pretty good week

reasons my cat is mad at me

describing the early/mid aughts british indie rock band tumult to my metalhead coworker is going hilariously i think

i got a couple birds in the bush and i'm counting their eggs, or however the saying goes

i miss browser flash games

[entering my LYS mentally chanting 'your strange alchemy has no power over me!!!] [subsequently exiting my LYS having spent more than $50 but less than $100] the incantation.... was a rousing success

[reading a book that has been widely regarded for decades as one of the best in its genre] why is no one ever talking about how good this book is

louisville

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post. My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

have officially reached semantic satiation with the word tenure

woke up this morning an hour before my alarm by sitting bolt upright and thinking "the stitch count on my current knitting project isn't actually mathing" apropos of basically nothing and the rest of my day seems to be preceding accordingly from there

just used my yarn swift for the first time... soooo satisfying. high point of the week

my villain origin story is every single day i open my tenure application, start typing, and have to reset from smart quotes to straight quotes. AGAIN. every SINGLE day.

Come play our free fan game! It's a fully-voiced MDZS Dating Sim! archiveofourown.org/works/69256561 I was invited to write and code on the Expanded Edition and I'm so proud of the game we made!

#uspoli cmon guys let’s get some more calls in on this

sweet/vicious

still frankly incredulous and incandescent about the social media post i saw last week where someone was unironically pairing the already-infuriating "teehee girl math i'm a girl so i'm can't be expected to do anything" genre of post with audio from no doubt's just a girl. like. what.

met the most effective proselytizer of my life today (cute small child who gave me a bunch of church leaflets in a bag with a smoke detector battery "so you can use it to keep you safe"). like it isn't going to convert me but i'm thrilled to get something actually useful that i will actually use

hello sweet doves, and forgive me for only posting here when I need help. beggars can’t be choosers, etc. I’ve updated my gfm, I need help, and I am forcing myself to do this bc asking for help shouldn’t be so eviscerating even though it really is gofund.me/b1a93ffa

i entered fandom in the yahoo groups era and have actively participated for over 20 years! i would not consider myself a fandom elder, i wasn't there when the deeper magic from before the dawn of time was written

the guy with an office down the hall from mine is playing the exact kind of song covers that drive me up the fucking wallllll

furthest i've been: north: Ísafjörður south: dar es salaam east: mombasa west: almost certainly SOMEWHERE in olympic national park

okay well if my dean, my dept chair, and a guy who's been on the tenure review committee for longer than i've had a phd all say it's silly of me to think about postponing my tenure review a year to be more competitive because i'm already competitive...then i guess i might as well go through with it!

i love how almost every christopher pike book asks the question "what if the most evil being on the planet... was a hot blonde?"

i don't remember what i was looking for in my notes app bc i re-found this and every single thought of what i was doing flew right out of my head in that moment

it's on me for sometimes clicking into trending topics but this spate of (i assume) spambots posting pictures of a mauled dog all over the place really is Too Much

okay yeah 💪

[after several days of excruciating back pain] is there anything worse than an infected hangnail

GREAT news friends, made the first real progress on my t4t anne shirley/gilbert blythe magnum opus in years

i remembered abruptly today that i'm allowed to listen to music at home and it did in fact fix me

briefly forgot today that when i play from usb on my tv it'll just keep playing anything in the same folder unless i physically make it stop and had a moment where i looked up from the "sharknado" "credits" like 'bong joon ho did NOT write this!' and in fact he didn't! snowpiercer had started!

can't decide if clever or silly or both but i'm using my heating pad to warm up my croissant

:) i love when the geoguessr daily challenge drops me somewhere i've been before

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for two days in a row now my phone has said i've reached my discord screen time limit (which is over an hour) without having even opened discord once. what gives

had the best plov of my life tonight at an uzbek hole-in-the-wall where the waitress said "we don't have any water today, would you like a mojito instead?" and then brought me a shirley temple. 10/10 no notes

My lovable cutie pie wife is getting surgery tomorrow & if you can help out by donating to our meal train that would be neat! mealtrain.com/134oq5

the ancient greeks were rly onto something when they decided to make one of heracles' labors vacuuming the fucking stairs

do you guys want to see something delightfully horrifying

hot take maybe but i feel like resource management games should all have a stockpile option on individual inventory items

not bad for streak day 1000... here's hoping i maintain my lead

my power and wifi may be out but i'm still using my limited phone battery to create a hotspot so i can do the daily challenge... there's NO WAY i'm skipping geoguessr on day 998 of my streak

my power is out so i'm watching stuff on my hard drive... i maintain the worst part of the wilds is how they didn't have the actresses grow body hair for at LEAST the island scenes. they committed to unflinching make-up fx, the smooth legs really take a guy out of it

i haven't seen the new final destination yet but the mere fact of a new final destination existing in this world means i'm already leveling up

really eager to see how the tenure review committee interprets the course eval i got that just says "10/10, no notes. Ate and left no crumbs." and absolutely nothing else. i hope it makes it into whatever official recommendation they make when i'm up for review.

every time a cooking influencer says something along the lines of "butter for flavor, oil to keep it from burning" i do an entire whole body twitch. that's not how it WORKS

!!! someone just bought an angry parrot t-shirt so a reminder that you too can wear your trans rage and support the transgender law centre all at once www.bonfire.com/you-have-mis...

you know when you gotta pull the trigger on 'am i nauseous or just hungry' and it turns out you pulled the wrong lever. why do we even have that lever.

not too shabby...

so this was new for me: i went instantaneously from fast asleep to fully awake and actively in the middle of a mental debate about what defines a meet-cute, i assume in response to a dream???? but usually this is NOT my waking experience