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Professor studying robot brains and human thinking Lesbian muscle mommy she/her
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I need to start posting about math more

New index for how everyone is doing right now How many people are trying to read Man's Search for Meaning at your local library

This takes a mere 7 minutes of your time to listen to, btw, and probably less to read

If you know me from ~my previous work~ please follow this new account I made I'll be mostly posting things there including art stuff, podcast stuff, activism stuff, maybe shit posts? Probably should keep shit posts on here But anyhoot go follow

The trajectory of the Republican party over my lifetime has followed the trajectory of computing Their form of government has become small enough to fit in your pants

Related: whenever I've seen a cis queer person discuss their time in the closet I've never heard anyone interrupt and insist they need to own up to their "straight conditioning."

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I think we need the latter every six weeks at a minimum.

This ain’t my first rodeo 🤠 (It’s my 2nd rodeo and I’m still super anxious and scared so pls don’t be mean to me or I might cry)

NYE is my least favorite holiday ❌ Staying up past bed time ❌ Loud noises ❌ Lots of alcohol and little food ❌ Crowds 0/10 Give me more holidays where we eat a large dinner at 3pm, have a little booze as a treat, and then all take naps

Yeah this about sums up what I think about people reporting Gaza fundraisers.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Trump apparently wants the US to own Greenland and between that and the Canada thing it really seems like he has a weird expansionist agenda and that is probably bad

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

Nothing has turned me off of Tiktok more than Trump saying he doesn't want it to get banned Like that can't be good

You can't pray away a miracle. That's why we're still here and we always will be.

I have always been uncomfortable when people look too hard for a scientific basis for trans people It always seems like a question to ask before they look for a "cure" But what is there was a spiritual and metaphorical reason and the gods made you that way It can't be fixed or cured, it just is

Coco Chanels Latke recipe just dropped

At last, antisemitism has its own Freedom Fries!

The danger of Prosperity Gospel Christianity isn't that it is hypocritical It's that it tells people that if they profit from something they have God's favor It disguises exploitation as exhaltation and encourages people to view the impoverished as suffering because they sin by being poor

As I handmade a new loom hook from an old yarn needle, a paint brush, and some hockey tape, I joked to my wife that once it was done I would find my loom hook I then found my loom hook

The slippery slope of banning Jesse Singal is not real.

Reskeet if you think Jesse Singal should be banned.

yes

It's wild to me that Nancy Mace lied about a man who was named "Public Citizen of the Year" by the Illinois chapter of the National Association Of Social Workers and now is threatening journalists who report on it www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

It turns out Nancy Mace is a liar who defamed an award winning advocate who survived horrific child abuse www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...