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today I learned that the inventor of penicillin originally called it "mould juice" when he was working on it in the lab

*to the tune of "Dragula"*

open the ice box
and go through its contents
and sorry but I must now
EAT THE PLUMS

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: the sexual outlaw, the eternity of print, mutual grievance, assuredly basic competence, growling old vagabond, new filigrees, various casinos

my advisor sent me a last round of comments and after telling me the thesis is excellent stated "It etched new filigrees in my rage" which, I'm sorry, that's a perfect sentence

unfortunately I know computer things 

I'm auditing a data science class this semester and I'm annoyed that I can tell that this instructor is rushing through a bunch of ML stuff which means I unfortunately know enough ML stuff to know what he's rushing, this sucks

academia 

got comments back on my thesis and while there's some stuff I need to revise I'm so glad I have such a smart and supportive advisor!!

@n1ckfg @courtney sure, do we actually think John Roberts would dare though, like he couldn't even bring consequences down on whoever leaked the overturning of Roe which for sure was done by a justice IMO

also, not the most important part but "Harlan Crow" would be a good name for like, Benoit Blanc's nemesis

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@courtney I think the trouble is that (elected) politicians can usually dress up bribes as "campaign contributions" or something and there's less plausible deniability when it's an appointed for life judge? maybe?

OK I'll admit, this Clarence Thomas news might be a bigger deal than the Barbie movie

having a lot of fun when people try to talk to me about the "big news" yesterday by assuming they mean the Barbie trailer dropping

thinking about that scene in Lady Bird where Timothee Chalamet tries to put Lady Bird's personal problems in perspective by talking about all the civilians killed in Iraq

@ingrid got that aqua song stuck in my head but "i'm a barbie girl / destroyer of worlds"

honestly am prepared to believe that the Barbie movie has better politics than Chris Nolan's Look At The Tortured Geniuses Who Built A Genocide Machine, So Hard To Be Them

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I know it's not intentionally opening the same day as Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer biopic but it's going to be hilarious if Oppenheimer gets obliterated at the box office by the Barbie movie

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