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I'm going to be in DC this weekend

1. Adjust expectations of productivity.

2. Fighting for science now = more science we can all do later. So, fight!

3. Build community—every scientist is a friend now. We are in this together.

4. Do the science you can do, w/ the time & resources you have.

5. The wonders remain! Soak them in.

How to Be an Anti- capitalist in the 21st Century Erik Olin Wright "The rare book that can speak to both the faithful and the unconverted." -Guardian

Just finished. Fan-fucking-tastic! This is honestly just one of the most accessible books in this vein that analyzes the problems and has genuinely practicable solutions. It has aspects of horizontalist approaches which I quite appreciate. And it’s only 128 pages. Read it! 🤓

Sigh *puts on the hat*

[watching white lotus Thailand with my boyfriend]: that’s where Moo Deng lives

portents and wonders

"abolish ice" doesn't seem so extreme anymore, does it, you preposterous, normalizing fucks

VIII Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse. IX And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw – ‘I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!’

The Masque of Anarchy (1832)

-Percy Shelley

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...

From the linked website: “We find a more apocalyptic vision of the future in Robert Seymour’s 1820s The March of the Intellect, where a jolly automaton stomps across society. Its head is a literal stack of knowledge — tomes of history, philosophy, and mechanic manuals power two gas-lantern eyes. It wears secular London University as a crown. The machine smokes while crusading, blowing hot-air-balloon follies from a pipe bowl, carried on the breath of its menacing exhalation: “I Come I Come!!”. Wielding a straw broom, capped with the head of reformer Henry Brougham, it sweeps away all potential encumbrances. Gone are the pleas, pleadings, delayed parliamentary bills, and obsolete laws. Vicars, rectors, and quack doctors are turned on their heads. Like Frankenstein’s creature, birthed from a pick ‘n’ mix of exhumed organs and ossified science, the monster in this satirical cartoon is patchwork knowledge itself, practically applied and made widely available for the very first time.”

Looks like I found the cover image from my spring Reading AI grad course at UVA. That was from an 1820s series entitled the March of Intellect. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... “I come, I come!”

Dusk on Cubist Castle is a forgotten 90s psychedelic-pop masterpiece from independent music collective Olivia Tremor Control

This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive

her last articles were very bad but maybe this one will be good

failed state.

I'm looking for work in 2026. I think I will post about it sometimes and see what happens. Greater Boston or remote.

Literally the binder containing my study notes for my oral exams

Behold! My study binder for my oral exams in literature, which I took 20 years ago, and which I am now consulting as I prepare to teach this week. Precious, glorious, oral exam study binder!!!

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

Democracy by Leonard Cohen on Apple Music Song · 1992 · Duration 7:14

music.apple.com/us/album/dem...

failed state.

i'm ready

this is your periodic reminder that i still have no idea how this app works

hate having to wait until dusk for the owl of minerva to fly

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what kind of weird game is he playing with the bacon? you can just order egg and cheese with no bacon if thats what you want

cant stop the military coup because i changed the password for the nukes and forgot to write down the new one😔

awooo!

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"Freeway" Ross Douthat