The world lost a great this week. If you don't know about Tom Lehrer, now is the time to learn. One of my all time favorite musicians AND satirists, a total badass who put his entire discography online and relinquished all copyright claim, handing his legacy over to the public. tomlehrersongs.com

Hello everyone, I am blessedly offline these days because I have discovered my True Calling. My Lego Insta is www.instagram.com/catie_builds... 👌

Once I find a way to upload my consciousness into my Lego city it's all over for you chumps

This is just a regular reminder that if you're at the gas station and the tv thing is screaming at you, the second button from the top on the right side is usually a mute button.

Probably time to stop the cat watching Dropout

My favorite anime is the one where the autistic guy spend 1000+ episodes planning the perfect pool party

In case anyone was wondering, the most precise scientific distinction between the Toyota RAV-4 and the Toyota Highlander is that the Highlander has the ability to transport a 12' Home Depot Skelly in its box while the RAV requires unboxing pre-transport. Toyota Highlander: There Can Only Be One

We All Use Graphs Every Day

Air conditioning: is it optional? This local woman is finding out for herself.

One thing that is great about taking Adderall is that ADHD makes it super hard to do things every X amount of time but Adderall is a controlled substance so I have to get a new prescription literally every month but I always forget until I run out.

I don't want to be on Dropout, I just want a chance to outsmart Sam Reich.

My niece who is almost two has not had a lot of water- related experiences, but a couple weeks ago her class at school had a 'water day' where they played in a hose for ~15 minutes. She has talked about 'wa da day' ever since. Today she learned about spending all afternoon in the pool. 😎👌

Resolved a longstanding difference of perspectives with a coworker today when I found out that he actually does not consider working over the weekend to be 'living the dream'

brb, inventing non-binary computing

Middle of the damned workday and my brain grabs a new hyperfix out of thin fucking air

My advice to everyone is to let your reputation precede you.

I talk a big game about not worrying about all the things I might've done if I'd had Adderall when I was young, but I would pay good money to get a second chance at all the knowledge I missed in college.

This morning I've already seen like ten different ways that Tech Bros are destroying the world so I feel obligated to remind everyone that it's not the technology that's the problem:

I have not written (or at least, not shared it) in a long while but if you've ever read an angry AI tweet of mine and wished I'd stayed up on that soapbox just a little longer, have I got the thing for you: catiedonnelly.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

I have not written (or at least, not shared it) in a long while but if you've ever read an angry AI tweet of mine and wished I'd stayed up on that soapbox just a little longer, have I got the thing for you: catiedonnelly.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

It's so annoying that doing amazing things takes hard work and perseverance, what a scam

Heads up to everyone that I solved AI forever, please put my Nobel Prize in the mail, thanks!

I know I haven't posted recently but my new hobby of wood carving has been going very well! It's really nice for quieting my brain and venting my anger, and I think the fact that I now get lightly roasted by ER staff while they do my stitches shows we're forming a real bond. 🥰

I regret to announce that.... I'm drawing again

The problem with being blunt is not the bluntness, it's that passive-aggressive people assume you're being passive-aggressive and thus 100x more rude that you're actually being.

Does anyone know a good source for discarded kidney stones that I could use for testing in glass-based stone preservation efforts? Anyone who suggests my own kidneys gets blocked.

Something I believe very strongly is that it's extremely important for personal mental health and overall community integration to be upfront about things when you held a strong opinion and then later it changed. This is called 'growth'! Anyways I actually really liked that one new movie, The Boat

My hot take is that I like the new one, but after watching the original, it (the original) is obviously the better Road House, so I’ve just stopped thinking of the new one as a remake and instead it’s its own unrelated movie. @catie.bsky.social and I have renamed it The Boat.

Tonight I am going to watch the new Roadhouse for Science* *Jordan

One of those Starbucks refreshey drinks, except you pull the straw wayyyyy out so you only ever sip on ice water that has osmosed a small amount of sugar concentrate from the beverage below

It must be so boring not being ten differently obnoxious people living in one body like a terrible, blood-filled get-along shirt

I like to think I am Big Mom but actually, I am Garp.

The One Piece is the thing I will never forgive my friends for.

I play a constant cat and mouse game with the entire concept of sincerity and folks: I am not the cat.

Earlier I was watching a review of different carving knives and the guy was talking about how he liked the more rounded handle of one versus the other. I get that it's like, a review, but also if you are holding two carving knives, changing the shape of one's handle seems hella doable.

I spent a lot of my life in torment wondering how I could be so smart but also so stupid, always trying to make myself physically and metaphorically smaller. Now I know that I have to be this size to keep them separate. See, it's like a two part epoxy...

Something I love about One Piece is that it's a show about ten very intelligent people who are also deeply stupid. Finally the representation I needed. 🥰

Watching a music video of people in all different places and was like, damn, I wanna go to some places, what do these places have in common??? Turns out I just want it to be summer again......

I have a cut on my finger that had to get six stitches and also a little teeny nick further up the same finger that is *maybe* 2mm and do you want to guess which one hurts?

Not gonna lie, this joke was a huge hit in the ER tonight (I'm fine, six stitches, 5 shots of lidocaine because I carry the ginger's curse)

The problem with being more powerful than anyone else on earth is that it means I must, by necessity, eventually destroy myself.

Deep within my heart is my most secret, special vault of the absolute best things people have ever said to describe me. Not the nicest things, nor the most complimentary, but the sort of things people say in your annual peer feedback when they absolutely hate you but can't fault your work.

Frank Herbert: In my book I invented Lisan al Gaib as a cautionary tale. Tech bro: today I am announcing my intention to become Lisan al Gaib from the legendary scifi novel "Don't Become Lisan al Gaib"

I'm watching One Piece the way god intended: all in one big piece

Sam Reich has truly given us a gift by becoming the world's only ethical supervillain

Honestly, I'm so much funnier now that people know about Dune

Stay safe out there folks

The anime One Piece is about all the different ways to leave a legacy and all the different ways to hand off to the next generation and how those are pretty much always the same thing

Spend your Sunday with your loved ones if you want, I'll be over here coming up with galaxy brain theories about how One Piece takes place on a post-Letonian Arrakis. Will of D? More like will of AtreiDes, am I right?

Carving is a great hobby because you don't have to put like, ANY sweat and tears in on account of all the blood