uh were any of you people who signed up to #threads actually paying attention to the onboarding flow?
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-28/ this week in sentences: gaping wounds, the only infirmity, scabrous, secret passages, methamphetamine armpit
ph, chest infection vibes
update: they gave me antibiotics on the off chance I actually have whooping cough? haha
ph, chest infection vibes
I've been sick with a not-covid hell virus for a little over a week and last night/this morning the coughing got so bad that I was coughing up mucus with little flecks of blood in it. Technically I am doing "better" insofar as I don't have a fever anymore but coughing up blood seems like a bad trajectory? I am so tired
If you want to hear from the person who broke the story about SCOTUS using a made up case to create a ruling in favor of anti-LGBTQIA bigotry, @melissagira will be on MSNBC in about an hour.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-27/ this week in sentences: odd souvenirs, rainbows, sufficient fortune, the world's story, on the other hand, the salad of hegemony, slime video
oh you believe in spirits? rituals? ancient gods? primitive, simple. not like me, the rational white man, who creates a person by filing some papers. this paper person I have created has more rights than women. I have fought for this.
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academia blah blah, complaining about writing
the good news is I'm adapting a chapter of my master's thesis as an article for a special issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, which mostly just gives me nerd points and if I finish my PhD fulfills a requirement of publishing something
the bad news is: writing, which is my job but also the worst thing anyone has ever done
do I know any labor historians on here who might be able to talk about this NLRB case for a podcast? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Fansteel_Metallurgical_Corp.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-26/ this week in sentences: precisely how, elbows, thin cream, never getting close, a spooky place, well-read