infinite, how can there be spaces between the stars? he didn't answer the question until the last day-because our universe is relatively young, and is still growing. it is finite. not enough stars or galaxies have been formed to fill up the entire night sky. but what that means to me is that somewhere, in an older universe, the night sky looks like a tapestry of diamonds. somewhere darkness is pale white and glittering. imagine being so surrounded. i haven't gotten that image out of my head ever since you could never navigate under such a sky but god it sounds lovely

Genuinely what is happening in this gif

Just imagine a Wetherspoons here

Nowadays, the majority of Harvard graduate students who want to learn about older Western history (ancient, medieval, early modern) are coming from Chinese and Islamic fields and realize that they need to know about the West in order to understand their own fields. Many Latin Americanists know very little about Spanish history before 1492. I don't think the current anti-Western bias in American graduate schools can last, at least I hope it doesn't, but if we continue to go down this road, American grad students may have to go to China to study older Western history.

I am going to claw my eyes out

I have never met an academic historian who was hostile to people reading primary sources. It’s a core component of undergraduate education in history. Academics ARE concerned when people don’t ever read secondary sources, because, sometimes, not always, reading secondary sources can aid in understanding primary sources, and failing to read secondary sources can, sometimes, lead to an imperfect picture.

If you’re confused by the hostility many academics feel towards the laity reading primary sources, understand this is how an “intellectual class” always acts once it’s institutionalized and self-selecting. No different than how the Medieval Church felt about vernacular Bibles.

I just met someone who’s parents were both an “only child” so he has zero aunts, uncles, cousins nothing😭