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/ THE BIG BOOM WAS A METEOR / A FIREBALL / A BOLIDE / U CULD SEE IT STREAM ACROSS THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST / CAUSING A BIG BOOM / THE BIG BOOM THAT U HEARD IN BOSTON / THE BIG BOOM THAT U HEARD IN PROVIDENCE / THE BIG BOOM THAT U HEARD IN LOWELL / & EVREWHERE ELSE / REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

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It’s not worth it to try to be the Universal Best Mother, which is impossible. You should only try to be the mother your specific children need. Some children may need a SAHM, but other children need a model of a mom who is fulfilled by her work

I needed to cite a paper from the 70s, which hadn’t been digitized, and our library couldn’t find an extant copy. I contacted the emeritus professor and got one of the original proofs to confirm it contained the info I needed to cite.

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

A chipmunk and I just startled the bejesus out of each other, so it looks like that’s enough weeding for today

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In Woke 2, we should put Alan Dershowitz in jail just on principle

Say what you will about Lauren Sanchez Bezos, at least she wants something legibly worth wanting, unlike every other sweaty billionaire we have to hear from constantly

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

hey girl, are you a hantavirus rat? because a more definitive sign of your presence would be particularly comforting

Let the man have his daffs!!!

I would also throw the theme out if my arms looked this good in a halter neckline, so, final verdict, I’ll allow it 👩‍⚖️

It’s a good day to keep in mind that non-profits have business models, and choosing some models forecloses on others, and if you would do it differently, that is absolutely your right if you become the ED of the Costume Institute

Everyone in this whole situation is making such bad choices

Last night @vierth.bsky.social and I were talking about how we would score even a single point in an NBA game. My strategy: saying something mean and personal enough to draw a technical

I used to work in international development and went to several developing countries alone. I declined to go to one place alone because I have a very fine sense of the actual risks of that kind of travel (I felt I couldn’t protect myself from a rash of random anti-American machete attacks at hotels)

Reverse Epcot: I open a theme park in Europe with sections themed after US states like “Texas” and “Hawaii”

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This rivals the time I went to a fellow grad student’s apartment, and he only had one book on his massive bookcase: The Fountainhead

Some of you may be interested to see this Chinese propaganda video about de-dollarization accelerating as a consequence of the Iran war that seems to have come from CCTV www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqA...

Ok well I don’t think about them at all

[whispering] he has the same affliction that Rita Ora has, in which his face looks unrecognizably different in every photograph. Like if face blindness were a person

Mindy Kaling wrote an off-Broadway play based on the premise that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck didn’t actually write Good Will Hunting (for which they won Oscars at 19 and proceeded NOT to write a second feature-length film until Affleck allegedly wrote Argo), and I believe her

Legally, she doesn’t have to quit being a dick

I saw the Boston Dynamics dog robot run full out on the MIT quad, and it is terrifyingly obvious how easily it could run you down and kill you

My twins (4F) have been playing a dramatic superhero game, and their characters are Flower Princess and Superhero Ron

Working on a new theory that 30% of amateur-designed logos are obvious buttholes

Do you ever read something and feel a great certainty that this will be the last neuron that fires as you one day die of a sudden aneurysm

I’d bet good money that people genetically engineered for whatever these people think ‘intelligence’ is turn out to be mostly not functioning members of society, and certainly nothing resembling fulfilling their ‘potential’ in this extremely narrow sense

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

My funny tax-day story is that one year our taxes got so complicated that TurboTax barfed, auto-refunded the license, and told us to hire a professional

I’m 80% sure I was the recipient of an AI slop form letter from my radiologist today, recommending a biopsy that no human with a medical license actually recommends

My college friend group used to do double feature nights where the goal was to choose the two most unlikely movies to be paired in a double feature, so I watched this with Rashomon

This is one of the top 5 funniest things I’ve ever said

Cilantro does taste like soap, but sometimes I don’t care if I’m eating soap

I recently bought a translation of Aesop's Fables for my daughter, and I honestly recommend people revisit that--it is the original reference point for a bunch of cultural and linguistic habitus, but some of them are really subverted and surprising

I don't think many US Catholics would follow the MAGA anti-Pope, but I do believe a lot of MAGA would be delighted to have a Church of MAGA with trad aesthetics

One thing I love* is how hard it can be to get a federal job if you acquired certain language skills outside government/military language schools *I do not love this at all

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

This is on me for joking that we should retire the Senate by making them the Bishops, I should not have been giving people ideas

DH klaxonnn: it kinda looks like John Carreyrou IDed Satoshi Nakamoto using stylometry against a corpus from a listserv

My sense is that load-bearing parts of the internet have always pretty routinely shit the bed, long before vibe coding, we just didn’t spend every waking second on the internet then, so only SREs ever noticed

Vatican City. I'm not Catholic, but being there with believers who were so excited to encounter everything was so electric--even the audio tour guide was psyched. You absolutely must see it in person to understand it, no second-hand description will do.

I was there when the old magic was written, and it is NOT that great. Listen, we were under a lot of pressure.

The horse has …recited the shahada?