NotPrinceHamlet
@anattendantlord.bsky.social
Ambivalent academic. Occasionally swelling a progress, starting a train or two. Not keen on peaches these days.
Have just discovered that the thing I failed to get done by 5pm today, which I thought I had promised students would be uploaded by 1pm tomorrow, was in fact promised for 5pm tomorrow
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Have just discovered that the thing I failed to get done by 5pm today, which I thought I had promised students would be uploaded by 1pm tomorrow, was in fact promised for 5pm tomorrow
Or put a bit less pompously: this has been me for most of the last 15 years, since I stopped being a postdoc and started depending on non-specialists for my livelihood
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Or put a bit less pompously: this has been me for most of the last 15 years, since I stopped being a postdoc and started depending on non-specialists for my livelihood
My reaction to these f**kers
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
My reaction to these f**kers
What's it like in your head?
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What's it like in your head?
Consider this an intervention
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Consider this an intervention
This merits the actual GIF and not just my usual reference to it
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This merits the actual GIF and not just my usual reference to it
Like so many, they could benefit from taking this admonishment to heart
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Like so many, they could benefit from taking this admonishment to heart
also, this, which I feel I haven't used for a while
October 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
also, this, which I feel I haven't used for a while
I think in fairness I now have to deploy this meme against myself:
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think in fairness I now have to deploy this meme against myself:
As always with such examples, I get flashbacks to my attempts when 17 to "better myself" by reading (books like) The Ambassadors
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As always with such examples, I get flashbacks to my attempts when 17 to "better myself" by reading (books like) The Ambassadors
This is mine
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is mine
Katherine Anne Pryde speaks for all of us:
September 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Katherine Anne Pryde speaks for all of us:
This OTGBB is one of those places without a proper reception, you are meant to pick up keys from a box-with-lock outside the front door, only it seems that when booking through a 3rd party they don't actually send you the message with the code. HULK WOULD SMASH IF HULK WERE NOT AS DEPICTED
August 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This OTGBB is one of those places without a proper reception, you are meant to pick up keys from a box-with-lock outside the front door, only it seems that when booking through a 3rd party they don't actually send you the message with the code. HULK WOULD SMASH IF HULK WERE NOT AS DEPICTED
Reposting because I'm still a bit grumpy about this. And don't get me started with the same branch's decision to order their BLCC books in alphabetical order of title rather than author.
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Reposting because I'm still a bit grumpy about this. And don't get me started with the same branch's decision to order their BLCC books in alphabetical order of title rather than author.
Perhaps the attached GIF/meme should be updated accordingly
August 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Perhaps the attached GIF/meme should be updated accordingly
I would show people this panel, only they would probably blank it out because the character isn't big-boobed and under-clothed
August 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I would show people this panel, only they would probably blank it out because the character isn't big-boobed and under-clothed
Not an expression, exactly, but:
July 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Not an expression, exactly, but: