What movie do you consider perfect?

The extremely young women baristas in here are currently explaining polycules to the extremely young man barista while pretending like they only kind of know what one is.

Someone complimented me on my annunciation in a convo about my ancestry and I was immediately torn between memories of my father almost getting into a fistfight when trying to order an "arn" from room service and trying to figure out if this was a UK version of "you're so articulate for a *!*&"

Just read about lead in bubble tea and now I want bubble tea. I don't think this was what the author intended

When I used to do writing group with @swilua.bsky.social she said it looked like I was physically, painfully extracting the words from my body whenever I would write. Anyway. I wrote for two hours this morning. Now I need lunch and a nap and to look at the ocean the rest of the day.

Application writing sucks

I can't stop looking at Oxford University's ratio on that AI announcement and thinking about how ~already~ irrelevant the institution is to sharing knowledge if they have 15k followers on social media and consistently fail to break more than single digit likes on a typical post.

Let's have a little tarot fun to help me raise a few £ for Greek lessons! Drop a word in the comments and a tip of your choosing to @surliertexan at Venmo/PayPal and I'll draw and interpret a card for you! No $? No problem! I'll pull a card and leave the interpretation up to you!

Apparently my appearance is racialized in the UK and this has been a serious trip.

Let's have a little tarot fun to help me raise a few £ for Greek lessons! Drop a word in the comments and a tip of your choosing to @surliertexan at Venmo/PayPal and I'll draw and interpret a card for you! No $? No problem! I'll pull a card and leave the interpretation up to you!

Do you think posting "you have to act and stop posting memes" every thirty minutes is more or less active than posting memes every thirty minutes? Answer in comments ✨ 👇 👇 👇 ✨

Just had a conversation with someone who fiercely believed that if smart professor types at places like MIT, you know the one in Massachusetts?, did politics then the world would be better for it, except only they don't want to. When I say the tongue? That I was biting? There was so much biting.

I am about 90% sure I just spotted a surreptitious peyote growing in the pot of a different plant at an undisclosed location in this town

via @cmonstah.bsky.social ig stories (which are always gold)

Got up the nerve to try some Mexican food in the UK finally, wish me luck

Academic job market is an MLM, prove me wrong.

Transferring phones from an iPhone to an android has been a nightmare. Today I FINALLY figured out that my contacts weren't syncing because IPhone exports a bunch of invented and weird custom fields labeling emails or numbers as things like X-internet instead of typical fields. Fixing it required

Me texting my friend: someone on this train smells like a witch store. Me, five minutes later, digging in my bag: oh.

The current drama concerns someone who was barred from the hostel a year ago but somehow managed to get himself checked in again and he keeps snorting in the room.

I haven't had to write a lean scholarly proposal/synopsis in ages and packing all that is said and unsaid into such a small space is apparently an instrument that needs to be kept in tune 😅

Normally I'm pretty creative, but when I try to think what it must be like to be a full-fledged adult easily scared by completely invented bogeymen like trans assassins, I fall short. Seriously. How can you be a full-ass grown adult & spend every waking moment scared shitless of imaginary monsters

I'm not sure what I was expecting for a £9 hostel but it is largely what I might have anticipated

If I can raise £700 I can go to psychic college

The last few days have made it really clear which white people grew up in places where they could just say any old thing that entered their heads and which white people grew up in places like the Midwest, the South, and the Mountain West.

One thing I wish people did less is ask white men expressing safety concerns why we care. Some of us don’t feel like outing ourselves as trans, Jewish or disabled to be taken seriously when we say fascism sucks; not to mention telling ANYONE to stfu undermines the whole “then they came for me” thing

People who don't understand the distinction between civility and politeness should simply not be taken seriously when speaking about either.

I forgot that today is the fascists' playdate in London and got on the overground looking as faggy as possible ama

Imagine disrespecting women’s labor so much that you would claim taking care of 1, much less 8, babies is a cure for exhaustion and burnout.

so many people showing their asses today by not having even a vague concept of the size of a basic rifle cartridge. It's ok to just keep your comments to yourself if you don't know!! I promise! Not everything requires commentary!

Will LinkedIn delete my account for reporting ICE job adverts as depicting terrorist activity? Let’s find out

Trying to set up a new phone today and feeling extra stabby. There’s a reason I only do this once every 8 years

I’ll say this, and only this. The commentary makes it painfully clear how incapable most people are at thinking even one step ahead of any given action, whether their own or others’, much less two or more steps ahead.

Ok, real talk. The vibe in England feels cursed. Like cursed cursed. Actual curse. I have not figured out how to move around lightly when an entire nation feels so cursed lol

Great news for bisexual MILFs today, during bisexual visibility month!

My first apartment was an efficiency in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Houston. It was $350 a monthhhhh

Now that everyone is obsessing over every detail of that birthday note, now is as good a time as any to remind the internet that Donald Trump is the kind of person who clearly spent time practicing making his signature look like the logo for Neiman Marcus.

This would be a perfect headquarters building for the church of Satan

Apparently cops in London wear masks like the secret police now too

This would be a perfect headquarters building for the church of Satan

Everyone feel bad for little Harry Anslinger. He means well, he just didn’t go to therapy so he created the largest politically destabilizing bureaucratic carceral machine the world may have ever known instead.

Feeling old as I pine for the days when an Internet search returned useful information.

Rude

Technocrats: we only follow science. All of our decisions are 111000% dictated by the scholarship Historians of science, the entire discipline, to a woman, screaming from the rooftops: hey, no, technology can’t do that actually Technocrats: hi, hi, what, sorry, we can’t hear youlululluullululululu

Dating someone who has created a fictitious, perfect version of you based on what they want you to be and not on what you really are sucks. This is definitely a subtweet of how non-scientist fanstans date science in their own minds.

Have you really lived if you haven’t buffed your shoes on public transport with a spare maxipad.

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.

trying to figure out how to travel from one end of London to the other every day next week to look at far-flung apartments because of course the company scheduled viewings during a planned Tube strike.

There was a little Filipina grandmother eating her lunch on some benches in Camden. She was cackling hysterically, surrounded by begging pigeons, one of whom had landed on her head, refusing to budge from its perch.