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remember that era where people posted on Medium about taking a new job or leaving their current job and the posts would be longer than like, those meandering recipe blog posts

people really weren't okay, huh

thesis updates 

the revised version is turned in, now I just have to write the defense talk lol

@molly0xfff the pipeline from decade-old conceptual art project to startup remains unfortunately strong (not precisely the same, but close enough IMO) lauren-mccarthy.com/Social-Tur

thesis updates 

33,910 words after revisions and with footnotes LOL

@nach just some academic, it's not important just I think over the last five years he's followed and unfollowed me several times

twitter and academia jokes 

always have a little chuckle every time Siva Vaidynathan re-follows me, like "buddy I think you don't like my tweets, how does this keep happening"

celebs who I constantly think of as a single person 

@cour13r5 one is a piano man and one is a rocket man

celebs who I constantly think of as a single person 

no no no, Brie Larson was in the Michael Cera movie I didn't watch and Allison Brie was on the TV show I didn't watch

yoga shitpost 

yesterday's unhinged but mostly just made me feel old yoga class playlist choice: most of the Belle and Sebastian album "Tigermilk"

brain melting during thesis revisions 

@migurski I think he's a little harsh on the Marxists but it's very good to know that a fundamental phrasing of a key concept of modernity was originally written as a shitpost

brain melting during thesis revisions 

oh no, she's in Google Books looking at every 19th century use of the phrase "annihilation of time and space"

you were probably
saving them for breakfast
forgive me they were so
SWEET AND COLD

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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

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