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Decent English prof studying AI and pedagogy, terrible musician, excellent nitpicker
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"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page" - Jodi Picoult #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I once heard somebody say that Lucky Charms are just proof of how much dry cat food children are willing to eat to get half a handful of marshmallows and I think about that a lot

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Exam invigilation is usually a pretty boring affair but not when you get to watch playoff hockey on the Brampton Garden Square Jumbotron!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have autism. I graduated high school with honors and had the highest SAT score in school history. I've been married to my wonderful wife for 28 years and have three amazing children. I've had a successful career as a software and DevOps engineer and paid plenty in taxes. Go fuck yourself RFK Jr.

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

I don’t know where to direct my rage these days but seriously, go fuck yourself RFK. this is wildly inaccurate and cruel BUT ALSO Generations of mothers were blamed for their children’s autism until we figured out it wasn’t caused by parental neglect. Why do we need to go backward??

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A massive pickup truck turned the corner as I was walking my daughter home from school, and the truck’s back tires ended up jumping the curb and nearly running my daughter over. As I pulled her out of the way I noticed the truck’s “fuck Trudeau” sticker and thought how predictable it all was.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Nice to see OpenAI nakedly hawking ChatGPT as a cheating service on Reddit. There are, in fact, limits on how you can use ChatGPT for your final exams, and they’re set by your professor, because clearly ChatGPT won’t set any limits.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to work on anything these days

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Discworld QOTD from Night Watch

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

reading Woolf for the first time and holy shit. what the fuck man. getting mad at how good this shit is

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."

submitted 25 days ago • 55 comments

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’ *academics, head hung low, whispering* ‘the… the pun’

submitted 41 days ago • 24 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 1284 comments

This is super neat and as a bilingual Canadian I'm excited to check out this program! Finally, a bilingual show for a bilingual country Canada has two official languages, but you’d never know it by watching TV or listening to the radio. We did something about that www.tvo.org/article/fina...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

submitted 37 days ago • 41 comments

Haven't seen discussion of the fact that one way writing has gotten weird is that writers are constantly given feedback Every Substack includes analytics, Amazon sales tracked by the minute, every tweet has view numbers. It is hard to ignore & focus on what you want to say when you are told so much

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

Grief in the digital age is trying to balance “please do sometimes show me pictures of this person that I loved in happy times” with “please stop suggesting that I might want to travel to the hospice every time I open maps”

submitted 39 days ago • 19 comments

Yeesh, a bit on the nose, Shelley?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

For me, the last stage of revision is always removing as many "indeed"s as possible.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

submitted 76 days ago • 220 comments

Reminds me of JG Ballard’s unforgettable opening lines to his bleak High-Rise:

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments