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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like arctan(1/sqrt(3pi-1)). About .33 radians or 19ish degrees. I have...no useful intuition for this answer. The most astonishing part here is that I succeeded in calculating this by hand on the first try without making mistakes, which I wouldn't have believed without checking it with Desmos.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · 5d

I managed to write “ceratian” on the blackboard today, which I also thought was pretty impressive.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · 18d

My school district didn’t use the label gifted but it was such a culturally common term that I remember being aware in elementary school that our ELP (…Extended(??) Learning Program) was what our district called our gifted & talented program.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · 21d

Also, it may be worth letting them know that it’s possible to accidentally have these things create something that looks to the student like a run-of-the mill letter but for the professor might read like the academic equivalent of having your lawyer write a letter threatening to sue.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · 21d

I would also tell them that you’re going to take their messages as a good-faith effort to communicate with you and you’ll do your best to engage with whatever they’re trying to communicate about, so they don’t need to worry that you’ll judge them for things like grammatical errors.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 28

the Potawatomi perspective on this is: why do we need a whole special word just to indicate that we’re asking for something politely? Why wouldn’t that just be the standard assumption?

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 28

I read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer this summer and one anecdote that stuck with me is that missionaries thought it was a sign of incivility that Potawatomi has no word for “please”, but…

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 26

“For any” is the real problem though.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fun fact: the short story was written first. The author started writing a short story prequel online as a free gift to her readers and then like it just kept growing until it ended up turning into an entire book.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 19

About what your therapist means.

Like what does it mean to operate safely in the world and is that even a thing one can do?

Does this mean most people are going around making decisions based on feelings instead of thinking through consequences?

Actually, that would explain some things.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 19

Um.

………I have questions?

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

I feel like there's *got* to be a T. Kingfisher book I should be recommending. Maybe Swordheart?

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

A part of me wants to recommend Roan Parrish's In the Middle of Somewhere, because the narrator/protagonist absolutely qualifies, but I'm not sure the story is what you're looking for right now--it's a contemporary romance and some of the backstories are kind of heavy-handed?

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

Django Wexler's How to Become a Dark Lord and Die Trying is on my mental TBR list and might fit? Has a number of things in common with Long Live Evil

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

Alexis Hall's Kate Kane series is like "what if Buffy grew up to be Jessica Jones but queer." I've only actually read the first one though.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

- I haven't read her Demon's Lexicon series in awhile. It has snark and...a character who satisfies some of the things you're looking for but I'm not sure how quickly that becomes clear.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

- Maybe some of Sarah Rees Brennan's other books. I didn't really connect with Long Live Evil when I tried it, and I don't think it ticks as many checkboxes, but it does have an emotionally distant and snarky protagonist.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 14

HMMM.

Nothing else I'm as sure about as in Other Lands, but here are some to at least look at...

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yes, I would agree that that’s a common feature.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 4

I think it gets used generally for programs that involve throwing a lot at you in a short period of time. I’ve seen things like “coding boot camps”.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 3

...now I'm going to have to re-read it, I think.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 3

It didn't occur to me to suggested in earlier but with this list of desired characteristics, I think you might like In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 2

Have you seen The Good Place? I really identify with Chidi’s decision paralysis and anxiety for reasons along these lines.

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Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 2

Like. It’s already out there. But getting the population you’re talking about to engage with it would require a fundamental perspective shift on their part, and meanwhile someone else is claiming to offer easy cheat codes to get what they want.

Hanna Bennett @hannabennett.bsky.social · Aug 2

“We needs more leftist dating advice for (cishet) guys who want to get laid” really sounds like “we need more advice about financial responsibility for people who want to get rich.”

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