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Math professor at a state school, PhD, Millennial, mal9thousand on TikTok, funnier in person I swear
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That’s fair

#bonefacts an average adult human has 206 bones. This limit can be increased if they subscribe to Bones Pro or Bones Pro Ultimate

Unpopular opinion: I think email signatures are extremely lazy.

Oh well what can ya do 🤷‍♂️

Oh he's bringing smallpox back

I was curious if the Dems would make up a new group to blame for their loss, like "Trump tankies," but like winning that was too much effort. They just decided to blame the *concept* of progressives. 🤷‍♂️

I have 5 invite codes but now everyone I know knows better :(

"I can't find any results on the [Washington] Post website for "15-week abortion limit" until Sept. of this year. Prior to that it was exclusively "ban."" Chris Ingraham flags a striking change in how his former employer refers to abortion bans "now that the GOP is working the refs on the language"

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Before this week I never gave any thought to how dumb the name SpaceX is, just brand apocalypse behavior

So Elon really did make the Twitter logo just blackboard-bold X, no design or thought involved. Laziness absent imagination, amazing stuff.

HOW TO ADDRESS AN ACADEMIC: "Professor" - Inappropriate unless the person is a Full Professor®. "Doctor" - Inappropriate unless the person holds a PhD or the equivalent. (JDs and MDs don't count.) "Mr./Mrs./Ms." - Always inappropriate. "Hey you" - Always appropriate.

Girl: Hey, I like you and all, but this is moving a bit too fast for me and I think I just want to keep it causal. Tachyon: shit

‪It’s bizarre to me that anyone on scotus would be against court packing, because expanding the court would just mean more friends ‬

Bluesky is doing great things for my productivity. Loading it up to see what's new, reading all 3 new posts, and hey now I can get back to getting stuff done 👍

Oh, I get it now: Threads got all the celebrities and Bluesky got all the content in Elon's latest divorce, of Twitter from its value.

Lol

About a third the way through and so far everyone is still taking a test, except for me

Still going strong

Liveskeeting my students' progress taking a final exam and let me tell you, I do not like "liveskeet"

You don't know my life

But nobody has asked HoW dId tHeY mAkE a vAcCiNe sO fAsT so it's a wash

Last Ship rewatch update, early S2: still no antivaxxers, but there is a coordinated group of people trying to make everything worse for everyone so I'm counting that

I know you can use a domain as your username but the only domain I own is eroticaptcha.org and I can't decide if that's a good thing or not

When an app is like "this is taking too long to load," like, who do you think you're talking to? I know it's taking too long, I'm the one that experiences waiting