my winter boots are trying to murder me so i am wearing the backup shoes i keep in my office, which are these special edition converses made of tyvek

everything is bad BUT I HAVE HAD A PERSONAL VICTORY

what's a tool you want but absolutely should not possess i really want a little butane kitchen torch i would brulé so many things and only *maybe* burn the house down

incredible, no notes. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

next time someone tells me academic writing is too dense and difficult to understand im going to wave Meta's HR lead saying "impact-evidence starter" around in the air and screetch like an angry crow

why can none of these people type

this whole displaced first day of class panic attack can cut it right the fuck out thanks

: chews on a piece of straw while whittling something : yup.

science: cats are perfectly evolved predators who move stealthily to catch their prey and avoid larger predators tallulah the calico cat: : comes down the stairs in the exact manner of a bag of loose hammers and bicycle bells :

: bat boy hiss face :

me looking at the headlines every day

exactly how many grammys are there

once @natematias.bsky.social called me on the phone and it was extremely pleasant but i definitely spent the first five minutes going ARE YOU DYING ARE YOU OK BLINK TWICE IF YOU NEED HELP

extremely tempted to empty this out and use this as an actual trapper keeper this term bc holy shit

just sitting here staring at the ceiling thinking about some people from grad school

man i hate being right about this shit sometimes.

the major lesson from the second season of The Pitt is "don't touch pieces of glass ever"

Tell me five classes you took in college: Russian Fairy Tales Soviet Science Fiction Philosophy of Math Digital Media Production two solid years of ancient greek

today i got up at a reasonable hour but that was where the improvements stopped

ron howard narrator voice: they did not in fact have the first week of spring term next week

i had a better day today bc i got up at a reasonable hour and ate food and did things other than sit at my desk staring at the Bad Screen and no i do not plan to learn anything from this experience thank you

the genderqueer polycule that staffs the local coffee shop lives on my block!

roberto check

i told my therapist that my dad was getting his information on trans shit from the new york times and he made the appropriate face

i have preemptively redacted this post bc i am hangry

man i am fucking _cranky_ today

we do not need to "democratize" AI. we do not need to take a "harm reduction" stance to AI. we do not *need* AI.

i really wish the world wasnt burning down at the same time as i felt like all my work was being kicked into a bureaucratic pit where no one gets to read it

continuing to be mad about the one thing im allowed to be publicly mad about: a journal holding an article hostage for :checks watch: ten weeks bc they want to find brand new reviewers for a *third* round of peer review after already getting major and minor revisions on the article

i miss her

i am requesting a rating on my front walk from bluesky dads and dad-coded individuals

does the word "sleet" derive from anywhere because i hate it and would like to hate more of it if possible

tallulah the fluffy calico cat is extremely miffed that ive allowed her outside water, which is exactly the same as her inside water, the freeze solid

i cleared the snow off my walk before the freezing rain set in i am very butch please clap

i love you all, friends, stay warm out there

definitely my favorite thing about Canvas is the way it randomly re-distributes assignment due dates merrily across a twenty year span when i import existing course content. this is so fun. so whimsical.

what the actual fuck

i said no to something that would have been really cool to do but which i absolutley do not have time for right now please clap

alright, im going to bed, someone wake me up if it happens or if the east coast enters a second ice age

maybe air force one is also going to vienna, virginia now

well i dont like that at all.

oooo i have mapo tofu in the fridge

im sorry what do you mean someone stole a bus and drove it to virginia why would you want to steal a bus to go there

now we're watching the star trek episode where tasha yar gets eaten by a mud puddle who is also an incel

UGLY GIANT BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER is underrated as a star trek insult

gonna displace all my Big Feelings about being forty onto tallulah being the cat equivalent of forty

i hate having dreams about doing chores. you wake up and youre youre all like whew glad that's out of the way-- oh goddammit.

bringing physical qwerty keyboards for phones back would fix democracy

my brain really wants to get into film photography and i keep explaining that we dont have the money or the patience for that and my brain just doesnt care

die a twink or live long enough to become your own dirtbag metal boyfriend