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Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain. 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ "See you divas on the streets." E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar [email protected] on Mastodon.
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abbott grinning while turning up a big dial labeled “hunger”

time too read about statistics

my partner is twiddling his fingers like snidley whiplash while learning about what are the best seats in the house

Republicans really see places like this and think what a perfect location for a new data center or mining operation

seldom seen road

BREAKING: Supreme Court Lets ICE Disappear Migrants to Dangerous Countries migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-s...

If you would like to watch something other than Trump's war, may I recommend the Brooks Falls live cam? It's back on, y'all, and there's a bear! #fatbearweek #brooksfalls #alaska #livecam #nps

thinking about becoming independently wealthy

my number of spoons has absolutely been obliterated. so i am sincereposting on main

it's funny that Texas can do this but California can't ask for better emissions standards for cars www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Letssssss gooooo emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...

For the police "bike safety" just means stealing bikes from kids

Web search is so broken that the only long term alternative will require a complete, quarantined rebuild or the destruction of the ad industry

Incredible that when I search for a normal airline like "Delta Airlines" it is the third and not the first search result. Not even a Delta Ad

Update on reviews for EMNLP, which were due on June 18th: as of today, only about 80% of reviews have been completed 😧 As a reminder, reviewers deemed "highly irresponsible" will not be able to commit their work to EMNLP, as per the updated ARR policy: aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025

What's amazing is that there is already, has been for literally several hundred years, too much for anyone to have the time to read

Extremely yooper coded (without looking)

The use case for LLMs

How are there still three more months of summer

Thinking about someone who says their politics are too radical for work but at work they just uphold the status quo. What's it mean to have radical beliefs then buddy

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

I love a snug kn95

my new opinion is that my medicine doesn't work as well as it used to

My body is a cage

hey yea the iran news is bad but also some of the most "move fast and break things" people in my field have probably been analyzing the data wrong for the last 5 years and gotten ~20k citations for it so there's totally a point to submitting a grant proposal

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you have to believe better things are possible. that is the only way through this

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago. But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:

Well we're back to this feeling again as the world burns and I'm posting comics through it 🧍

Ones I liked: 1. It Follows 2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 3. City of God Ones I didn't: - Le Déclin de l'Empire Américaine - The Fog

hang in there friends! when in doubt: re-focus on our care for one another and any opportunities we have to practice care and solidarity for those who are struggling. there are so many opportunities to help care for people who are suffering

Don’t take your eye off the ball. The attack on Iran is meant to distract you from the proposed changes to tax credits for soybean farms

war should be not allowed on our planet

Embarrassed to be represented by an absolute bloodthirsty accomplice

Things are bad yes but rn one of my cats has laid his lil haid ever so gintly on my toes