got a haircut and had a last minute friendsgiving dinner yesterday! i made a disaster of an attempt at vegan pumpkin bread (i just guessed the measurements because i was feeling lazy oopsie) and an apple butter (which turned out much better)

i was not actually good at learning the tricks but i do have a large collection of pretty decks of cards at my parents house

these are incredible!!

shoutout to my ti-84, which is probably older than me (inherited) and is still going strong

Is there a guide to turning off all the AI garbage that’s being forced onto our phones and computers? I’ve lost lock on which things even have it. I turn stuff off as I hear about it but I would love something that walked me through all the common ones.

Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!

Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community." Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.

I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

Its my birthday today! More importantly I finally got the new pins I teased up on my shop, my birthday gift to you all!! rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...

this is the most ridiculous thing ive ever read wtf

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

didnt have a traditional thanksgiving meal yesterday but i DID have a pumpkin dessert as my first meal today and whats more american than that really

could i just have normal weather one time this year

it has been over twelve hours and im still not hungry

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dammit i just filled the outside of my poster tube with stickers 😩 i wouldve saved a spot for this one if i had seen it like an hour ago

New email autoresponder just dropped

Omgomg my gif demonstrating using the doppler/radial velocity method for detecting exoplanets was used in the latest PBS Space Time!!!!! 🤩

man i have really got to try making sweet potato pie some time

sweet potato pie >>>>>>>> pumpkin pie

my advisor and collaborator have been making the rounds at conferences and telling me that a lot of people are getting very excited about my plots and that is definitely a good thing but also im stressed omg

me tomorrow

in research purgatory in a new way: made a breakthrough on a little detail that's been a problem for several months and need to update some plots and change some stuff in the draft but now everyone is traveling or on holiday for the rest of the year including me 😩😩😩 pls just set me freeee

yall....i said i was gonna do work today and tomorrow but like........am i really

looked up a list of best cheap eats in pgh and the fifth place on the list was apteka?? now i love apteka but cheap???

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i have a few sites i used regularly pre genAI ruining the internet (off the top of my head: woks of life, sallys baking addiction, maangchi, future dish) but if i ever look for something that i cant find on my usual trusted sites i just restrict the search to pre 2022-23 ish 😕

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG mr.funkys0ul

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

cant tell if the sailor manyo haha ink is less viscous than the sailor manyo nekoyanagi out of the bottle or if my pen was just still wet when i refilled it but its definitely writing thicker lines and pooling more 😩

Starting out Sunday with some duck butts just because #birds 🌿

i didnt even know there was an airpods 3 wdym

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

man i wish i could get my biscuits to be square

does anyone have a gift link?

oh ive heard of this demo before but ive never seen it done it sounds so fun

it is extremely distressing to me how often i get the advice to "just use chatgpt" to "make a widget that does x" or "translate code from one language to another" or "make your website" or "figure out a bug" why is it so easy for yall to dismiss it for writing but not for other things??

my friend decided to get into stained glass so i also got to come along and try it out! going to reconvene in a few weekends to finish up the last few filler pieces for where i broke stuff and start putting it together!

when was someone gonna tell me that ohiopyle isnt in ohio

anyway i didnt check the news like all day today wtf is real anymore lmao

something about the way our apartment is built or oriented makes it really hard to hear the rain most of the time (like genuinely not audible at all) but today its actually quite loud! i love the sound of rain 🩵

hosted my second hotpot night with a diff group of friends and everyone was raving about the soup base 😌

make it stop

i learned how to play a scale on flute today! lets see if i remember any of the fingerings in two days

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike. Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike. Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

ended work on a high note only to forget my wallet in my office LOL dammit just let me have one day

i just made such a SICK plot yall