Dr Jess, PhD

Have been saying this at work as the whole place gives in to AI as “inevitable”

That music class is still being offered. It’s actually called Music in American Cultures

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college:

1. Intro Czech
2. African-American Art History
3. Physics for Poets
4. Mixed-media Art
5. Intro to American Music

There was a lot of art in my liberal arts education.

*potato chips! Edit button, where art thou?

Toronto comfort foods: Covered Bridge potatoes chips and Jamaican patties

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Baseball is mostly about failing more often than not and shaking it off. It’s why it’s the best sport for teaching you how to live

I read the first bit and I am already hooked!

Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Yes! I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and found it fascinating.

I believe that’s called heat stroke. Hydrate!

If it weren’t 92 degrees with humidity here, I too would be on yet another mental health walk. I appreciate your reminders that we’re all suffering in this together

Absolutely justified

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—

—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

In the meantime, I’d say you should come visit me in Canada but getting back in to the US might pose its own problems. It’s so upsetting to type these words

I get that folks might want to replicate the primarily visual experience of instagram, but I think it’s worth exploring what a mix of text and visual content looks like. I like your thoughts as much as I like your images!

Oh to be a fly on the wall of your mom’s ceramics class

How can I comment if I don’t know your handle there!?!

I was aware of the screenshotted person, but not of anyone else in particular. Who are some of the sources you find most credible?

Never more true

If you were a local in So Cal, you had a Thomas Guide in the car at all times to help you find that exact venue in Irvine.

I’m also a fan of One Pan, Two Plates: Vegetarian Suppers: More Than 70 Weeknight Meals for Two by Carla Snyder

Joe Yonan’s
Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook has lots of easy recipes with interesting flavours

Oh hi fellow lover of sunny reality tv! Let’s be friends!

Maybe his name is Serge-François

Exactly my type. I suspect you’d strike gold with that ad.

Now with AI!

In the early 00s, drove 4+ hours across a border to see Mirah and Dear Nora at Bard College only to be greeted by hand-written sign: “Mirah cancelled forever and ever”

I think about this with AI being pushed as the answer to every problem. It isn’t labour-saving, it just reshuffles the work slightly differently

This is exactly how I’ve used it. Another way to game my ADHD brain into doing the work when my worst effort beats generative AI dreck