Andromeda Yelton

I saw the best legs of my generation destroyed by madness
Starving, vast, trunkless
dragging themselves through the lone and level sands at dawn
looking for a sneer of cold command

so my friend asked me to help him get to the Halloween parade

It's SO BAD (and also, like, genuinely hard to see where the edges of things are??? people are gonna trip and hurt themselves so much in that bathroom)

There's a new-ish Vietnamese coffeehouse in Ball Square so that is my default banh mi because it is extremely convenient. I don't much like the special one but I do like the grilled pork one a lot.

I hope that somewhere @sandimetz.bsky.social felt an inexplicable smile, because I just replaced conditional with polymorphism 🎉

“some men just want to watch the world burn” have we told those men about the Sun ??

I am a strength athlete but I feel so much better if I run and this is EXTREMELY RUDE

I wonder if bakeries that advertise their wares online get people commenting "Paywall!" after they go into the bakery and see that the tasty croissant someone posted a photo of actually costs money.

current mood: looking through open enrollment fine print, which appears to be saying that something we need both IS and IS NOT covered by this year's benefits

fuck it, imma go get banh mi

Libraries require vendor transparency. As a best practice, I like to meet with a vendor before I sign my library up for services. And this brings me to Amazon Library Services. 1. The website… | Jenn... Libraries require vendor transparency. As a best practice, I like to meet with a vendor before I sign my library up for services. And this brings me to Amazon Library Services. 1. The website https:/...

📚 I tried to contact someone, anyone, at Amazon Library Services. It did not go well.

They're calling him the most French man in history

When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time.

What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.

you ever think about how Nael is, like, 15 now?

I'm teaching my disaster film course again in the spring, and I'm tempted to assign this as their final project.

Create a sequel to San Andreas about the recovery. Create a prequel to Sharknado showing the attempted mitigation efforts, etc. etc.

Disaster movies about response are so boring.

...i'm so jealous of everyone who gets to take this class

ok but does andrew mountbatten-windsor have to pay for his own Netflix now too

@sunsamahq.bsky.social omg! I see you just added a toggle to allow task scheduling during meetings -- this is HUGE for me, thanks. (I have a lot of things on my calendar that are pure calendar blockers, or optional things I might not go to, which has been making it hard to leverage sunsama.)

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

I have been SHOCKED at how useful they are. We have half a south-facing roof in Somerville (a standard two-family; we split the array with our neighbor) and we also just don't have electrical bills in the summer any more. I'd assumed they wouldn't be so helpful in New England. And yet!

Daaamn. I remember having to swear that I wasn't changing my name for fraudulent purposes, but it seemed like SUCH a pro forma part of the process. A judge actually using that lever...whew

Evergreen: on when people in conversations (especially online) say that they're playing devil's advocate, or claim they're doing Socratic questioning:

harihareswara.net/posts/2019/s...

or respond to essays, lists, montages, etc. with "you left out [thing]":

harihareswara.net/posts/2019/h...

Due to an overwhelming amount of Nonsense going on in the US farm sector, I am in need of a half-time to full-time video editor

Anybody know someone who is 1) real good at it and 2) not heinously overemployed already?

i've been the monkey anxiety bitch for TEN YEARS

We Feed Us THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN HAS THREATENED NOVEMBER'S SNAP BENEFITS IMPACTING HUNDREDS OF SPS STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. EACH SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICTIS RAISING MONEY TO OFFSET THIS LOSS. TOGETHER WE CAN HELP. Take care of your neighborhood. bowmarketsomerville.com/wefeedus

Hundreds of Somerville families are set to be impacted by the SNAP shutdown. Every school in Somerville has put together a fundraiser in record time and are collecting grocery store gift cards and money to buy more gift cards. If you’re able to help, please pick up a couple gift cards...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Judge to unseal more than 100 documents in Epstein-related civil suit against JPMorgan Chase U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff agreed to release the documents at the request of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

PRINCE ANDREW HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS TITLES AND EVICTED FROM ROYAL LODGE.

In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...

And like maybe they’d feed you??

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited.

Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell.

Get one: SquidFacts.net

"Why can't Kat talk to Tara if she's innocent?"

Let me tell you a brief true story.

A while back I represented an elderly woman who had been stopped by cops. The cops decided to search her car, and Old Lady consented. She accidentally stepped on a cop's foot getting out of the car.

running for president and my platform is that we should have a large, funny government