When somebody poisons a conversation with stolen, contrary rhetoric, saying reparations or affirmative action are "racist," banning abortion is "feminism," terfing is "protecting women," or that scabs "are workers," a good way to handle it is to tell them to fuck off.
@lukeigel They’ve renamed themselves to Woop Garoo (the original name of the magazine from ~100 years ago). It’s still active, they just haven’t published a print issue in a few years
Maximalism’s Big Daddy. His novels, in which entropy reigns supreme, are dense and complex and uncover the murky and incongruous mechanics of life, but without providing a single answer. Authors like him only come once in a lifetime. Award the 2022 Nobel Prize to Thomas Pynchon.
I love Pynchon bc he’ll have a really serious chapter about some serious shit happening and then be like “Also there was a guy there named Sprite Zero”
A majority of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have signed cards in favor of unionizing, and the group asked the administration to voluntarily recognize the union. https://t.co/QIlSfOQWZe
Steven Weinberg, the 1979 Nobel laureate for physics, died today. A delightful companion who loved theater, he could recite the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins by heart, and wrote profoundly about the mysteries of creation. He loved life and left it reluctantly. He’ll be missed.
Dissected and trashed some local propaganda about Space X and the efforts to increase its appeal - it’s all bs don’t fall for it
Also add me on IG @breadythejay
@caffeinewarm I wrote twice to the UT Physics graduate coordinator last March because I hadn’t received a decision from them while my now-roommate got their decision from UT Physics in late Feb. They sent my financial letter a few days after the second email
@humidhollow I don’t believe there’s any wojak murals in EC last I checked, which was last year when they kicked everyone out. Dunno about random or BC
@KyleMorgenstein I got Platinum as an excuse to play through the Sinnoh region all over again. They also had a great soundtrack to boot, definitely peak Pokémon for me