Will Lumley
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)This is the whole of academia in a nutshell.
Chris Bohn
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@DocBohn @golgaloth strong chance that most professors that do this have undiagnosed ADHD
Sin Vega@gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth now I am suddenly realising that my favourite teacher was like that because he definitely had adhd
gave no shits about handwriting. doing no homework was fine, if it was clear you understood or were trying to. Would answer any question about any subject as best he could. Loved a big ol conversation about whatever the class's thoughts were on the subject. Head of two departments and still wanted to do more. Never once raised his voice but would get super enthused
@gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth I refused a gcse exam in protest and when they tried to ambush me with it after I finished another exam, I refused to take it and just sat there.
He was invigilating, and confused. I explained I was protesting and he just said "Right", and gave me this smirk. Classic "I can't SAY I approve of this but we both know I do"
my man got a job doing what he loved and he was too damn good at it for anyone to stop him doing it the way that worked. A hero
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES@gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth Stop labelling people! Getting sidetracked sometimes is not a disease. It is a personality trait. I'm lucky that the four-letter moniker did not exist when I was a kid. I would have been labelled for good.
@Ea5iyl @DocBohn @golgaloth I'm not labelling anyone. I have ADHD and am glad to have been diagnosed. It helped me manage it.
@gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth I'm glad it worked for you. I have a child psychiatrist in my family and she tells me horror stories in which children are labelled and medicated in ways that she has to disentangle.
Morgan ⚧️@Ea5iyl @gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth if the 4 letter label didn't exist for me, I would've simply gotten different labels like "deadbeat" or "drug addict" or "completely useless" or "fucking dead."
It's not like we had an option to just be unlabeled. If you've gone your whole life without any sort of ableist label on you that's at least as bad as "ADHD", I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have labeled you with "ADHD" either. It took *a lot* for me to get that "label"
It's not like we had an option to just be unlabeled. If you've gone your whole life without any sort of ableist label on you that's at least as bad as "ADHD", I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have labeled you with "ADHD" either. It took *a lot* for me to get that "label"
@gsuberland @DocBohn @golgaloth hey hey, it could be diagnosed, we don't know! For all we know they're like me (on Adderall and now their ADHD is mild but wow is it still there)
[For the record I'm bantering, not correcting/arguing, we're all just speculating here]
[For the record I'm bantering, not correcting/arguing, we're all just speculating here]
Pseudo NymLet me sum up
Angus Marshall 
@golgaloth Umm, hang on....so humans evolved from....Oh wait...
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” (Adams, D).
Wildduck@marshalla99 @golgaloth "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Longspeak@marshalla99 @golgaloth A definite misstep.
WearyBonnie@golgaloth
I was once reading a medical research paper about iron absorption in the body, and it went right the way back to the Great Oxidation Event of Earth's atmosphere.
Utterly fascinating, but definitely more than I needed to know for raising my ferritin levels 😅
I was once reading a medical research paper about iron absorption in the body, and it went right the way back to the Great Oxidation Event of Earth's atmosphere.
Utterly fascinating, but definitely more than I needed to know for raising my ferritin levels 😅
Paul Turnbull has moved.🇨🇦@golgaloth This feels like it could be an episode of James Burke’s “Connections”
Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@golgaloth I am in this picture and I don't like it.
(and while my employer is a university, I am just an IT team lead, not faculty…)
(and while my employer is a university, I am just an IT team lead, not faculty…)
Mikko Rintasaari@golgaloth this is my comfort zone. I may not be able to survive outside of academic circles...
aprilfollies@golgaloth Fortunately, as I teach Astronomy, I am allowed to go all the way back to the Big Bang, as required. 😉
“First, where did the elements come from? Well, hydrogen and helium….”
Starlight ✨@golgaloth It's not a proper iPod retro tech review without mentioning lungfish at least once
HowToPhil@golgaloth It's because of the "pod people" in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Surely, no further explanation is needed
Magnus Ahltorp@howtophil @golgaloth No, it has to be from the Phantom Menace. (Sorry, everyone)
@ahltorp @golgaloth Anakin is a pod person
notorisch interessiert@timpritlove : about what you are actually doing 😅
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@golgaloth Yeah. What "kids today" need is what kids have always needed: the appropriate level of lies-to-children. When they want the next level they'll ask for it.
ShertsonThis is why my kids don't ask me questions. I can't assume what they know unless I've told them and context is critical.
Ashwin DixitWhales have been streaming music underwater for millions of years. When the whole pod gets together to listen to a song recital, it's called a podcast.
Hence the Fedi service, Funkwhale:
🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@golgaloth I have such a colleague... 😂
Prickly Pam (D-PA)I AM such a colleague. Without a four-letter initialism. Although I'm sure other four-letter terms have been directed towards me.
And I don't give a rat's ass. 😁
EdgeLaughed right out loud at this, thank you.
mathew@golgaloth “Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.”
Airplane 2 Everything That's Happened Up Till Now
rdmFun trivia - all of Johnny's lines in both movies were ad-libbed.
5 toasters@golgaloth So true! 😄