Shaw P

Glasses are so unserious you’re telling me I have to bend the light again because my eyes are dumb

We used to poke each other on FB like they were streaks on Snapchat. (Layered outdated analogy here.)

If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.

Yeah the Nazi bots are getting even worse over on Twitter (even with me having blocked over 10k accounts). So still Tumblr vibes over here?

Anyone still poking each other on FB?

Just had old man flashback to my brother and mom having cellphones with long range walkie-talkie capabilities so they didn’t have to use minutes if close enough to each other.

Still thrown off from booking this Chinese band years ago, but then they came to play and were a bunch of white guy expats who teach in China and come back to tour through the U.S. every summer.

Where is everyone getting these advanced unproofed copies of novels that fill my nearby little free libraries?

This "Florida Guantanamo" thing must be that excesses of the imperial periphery returning to its core that I've heard so much about

I think a lot of directors (and the rest of the cast and crew!) put a lot into their movies, but that video Coogler made explaining aspect ratios was tremendous PR for Sinners. I know people who went to see it purely because of that.

Why are so many retro and local gaming shops right wing coded?

Sorry it was bothering me. After “of” I meant to write Fleabag. Still haven’t seen how she meets the hot priest character.

I once accidentally started season two of on episode three and just assumed they’d really thrown us into the story.

Awe, as someone only lightly into Star Wars, I enjoyed the formation of the scrappy group and the Storm Troopers in a tropical setting.

The Endangered Species Act itself is already only a half measure/stop gap against the continued loss of diversity on our planet. Making it so “harm” only covers direct harm to animals and not their habitats is narrow thinking and dangerous.

Seven ChatGPT written finals and counting. I don't think anyone outside of academia really understands how big of an issue this is. We're about to be begin graduating generations of students who have offloaded the entire learning process of their degrees onto predictive algorithms.

Feels like watching a stage play (complimentary)

Serious question: what is going on with those academic press books, published even just a few years ago, that are like $100–new and used?

moratorium on making fun of any bad musicians who come out in support of Gaza

Before the greenhouse thing he was a tough, but engaging instructor. Kind of quirky. Collected roadkill to taxidermy in the back room. Maybe he had a breakdown. I don’t know; I was 12.

I don’t know why but I want to share a flashback I had to my middle school biology teacher who had us work in the school greenhouse for the entire spring semester. We didn’t learn a thing and then he sold all the plants at the local farmer’s market and we didn’t see a dime for our labor.

Niche complaint: I feel like number lock should be the default on a keyboard. I should press it to turn the numeric pad off, not the other way around.

Reading Pynchon is making me realize how factory navel gazing, uncharitable, flinching, and stagnant my MFA workshops were.

It took me until my 30s to finally watch The Godfather and even with all the buildup, reappraisals, spoilers, memes, and hype, it was flippin’ great.

Replacing the concept of diplomacy with “making deals” is predictable for this admin but still so incredibly stupid.

Wonderful, themed use of nesting parenthesis here! Bravo.

I’m old (and generally unaware of streaming personalities) and had never heard of ishowspeed until his recent travels in China. So, good marketing move I guess. Went there at a time when people are generally interested in China’s rise. Made me at least Wikipedia him.

There are so many books I need to cram read before my exams but whoops I just read Moby Dick again.

GenAI slop has killed my previous love of em dashes. RIP

“These trainings should take four hours.” No they’re going to take me a month of forgetting to click to the next slide while I’m busy working on something else and then them timing out and then me forgetting about them entirely until the next threatening email from HR.