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Honestly she's delightful but that kind of joie de vivre in this economy?

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Resisting the urge to ask this person I met at a friend's birthday whether her parents are rich

@beep I make my CS ethics students read it and it's so funny how mad they get about it

Trying to make peace with a sinking suspicion my dissertation has to get into the history and political economy of remote sensing

Politics shitpost 

American imperialism seeking deranged expansionist projects, an Italian assassinating a millionaire, people sincerely debating the merits of pasteurization

2020s really are giving 1890s

It's a minor gripe but I find it so annoying that Jesse Welles is making some of the best anti-capitalist folk ballads of the 21st century and the dude does not sell his music on Bandcamp, man I want to own your MP3s why must we do this

@sundogplanets I'm so sorry this is happening, lots of love and solidarity to you and your family

My mom had a cold over the weekend and on Monday her next door neighbor not only shoveled the show from her bit of sidewalk but also shoveled her stoop, knowing she has a bad knee and wasn't feeling well. Unasked!

I'm so glad she has a little community around her to lend a hand as she gets older

@ken so i'm thinking a Review of Arts and Letters and Numbers, the Numbers section is for explaining which numbers are good and which ones are bad

my most deranged cope in the face of all the media and platform complying in advance is "maybe I should do a print publication again"

politics, life 

@philnelson we bought a cheap but functional rowing machine during lockdown bc it fit under the couch but that also means it usually is forgotten under the couch, not today

politics, life 

Update: I was so stressed out this evening I actually exercised lol

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politics, life 

Ramsey is going back to Lebanon today to see family and for various timing and life reasons I am not coming with. I'm not that worried about shit going down in the next few days/before Trump's inaugurated, but also don't love the uncertainty of it all

My downstairs neighbor made getting back into playing the cello his 2024 resolution and it's so nice on this first 2025 Sunday afternoon to hear him practicing. He's gotten so good!

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: burning arrows, sharks on cocaine, whatever they distill, stultifying disappointment, cheap willow ware, sultry summer

US politics 

Feel like the culprit might have worked backwards from the image of a cyber truck on fire outside a Trump hotel

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