AC Carlson

In a few weeks (pending judge's approval) my legal name will be Arthur. It is a name that conjures a lot of images for people. King Arthur? Arthur Morgan? Arthur the aardvark? Arthur Augefort? We contain multitudes.

Message: “There’s also a fan art line where they have children.” Reply: “‘mpreg’ (male pregnancy) is a fanfiction trope that’s related to the omegaverse but isn’t a total overlap”

Having a friend who has genuinely never interacted with online and fandom spaces is one of the joys of these trying times. (I gave a presentation on omegaverse for their birthday a few years ago.)

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

A cool thing about the eye doctor saying that I need to do a warm eye compress 15 mins a day and should NOT miss a day is that for 15 mins a day I don’t feel guilty about not writing my dissertation!

Some of us are built different (laudatory).

Others are built different (derogatory).

I’m the latter but that’s ok

NADDPod Trinyvale x Strahd was so much fun! I just finished the last episode.

My glasses have cracked. It can’t just be Tuesday night with the level of ordeal this week has presented already.

Also literally yesterday I was at a work conference (in higher education) where the keynote speaker kept discussing weight for no reason and using fatness as the example of bad outcomes in life, which felt like a very ill omen. Coworkers agreed it was inappropriate and out of touch, at least.

I’ve felt a return to the assumption that “of course you’re trying to lose weight” even from physicians that weren’t that way a few years ago. Coworkers telling me unprompted how many lbs they/family members have lost and their specific weight goals also feels like a (bad) return to 10 years ago.

Trans men when you ask about childhood pictures

It is also just so telling listening to people like this talk and realizing that they are completely obsessed with weight. It is the lens through which they understand themselves and everyone around them. You do not need to compulsively mention the weight of everyone you discuss in a keynote speech!

And, truthfully, if you cannot see fat people as fully deserving of your respect, you do not genuinely care for students!

It is so incredibly disheartening when people who clearly are otherwise invested in supporting others and creating the best education possible for our students willfully and proudly maintain their hatred of fat people.

Listened to a speaker today at a work thing. The topic was the "loneliness epidemic," but he managed to make multiple comments about "obesity" in the course of his talk. He also told us his wife's BMI is "probably 22." I was fully losing it but I couldn't get up and leave.

"A life for a life, eh, Mr. Gibbons?" remains one of those all-time wild moments. It really defined Dimension 20 as a show.

Quick reminder that declarations of technological inevitability are declarations of power; they are intended to make individuals
feel like they don't have the power to refuse a technology. It's a narrative intended to produce a power effect pretending to be a descriptive statement.

Me, forgetting I was playing my "liked songs" playlist: oh, I like this song!

Between this and Prince Andrew, feeling a lot of jealousy for functioning legal systems today

I thought it was like 7:30 and I could make a nice late dinner. Turned out it was 9:30. Threw some broth, pearled couscous, red lentils, and frozen mixed veggies for a nice bowl of Hot Slop™️

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Actually the Luddite movement wasn't a blanket rejection of all technological advancements but fought specifically against automation that harmed workers for the sake of convenience. So when you think about it, it aligns almost perfectly with the modern day fight against AI, and maybe we should rec-

if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi

This is “Living the dream!” erasure

The biggest barriers to solving the climate crisis are political, not technological. We don't need an AI to help us because we already know what we need to do. We just lack the political will to do it.

(And one of those things we need to do is turn off AI data centers that run on fossil fuels.)

One thing about me is I’ll do my T shot in a rush when I’m half asleep and then I’ll be surprised when something goes a little awry

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy.

But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

I had thought about playing Balatro tonight but went for Dave the Diver instead. Imagine my surprise when I was suddenly playing Balatro in Dave the Diver

Contacted TikTok support to say the option to delete my account on browser didn’t work and I wanted to delete my account without downloading the app. Their reply? Please contact us through the app.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.