Oh, I too had this conversation yesterday.

So thankful for another lesson on how people lie with statistics.

I wasn’t gonna vote this season for DWTS because this season makes me feel old but Andy Richter made me.

HAPPY 38TH BIRTHDAY TO STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, THE SHOW THAT STARTED MY LIFELONG OBSESSION WITH STAR TREK!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

I just looked up the first season of DWTS I watched (it was the season Helio won) and holy cow Mark Cuban was on it and left no impression whatsoever.

AND the math is good, but you don’t have to get math to get it. I love how much Sneakers love I’ve been seeing today.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Funny how everyone who tells me I must use something OR ELSE seem to be selling that something.

Emmy winner! Outstanding writing for a drama series! For a Star Wars show! 🤯 More than deserved.

I skipped watching the Emmys tonight but I’m listening to his very charming book and this is so great!

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Teenage Bounty Hunters

That thing where you mute a person in the news’s whole name but you can’t mute just their last name for fear of missing out on Star Trek memes.

Happy Star Trek Day!

Realized this morning that Andretti’s dreadful Indycar merch is now my problem, as a Power fan.

I actually liked this week’s SNW till the Metron showed up. And I was dreading it because I largely hate Gorn episodes.

We need to be reminded of this; everyday if need be. You're also doing yourself a disservice if you write off Star Trek: Deep Space 9. It's one of the best shows of the 20th century.

I haven’t watched college football regularly since 2020, and I mostly watch sports without sound but I heard the Waaaar Eagle to start both halves of tonight’s Auburn game and my nostalgia is making itself a thing.

I just need every liberal, progressive, feminist man to understand deep in their bones that every woman—including the most accomplished woman they know—is belittled at their job REGULARLY. Even now.

I am reading a book with this question as its premise and I feel severely uninteresting for not having an answer. (Book is Every Anxious Wave by Mo Daviau)

The most people have EVER liked Wuthering Heights, the novel by Emily Brontë, was when it gave them a reason to hate the trailer for “Wuthering Heights”, the movie by Emerald Fennell.

Texting with a friend who is thinking of watching dwts this season and trying to not infodump about how many pros are from Utah.

One day I’ll learn to not join the Facebook group for a KAL but apparently not today.

A lot of people think of “Smart” as a singular axis of raw capacity, and not a complex web of individually cultivated skills. It’s genuinely a problem.

I am tired of the circumstances of my life being determined by men on the brink of non-existence who think they’ll never die if they have enough power.

I currently have the worst cold I have had in 5+ years and I am so very aware of the topology of the inside of my head and I hate it.

Wow Pato and Palou. I’m very nervous.

Oh, Ras.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

PODCASTS SHOULD NOT BE VIDEOS. WE NEED A SPACE WHERE PEOPLE DON’T NEED TO BE HOT.

Ben & Jerry strawberry cheesecake, courtesy of my excellent mother-in-law.

If you’d told me at the beginning of the season that Rasmussen’s first win would come before Malukas, I wouldn’t have believed you.

anyway imagine all the creative things dem campaigns could do with their piles of money that go to annoying texts, emails, and celebrity concerts

Yes by all means let’s spend 5 minutes talking about the driver who just went a lap down. 🙄

Truly some inspired seed art

Thinking about joining a KAL instead of doing my work: story of my life.

Well, four days back at work and met 2 colleagues this week who said “ugh” after I answered “what do you do at the college?” so yeah.

Holy wow I’m going to have to figure out a way to see this.

I picked up the chicken I’m knitting tonight after a too-long work day that brought me to tears and now I added a color and it’s a tangle and I’m just going to have to figure it out tomorrow.

STATION ELVEN (2014) W: Emily St. John-Mandel

Went to the new IMS museum today and a) it was amazing and b)I want to buy a drink for the curator who said “you know, for this exhibit about advances in race apparel technology we should really put up a Romain Grosjean firesuit.

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

I keep hearing podcast ads for Amazon’s medical arm and thinking about how different things could be if Bezos was interested in fixing the problem instead of profiting from it.

This helped me feel culturally sane again.

I adored Asimov as a teenager but cannot stomach him now. Dreadful prose and no women.

The only thing I WOULD require, if I were empress of the genre, is that any dipshit who wants to name their company or product after something, they should be required to write at least a BA level thesis on the work in question.

The Marvel Avengers theme is really effective.