The Birdbassador

enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow

[The Birdbassador @Birdbassador]

the Tao that can be tweeted is sure as hell not the eternal Tao

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Making a second brief return to twitter to report that @TBQuarterly sent me a (very nice!) rejection letter for a poem I wrote about tacos, which I am using as permission to just throw the thing on Medium along with several paragraphs of commentary https://t.co/MKq9mJIubQ

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Does this mean I get to write a “why I’m leaving not-quite-academia” blog post, is that a genre already

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Briefly back on twitter to say that I got laid off, so let me know if you know anybody who is interested in the stuff I do enough to pay me for it

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@BUSSCRO is the number of truffles found inclusive of the ones eaten during the competition? what’s the margin of victory “on the books”: 12-8? 11-5? or do you get partial credit for truffles found but then observed having eaten? apologies if this is covered elsewhere

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@sh44sti https://t.co/QE8ewDX436

[Grant Howitt @gshowitt]

Please enjoy FUCKED UP LITTLE MAN, a Dark Souls fan RPG where you play the weird NPCs who go "heh heh heh heh" at the end of every exchange. PDF and text-only version: https://t.co/bjb5SqvMDc

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@Brakeman90 @Monster_Anatomy It was the one chain we never went to since my great aunt went to one at bit into a bullet in her sandwich

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@jkohlmann trying to find that essay that made the comparison of the form "just like we look back at the 1910s with their radium patent medicines and think they were nuts for not regulating that poison, in the future they will similarly think we were nuts to use the internet like we do"

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@paynushaver the grocery store had already started emptying candy from the “seasonal” aisle and putting full price christmas stuff in it on the 30th. we live in a world where even the smallest wins are taken from us

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had a dream that i submitted something so bad that they gave me a video of looping stock footage of sharks with the words “CAN’T WRITE” prominently displayed that i was (legally?) obligated to prepend to all future writing

mockup attached

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@JessicaHullman @sharoz I am half-tempted to make a “here’s what Steve is talking about with within-subject stats in VIS papers” RMD page somewhere because I think it’s an important issue (and base R doesn’t make it as trivial to do as you’d hope) that both I and others have screwed up periodically

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@yelperalp Welcome To The Data Visualization Web Ring [Previous][Next][Random][List Sites]

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if and when this website dies i will just retreat down a strata or two to earlier websites. see you all on the something awful forums to discuss the plot progress of keenspot webcomics and uk twee/anorak. failing that, my aim screenname is also available on request

[WWWTXT (1980-94) @wwwtxt]

We are permanently logged out of cyber heaven. ☯90DEC

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@DownPedestrian One day you heard somebody’s door closing sound and never again heard their door opening sound…

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@AsMirry It is still wild to me that we’ve made a system where so much of our self-worth and professional prospects depend on whether we can get a small set of grumpy strangers to agree that we did a good enough job writing things down

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Why do conferences/journals sometimes ask reviewers for a novelty/originality score? The only thing it does is create bad incentive structures. Reject work if it’s plagiarized, sure, but why on earth should a reviewer care about “originality” beyond that?

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@AsMirry I was considering just copy pasting something snippy in every review but that might not be the most worthwhile or helpful strategy. I went with “tweeting into the void” as a way to express displeasure without adding even more annoyances to everybody’s plate.

[🐦 Ferris @FerrisTheToucan]

BREAKING NEWS. TOUCANS CAN LOAF.

HE IS OFFICIALLY:
BANANA BREAD

[Alex Berryman @AlexJB497]

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr).

https://t.co/Q3vemnrKaF