TJ

Curious student, modest goddess, lover of human + computer languages | @ucsantabarbara

[TJ @generallytj]

why does south bay hate joy laughter and silliness

[naz ᓚᘏᗢ🌱 @enchantednaz]

she has 3 university degrees, she’s a businesswoman and ceo, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her), had kids in her mid 30s… he entire life is the result of feminism

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

ITS. A. PSYOP.

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

[vo @vanillaopinions]

speech has never been more free

[Lupin @lupinxart]

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise.

[Ranthony @ChiefTeef8]

Charlie Kirks murder being a much bigger national story and event than an actual democratic politician and her husband being assassinated seems foreboding

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

I just got my first de minimis bill for one of those tariffs that only foreign countries have to pay, according to Trump, Vance, Bessent, Lutnick, Greer, and Miran.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

The most dangerous way of thinking in your late 20s is that everyone seems to “settle” into their lives

i.e. what they do now is probably what they’ll do for the rest of their lives

They fall into their routines - not pursuing the things you’ve always wanted to do because you think it’s “too late”

If you want to do something extraordinary, you need to fight the urge to quit with every bone in your body because the world will be telling you to stop.

[Nuisance Likely @xX_lover_333_Xx]

clinically undepressed guy: im thinking of Beginning it all

[Ms.Criminister @Curryfidat]

Not to sound like an old wench but I cannot stand everything being digitized

[Janberk @KeremJanberk]

youre laughing?? this man is about to perform the first successful pokemon go-to the polls, and youre laughing?

[TJ @generallytj]

community colleges are genuinely so top tier

[Noorie @nooriefyi]

a local community college in PA offers this class meanwhile top CS programs are too focused on theory

then we wonder why new cs grads can't get jobs :)

[benjamin ar @bjamin_ar]

"asking for a friend" really is the one simple trick to avoid sycophancy from models

[Isaac French @isaacfrench_]

I designed & planted a 200-tree fruit orchard with friends and neighbors.

90 days earlier, it was just a dusty, barren field. Spent $75k all-in, and the trees have now tripled in size…

Full story & everything we’ve learned (a thread):

[Molly Cantillon @mollycantillon]

my youngest ambitious friends suffer from something I can only describe as the expendability curse

the devastation realization that the universe might not need you.

ambition is the first narcotic. you chase the next title, the next gold star, the next fucking plaque on a wall, hoping to tug it off and reveal the semblance of an answer of why you must exist. trust me bro the venture firm has a dozen more founders lined up who look like you, talk like you, and are just as eager to burn themselves out.

and so you grind even harder, hoping sheer brute force of will can push you into the rare air of the truly irreplaceable.

perhaps the only antidote is this: to stop trying to be un-expendable to someone else, start building a life where your value isn’t contingent on a system that pawns you for your hungrier cheaper replica.

shift from playing the expendability game to designing something only you could have built.

play your own game, the one you cannot win, play the infinite one.

[harsehaj ⋆˙⟡ @harsehaj]

your girlfriend’s “random” stomach aches aren’t a cute woman thing. they’re a red flag and proof of how desensitized we are to women’s health issues.

medical research, for decades, has defaulted to the male body. why is that, when half of the population is female? pregnant women were excluded from trials after tragedies like thalidomide, which ended up being an overcorrection that has turned into years of neglect.

male and female bodies are biologically different. yet for decades, medicine acted as if they weren’t. we drew sharp lines between men and women when it came to rights, wages, and social standing, but not when it came to the body. that wasn’t an accident. it was rooted in misogyny.

this is more than a moral failing, though. it’s a measurable and deadly one.

260,000 women died in 2023 from pregnancy/childbirth causes, and 92% were in low-/lower-middle-income countries. worst of all, most could have been prevented.

i’m willing to bet many women, let alone men, have never even heard of pcos (polycystic ovary syndrome), but 6-13% of us are affected by it, and 70% of such cases are undiagnosed.

we’ve been told to brush off the signs that our bodies scream at us with a “oh yeah, my stomach just hurts a bunch. it’s normal.” but it’s not normal. a lack of research, funding, and access has just strung that narrative for women’s health.

women’s health isn’t some philanthropic initiative. it’s human health. it’s health, and we all know that matters.

[anirudh @kamathematic]

being the first to jaywalk is so aura inducing the other pedestrians all look at each other like damn he’s really him

[Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 @DStrachman]

Most people aren't given the freedom and encouragement to dive as deep as they want in their passions, nor to develop themselves as a near eccentric in that space.