Writing instructor and graduate writing tutor here. Citation style, like so much of academic writing, is as much an art form as a rigid set of rules. The general rule is that your citations need to make clear where your information comes from.

Writing prof here—every single concept gets a new number, yes, but if it is from the same source, you can at least use this abbreviation(2):

Ugh, that sounds miserable :(

Yup. I was right there with you on that. And I’m a white social justice educator so you KNOW my family knows where I stand on the issues but they still love to “push my buttons” by saying dumb shit (even if they don’t believe it themselves because they love to get a rise out of me).

So how many other Jezzies got treated to “All lives matter” and “Those people,” and “I’m not racist, but...” diatribes at Thanksgiving?

I already posted this guy on Jez this week, but he was my first present this year, I unreservedly love him, and receiving him was basically the only decent thing that happened all week.

*Brain sings this all day*

sveta turns away for a moment; it’s more than she can bear. she stares out the window over the sink at a vast expanse of snow, as if into the uncertain future.

Rosselkhoznadzor sounds like Russian for “Yoknapatawpha”.

I’m with you on the cabbage - German grandmother. My brother describe her typical beef and cabbage recipe as: take a hunk of beef and a head of cabbage and cook them for 3 months. I would add that if you added any seasoning including salt and pepper, my grandmother would disown you.

“What’s for dinner, Svetlana?”

I actually got to visit the USSR back when it was still mostly a going concern. (1987) and I remember the serious lack of fresh fruits. When we got out of there and had an overnight in Finland, everybody in the group bought bags of oranges to eat because we were all starving for the vitamin C.

Australia: where a thousand-mile quest to bestow several day-old Whoppers seems perfectly normal, apparently.

French Bulldogs are proof there is a God and he loves us. I submit for evidence:

I am going to miss you.

So, like Hitler?

It’s a good plan. It opens the potential for both sides to chill out, without either side having to lose face.

Gorramn Putin! You can’t trick us into liking you with puppies! I will not let.....ohhhmygewdnessswiddlepuddimksdjfs;dhgwi;hfsalkdfj

Putin’s sole redeeming quality: he’s an animal lover.