semi-regular 5am alarms for that LDN > MCR commute has turned to regular 5ams even on non-travel days. I’m one of those insufferable 5am-club people now and I love it. The best bit is going to bed at 9pm

last year i wrote a book round-up for every quarter. this year, i wondered what might happen if i waited for all the books to percolate in my body. a month to go but i’m already at 75 books so it’s going to be a CORKER. even if i only stick to top-rated, there were so many good ones this year.

I don't miss Sharepoint but I do miss being able to say "We're working with the V&A at the moment", thanks @soniaturcotte.bsky.social for writing up the work soniaturcotte.com/digital-gard...

if anyone would like to help me figure out how to fix my sidenotes on RSS readers, i would be most grateful

i also wrote about making websites. i love the weird wild web.

i wrote a little about some work with the V&A

living on the wild side* (*writing a blog post directly in the code editor)

it’s so funny reading old books. tbf this is preferable to the awkard he/she, overtaken now by just 'she'. WHEN ALL THIS TIME, THE GENDER NEUTRAL 'THEY' IS RIGHT THERE.

Coming up! We are reading and discussing the next installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Wetness against the three gods by @tshafique.bsky.social Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡

i can't believe i'm saying this but i need the tech bros (gender neutral) to weigh in

-1 degree this morning so i gave in a turned the heating on for an hour. I was hoping to make it to Dec.

omg i just loathe microsoft. every interaction as horrible as possible UGH

it’s “unintended consequences” all the way through

💔 rest in power alice

existence is just a rolling experience of 'unprecedented times' and the whole eschatology schtick is, i'm sorry, boring and unproductive

first run back after a lengthy (4 weeks) post-covid period of rest and fml i missed it. maybe i'll stop having existential crises every other day now (hahahahaha jk of course i won’t)

remembering how to do academic writing ... slower than I‘d like also not helped by my tendency to read 10 things to write one sentence.

a question for the tech folks... i’m helping someone build a VERY simple, 1pg static site (11ty + netlify or github pages probs). i want to show them how to update it themselves... should I just keep them in github or show them how to use the CLI and an editor?

i’ve been getting up at 5-ish for almost 2 weeks now and the biggest issue so far is how many meals I have to eat before midday.

bertie (the cat) does this little purr when he's sitting next to me that sounds like a pigeon coo. i live for this sound.

this year so far: 70 books, 26,378 pages (not counting papers) yum

annual attempt to try and understand Whitehead and like... no one told me he was FUNNY!

i wanna be one of those people who walks in the rain without an umbrella, completely unbothered. umbrellas are the devils business

Our queer identities are a bond forged by difference, lived experience, and community, it’s not a card you get to keep in your wallet after eating pussy three times at Sarah Lawrence

This is peak reading pose

I ordered a Nietzsche book on Vinted … modern living baby

i love @annagoss.co and I loved FF Studio’s work

1) This is going to be fun, sign up 2) I did the design and website for this entire new initiative so go have a look :) www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

realised that i accidentally ordered a french copy of Foucault by Deleuze BUT ITS FINE because turns out i have an english copy already :| if anyone wants the french one, lmk. my french does not extend to reading philosophy.

if i ever leave this neighbourhood, the thing i'll miss the most is my gym bros. it took a year, but i'm at the hi-nod, the fist bump with real regulars, and even 1st name basis with some! today, i got (solicited) advice on a new move. i love my guys.

it's so funny to have worked (briefly) on an app with loads of ai integrations because all of us tech workers complain about all the platforms pushing ai on us constantly. no one wants this!

my reading goal this year was 52 books (not including audiobooks). done today. 65 with audiobooks.

3 days on campus and the local pret guy already giving me free coffee (I am friendly). the manchester gods smile upon me. (and don't want me to leave, based on my 6hr trek home)

happy to report that day 2 of phd and someone told me to take my readings and put them into chatgpt

watching a lecture on YouTube while I eat lunch and not 3 min in, yr man says he falls asleep any time he tries to read William James. we are not going to be friends

The only ethical sexuality is lesbianism, the rest of us have simply not evolved far enough.

a couple weeks ago, at my local run club, i met a barrister who grew up on a pig farm. his dad closed it after foot and mouth disease and converted it into holiday camp. calls the guests 'the pigs' (lol)

"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!

why are academics obsessed with focus groups?

yesterday i was chatting with 2 lads. one of them was 23yo, the other was like “I think I am much older than everyone, I was born in 1996” hahahahaha

Monday 9am is for remembering you have commitments, not actually having them

started a new project with a small team of devs and am continually surprised because the backend engineer actually listens to me AND explains tech stuff i don't really need to know (postman) and just generally treats me like an equal collaborator!

whoever designed this absolute chaotic report really got the brief www.are.na/block/36430979

i've been using Arc browser for awhile (happily) but I've noticed it's started to be buggy and they aren't maintaining it so I gotta switch again. what browsers are we using these days? preferably with the least amount of AI being pushed on you.

i have such an excess of sincerity it's honestly quite embarrassing

I'm going to need you all to stop referring to articles from 2011 as "recent literature."

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

finally someone describing what it felt like to be subscribed to lrb

one very niche thing i'm proud of is how green my @are.na profile is