i love biology & humanity. people out here giving themselves bird senses

idk if it counts as lucky 10,000 if it's not considered common knowledge, but i feel like i've just witnessed my first coke&mentos experiment

it would be neat to have some sort of metal implant under your finger nails so you could snap magnetic nails on & off

huge shout out to the straight girl who also missed her connection & bought me a drink after we rebooked & told me what seasons of housewives and love island to watch

pickled okra is so good, how am i just now finding out about this

vpn is working for now but bsky is suddenly asking for age verification (texas)

flight is delayed so i am probably missing my connection. a gate agent claims they'll be able to rebook me in dallas if that does happen but i am Suspicious

this mostly looks like the prof sucks at writing exams take-homes should be assessing ability to leverage resources. in-person exams are about recall & efficiency

every time i visit i am reminded that my mother is seemingly on a mission to create espresso with a drip coffee machine

noticing everyone buried in the family plot was an adult, drawing some inferences about the family's values

visited the family cemetery -- over a century old yet not a single child's grave -- then had dinner with a neighbor who has buried her son, two of her sister's kids, and at least three grandchildren

is/ought collapse strikes again

glad i was able to find this article again! great charts about election outcomes under various voting systems; instant runoff has some particularly jagged results. also good as a reference for things like condorcet voting and the impossibility of completing all five election criteria

my father had a particularly involved question about water wheel power output so i handed him my phone & turned on mic access for claude. he starts out by introducing himself & clarifying he's not me

they did mkultra on a grape

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the rainbow colors of the pride flag already symbolized the inclusion of everyone, and adding the trans/bipoc/etc colors switched it to enumerating the kinds of people included, which makes it default-exclusive. send tweet

reading the butlerian jihad on the train and periodically shaking my head so people know i disagree

nonhierarchical chicken gang

thinking about when i have been the most productive & happy & realizing i would probably benefit immensely from building an even semi competent executive assistant

hell yeah morocco, show those unairconditioned euros how its done

thinking about what it would take to explain to even recent ancestors that "i work from home" implies "i have a laptop job" not domestic labor

your moral intuition is limited by your evolutionary environment in ways your math is not. this doesn't make the math always more correct or sufficient on its own, but it's the path through which we can collectively advance beyond our base nature

it's hard to explain but as a kid fighting against the biological and social pressures to become a woman, the thing that most helped me stop self harming and figure out how to be happy was finding out that kinda normie & kinda butch trans women exist

keanu reeves play a character that experiences qualia challenge (impossible)

i have two memories of being put in a confined space by other children. once bc i asked to be in the backpack and giggled the whole time while carried around. once i got pushed behind the back seat of the bus & announced it had a great view & everyone started competing to take my spot

a year or two ago i went to jury duty & there was a hipster looking guy in a newsies cap & when we went into court he was required to remove it, revealing a yarmulke. and i took a hard back and forth between the stereotypical fedora redditor image & big yud & realized this, too, is antisemitism

neon genesis northelion

dreamed that my wool dryer balls pulled apart and coalesced into smaller ones, combining with swirling colorful lint like laundry fluoddities

greatly appreciative of how even omnivorous texas are brutally angry about the texas gop's treatment of livestock as political props. people who were previously willing to vote split tickets vowing not to support republican candidates due to these displays of torture

really quite inconvenient for the rest of us that sci fi and san francisco share their initials

i have very little issue with waiting to OPEN presents -- it's not even impulse control, i just don't have the impulse -- but waiting to GIVE presents is another matter which is to say my wife is about to receive an Obergefell Day gift & i'm back to trying to find something for their birthday

filed under "justified true beliefs"

it's good manners to be impressed by your hosts' food, and to play up everything you like about it

yet another banger websitelet from mm very funny that the nrc emotion classifier labels "protestant" as fear

what visual imagery comes up for you when you think about an overton window?

this is part of why i try to stay firm with myself on "don't speak ill of the dead", even when a truly heinous public figure kicks it & it would be easier to join the chorus of cheers

i was looking this up to make a joke about supporting all y'all's fun ai projects but got distracted by the parallel presentation of the fashion magnate and the hot guy

wife: huh. you seem to not really believe in souls me: oh. that has some Implications us: attend leftist baptist funtion me: panic attack

hour late and a dollar short but happy juneteenth y'all. here's a fugue sung in boston on the eve of the emancipation proclamation beginning to take effect, as printed in the 2025 edition of the sacred harp

really good read. have been worrying a lot recently about how to provide for my family's elders when the time comes, and it's good to remember the failure modes

this has been one of the best things about living in Houston for me. it's a city, so most people are liberal, but also it's an oil port, so most people are at most a couple degrees removed from the energy industry. which means i hear way more about industrial activity than in other cities

Uzbekistan has a nice anthem, love one that's meant to be sung by the masses

panama only getting a yellow card for kicking the ghanan goalie in the face is an absolute disgrace

what's the opposite of inshallah?

okay we were seriously offsides there

this is absolutely insane, especially with the lack of exemption for anthropic employees. that's giving up the mandate of capitalist heaven levels of bad

*devoutly* only the Supreme Being could have fucked this up so bad actually 😌

me in 2021: RSI is an existential risk and must be prevented me in 2026: restricting RSI is a [human] rights violation

okay so baptists reject infant baptism, as the community cannot claim an obligation of care for a person until they reach the age of reason and willfully choose to belong to the community yet somehow there are anti abortion baptists??