if AI was inevitable they wouldn't put you on a watchlist for protesting data centers

once an interviewer asked me why I like children and I said something about curiosity and wonder and joy and then the interviewer asked why children liked me and I don't remember how I answered but I told @eternal9x9.bsky.social about it later and she said "they can tell you're secretly one of them"

me, a whole ass adult: look at my Pokémon and my gacha and my dolls!! I went to a museum exhibit of picture book art today!!!

I found the elusive Jewelpet gachapon! these little guys are sold out everyyyywhere but I found a machine with a few in stock at Nakano Broadway!

I haven't been back to this park since #PokémonGO nests were a thing, like a decade ago? I went after work to catch some Jigglypuffs.

I keep trying to make peace with the idea of leaving Tokyo (again) but it's not working.

I expected approximately eight people to see this. I'm glad you all like my students' art. 🥹

can someone explain to me why I enjoy embroidery and cross stitch but really don't like hand sewing? that doesn't make sense… and yet.

The cafe is open! Four new pages, in which you should NEVER piss off a demon, much less an entire crime family of demons. RIP. monstercompendium.neocities.org?pg=778#showC... #MonsterCafe

I asked the pre-Ks what they were making and they answered "something beautiful" and "a masterpiece." so may all of my creative friends have the confidence of a 5-year-old drawing with sidewalk chalk.

there's an old couple walking their very elderly golden lab in a refitted baby stroller 🥹

did I ever show @katfarrington.bsky.social this (2013) photo of me wearing a bridal veil on a top hat like that scene in THE PARENT TRAP (1996)??

tw food, appetite, eating (not weight loss, no numbers) neurodivergent friends who forget to eat and/or lack interoception: how do you make sure you get enough calories? I'm good at eating on workdays but I forget without the external structure of my class schedule.

don't skip! post you in another country. — what's "another country"? the country where I was born? the country where I live now? I chose "neither" so here's a photo of me in Beijing, China in 2007.

the post says "anyone in the U.S." but I was able to sign up from Japan with my U.S. voting address support @queerliblib.bsky.social's annual fundraiser here: givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-...

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good news: typhoon (no work tomorrow) bad news: typhoon (do I need to be worried?!)

but if you're in or can be in Boston you should definitely go to Dyke March (you don't have to be a dyke to march)

I hated most of my teachers because I have ADHD and problems with authority but I loved Mr. B., who recommended me to the Governor's Institute and wrote my college application recommendations. Mr. B. always believed in me even when all of the other teachers said I'd flunk out and never get a job.

liking girls platonically. weirdly, this is "gay" for boys and girls (and nonbinary people but this was the '90s and I'd never heard of nonbinary people and neither had my childhood bullies)

sorry for the garbage audio quality (it's windy) but any idea what bird this is singing? I've never heard it around here before.

It's absolutely apocalyptically dire out there right now for every single small site that can't afford to just throw increasingly more computing power at the problem, because the garbage traffic will consume every resource you can afford to throw at it, no matter what you do.

shout out to Mrs. ██████ who asked us how old we wanted to be when we died and then failed me for not doing so even after I explained my reasoning (my dad had died at 50 just over a year ago)

I've always been too much of a REDWALL mousie to read WARRIORS, a series about cats, but one of my reluctant reader students is into it and they convinced me to get the graphic novel. #LibraryLife

there is a specific and very limited edition (68 pieces worldwide) doll I have wanted since 2005. I will spend an absurd amount of money to acquire it. (non-limited but now discontinued version goes for $400-$700, depending on condition, so I'm offering minimum $10,000 because I'm rich and evil.)

taking bets on whether or not my new manicure gets me in trouble at work tomorrow (I picked the closest magnet gel to "Pleasant Berry," the American Girl brand color.)

trying to figure out if I can do all of my academic work under an assumed name rather than my legal name

can I write a coherent 6,000 word paper with no Concerta? I guess there's only one way to find out!

so, I, uh… got an abstract accepted at a peer reviewed journal?! 😱

Happy Wednesday. My primary means of communication with you will be through hydrangeas until further notice. ご協力ありがとうございます♪

I understand why we're moving away from saying that AI "hallucinates" but I wish we'd stop saying that AI "bullshits." bullshitting requires shallow knowledge of a large number of topics, deep knowledge of a handful of theoretical frameworks, and motivation to get something (usually a good grade).

blue hour

I won't accrue another sick day until next Monday and I have to save that in case my professional development leave request is denied but… uuugh I don't wanna go to work tomorrow.

increasingly likely that I'll have to leave Tokyo and I'm pretty bummed* about it *understatement

Aquarius: Don’t let anyone knock you down by staying down and never getting up. Live at the bottom like a plecostomus.

I shouldn't have to justify not having children; people should only have children if they really, really, reallyyyyy want to be a parent.

hell yeah that is a slice of butter on the best ramen so now it's even better 🥢

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

I'm so fucking sick of being surrounded by AI slop. I can't even escape it offline; it's all over the walls at work.

as a librarian I spend a lot of time explaining the Dewey decimal system and I spend even more time explaining why the Dewey decimal system sucks

I remember specifically Laterose's death in MARTIN THE WARRIOR because it clicked for me that it only had to happen because she's not in MOSSFLOWER, the book MARTIN is a sequel to.

the pre-Ks asked me to play goalie and they were absolutely furious that I used my cane to block the ball 🤣

a first grader was singing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and apparently it's in SKIBIDI TOILET? 🤨 I am officially old.

I don't want to move to the U.S. - they don't have good public transit, affordable health care, or gacha gacha machines at every mall and train station - but I fantasize about the months I could spend asleep at my mom's house and going for walks on the beach every evening.

today's delightful gacha discovery: a little recorder! perfect for my mini size (~45cm) dolls because they're elementary school students.

work sucks but today I got to show some second graders the pigeon nest right outside the library window

humans of Asakusa

this is a glowing review by @drkotobuki.bsky.social standards so I guess I gotta read MURDERBOT now

TOKYO 🗼