Cool news! A network of smart people in my part of Canada won a huge grant to set up a global environmental humanities network for critical perspectives on climate politics and sustainability. We'll be recruiting a PhD student at Trent soon with a nice pot of funding :)

https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/competition-results/award-recipients/2025/partnership-grants.aspx

Hit me up if you're looking for a debt-free PhD and are into getting real weird about the UNFCCC/COP process...

Utterly stumped by this #manhole cover. Definitely communications, it kind of looks like a rotary dial with an “N” in the center? Seen in Philadelphia.

vanity 

Ramsey's co-op has a 22 year old summer (paid) intern who told Ramsey "bro you pulled!!" after meeting me, so that's pretty good for my ego

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Networks of New York layouts in progress, having a lot of fun with this but need to decide how consistently to apply the collage-y textures alongside more flat color bars

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Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME?

I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods– sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdftElon4WlIBZzSvZwf_af695kBFaLc1km9MvUf-tZWNuMyQ/viewform

sorry but is the head of FIFA basically named Johnny Baby in a caricature of an Italian accent

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weather, moderate lewd 

heat wave means the most comfortable outfit at my disposal just looks really slutty, a burden I must bear

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"eggs don't lay eggs" well not with that attitude they don't

part of the problem is that my expectations of my future in academia are so fucking low that it feels very "to what end" to even bother with getting journal articles published, like basically I have to do this for love of the game and the game sucks

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got back peer reviews on what I knew was a sloppy journal article submission and mostly feeling like "yeah, fair" but also ugh, revisions

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