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@mastodong of course it's just sometimes you want to listen to mp3s you copied from CDs in 2007 also

no I don't want to subscribe to a service, I just want to own and listen to MP3s, literally the functionality that made smart phones cool

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: essentially ballet, Barbie cunt, shovel, only the unintentional, ongoing negotiation, obscured detail, the horse with the funniest name, tragic or trivial

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: essentially ballet, Barbie cunt, shovel, only the unintentional, ongoing negotiation, obscured detail, the horse with the funniest name, tragic or trivial

if you saw an aurora no you didn't, don't snitch on the sun doing geomagnetic crimes

Still thinking about I Saw The TV Glow, glad some casting director saw Detective Pikachu and said "I bet that Justice Smith guy has a primal scream in him"

Ramsey has decided that the white people appropriated version of yoga is basically Pokemon and unfortunately he has a point

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Ramsey called me a "level 3 yoga bitch" this morning please respect my privacy in this time

I have questions for the guy on the A train with a t shirt that says "JP Morgan Chase Data for Good"

Yes, this shirt is paired with a Patagonia jacket

Love the Amtrak conductor who asked the lady taking the train all the way to Springfield VA if she had snacks and said "that's what I'm talking about" when she said yes, thank you for affirming snacks sir

For the second time in my life yesterday I saw Björk walking around Brooklyn Bridge Park, treating this as a good omen

There are many things to be annoyed by with the Pulitzer Prizes AND ALSO it is very gross that savior porn Cobalt Red was a finalist for nonfiction!!

anyway tonight's the last class of the semester and i'm very happy to have worked with these extremely weird young people

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one of my students texted me to let me know they're not feeling well (giving them my number was probably a mistake) but also on my offhand recommendation they looked into actor network theory and deemed it "cool stuff"

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: lest this become, things simply happen, drop everything, just the crimes, a sudden mineralization, confection prevails, petulantly trivial, David Cross, a palpable quality

we're reading Vibrant Matter in my grad seminar and I just sent everyone a clip of Julio Torres' My Favorite Shapes as "a related lecture"

“NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Manhattan DA’s Office Confirms”: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/
Also note this: “Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred.” In other words, the officer had their gun drawnfor no reason and used flash-bangs when that would not be normal for this sort of situation. It is lucky that no one was killed. (It's probably also why the NYPD wanted no journalists or legal observers present.)

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.