studying (procrastinating) 🤝 reading (saved a pdf)

[A white fortune cookie paper with black text on the front and an icon of a bee. It reads: Listen these next few days to your friends to get answers you seek.]

PRO TIP: instead of thinking “i should be healthier/more organized/etc,” change your phrasing to “i’d like to become healthier” or “i’d like to learn to be more organized.” stop paralyzing urself with guilt for what you aren’t & start focusing on what you can be

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

Concept: I sleep 8 hours per day and still get all my tasks done, my citations are all in order, I travel to new locations twice a year and I never having pending laundry.

hey if you’re a coffee/espresso person here’s a List of First Nations/Indigenous Owned Roasters.

USA

Sacred Grounds Coffee (AK)  formerly Tlingit land

Native Coffee Traders (NY)  Patachogue nation

Thunder Island Coffee Roasters (NY)  Shinnecock-owned

Tribal Grounds Coffee (NC) (was part of Cherokee land)

Ekowah Coffee (OK) formerly Osage or Kiowa land

Spirit Mountain Roasting Co. (CA) (on Quechan Land)

O-Gah-Pah (MO) Quapaw-owned

Arcadia Valley Roasting Company (MO) formerly Osage or Illini land

Expedition Joe Coffee Company

Takelma Roasting Co. (OR)

Kawi Cafe, not a roaster (OK) Cherokee Nation

Yeego Coffee (Kinłání Dookʼoʼoosłííd Biyaagi) Navajo-owned

Native Blend Coffee (CA)

Beaver Tales Coffee (local pick up in Skagit County, WA)

Salish Grounds (WA) (formerly land of the  Lushootseed people)

Bison Coffeehouse (OR) (formerly land of the Chinook people)

Star Village Coffee (NV) (formerly Washoe land)

Native Harvest (MN) White Earth Reservation, Ojibwe people

Spotted Horse Coffees (MN) (formerly Ojibwe land)

Canada

Spirit Bear Coffee Co.

Birch Bark Coffee Company

Cree Coffee Co.

Native American Coffee

Kaapittiaq

Black Bear Espresso

Australia

Australian Indigenous Coffee

Dreamtime Tuka

Waddi Springs

Zipella

Lilypad Cafe in Sydney (not a roaster) run by an Aboriginal couple, one of whom is an ethnobotanist and works to curate/preserve Aboriginal cuisine.

in which i recommend books like the netflix algorithm

you wanted it, you got it, babes! caveat: this list is long (seriously, sorry about the length) and i can’t write blurbs for everything, but i highly recommend going and looking at anything that sounds interesting. some books will fall under multiple headings, so i’m listing them twice. i am linking to their purchase pages on bookshop.org, because amazon sucks and bookshop helps support indie booksellers, but if your local indie bookstore offers delivery or curbside pickup, buy it there. and i’m trying to keep this list confined to pretty recent titles, so even though a few older ones might slip in there, it’s definitely centered on releases from the past few years. okay let’s do this.

if you want a book that feels like a primal scream:

if you want clever social commentary and/or hilarious female protagonists:

if you want to start reading the unhinged women canon (not all recent):

if you liked the secret history:

if you like speculative/dystopian fiction:

if you want a book that reads like a good fanfic:

if you like dark stories about complex relationships between women:

if you like stories about complicated families:

if you like smart and thoughtful books about relationships between women:

if you want something queer that isn’t YA:

you just want something good and are willing to take a chance on one of these books i love (these are not all recent, i just like them a lot):

Is it just me or are in home libraries like the dreamiest thing? A little cozy room lined with shelves, full of books of all shape and color that you’ve collected over the years, with a big round window in an alcove where you can sit and sip some tea and thumb through your favorite novel and listen to the rain pattering against the glass. Thats the life

If you're celebrating Biden's win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.

Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.

To add some more:

Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief Fund

Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, working to end violence against indigenous women and children and provide resources for the MMIW campaign

Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation

Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.

And of course it’s always a good day to venmo, paypal, or cashapp black, indigenous and other POC in your community, or donate to your community mutual aid fund.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

You don’t have to go to university to be an academic, there are other ways of learning.

professor: ur research paper is due tomorrow

me:

Working From Home

The ups and downs of working from a (very small) rented home: an under-the-stairs ‘office’. I’ve been trying to commit to working here every day instead of being tempted to the sofa or a cushion on the rug… Last week I asked you for your best working-from-home advice over on instagram, and I’ve compiled them with some of my own recommendations and thoughts.

Keep reading

me: starts typing a new line of code

coding software: WHat IS THat??? whAT Th?E FuCK Is thAT??? WHat arE  YoU ???DOInG ThaTs nOt? ReAL cODE?????

me: finishes typing the line

coding software: :)

10.01.20

here’s a crumb of notes content

me:ok time to go and look at my college stuff that i have to do becaues its college

college: words

me:

Defend indigenous languages.

Defend minority languages.

Defend “economically useless” languages.

Sigh loudly at anyone who says that things have to be productive to be worth fighting for.