Anna @ananana@cybre.space

well I guess I'm up to date but this has been going on for so *long* now I'm starting to forget why I cared in the first place

please tell me someone offered to buy it for £1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44093731

so near but yet so far

I just don't know how to feel about Netflix. On one hand, Sense8, on the other hand... ...virtually everything else they do

Why do people have to screw up everything I liked. I had the exact same problem with Star Trek: Continues (amazing show, googling the cast turns up The Full Horror and ugh)

Sad to see Arrested Development returning. When it was last on, it was long enough ago that I hadn't yet figured out how awful both the show and people featured in it were.

(If that's not correct, I'd go with the theory floating around that it's at the centre of the Wakandan vibranium meteorite.)

MCU theory: Thanos already has the Soul Stone - why else would he have risked giving an Infinity Stone to Loki? If Mind really was the only stone that Thanos had, giving it to Loki was a spectacularly bad move, given it is now sort-of in the hands of The Avengers. Guess we'll see in about six weeks whether I'm correct or not.

update: I have suddenly hit a rich seam of actually good papers which talk about stuff relevant to my research. None of this makes the long slog through all the crap papers feel justified

https://youtu.be/NYSxkqL9l_8 I know this is meant to be humour but I've genuinely ended up doing this multiple times in the office when I just couldn't cope. Seeing this gives me hope it isn't just a me thing and that i'm not totally alone in this experience

which are then constantly referenced everywhere as if they are just a known fact.

often the ideas that get transmitted most widely are people's personal opinions dressed up to look like they are based on actual studies

after having been doing a PhD for over six years I can say the hardest bit of doing literature review is containing the amount of contempt I end up feeling towards much of what I read

I've decided on my least favourite words in the English language to pronounce.

exacerbate, empathise, emphasise, and necessitates.

They are like single word tongue twisters that I only need to say once to get caught out on.