Come on.

Took a brief break the hell of academia for. Worm.

Finished my first handmade keyboard today! I call it CAPZ 😁 This has been a learning board, meaning I've used it as my test subject for every skill I've learned. I came up with the layout, designed the case in a CAD program, handwired it, and built the firmware. And it works! On the first try!!

some sort of keyboard idea rattled free from my brain

in other news look at my keyyyyboardssss

Quickly learning that having an autoimmune condition while getting older means losing a *lot* of time to being sick. It feels like I have less time to do the same things everyone else does because I keep getting fucking sick.

It feels cowardly but I don't see a future where I am still living in this country.

Making up excuses to bomb hospitals is one of Israel’s favourite war crimes, and they’ve gotten away with it every single time. International law has utterly failed.

in the stage of really wishing adequate accessibility resources existed for grad students 🙃

the start of the school year always comes with the agony of trying to navigate college bureaucracy 🫠

me: I'm so sorry I havent been able to help with this event, I grovel at your feet and endeavor to do better to help you going forward 😭😭😭 them: it's okay I haven't worked on it either 🤣🤣🤣

So it seems Google was artificially inflating the amount of storage I was using. I know this because I downloaded everything I had on Google Drive and in Google Photos and then deleted it all to free up my storage. The volume downloaded was somehow greater than the volume deleted??

For context, this is what I'm working on. Every point represents a lithic in the 3D space of the excavation unit! Locations are not exact, but not fully random either. This is one unit out of about 57 in my site.

although in my defense, I work in a 50 year old academic building with single-pane windows with no UV protection, so my stickinotes do get the full force of the sun every day.

It's been so long since I've done data management for my site's GIS project that my stickinotes are faded almost the point of being illegible 😬

Fascinating thread that I'm forever going to use as proof why you should always check the sources your source cites

I'm following so many climate scientists now that I actually need to learn some of this lingo 😬

can't wait to read this 🙄

I think we arrive at that issue when we see reporting of information as an act of persuasion. You don't need to try as hard to be accurate if you're not actually persuading anyone of a point Weirdly defeatist and forgets that news is for the sake of learning, not being "convinced" of something

Anyone in the audience have experience with getting a masters in the US and then going out of the country for a Ph.D? Need some advice

If you write an article about "undecided voters" and your evidence is quotes from 3 people in a country with 330 million residents, and you chose which people to quote and which people not to quote, that's not giving the voters' opinion, that's giving your opinion.

With the school year looming on the near horizon, I hope more professors this year consider use of AI a form of academic dishonesty.

made a minor typo, time to let the soils consume me

How dare! Without quartz, humanity would have had infinitely shittier stone tools. I would go so far to say quartz is a mineral that made us as a species! I mean look at the lithic diversity she creates, she IS that bitch! "vanilla" excuse me but every recipe has to have a solid foundation 💅

"he said some states wanted to kill babies after they were born and we fact checked that, but I want to ask about whether he got shot because of dems being mean" what a completely irresponsible handling of that interview. "journalism" yeah right

Kamala's pro-fracking stance and complete omission of real climate change discussion just demonstrates that neither party gives a shit whether or not humanity survives the next 30 years. "Lesser of two evils" my fucking ass 🤬

"when congress passes a bill protecting reproductive rights, I will proudly sign it" is exactly the dem passivism that failed to protect reproductive rights from republicans in the first place.

"I don't know how many voters exist out there to be swayed" spot-on observation, and yet the circus continues

All I’m feeling right now

rod sterling is gonna pop out from behind a wall istg

"where he has the edge, on the economy and the border" what are you talking about. what edge. why are pretending he has any policy lead on a race to the bottom? both of these people have abysmal policies on immigration what do you mean he has "an edge"?? hello???

"the world is laughing at us" says lead clown who is actively honking his nose

very weird to say "we have more in common than we have different" but to stop that exclusively at American borders.

Is she talking about the importance of solving climate change minutes after saying she still supports fracking? Or did I mishear that?

ah yes, avoid the fact that you flopped back to supporting private insurance by talking about how important the ACA is. not like we needed that because of private insurance companies...

I have concepts of a plan —me thinking about how I’m going to organizing my inbox

"I have concepts of a plan" LMAO how weirdly honest

ah yes, when your administration just has a few bad apples. what a fucking loser

"she hates both Israel AND Palestine" has such playground energy. political strategy who?

Ah, tuned back in just on time for "we must work toward a two-state solution." Colonizers don't have a right to defend themselves, nevermind that what Israel is doing can barely be called defense.

Did he just say that we don’t make chips anymore in the United States Because You guys www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

This exactly. I don't understand acting like undecided voters are single-issue. It's also this shit.

I fundamentally do not understand the logic here. Why do I care what China is doing. Why are we so allergic to the idea of economic engagement with other major nations? I mean I know why, but like. Come the fuck on.

"Policy on China should be about America winning the race for the 21st century." WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

Outside of the Presidential debate right now:

How many times can they talk about "the war in Gaza" without mentioning Israel's recent bombing of the refugee tents in al-Mawasi? 🤔 absolutely fucking demonic

Such an insidious statement by the talking heads. "Violent crime is almost unilaterally down, but Americans *see* crime on tv and are *feeling* afraid, so it's an important issue for candidates to be tough on crime." YOU ARE THE ONES MAKING AMERICANS AFRAID.

Putting on the debate to motivate cleaning my apartment since I hate everything happening on the fucking screen.