i prefer my mome raths ingrabe

middle school band was over 30 years ago, and I am still having trumpet anxiety dreams

it has happened: I am older than my students' parents 🫠

as society descends further into decay, my sartorial sense approaches ever closer to 1996

meanwhile some of us in other cities are about to be surprised to be voting in mayoral elections we had no idea were happening

sometimes I show my classes this clip when we talk about intelligent action www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4L...

#lionsinarthistory (I don't currently have more tags in this category but I absolutely can)

"with these beans I redeem me and mine"

Ghosts say “boo!” because they’re moral emotivists

This Bunny's not Going To Pat Itself (slightly impatient children's book titles)

My name is Fozziemandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and this bear

“Men are from Hesperus, Women are from Phosphorus”

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

2 kinds of ppl: those who think baking is hard bc you have to follow a recipe and those who think baking is easy bc it's just following a recipe

the pumpkin greater than which

"sing, O muse": the first prompt

it's inktober and I have been painting with as many kinds of ink at the same time as possible

this guy is so relatable

love to have class interrupted by the discovery of a large cockroach

did the NYT make Connections subscription only or is the site just broken

I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'

Nothing makes a dog want to pee in a place like a little sign sticking up telling dogs not to pee there

If any IU alums out there are interested in taking part in a coordinated response to IU’s attack on the Media School and the IDS, please slide into my DM’s and drop your email. #IU #IUB #iufb Please share widely!

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

you have 338 tabs open. I have 338 notes in the Mac Notes app. we are not the same but somehow I think this is a similar thing

in woke 2 we're abolishing the causal theory of reference

this is my emotional support pile of blue books

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

Is there some legal requirement that doctors’ waiting rooms have to be showing home renovation shows?

Ryle's regress (2025 version)

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Super excited to read this!

going up after the show to ask "so which one's autechre"

great minds, etc.

everyone's talking about Keeping Up Appearances but real ones (who watched way too much old British tv on Youtube in grad school) prefer Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

overheard on campus this week: "I haven't touched a single lesson without using ChatGPT"

let them listen to the droll sarcastic lyrics and deadpan vocals of the american rock band cake

this meeting could have been a Morse code message

I think the reason I dislike FB so much as a platform is that it tends to mirror the conventional social world, rather than creating a new and interesting one, and why would I replicate online something I hate in reality

*what are the mice planning*

they should make a gatorade flavor that recharges the energy lost from a depleted social battery

biggest inaccuracy in predicting the future isn't pan am and howard johnson in space, it's the yappy, overly familiar computer making a single mistake and the humans going we gotta shut this shit down

Morning walk

Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E25 - Conspiracy

Oh. My. God. www.popsci.com/environment/...