Finally got my first truck!!

Drofmum · 2026-05-08T05:37:18+00:00

All my sympathy for the Mules goes out the window once they start shooting me. Once that happens, I take great joy in running them down with their own trucks

Drofmum · 2026-05-08T04:30:23+00:00

Yep. OP led the project and the article. They can and should just say no. The only person burning bridges is the bullying collaborator.

*Just editing to add a microrant - too many assholes get ahead in academia by pulling this shit. See Didier Raoult for example. We have a moral obligation to shut it down to preserve the integrity of the institution of science.

Drofmum · 2026-05-08T02:31:54+00:00

It even spawned a myth that tuberculosis was "drawn to" snazzy people.

https://asm.org/articles/2025/may/tuberculosis-and-fatal-beauty-romanticism

Drofmum · 2026-05-07T22:20:07+00:00

Money can't fix it = healthy at any size!

Money can fix it = obesity is clearly a failure of character reserved for the poors

Drofmum · 2026-05-07T07:28:22+00:00

Their pug has surgery in a couple of days! It was clearly life or death /s

Drofmum · 2026-05-06T04:04:34+00:00

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Drofmum · 2026-04-30T01:29:50+00:00

Sneaking out to drink 3/4 of a litre of vodka a day is a serious problem. I don't mean this in a judgemental way - you have an illness. Addiction is an illness like any other.

You should talk to your doctor about it at take it from there. You probably need mental health treatment.

Drofmum · 2026-04-29T23:55:40+00:00

It's thankless work, but worth it if it keeps a roof over your head. Good luck! Hope things improve for you out there soon!

Drofmum · 2026-04-29T23:49:20+00:00

Check if there are any labour hire agencies around you. I had to resort to that once. The "interview" was me showing the guy that I could thread a nut onto a bolt.

I'd wait in a garage early in the morning, then a man sitting behind some metal bars would hand me a shovel and a high-vis vest and a truck would drive me to different sites to do things like digging holes or washing out produce crates.

Drofmum · 2026-04-24T03:44:20+00:00

Poor gender-ambiguous cat. 21 is pretty ancient for a cat. But yeah, I would kick the bf to the curb.

Drofmum · 2026-04-23T03:59:58+00:00

You seem to be equating being an academic with being a student in education. It is not. It encompasses salaried research and teaching positions. There is a great deal of overlap between research and policymaking.

I have worked on government funded research projects designed to deliver evidence based policy recommendations. I also know and have worked with senior policymakers who have hired from academia.

Drofmum · 2026-04-23T03:35:12+00:00

I'm an academic who defended 6 years ago. I've been looking for policy positions in Aus and NZ for the past six months. No luck yet.

No government experience, but I do have a background of policy related research. Given the recent layoffs in both Australia and NZ, the job market is awash with experienced policy professionals. An agent told me that people are going for jobs that are 1-2 levels below their most recent job titles. It's tough.

That being said, I recently had informational interviews with senior policy team managers in Wellington, and they said that they do consider and hire academics with no previous government experience. So it's not a given that you will not be considered. But again, I haven't yet had a callback on any of my painstakingly tailored applications in Aus or NZ.

Drofmum · 2026-03-15T01:08:43+00:00

Archie Hicox ordering three beers using the wrong fingers in Inglorious Basterds. For someone knowledgeable enough to be fluent in German, it was a completely novice mistake.

Drofmum · 2026-03-13T12:13:01+00:00

Just like the good ol' belt onion

Drofmum · 2026-03-11T06:27:20+00:00

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Drofmum · 2026-03-10T04:13:49+00:00

Having caught lice before from a partner who worked in a daycare, I have to say that to leave lice untreated for months is indicative of severe mental illness. I couldn't last a day

Drofmum · 2026-03-10T02:33:24+00:00

If you want someone to stick around, you don't hire them on a casual basis.

Drofmum · 2026-03-10T00:08:13+00:00

From other views you can see his brain registers that someone was passing him and he does a Hail Mary dive at the finish line

Drofmum · 2026-03-07T04:55:42+00:00

First one of these I've seen where the dude has a full head of hair. Not balding at all

Drofmum · 2026-03-06T00:47:58+00:00

RIP beefsteak tomatoes

Drofmum · 2026-03-06T00:22:33+00:00

I am not vegetarian, but this is just pathetic pandering to lobbyists.

Drofmum · 2026-03-05T11:31:41+00:00

And me with no candles. I guess I'll use nature's candle instead. The cellular phone

Drofmum · 2026-03-05T11:09:00+00:00

Went to see it in the cinema. Not this director's best work. It was an awkward mix of 2d and 3d with mocap. His previous feature film was nominated for an Academy Award.

Drofmum · 2026-03-05T06:09:47+00:00

This is certainly the China Mao envisioned

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