lmao. local labor council lighting each other tf up about what is by all appearances a totally anodyne town hall meeting where some YIMBYs are gonna talk about housing and transportation

just lab things: I am not going to ask why there's a cup of semen from 3 days ago sitting out on the bench. not my circus etc etc

you ever so hot you have no recourse but to take your shirt off and turn off all the lights to sit silently with your distant acquaintance, the moon

as I say and continue to say: Forensics is bunk science. Even when they're using methods that aren't bunk to begin with, like DNA sequencing, "scientists" with no proficiency testing standards and strong structural motivators to come up with specific results will produce those biased results

going to ask to put my partner in a mercy coma for like a week with a ventilator and feeding tube until their poor acid-washed esophagus stops making them cough so much

my anthropological studies in heterosexuality AKA having a job continue to baffle. "hypothetically, say that your girlfriend is going bowling without you, and the group she's going with consists of, like, 5 women, but also... two men. Would you be okay with that or nah?" What Are You Talking About

As many of you know I do often just Say Things irl without much regard for ramifications, so I would like some credit where due that even though the thought has occurred to me, I have not said to my partner about their GERD-cough, "maybe you have Strongeloides :) it's a worm that goes for the lungs"

we talk about breakfast of champions, yes, but what about supper of champions (three multivitamin gummies, a magnesium, calcium and vitamin D supplement, one finasteride two minoxidil and half a sleeping pill, washed down with a protein shake)

What do you notice about this budget? Our staff union had to fight for one and three percent raises for various campuses, and students are expected to pay more. The campus police are handed a 39% increase. The money is always there, and budgets are moral documents.

You've got to be kidding me... "Brown thanked Acker for his apology. “Although we condemn your momentary lapse of judgment, I think it’s important you appreciate what I feel about [your] work...when you make a mistake, you own it, you’re accountable, you apologize, and you carry on” Ilitch said"

men: devastatingly predictable, often could probably be substituted with an ELIZA 1967-level shell of primitive natural language processing and a simple algorithm for a small set of behaviors with little to no discernable difference

children who receive bone marrow or solid organ transplants are also 100% dependent on medications for the rest of their lives, so we should exercise some caution about treating childhood leukemia. maybe some or even most will just grow out of it if we take their internet access away

going to be so real: if you can catch 30-50 years in a federal prison for having zines, it just seems like you might as well do something to actually warrant that kind of time, yknow. sabotage, assassinations, actual acts of terrorism maybe. in for a penny, in for a pound

"I possess certain knowledge because I'm afab" needs to be understood as bioessentialism, full stop.

love that every phone line is AI now. three times I've tried to get through to the meijer, just to ask when the bottle return opens today, and three times I've gotten the identical canned call center noise in the background guy with the same voice and slight accent but different name every time

this is so insane

fellow microbiologists, is this a My Lab problem or is it universal that people can't fuckin pick a simple single, pure colony and sub it out with decent isolation for their gd lives

wow, so excited for our two brand new half-million dollar incubators to come online in like 2 months (both of my 1152-plate CO2 incubators are at 100% capacity, have been for hours, and there are about 200 plates on the line still waiting to go in)

a day later lying awake at 5:15: "you know, it is possible the person at the bar who went out of their way to touch my arm and compliment my leather jacket, saying I looked very James Dean Rebel Without A Cause... might have been flirting with me?"

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lmfaoooooooo

clearing out the bar at the end of the night with a microaggression (someone priority-queued Lola on the jukebox app)

elf girl w pbr tallboy

the new mandatory institutional training on AI is so fucking stupid. By rights we should get sued into oblivion for entertaining this nonsense and I really, really hope we do

(longest, weariest sigh in the world) sometimes part of the job of a shift lead is Emotional Support

gdit. they busted our compost barrel haphazardly dropping tree chunks in our yard. are you gonna buy me a new one

A real shame. Thought I might've been able to buy her a stay of execution for the time being but the neighbor's decided to cut down the Grand Old Silver Maple after all, just for the crime of being big (and beautiful) enough to potentially destroy both of our houses

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

restless leeeeeeegs

people who're involved in this whole Med School thing: I have the honor of being asked to write an AAMC Evaluation Letter for someone. My question is, I know the guidelines say "provide an accurate assessment rather than advocate for the applicant" but like. How much gushing is permissible

big fluffy dog wearing rainbow bandana at the hospital at 9pm at night...

Every day, more and more. You begin to understand why Lenin and Stalin just shot everybody. Trials, tribunals aren't enough

one fear: realizing other union stewards are using AI to "summarize" or "explain" articles of our union contract bc they can't fucking read

i actually do think the worlds universal refusal to accommodate night shift employees is an act of class terrorism

I'm on average 4 hours of sleep for going on three weeks now and I'm going to make it everyone else's problem

discourse is boring lately so i'm going to throw out two crackpot points for discussion -paleolithic castration cults provided the foundation for neolithic agrarianism & animal husbandry -women are associated in folklore w/ precognition because of the neuroactive element of progesterone activity

we simply just can't do without being sorted into the categories of "male/man" and "female/woman" we neeeeed it we would be lost without it we would simply be *shudders* in some kind of unsexed ungendered communist utopia beyond men and women, no male no female, no binary trapping and oppressing us

you may say, "Nic it's 4PM, why are you scrambling eggs" and the answers are 1. I've lost control of my life and 2. It's a work day and all traces of nonvegan food must be disposed of before approx. 11PM tonight

I see we're at the stage of talking about the nazi tattoo blackwater mercenary serial woman-assaulter's issues as a matter of "men's/veteran's mental health"

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

obviously it is morally wrong to threaten anybody's housing stability as leverage or coercion tactic. however. every time (aprox. 3-4 times per year) a plague upon my house because nobody but me actually believe in the germ theory of disease, it does occur to me I'd be at lower risk if I lived alone

A black man was found dead in Cass County, MI and the sheriff is refusing to investigate. The coroner told his family he was beaten to death. Sheriff says hit-and-run. Even if the sheriff is correct, why aren't they investigating? His family is requesting people call and ask the sheriff himself.

first day of Pride rung in with someone walking into the bathroom where I was washing my hands, doing a full 180° and just kinda standing out there until I was done. Like... there's stalls and more than one sink, you know you don't gotta wait on me

Carta is once again silenced by big tech, and one of you shiftless, godless pieces of shit. Whaaa waaaaahhh I can't watch an adult act with agency waaaaaaaah I'm a fucking loser waaaah. That's your baby voice. You baby. Someone should fight you. With your weapon of choice: a rattle and pacifer

what I'm learning and having reiterated to me at all times is straight people hold only one basic truth to be self-evident: Men And Women Cannot Be Friends. men and women can only have one type of relationship and it is the ur-relationship and anything not in that shape will spell your certain doom

straight people and especially coworkers are just. perplexing

wore the Worm Shirt to work today and, wouldn't you know it, we got A Worm for the first time in forever

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

unfortunately, due to AI LLM SEO optimization, the internet is no longer able to return accurate and useful responses to my queries ("hobbies for boring depressed bastard" "sad bastard hobbies" etc etc)