oddletters @oddletters@everything.happens.horse

turns out i never did an #introduction post: hi, i'm mols. i'm an academic working in the science and technology studies/comm studies/info studies space. i do work on the philosophy, theory, and history of digital technologies and "innovation economies." i used to write a lot about digital activism. i'm currently on book leave writing about the role of east coast financiers in the development of venture capital policy in the 1970s. you can find most of my work at oddletters.com

i not saying this would impact your decision to submit to this workshop but i _will_ be making a secret special sticker for it

i demand, on behalf of everyone, that reracking your plates count as its own exercise in your little exercise logging app

sometimes i think i want to watch serious films about ART and LIFE and PAIN and LOVE amd STUFF and then it turns out what i want to watch is an anime about a polar bear who runs a cafe

we have extended the deadline for our #sts + #commscholars flavored TECH/MONEY workshop! new deadline is Feb 6! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl_ZmZE44_IbVP1bFtJZX-hQffaRkkufwqF7cYgPiysUsAGw/viewform

well well well, if it isnt the consequences of my own actions (being sore and starving)

i've been out of the gym since november due to conference + holiday travel and then covid, but last week i hit a new squat pr (150lbs!) and today i deadlifted 175lbs, which is 5 off my last pr!

my new favorite thing to do at dinner parties is when someone turns to me and asks "so what are you a professor of," i smile real wide and say GUESS because 1) i'm an asshole and 2) they know that i know that they were going to say "gender studies" but now they're definitely not going to say that at all

🎶 finance historians ain't easy to love 🎶

mothers dont let your babies grow up to write finance history books

drink some more coffee about your anxiety, mols, that'll fix it

: screams in chapter revision anxiety :

i want a version of M3GAN where every time someone says the name "Megan" it is replaced with someone saying "mmmmmmTHREEgan!!"

g*orge s*ntos's whole tie/sweater/blazer combo is actually batshit and always has been and perhaps should have tipped everyone off sooner

starting off the lunar new year right: reading Kate Beaton's DUCKS and then having a good hard lay down on the floor about it

are you an #sts or comms scholar who is interested in how money works in the high tech space? are you going to ICA or are you already in Toronto? you should submit to my coincidentally co-located not-an-official-pre-conference workshop on TECH/MONEY! find the CFP and submission form here and please share with folks who might be interested: https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9

: opens can of fediverse worms, shouts into it : can someone explain the difference between mentions and DMs to me bc i have things in my DMs tab on tusky that look like mentions to me

ok, im on a new app now that lets me mute conversations but damn having a post go big here is unpleasant in a way that having a post go big in the other place never really was for me.