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what a time to have contributed to writing a research guide for critical study of logistics and supply chains (for an NEH grant of all things)

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: not lessons, third-tier bands, the only antidote, satisfied and mocking, Encounters Epistemology, she caught her breath, gemstones, shoe shop, beige ooze

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: instruments, personality, eight-thirty in the morning, the reigning, every shower curtain, a tumor, clowns, Absent God, sadder, like The Purge, breathless, Germans

Like as an adjunct I appreciate them letting me know before the announcement went out through the campus wide announcements, but how exactly do they think having a rejected applicant in the audience is going to go

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I can't believe that the TT job I got rejected for invited me to the job talks

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

Bye AAG, I had a terrible time and cried a lot because prior to and during the conference I had some absolutely terrible work shit go down. I feel bad I wasn't able to be cool and fun and present. But I'm going home early so I can deal with my shit and not bring it to the conference.

Getting a lot of laughs IRL explaining my bad academia situation with the line "to be fair it was my mistake trusting a white woman"

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: filth, plumbing snake, Paris traffic, baby-shit soft, two topics, inconveniently shaped, shields, pigmenting, field intoxication, several sizes, now-gone, risk, movies, fertile ground

Maybe the meanest thought I've had about another person 

Absolutely not a proportional response on my part, to be clear, I contain a darkness that poisons all it touches

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Maybe the meanest thought I've had about another person 

"I hope her son grows up to be an incel and she has to spend the rest of her life wondering what she did wrong"

Revisionist history is bad but the Cole Escola play "Oh, Mary!" is good

PSA - I'm working on some some online courses that I'll be launching very soon, skilling up folk (incl from less technical backgrounds) to deploy, maintain and grow low-cost sovereign server infrastructure to keep their communities safe.

Friend is researching a book and wants to visit science labs in Canada, especially related to the physics, space, or climate fields. Any suggestions? cc @scr @_nadine

ebay.com/itm/205032335378 i'm not going to spend 94 dollars on a shirt but damn, this is such good dead company merch

Hate finding out, again, that there's no use trusting academics they'll always fuck up your situation

Food, duh 

Oh I'm crying because things are bad AND ALSO I haven't eaten today

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Horsin' Around

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