#in the student section

[inkskinned]

you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

[thevoidmeows]

guys..

[angeloftuesdayy]

In honor of my and probably Sam's fav subject in law school: criminal law!

[azzibuckets]

hopkins p getting it done 😤😤

[hiyutekivigil]

another week another friday looking at rocks

[multi-fandomdisaster]

Good lord, the Hatchetfield High School football student section is probably terrible-

[writingwhilecaffeinated]

Hey, have yall heard of the lawsuit Texas v. Becerra?

Are you one of the countless people who needed or knew someone who needed a 504 plan in school?

Then call your state attorney general, cause they’re trying to take it away.

I shall link and quote directly from the article in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, but I implore you to call/message your state government because kids NEED you to.

From the article:

“What is Texas v. Becerra?

Texas v. Becerra is a court case in Texas. A group of 17 states have sued the United States government. The states are asking the court to get rid of Section 504 and its new rules that protect people with disabilities from discrimination in health care and human services.

What is Section 504?

Section 504 is an important law that protects people with disabilities. Section 504 says you can’t discriminate against disabled people if you get money from the United States government. To discriminate means to treat people badly because of who they are. Section 504 says you cannot treat people badly because of their disabilities.

Section 504 has rules that explain what disability discrimination is. The rules say that places like schools, hospitals, and doctors’ offices have to include people with disabilities. The rules say what these places have to do to include people with disabilities. Anyone who gets money from the United States government to serve the public or do business has to follow the rules.

The United States government finished the first Section 504 rules in 1977. Many disabled people protested so that the government would make the rules strong.

The United States government updates the Section 504 rules over time. The government just finished updating the rules in 2024. Many disability advocates wrote to the government about what to put in the rules. The updated rules are stronger and have more examples about what disability discrimination is.

Why is Section 504 important?

Section 504 covers all parts of society that get money from the United States government. Section 504 and its rules are very important, especially in education and healthcare. Here are some ways that Section 504 and its rules help us. The rules in Section 504 say that:

Schools must include students with disabilities and help them learn.

Doctors and schools must have sign language interpreters for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing who sign. Videos must have captions.

Doctors must give clear information to disabled people. This includes people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Websites for schools and hospitals must work for people who are blind and low vision.

Doctors and hospitals cannot stop helping someone because they have a disability.

Doctors and hospitals must have tools and machines that work for wheelchair users. This includes machines that check for cancer.”

— Source: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

[iamthemaestro]

guess who somehow got roped into being principal cellist for an ensemble whose concert they are not even going to play on

[hiyutekivigil]

'tis a rock day

[dailycupofcreativitea]

I made this whole bioinformatics workshop for some students and gave them an hour to do it. So many of them were stuck on "paste URL" for over 15 minutes...

[buggbuzz]

my gender is like meat leaf i think. boy materials in the structure of girl. like im a girl made out of boy things but not in a transman way like i like being female im just. a girl-leaning boygirl. maybe??

[thankyouforthememoriesworld]

Lol

https://www.tumblr.com/akaz2908/766650745542082560/this-picture-is-killing-me

her guardian angel😇

[trivalentlinks]

Let F be a Floer homology theory. For the purposes of this talk, you can assume it's any Floer homology theory you like, and if you don't like any Floer homology theory, then pretend you do like one and assume it's that one

-- a conference speaker

[grittyghoul]

Petrography has me feeling every negative emotion

[boydyker]

looking for phd opportuntiies is an exercise in trying not to drown urself as the soft animal of ur body becomes increasingly convinced it's being hunted to death. in this i truly believe

[studentbyday]

src: study with merve

been letting myself wake up a little later as i need sleep. maybe i'll change that tmr so i can get more done? we shall see... anyway, today i got the big ticket items done... i had hoped to do more and i really think i could've had i not kept getting side tracked.

productivity:

finished biochem discussion posts (all 3 of them)

finished psyc lab

working on the last biochem section for this week

self-care:

yoga (10 mins) [hoping that doing it more regularly again will put me in a mindset to keep my anxieties from building throughout the day]

journalled