one time I came home crying after a really bad lab in college and my roommates cat walked up to me and sat on me and purred for the first and only time

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

Zohran Mamdani did to Trump through sheer charm what it took Elon Musk a thousand engineers to do to Grok

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

teaching/reteaching myself some math for my physics class and some stuff I gotta Google to check if I'm remembering it correctly. the ai automatic response is sometimes egregiously wrong, which makes it completely useless, and yet it's always there

I start grad school on Wednesday

have Billy Corgan and Mike Wazowski ever been seen in the same room? 🧐

I met God in a perfectly ripe mango

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

🤢

investing in my future (simmering a chicken pho broth)

You already know the answer is yes

🌸 Ravens in bloom

My hot take is that nobody would argue about if e-books or audio books really count as "reading" if everybody involved in the argument didn't see "reading" as a moral virtue as opposed to just a thing you can do like sitting down or folding clothes

Nice!!

Slight edit: Nazi porn bar

wait I just realized are there robins on the skirt??

just watched ginger snaps....the incestuous bellybutton sex scene is a bold choice

Stomatitis mention!! this is Shark, he got fully untoothed at age 5 and at age 12 he's still living well.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

how to explain to the cat that his chance of getting kicked all night long would drop 85% if he stopped sleeping on top of my feet and legs

finally. an app to give me my updates on WinCo foods and trance music

I'm also 5'10" and the tallest person in my family 🥲 all the men I've dated have been the exact same height as me. I have a little pep talk I give them about it 😅

beginning to have violent cravings to make pottery

but they do! via digestion and immune protection

almost heaven.......pork bulgogi

this tea has so much bergamot in it it tastes a little bit like Windex. pit claims the lead 😭