Give me the most 80s song you can think of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2...

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

I'm also working at collecting fiber from nettles, which I haven't done since I was a teenager. This is about a dozen thick, mature stalks, in for the first soak. I'll be replacing the water and retting them for about three days. Then drying, and then the breaking, scrutching and hackling begins!

I'm pretty in love with suinting wool now. Though this is a mystery fleece to me - best guest is a longwool from Providence Farms?

I had dinner w/pharma people a while ago and asked if they are discussing internally, the collapse of science. The response was “yeah, all the time. But we figure that the pipeline is about a decade long and we’ll have made our money and be retired by the time it completely collapses”. Me: ……………..

It is 2026. My computer science students are quoting Monty Python and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

@neolithicsheep.bsky.social So, if other people are interested in Soay fleeces, would you be someone they could contact? Soay wool is being discussed on one of the spinning fora I frequent.

I do not need a sword rack for my car. Though something that would hold them while I've transporting them and keep them from sliding around would be nice. Um.

Another thing I've been doing - fermenting wool to clean it! Suint is a traditional method of cleaning wool. I have a bunch of fleeces that need to be cleaned. So I'm trying to let the bacteria do the work. Or a lot of it. (It also yields potassium rich liquid that is valued as a fertilizer.)

Since I mentioned him, an Elijah update. He's was adopted by my friend Kate and her fluffy diva of an orange boy, Tango. Not that they always get on perfectly, but it's been a smooth transition, and I think Tango really enjoys the company, and Elijah worships him. Even though he's full on teenager.

Sometimes I feel like I'm doing such a tiny bit to help the cat rescue situation. But I figure better to do that bit, continuously, than take on too much and burn out. I'm hoping that fostering cats whose people are having housing problems will help remove stress from the system.

I had a vet appt. for Medusa, one of the lastest two fosters. (Sightly different situation - her people lost their apartment. I'm hoping they can get into a stable situation, but meanwhile their cats are fine.) Medusa is in great shape. The vet had recently had spine surgery. So we bonded.

Periodically I will be reminded of the fanfic wars, and end up wishing that I had the intestinal fortitude to write and widely distribute a Lestat / Vanyel fic. Sometimes, annoying the right people is a hell of a prize.

I grew up in Seattle, and did my undergrad at UW. And they're among the places if recommend to trans friends as relatively safe, if they want to or have to stay in the US. Which just adds some more anger and shame to this for me. This is just awful and wrong.

Long Live Evil was such a delightful surprise. I expected it to be high quality fluff (a friend recommended it). It was so much more.

I would like to see a real and thorough investigation of Kavanaugh. The one that should have occurred before his appointment.

WITNESS ME!!!!!! After thinking we wouldn't have the motor boards, our SIT found the old ones at the last moment, so we got to start on the braitenberg vehicle lab... if without complete preparedness. No bother - I think being asked to improvise increases creativity.

Today is a day for artisanal hand braided solder wick.

I just got to teach a programming class, where we're working with Google colab, online, during a school wide (and apparently educational network wide) outage. I have a bit of access through my phone, but my cell connection in the classroom isn't enough for zoom.

The naming of houses is a curious matter... Okay, really, I'm just noting that locally at least the most amazing things get called "craftsman". No, that's a 1950s rambler, with no craftsman features. You could say "ranch" but it's a stretch. No, FFS, that's a saltbox.

Is it a truth universally acknowledged that men, given even minor amounts of power, sexually abuse women?

Regarding that last, I have so much stuff related to breast support. For instance, swim tops with decent support that I wear under one pieces... yes, I wear swim bras. Though the other side is that while I'm technically a G cup, I have an easier time of it than most.

Did you know that racing swimsuits just don't have built-in breast support? Like it's just not a thing. Do you know how uncomfortable it is to swim in a super tight suit that *also* just smashes your boobs down with no lift of any kind?

Look at the great pic @shararathere.bsky.social made for me!! I've been thinking I wanted one that's more current...

The Access of Evil

My teaching partner found a Bigfoot Sightings dataset which he's using for the statistics class. I'm so envious.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Just a periodic reminder that when Hilary Clinton was running in 2008, she campaigned on rolling back presidential authority.

Does anyone really have this kind of passion for whether Pluto is a planet or not? Do not fuck with dinosaurs.

Exactly one year ago today:

I'm getting over a cold, so while my teaching partner teaches his part of the course, I'm sitting in the back of the room spinning. And am ear wormed by old SCA drinking songs. Woe!

If you're heard the grousing about how white girls aren't having babies that they're forced to give up so that other white folks can adopt them, this would be no surprise. They want teenage girls to have kids, but also to suffer and be stigmatized.

To the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social crowd: Who would have standing to sue Hegseth for religious discrimination? I can't imagine his anti-Catholic bias is likely to find many friends in the current court...

They shouldnt teach history at all until 12th grade, because the fairy tale nationalist version kids get before that colonizes most of their brains forever. Forget deprogramming college freshmen, people go to their graves believing that. Just move language classes earlier and history ones later.

Come on, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social can't top this, can they?

I'd be pretty delighted if one of the outcomes of this SAVE act nonsense is that women became a lot less willing to change their names when they marry. This was a terrible idea in the first place.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

I was thinking about Palantir co-founder's Karp rant about how AI will take power away from people with humanities degrees, particularly democratic women. I don't know if he believe this, or this is purely opportunistic raving on his part. But- newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

People are commenting about how this is about "powerful" men, but in a society that listens to men over women and girls, that treats the former as competent and credible, the latter as not, every man is empowered to abuse, and it happens at all levels and in all sectors of society.

Do you think if we sent Trump to Iran we could walk away from this poorly planned and stupid war?

This is your periodic reminder that the antihistamine Zyrtec is highly drying. While it is generally very effective, this can keep your sinuses from draining and prevent sinus infections from clearing.

This is torture.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I am not surprised. But still shocked and deeply grieved. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

"Powershell is the Esperanto of command environments...!" I love my students so much. This is the same student who came up with the idea of embracing dynamic pricing, and using it to implement Marxism. Seriously, people worry about *me* radicalizing *them*?

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Are we calling it the Trump recession yet?

Republicans’ commitment to the 2nd Amendment is like Trump’s commitment to his wives.

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Who does avatar head shots on commission these days?