Lindsey

[Lindsey @lindsey]

Sprinkles in particular needs medical care several times a day, for now. It was intimidating at first, but Alex and I can now handle it with pit-crew-like efficiency.

I'm already in love with them both.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

haven't been posting Rainbow pics because she's mostly unphotographable, but she's doing great and has gotten noticeably bigger since we brought her home from the shelter a week ago

[Lindsey @lindsey]

As of yesterday, Rainbow and Sprinkles have both had their spay surgeries, and we've officially adopted them (this was a foster-to-adopt arrangement). They came to the shelter as strays, and both had other health issues that we're dealing with, though both are now improving.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@samth @alexrudnick Or, uh, increasingly little.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

Twitter has its problems -- @alexrudnick calls reading Twitter "pressing the pain button" -- but it's been my memex for ten years, and once I got a good chunk of research funding largely because someone appreciated a joke I made on here. It's a bummer to see it go down the tubes.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@samth @alexrudnick I also have decreasingly little stomach for implicitly supporting the people in charge at Twitter by continuing to provide free content for their platform.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

I recently learned that lenses are just getter/setter pairs. That's all they are. What else are y'all not telling me?

[Lindsey @lindsey]

Sylvia disapproves of the term "bus shelter" because "it doesn't even shelter the bus"

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@mat4nier Yep

[Lindsey @lindsey]

started reading the timely dataflow book 💗

[Lindsey @lindsey]

and to be clear, I genuinely *love* this bit from the timely dataflow book, but I was still incapable of stopping myself from making this and then sharing it with you

[Lindsey @lindsey]

started reading the timely dataflow book 💗

[California Federation of Labor Unions @CaliforniaLabor]

A massive strike authorization vote is taking place for 48,000 academic workers within the University of California.

The sheer scale of this vote’s impact is immense - around 10% of all postdoc workers in the USA are in the UC system.

[Lea @0x11eaea]

Would anyone in the Bay Area like a gorgeous Westinghouse console AM/FM radio/record player? Free to a good home — my family needs to clear it out of my dad’s childhood home in Marin ASAP.

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@jay0x442 @SreepathiPai Yep!

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

I'm looking for a PhD student interested in connecting classic techniques from linguistic syntax and compositional semantics with software specifications. I really want to dig into *both* the specification side of this (useful tools) *and* the linguistics...

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@csgordon I actually read it as "come [on a journey] with me", which seems appropriate!

[Lindsey @lindsey]

YES. I've been waiting for this dude to rebloom since 2018! Check out that lil flower spike!

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@gawm I was happy about how the lil one turned out, especially the hopeful eyebrows

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@AndrewCMyers (And thanks -- I'm now reading up on Condorcet voting!)

[Lindsey @lindsey]

my attempt to get the students to vote and choose the topic for my winter grad special topics course has ended in a four-way tie lol

[Lindsey @lindsey]

@AndrewCMyers Oh, cool! I think my students are probably experiencing voting fatigue since I already started a second poll, but I'll try out CIVS next time. Either that, or we'll just have to have a discussion and come to a consensus like proper anarchists.