Haven’t posted a loach in a second

Decorated work door with CNY lucky banners. Coworkers wrote rhyming couplets for the sides that say, basically, “Our data will be perfect!” “Our papers will be accepted wherever we submit them!” I wrote the top banner. I am also functionally illiterate. So it says, “Horse horse horse horse horse”

Small cat, big feelings

Most of my plants are struggling hard this winter but at least the monanthes are taking off

Wandering around the mri facility after hours showing this to anyone willing to look

I felt stupid today

Happy owl day. Here is me in 2022 with a dead barred owl I found on the side of the road. It was the softest thing I’ve ever felt. Owl was delivered to the local natural history museum shortly after Back in the day I had this picture in my tinder profile and NO ONE EVER MENTIONED IT

Chilling on the couch and @burg.bsky.social just casually hands me this 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 my word

While I’m at it: I seriously think Chinese cooking has the absolute lowest barrier to entry of any “ethnic” cuisine for white Americans— You can get 90% of the way there with just soy sauce, cooking wine, and sesame oil. It’s like a PCA with 3 components contribute 90+% of the variance

Since burger brought it up, here are other highly specific Chinese foods that I am waiting for white people to discover. First, a chili crisp that’s even better than Lao Gan Ma. I actually had to look up the brand because I’m illiterate but apparently it’s Chuan Nan

I felt smart today

I should have been the one to turn your darkness to

Highlight of my day

Pommes persillade but frites

Surely whatever ails me can be cured by *checks clock* 12 hours in lab

Oh.

Ketamine is working I guess

I've seen things you people would believe. Room temperature glass of water on the kitchen counter. I watched birds forage in the park near the regular park gate.

I got through 2024 and 2025 pretty well I think but I think it might be catching up to me now

replace rfk jr with this guy

I am become goomy

Paying $400 to get thrown into a k-hole for an hour on Wednesday, wish me luck

My parents asked what we wanted for Christmas so I said steak

Successful trip to Centralia, did not fall into any sinkholes, discovered @burg.bsky.social’s secret talent for splitting shale

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

A good moss

I am the littlest of guys, sir. The smallest of birthday boys. Can you not find a more deserving target of your wrath, one not as marked by smollness of bean as I?

Stay alive to spite your enemies

Recently the Large Cat has started sitting on my lap and by lap I mean the majority of my lower body

Nothing but winter oysters for the next 6 months I guess

✨ondansetron✨

Went to check out a new fossil site today and maybe went a little overboard

Today I found a python script that had some js crammed in there for visualizations, which is fine except that they defined colors by choosing a colormap from fcking matplotlib and referencing relative positions within that map. Like give me the color that is a quarter of the way through viridis.

Adulthood is just hives covering progressively more and more of your body

We found exactly 100 teeth today

Have you ever wanted to be bludgeoned into submission by a bowl of ramen

“The following video contains spoilers for Silksong and the old and new testaments”

OH WELL WHY NOT

Welcome to the autoimmune hellscape that is my late 30s

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Casually telling Burger how my mom changed a character in her name from “dove” to a kind of ancient Chinese weapon during the cultural revolution. Burger asks what kind of weapon. I realize I don’t know. Burger googles. “…Your mom’s name is GOLDEN DAGGER-AXE???”

Incantation (2022) is the best horror movie I’ve seen in ages

You Make Lemonade When It's Not The Fruit You Wanted

Me and @burg.bsky.social

POV you’re me in West Virginia

For real though, if you’re prone to motion sickness and can get your hands on this stuff, get it. It’s called Aneron and it works for 24 hours without drowsiness. Because scolpolamine

✨scolpolamine✨

SELAMAT PAGI MOTHERFUCKERS

I love going places with @burg.bsky.social because we have different eyes for photos and looking at them afterwards is always really fun. Anyway here are mine from Battle Creek Cypress Swamp