@peatbog can be! i have friends who do that. i'm writing a book on the role of high finance in the development of modern venture capital in the US in the 1970s.
@jaykaydee thank you for encouraging my bad behavior ☺️
@owen i am a ✨delight✨
@Brucie i dont wanna!!!
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
@shannonmattern @RebeccaSpang came here to say what Rebecca said!
@ingrid YES
Bird death
@waldoj aaaaaaa fuck. can you fit a mesh screen on it? they're all looking for nesting nooks right now. i have two that keep trying to nest under my air conditioner (which seems less immediately fatal but also kind of bad)
@stupidmentalhealthwalks one of the horses on the campus farm had a surprise baby!! https://today.umd.edu/campus-farm-welcomes-unexpected-four-legged-friend
@stupidmentalhealthwalks I WENT ON A WALK AND SAW A BABY HORSE
@jaykaydee @Zittrain yep, it's Discord
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
@cvasilevski i miss the RPG campaign where my character was a nepobaby entrepreneur dwarf named Ken whose parents' wanted him to be a diplomat but ALL HE WANTED was a LIFE ON THE STAGE 🎭🎭🎭
mols sauter
he/they
politics/technology/capitalism
doctor of why vc was always a bad idea