9 years ago today, I was walking the Kali Gandaki on a cool spring day in the Himalayas. I should have stayed there.

This is your doom-scrolling checkpoint. Stop for a moment and remember joy before you continue.

9 years ago today, I was walking the Kali Gandaki on a cool spring day in the Himalayas. I should have stayed there.

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

They’re attacking Iran because they want to, and not for any other reason. But they don’t even know why they want to.

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”. I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

40 little girls had to die for this. These are exactly the men who will burn the world for the insult of ever having been told 'no.'

I was warned. I was not prepared.

“The purpose of a system is what it does”

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

I have just encountered my first, uh, snow boiler.

1. Don't go to college then. 2. We'll be abandoning online platforms if this is the case. Back to in-person handwritten exams with a significant amount of face-to-face oral exams. Nothing written on a computer without complete oversight will be admissible. Is this what you want?

The totals are in. 13.5 inches of snow for Woburn. Our poor snowblower actually got hung up on the end of the driveway due to a 5 foot drift. But we're out now. Exhausted, but the cars are free once more.

Oral exams and live presentations are making a comeback in college classrooms. Instead of trying futilely to figure out if AI has been used, professors are redesigning assessments so students must defend their own thinking and reasoning. buff.ly/u6lqgrS

Well, Carter of the North seems to be enjoying himself at least.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved white out.

Yet another winter storm is on its way to New England. How about curling up with a bunch of erstwhile witches, a weird folklorist, fae shenanigans, and an evil unicorn bent on destroying the world? shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...

Universe? Why you do me like this?

Well, this is really going to mess up my week, isn't it?

Oh, excellent. We've reached the "Ask the College's official AI chatbot if this student used AI to write their essay" stage of technology adoption.

This is bad. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Hedge fund with a course catalogue.

Faith can dedicate her thesis to whoever she wants. Her boyfriend, her cat, her favorite pair of socks... But anyone in my academic sphere who refers to themselves as a "pseudo father figure" is getting the ignominious honor of going into my dedication....as a problem I had to overcome.

Yet another winter storm is on its way to New England. How about curling up with a bunch of erstwhile witches, a weird folklorist, fae shenanigans, and an evil unicorn bent on destroying the world? shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...

My newest large pen and ink titled "Fall." Happy to be drawing again and just observing the process for awhile.

My current pen and ink series: "Hand Waves" "Whale Below" and "Fall"

I bet you did not read the whole story and so you missed this amazing picture of some of the astonishing baskets created by Spencer Lunham Jr. of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, northwest of London. Ontario / #ldnont. Just look at these beauties...

My current pen and ink series: "Hand Waves" "Whale Below" and "Fall"

San Diego had held a city council meeting to hear public concerns. Overwhelmingly, citizens called for an end to the contract with Flock, but they were ignored. Weeks later, the smashed Flock cameras turned up in the street. Next time, listen.

My newest large pen and ink titled "Fall." Happy to be drawing again and just observing the process for awhile.

The map of Auschwitz-Birkenau....

I even have some suggestions!

I think Carter wants something.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Well, happy new moon, Mubarak Ramadan, Mardi Gras, New Year of the Horse, and like everything else right now that's on fire.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This is your affirmative reminder for today that the world need not be as it is. It can be different.

Want to know how to get into the good graces of the rich and powerful? Just tell them that their riches and power is part of a Divine Natural Order and definitely not unearned systemic privilege.

If, for any reason, this happens to me. I want you all to burn it. Scour the impostor from the system. No doppelgänger who wears my face shall be allowed to live.

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I can’t think of any academic book I’ve read in the last decade that has lodged in my brain the way the Addiction by Design has. It’s such an important text for understanding so much about the digital age.

**Looks up from third novel's tattered and taped up manuscript, eye twitching, hair in disarray** I....I think I'll go work on my Kali sculpture for awhile.....yes......**twitch**