A. Fresnel

Prog Metal loves Phrygian and it became my default mode in college.

As a resident of Cuyahoga county I'd like to file an objection. The river is reserved for our own local refuse.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

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Black puppy in a blue chair holding a little two bone between his feet

Emergency puppy photo

Is he related to the decapitated people with helicopter blades guy?

One time I got Laurel K. Hamilton to like my tweet bitching about my tinnitus and I pretend that's some kind of dunk on them.

At this point I need to build a robot to point at this sign because I'm exhausted doing it myself.

I was a cosmic ray enthusiast and that's basically why I no longer work for a research institution. 😅

I think part of it is that the average American voter isn't a real person. Like that time they found the average measurements of pilots and made a flight suit that fit nobody, they've designed their entire strategy around a statistical phantom that doesn't even exist.

It's warmer than 45 F dog walk journal: Saw a red tail hawk and now I'm excited that I think it's nearly what I call "screeching season" and I'm hoping a Bird Person will see this skeet blowing in the wind and tell me what's actually going on.

A woodcut of an owl above the text "holy fuck my brain is tired"

I was surprised to learn that this is the all-time most popular Effin' Birds comic over the nine year run (so far).

Yeah, it's supposed to be in the 50s here today and tomorrow but then a high in the 20s on Sunday when my partner and I are going to a show downtown. 🙃

My mission for the trans community seeking a distraction from all the existential dread is to come up with a piece of insider trans slang argot that means "being equally proficient in buttoning up a shirt no matter which side the buttons are on".

If my civics classes in high school were any indication, we'll basically be telling kids that "we broke up the Bells in 1982 and solved capitalism so nothing bad will ever happen again" until the cyberpunk dystopia becomes an uninhabitable wasteland.

Being more politely excluded from society doesn't feel significantly better than being cruelly excluded from society.

Some rando: BUT IT'S POLITE AND THAT MEANS YOU CAN'T FEEL BAD ABOUT IT!

Praise the Fallen - YouTube

I'm mentally trying to put it somewhere into this album which helped me get through the Bush II administration. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

That's way more punchy than my "Ohio may be a shithole, but it's MY shithole!" hypothetical bumper sticker.

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I just bought a book from a library used book sale! It feels like it's going to fall apart any second, but that's part of the charm and it turns out it can be less that straightforward to find copies of debut out of print novels from 2006...

I want this to be the seal of a fort in Dwarf Fortress...

College was definitely not my "glory years" but holy fucking shit do I want my naive belief that "people like me" were going to be ascendant even though the medical establishment convinced me I wasn't trans because reasons and I was awkwardly straddling the closet doorway back.

Honestly the reason I may log off today is all the people in the replies just listing authors this post clearly isn't about.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

My baseline existential dread is probably like a 7/10 at this point.

But reading my students' posts is fun because they will inevitably drop one or more of my odd catchphrases at least once in a lab report by the end of a semester..

Yes!

I was basically told I had to be a straight high fem trans woman to get HRT back in the mid 2000s and informed consent basically saved my enby genderqueer life.

The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul 🧵

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