Me, coming in to work this morning: "I'd do anything to not have to grade today." Me, discovering Canvas is down: "Wow, this is bullshit, now I can't grade today like I planned!"

I don't have the playmat to show off (store didn't receive them yet), but I got my first League Cup win of the season, and fourth ever! Played my same Ceruledge list from Milwaukee, which is the same as the one @skylon.bsky.social published on Metafy except I added a Jamming Tower. #PokemonTCG

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

My favorite part (from the full video) might be the brief moment when both announcers agree that two players have been put out, but can't agree on *which* two.

Today is a great day to play with fire (Ceruledge ex) #playpokemon

from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation - is efficient to compute - has bounded error - has excellent analytic properties - has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications

I'm a little behind on October drawing, so I combined two prompts from different lists, and ended up with something about to go terribly wrong at @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social.

The carnage is incessant. How do we protect our city from cars? #carsruincities

Reckless driving is killing us. St. Louis deserves more than paint and photo ops. 1/9

I came as fast as I could! #art #cats

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

guys i miss lost box

Saw the new cycle track under construction along Tower Grove Ave. yesterday, and *wow* does it look nice. Can't wait to ride over there once it's done. #stl #biking

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

Someone was feeding fish at the boathouse, and indirectly also feeding this great egret. #birds

So ngl imma bout to make your day. A friend met him walking down the street in Philly as a child. As he liked to do, he stepped aside to give her a moment to speak freely away from other adults and give her his full attention.

Apropos of nothing

I raised some monarchs this summer. Releasing them all grown up has lightened my heart in these turbulent times.

I'm at my first league cup of the season, and there are so many people here they're borrowing patio chairs from the bar next door for extra seating in the store. #playpokemon

Someone hacked a variable message sign to say "BAN CARS" on Green Bay Road in Wilmette, IL.

Registration for #PlayPokemon Milwaukee & Belo Horizonte Regional Championships will open this Wednesday, August 20th, at 7pm tournament local time! Stay tuned for links, coming soon!

I was going to make snarky comments about Nate Silver, but this thread is actually thoughtful and insightful, so you should read it instead.

anyway don’t be scared to make art

Hell yeah 😁

I keep thinking about this and finally had to draw it. Simone from #NightInTheWoods by @bombsfall.bsky.social

Not limited to orange cats, ask me how I know

Among the many problems with this idea is that if it actually happened, the question of who gets the math department in the divorce might be a lot more contentious than the STEMbros think.

Cat #gouache #art #cat

I made a new zine! #zine #art #hell Each page is it's own post below:

Well, damn. A true American icon.

I was a kid who said I couldn't draw, I just wasn't an "art person". I was wrong. And thank goodness I didn't have AI around back then to make everything worse.

apparently the Las Vegas Loop™️ has some new stations that are just straight up surface taxi stands, except you can only go one place youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g?...

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

Brown brown noses brown shirts

I saw this post (and the requests by @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social and @spykersnep.bsky.social) right before getting on a flight, so thanks for the well-timed drawing prompt!

I would also like for kids to explore science, art, theatre, music, physical education. you know, all the stuff they've been getting rid of. AI can get in line behind all of those things, and once everything else gets back in, we should shut the door in its face.

Pay attention. If you let these fucking LLMs into high schools and colleges, a Nazi billionaire can tweak the bigotry dial and funnel Nazi propaganda into the classrooms. #AbolishAI

“A bunch of eigenvectors in a trenchcoat”!!! Ladies and gentlemen, true brilliance.

RMC time!

We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.

I made it to Mount Holyoke for #MathPath 2025! First day is good so far; my Math and Music minicourse students heard some Leonard Bernstein and J.S. Bach and learned about equivalence relations.

“the whole damn ‘american experiment’ was (and is?) a minstrel show, a massive phantasm on the scale of the grand canyon, in which we each encounter the contingent nature of our existence, the practice of being in the world with others, as performances of race, of gender”

I guess it’s time for a #PokemonTCG season recap. I hit one of my two long-running goals this year, and won a League Cup—in fact, I won three! Still looking for a regional Day 2 finish, so I’ll be aiming for that next season, although how realistic it is depends on how many I can actually go to.

Trans fucking rights. No exceptions. UPenn has embarrassed itself and betrayed its students.

Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step. #noai

touch grass: normalizes harmful lawn monoculture, full of bugs, triggers allergies touch lake: reminder of gratitude for and necessity of water, will instantly if temporarily heal you of all burdens and woes, cools you down when it's hot and shocks you into sense when it's cold