wittgenstein reactionary that thinks the world is everything that isn’t the case

It’s always so weird when you think you’re having a normal conversation and remember that not everyone is actually like anti-war as a basic starting position. Like I’m not here to debate individual military acts but like idk guys I think war is bad

I successfully made it several years without having to drive a car but I’ve been driving to the peninsula a bunch lately to see my sister and niece and like I’m pretty sure they must be hiring people to drive bad and (dangerously) slow to make me stop driving (it’s working)

What game should I play next

Something that I get disproportionately upset about is when people use the phrase “heads up” after the fact

My SO and I don’t have the craziest age gap (5 years) but what makes it really really noticeable is that he’s too old for spongebob. He can even accurately use many spongebob references but he’s never seen the source material

When I was little and me and my sister’s room got really bad, my mom would be like “don’t make me come in and sectorize it!” And idk why we hated that so much bc it just meant she broke it into sectors and assigned us to do specific parts at a time

Do tenants have any rights when it comes to 3d virtual tours of their homes and all of their belongings being posted on the Internet? I feel like I know the answer, but having actual in-person strangers in my actual in-person home feels less risky and less inconvenient.

LMAO woke up to landscapers cutting down the hedge that blocks my bedroom window from the street which was the only reason I felt comfortable having a bedroom that faces the street HAHAHAHA

The indignant impotence of sitting in an airport with a super delayed flight

Agreed to dance in a sangeet bc I love my friend so much and it’s such an honor but unfortunately I think the more loving thing may have been to be honest about my dancing abilities. Let’s just hope the theme of the dance is “Friendship” and not “Dancing”

One time in grad school the professor said something about Scylla and Charybdis and I made a face bc I didn’t know what those words meant and he said Emily are you okay you made a face and I said I don’t know what those words mean

Every printer is at least a little bit haunted

Made a little doodad thing because all the other ones weren't what I wanted. jhnwnstd.github.io/mojibaker/

I love my big sister and I love my mommy and I love my tiny niece

My partner said I could borrow his usb stick but I opened it up and the files are like a Korean horror book, a PDF about how to use tandem-straight, and like six files that are just people’s initials.wav. Who is borrowing this from whomst again????

Do you ever hear something and you’re like “new prior text acquired, I will be saying this for the rest of my life”

I keep wanting to talk to everyone about the dream hotel but no one will read the dream hotel even though i keep telling them to

People think it’s hilarious that I put EAR on my headphones but that’s literally just my initials

I really try to empathize and understand other people’s worldviews but I just saw a post implying you should be equally happy to realize you’re listening to Straight to Hell or Paper Planes????

Making crafts for my nieceling and I want to show my bestie/crafting co-author and get her opinion but she’s also pregnant and if the projects go well I want to make them for her too so I can’t ruin the surprise

My mom teaches elementary school and we have concluded that I might be able to teach elementary and she might be able to teach college but neither of us could teach middle school

Looking up how to move the Fresco toolbar back where it GOES but all I can find is people complaining about the update that this is apparently part of and begging adobe to change it back to

I swear to god before I die I'm gonna convince other white people that Du Bois was a pioneer of data visualization, not just a content-free placeholder "Black intellectual" www.wbur.org/news/2019/02...

federal minimum wage hasn't changed in nearly 20 years btw

psycholinguists in the slime dimension: I mostly study ambigooity

One thing they can never take away from me is that I really do make myself laugh

I’ve never seen an entire lord of the rings movie bc ur grl gets sleepy

Singing my niece Apples and Bananas with the entire vowel space so she has an easier time in Field Methods

I assumed I would love my nieceling but I had no idea how much I would love her

Everything about the peninsula is worse than Berkeley. Why does y’all’s water taste so bad bleh

I am an aunt! 🥲💗💕

A significant implication of talking about “content” rather than work is that it elides the research and writing process as a constituent part of knowledge and suggests that classrooms, journals, books, YouTube channels, text generators, etc. are all just so many platforms for the same “information”

Sometimes I get so self conscious about giving people art. Like I think it looks cool but is it coming off like hello I’m 33 years old and I framed my macaroni art for you

I wish my nails grew faster so I could bite them more

The next big trend will be non-liminal spaces: a sumptuous bedroom, the Hagia Sophia, a zoo

The way dogs taste must just be totally different from us. If I ate the way my dog eats, I don’t think I would like food at all, but she likes food A LOT

Unfortunately I think I know how to help people get better at writing and unfortunately I think it involves paying other people to teach them

I miss when everyone wore masks when they were feeling sick or just because it's common courtesy

The seance of Blake manor was good

(finishing the jam) Bonne Maman died today.

Every time I do something for my sister now it’s bc the baby needs it. The baby needs eneloop batteries and a chopped salad

My dog’s absolute number one opp is the fruit cart bicycle guy who goes past our house once a day continuously honking

David Bowie: Don’t you wonder sometimes about sound and vision Me (studies multimodal cues in speech perception): I do actually, yeah, kind of a lot

Sometimes i use a word confidently in a message and then immediately look up the definition bc i'm suddenly less confident after i press that old send button

I sort the hangers into good and bad and give my partner all the bad hangers but it’s a victimless crime bc he can’t tell the difference anyway and it’s really nice of me to do the laundry

They passed a rule in SF that coming off the bay bridge you’re only allowed to have billboards for iPhones or making your fellow human obsolete

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

When I was in middle school Rita knocked out our cable and my mom didn’t set it back up bc it was an unnecessary expense and we didn’t need to watch that much tv anyway but then we like stockpiled series DVDs and calculated the price per minute of content to justify it