that's doctor arin to you

🎶 let the words come out of me: PURE ECSTASY! 🎶

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I love learning etymology. Of course luthier is the word for a person who builds and repairs guitars because they also work on lutes. It makes complete sense. And yet I have never once thought about it.

My name is arin, I am a college professor, and I just stayed up until 1:30am making a crossword for my students for class tomorrow

If you hear about labels—words that describe individuals and groups—and think that they have only ever been able to be prescriptive, that reflects more on your ability to be an effective communicator and thinker than it does on the actual language use

I know I'm not SUPPOSED to say this, but once [redacted] [redacted] that they're [redacted], [redacted] may actually become the best band in the world

I try to remember it's okay how often I have to ask questions about information that is implicit or seems to go without saying, because other neurodivergent people will often immediately follow up by saying they didn't know either or even thanking me for asking. Be the brave one. I believe in you!

Ticketmaster should be illegal, what do you mean it costs $100 go to see Nickelback??? I thought y'all hated your secret radio rock guilty pleasure band???

Tierslop content is the art form of my people (Autistics whose special interest is competitive pokemon/VGC specifically)

One of these songs does NOT belong in this playlist omfg

Today is International Plain Language! To celebrate, take a look at our resource page – many of our toolkits are available in Easy Read and Plain Language! autisticadvocacy.org/resources/

I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that

Leo: The birds will be chirping just for you all day. They are planning your demise through song.

If anything were gonna make me a fully fledged conspiracy theorist, it would be that a proverbial "chat" went from livestreamers talking about their audience to how AI-genned writing refers to users referring to itself with zero apparent changeover as though chat somehow meant AI all along

Nobody talks about the part of teaching writing where I have to look up how to pronounce words in the students' major so I can ask them about it without looking like a goof. Today's current quest: Is it pronounced viola, or viola?

Today's baking tip: If you have it, add just a whisper of ancho chili powder to your apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice mix

This is where I would put my lavendar phosphate soda hand crafted by a soda jerk at a soda counter IF I HAD ONE!!!

The ADHD urge to start a podcast with the homies

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you

Drink water please!!! The world may remain on fire, but at least YOU will be hydrated. And you don't want AI data centers to be more hydrated than you!!!

What even is interoception? I just keep reading until I suddenly run out of energy & fall asleep. #Autistic

Is anyone on here part of #AcademicSky who does NOT use their university's LMS but is still motivated by Universal Design for Learning? How do you make the course as accessible as possible without it?

Journaling is not the best form of therapy. Going on walks is not the best form of therapy. Going to concerts and consuming live music is not the best form of therapy. All those things are great. Therapy is the best form of therapy.

Say what you will, but Under Pressure is the greatest song ever written

The devil has admitted that he quietly changed the standard recipe of your favourite ready meal just to ruin your life.

Someone PLEASE talk me out of rewatching all three seasons of Fantasy High, I have SO MANY other things I need to be doing

Are we ceasing patronage at small, local restaurants that use AI to advertise? We are, right?

I don't know at what point I went from "if you don't make your assignment sheets exactly a page, you're bad at teaching" to "this four page assignment sheet is woefully nonspecific and needs more info to be meaningfully helpful for students." It was sure easier for me to write the brief ones!

Honestly it's fucked up how much more fun getting a Master's was than a PhD.

I hate how long it takes for me to get into a flow with grading and then by the time I do I realize I have other stuff I really need to be doing also, like eating dinner. I can't grade and multitask on other stuff, it makes it take SOOOO much longer for me.

Experts have cautioned the general public about the dangers of autism acceptance, warning that it may lead to autistic people being treated like human beings.

I see this a lot: “Autism isn’t cute or quirky, it makes my life hell, & anyone finding pride in it is diminishing my pain.” Listen. You are going to be autistic your whole life. It will not go away. You can choose to hate every second of it, or you can look for ways to like yourself./

Why are so many instructors OBSESSED with how they can get out of students using accessibility accomodations 🙄

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I am the number one hater of every single LMS. You will not find someone who wants to fight the LMS as much as I do.

Day -3 of my first semester of being a Real (Assistant) Professor, and I immediately understand why every first-year academic is like that. Why is everything on fire? Why is everyone terrible at communicating? Or doing anything? Do I have to fix it? Is that for me to do?

People shouldn't be allowed to vote until they can use Boolean operators. I'm serious. Search engines should be legally mandated to have them with massive repercussions.

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

PhD in yappology from the University of Neurodivergent As Fuck

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.