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Uspol, NYCpol, covid mention 

@float13 yeah it's a role largely beholden to real estate interests and the cops.

@TeamMidwest I mean if it's helping to promote your new business that makes sense, I'm talking about guys writing 7000 words on going from being a product manager at startup A to a product manager at startup B like it's a major life event

it is impossible to want to be Mayor of New York and not kind of suck, is what I'm saying

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Eric Adams is the worst but I do want to remind everyone that in the 2021 mayoral election our choices were him and the guy who literally runs a militia (and the primary options were pretty bad too!)

Someone told me that they thought it was a thing where people wanted to "get ahead of the story" but my brother in christ, Casey Newton isn't covering you becoming a product manager at Spotify no one cares

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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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