Dr. Fade

I'm not sure I'm any healthier today than yesterday, but I've dragged myself to work regardless. I hate teaching while masked (and doubly so when my voice is this rough), but we're all gonna cope. Thank god for Mucinex and a big aur purifier, right? So much work to catch up. Ugh.

Time for the next session of this! Hooray for startling discomfort with no guarantee of success! Wait. What do you MEAN I've just described the human condition???

While this is a scientifically-backed procedure, I have also been advised to take a specific supplement that some research has shown has positive benefits. As it's a mad weird supplement, however, no Normal website sells it, so ive just sent £65 to a site called something like "nature's casserole"

This is a good point. I got death threats from Hindu nationalists for writing a history article on my website explaining that Hindi was an Indo-European language. They messaged the president of my university and various other admins, trying to get me fired.

“Put the pronouns back in the bio, Chad, there’s a mob coming down the street with pitchforks and Costco sangria.”

this is a personal favorite of my own contributions in the genre

Long shot, but does anyone out there still remember a discontinued Kerastase hair oil called Oleo-Relax Discipline, or something like it? It came in a deep orange bottle and smelled like faint sharp roses and I can't find anywhere that still has it and will sell it to me. Halp?

I run a science communication consulting business. I built it on Twitter. Since Musk took over, it’s been professionally unusable and unpleasant. Getting off of there has been an easy ethical and professional choice.

Fun fact: if you stand right outside the gates of Hell, you can hear Christopher Columbus. He didn't discover that place, either. But he sounds like he's learning a lot.

Dr. Nyaiza, Pfizer pharmaceuticals’ Japanese mascot, is a blue cat who searches for unknown discoveries with a P on his right ear.

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

Well that puppetry class was bloody lovely. Really nice to be in a room full of people doing slightly daft things to make something happen. Also humans are FASCINATING. Like, stick a couple of eyes on a thing and make it move with some sticks and BOOM, that's a little guy right there.

Hey, lawyers, is it good when the judge opens proceedings by channeling Queen Victoria?

Still sick. I prepped for this Friday, so there was a sub arranged and worksheets printed and PTO requested before I left work that day. Teaching being what it is, I'm probably still gonna spend half of today on grading & paperwork. But not talking! Not talking is important, for recovery purposes.

Gonna spend the evening texting my spouse "Gondor calls for aid!" every time my tea mug is empty.

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

It’s been such an honor to work on this story for the past 5 months. A young Norwegian, Steffen, was trying to cross Canada on foot and with sled dogs. His dogs survived; tragically, he did not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tired: These Fools Are Voting Against Their Own Interests! Wired: Or maybe, just maybe, the idea that anyone "acts against their own interests" comes from a flawed & naive view of what people's interests actually are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It’s amazing how many people are merely simulating being literate.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Applicant, who is a character from a Hideo Kojima game: This is Job Gapsman, he's an expert in Computational Vertices, or CVs. To EXAMINE a CV, press the Triangle button.

My husband did his graduate thesis building a LLM for emergency services that he hand-trained on public tweets posted during Hurricane Irma. He found that there was a marked period of "oh no the storm is an imminent threat" followed by a separate distinct "shitposting is my new god now" phase.

I.continue to be sick, but at least I'm making some nice new residences in Pokopia.

grateful I had the foresight to marry a “I’d rather make toast with a Bic lighter than own a toaster with a touchscreen” software engineer, and not a “honey the new microwave records us constantly and has access to all our banking information, isn’t that great” software engineer

One of the lessons of Athens must be that democracies can inflict atrocities just as well as autocracies. Our democracy does not make us moral; we must make moral our democracy.