tHe MeRcAtOr PrOjEcTiOn Is BaD bEcAuSe It DiStOrTs ArEa

idk how everyone else is coping with the, everything, but I've already read 11 novels this year so I'm doing, great,

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

🚨 emergency Noodle 🚨

math so hard guys wtf

Please for all of you with cats I need you to snuggle them for me and whisper in their ear “I love you, you little shit”

me: I love math co-star:

I'm still mad about this

Live-streaming the horrors

Early morning Emergency kitten

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

congratulations and/or condolences on the sports

jupiter has too many moons. His Greed sickens me

Body: you must rest Brain: you must rest but you must feel terrible about it Society: you may never rest and must continue to cognitively decline until you are a husk who can't work, only THEN can you die.

I'm sorry babies but I've gotta insist upon the bothering. Also we have names! Sonnet (ginger) Cadence (black) Melody (lighter tortie) Harmony (darker tortie) Music themed!

The baby is just such a BABY

my students don't appreciate the fundamental theorem of calculus nearly enough

I see the ICE just got onto Bluesky and was immediately put on the "literal fascists" block list. LOLOLOL

Emergency kitten (if I’m doing it nearly daily is it still emergency?)

help I'm in love with composition algebras

The other day at a nearby patch I caught some movement that was a Groove-billed Ani. This time I didn’t hear its striking call. Turned out there were 2 deep in the tree cover. #CorpusChristiTx #Birds

me: please see attached, thanks 😊 also me: does not attach anything

sleep paralysis demon

If you have not heard from someone in several days, they might have the flu. This is also my reminder to mask again whenever you are indoors, set your air purifiers on medium (they are useless when off), get vaccinated, and wash your hands after taking the subway.

Soup. Soup. Soup. Soup.

ok so the bad news is that I definitely failed prelims. the good news is that I'm FREEEE (after June)

my hands are simply not functional today

3D weaving . Just testing..

Remain ungovernable

still thinking about the problem on the analysis prelim that was very nearly dini's theorem but swapped a monotone sequence of functions with a sequence of monotone functions of course I did not realize this while actually taking the exam, no,

Tell your gluten free friends there's gluten free Cheez-Itz now. They already know but it'll give them an opportunity to talk about how they're a light in the darkness in these trying times.

Mathematician Ruth Moufang, known for extending Hilbert's axioms for plane geometry to projective geometry, was born #OTD in 1905. The Nazis dismissed her from teaching, but she later became the first woman officially titled as professor of mathematics in Germany. 🧪 👩‍🔬

it's important to keep your noodles stored properly in the pantry

reminding myself there is good in the world and it is right here

Some of us have been trying to explain to some of y'all for like, forever, that armed agents of the state do not make communities safer. Defund the police was the compromise position.

hey quick question why is it called nonassociative algebra and not disassociative algebra

logging off until after prelims next week 🫡 here's Noodle and Panini to hold you over

You're pivoting to video. I'm pivoting to sleep. We are not the same.

can you believe this

send me the silliest pic(s) of your cat pls

I want to be thinking about how to construct semi-direct products but instead. parenting

hm, I didn't order this

I had to add "put on socks" to my to-do list so I wouldn't just sit around all day in a cold-feet-induced stupor and other tales of neurodivergence

cleaning the living room ✔️ breaking down all the cardboard recycling ✔️ washing the dishes ✔️ doing the laundry ✔️ reading half a book ✔️ wiping down the kitchen counters ✔️ studying for prelims ❌

We are now entering the weird liminal space between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Anything could happen during this time. You could feel weirdly nostalgic, you could see a photo of a cat, you could remember to feed your Neopets. The possibilities are endless.

Tofu simply needs her comfort feengy

in the latter half of the 2020s there are 500 people on earth who make a living as a journalist, 482 of whom are paid by billionaires to say black people are bad. there are 15 academic job openings. there are no creative jobs. the gestapo is trying to fill 15 million positions

The Christmas tree is growling… Baby cats! We do not rumpus in the SEASONALS