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Helen

@homotoptheory.bsky.social

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Mathematician and podcaster. she/it. my views represent those of your employer.

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Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 36m

yea i was kinda Going Through It that whole month tbh so definitely

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 1h

yea

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 1h

omg hiiii

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 2h

you can’t be saying that if you’re TME

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 3h

this is not a safe space for engl*sh people

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 4h

yea I think it really works with this fit but it’s not like an everyday belt

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 4h

cute! love the belt

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 4h

democrats abuse children but say “don’t be assholes about it” republicans abuse children but say “don’t be pussies about it”

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 16h

Lot 49 is what we read in my college class and I just straight up didn’t get it and in hindsight I think I was just trying to be too serious about it

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

same! i also didn’t understand pynchon when i read him in college but im trying shadow ticket now

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

oh wait that’s not true she did read Phillip Roth’s Professor of Desire when I told her I thought it was brilliant and she told me I only liked it because I was a man

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

in college i had an ex who would ask me for book recs and i rec’d stuff like 100 years of solitude and she liked it all so i rec’d absalom absalom and she quit in the middle and never read a book i recommended again

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

honestly i think it’s been 13 years or something for me too, so same. i was kinda stupid then i probably didn’t understand it really

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

Absalom erasure

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

what faulkner

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 17h

incredible video but also

Achewood panel. Two robots, one saying to the other "whoah! you're working some rough chuckes these days!"

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 19h

empty set? i find it quite changeable actually

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 19h

thanks i can’t take all the credit the original idea came from the twisted mind of my beautiful girlfriend @bittenbovine.bsky.social

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 19h

that’s why i’ve started saying “i’m gonna jimmy kimmelself”

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

i think it’s partly that they’re too pathetic to realize that’s what they want tbh

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

i have a friend with whom every “would you rather?” has an implied “you are not allowed to kill yourself” because that was our answer to every would you rather otherwise

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

can’t wait until it stops condemning “gender ideology” for conservative reactionary reasons and starts condemning it for class reductionist reasons

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

hey that’s cool why don’t we tackle child sexual abuse first though that’s probably more degrading right?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

“But real peace is not negotiated in boardrooms or awarded on stages. Real peace is built by women organizing food networks during blockades, by Indigenous communities defending rivers from extraction, by workers who refuse to be starved into obedience”

www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 20h

extremely loud incorrect buzzer