I don't think doing a PhD is "worth it" but it sure did MASSIVELY improve my communication skills

toof

the next hit sports ship needs to be t4c yuri

supporting newsom in the primary would be bad enough but people shilling for him NOW is ridiculous. like what.

saw a guy on my flight wearing a "troon north" hat can't believe that's a real golf course name

i try to extend Aella a lot of charity because (1) Idaho expat solidarity above all, (2) if I had the specific life path she did, I'd be a lot more insane

it is difficult to do, but every now and again, people overestimate how stupid the general public is.

if you're a puppygirl they should let you use the pet relief area at airports

5 am flight to dallas tomorrow 🤠

Okay, but for real. Now jobless and looking. I am very good at all things involving running servers and alright (mainly out of practice) with writing/reading code (Python/Bash/Go/Nix/Ruby/Typescript), and decent with hardware, but my work experience is very wonky because of grad school. aly.codes

green heron (haven't seen these in town before!) and belted kingfisher today

crazy how good agentic claude is these days. refactoring scripts that have grown over time into something monstrous is prohibitively annoying on my own but with general directions claude can usually one shot them into something dynamic and usable again

im still so sad we'll never get a warcraft 4

of course the day i have 4 scheduled meetings, an interview, and 3 ad hoc calls is the day that i woke up with a migraine

can people stop posting the rowling/epstein conspiracy theories until there's something tangible? it's embarrassing

stargate atlantis *might* have more consistent episode quality than sg-1 but it doesn't have nearly as many cool gadgets and tech level-ups

loungin in her thundershirt

did jeffrey epstein specifically request the creation of /pol/

underrated downside of being trans is that you can't really talk casually about your problems to coworkers because your struggles are inherently political and/or perverse

on a scale of 1-10 how spooky would it be for me to travel to florida

every time i see something from her i have to deep dive to see if it's real or if she's doing journalistic malpractice again

really hope my cis woman boss who just had a kid was not offended by my use of the term "birthing parent" lol. collabing with her on delivery/newborn charts feels like a gender minefield

just saw a 2 year old with agp curls. it was over before it even started...

Hannah Arendt

if you don't hate the medical profession enough read the comments here lol www.reddit.com/r/medicine/s...

New Sankey diagram just dropped

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

pileated woodpeckers this morning!!! these guys are HUGE

"i bet there are comments in this thread that will piss me off" *clicks on the thread* "wow, i sure am pissed off right now" rinse and repeat

anyone else still #cuomosexual

(hitting on a bisexual disney adult) hey are you mr tony stark?? cuz i don't feel so good 👈

I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.

nostalgia for returning to the brief vibe of 90s-00s international multiculturalism in the us and canada is not enough. one must go beyond the nation-state in its fixed core-periphery position to affirm the beautiful universal collectivity in diverse existence else we end up here again

any of you have recs for local-first photo library software? mostly wanting to easily categorize(by bird species, mushroom type, location...) and sort images from camera

i feel like, over the past 5 years, I've constructed and discarded so many personalities that i should be locked up or exiled from society or SOMETHING

any species that wishes to RETVRN is fascist. This includes Dolphins, Whales, Sea Turtles, Sea Kraits, Pinnipeds, and flightless birds of all sorts, most of all Penguins.

added a can of green beans to leftover pot roast and gravy. decadent slop

pretzel baby

it is sooo jarring when a mad men episode starts with a death cab song. like WHAT

early morning birdwatch

can't say i like constant woke rebrands of the "some freaks posted about you on kiwifarms 15 years ago and now you're never allowed to exist in public again" dynamic

now drinking

using claude to parse all posts containing the word 'folx' to determine which ones were unironic and thus create the ultimate blocklist

he was literally neurodivergent and a minor

idk how the people on hell’s kitchen do it because if gordon ramsey was talking to me like that I would c*m

yeah this one is almost as obviously fake as that uber eats 'whistleblower' on reddit was lol

they've gentrified fujoshis

rip in peace

trying to be optimistic about the trans sports supreme court case but I can't shake the feeling that taking this case to this court was a reckless decision for which we'll all suffer for the next 20 years