atomic shrub
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I got the sweetest email from a colleague when she heard my dad was in palliative care, offering an ear if I wanted to talk, or “I can just talk at you about my alpacas if you need a distraction”
That’s nerd love
Let me take your mind off the sad shit by infodumping about my special interest
That’s nerd love
Let me take your mind off the sad shit by infodumping about my special interest
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I got the sweetest email from a colleague when she heard my dad was in palliative care, offering an ear if I wanted to talk, or “I can just talk at you about my alpacas if you need a distraction”
That’s nerd love
Let me take your mind off the sad shit by infodumping about my special interest
That’s nerd love
Let me take your mind off the sad shit by infodumping about my special interest
Temu refunded my purchase because they thought my account was suspicious. TEMU thought there was something suss and dodgy about ME!!
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Temu refunded my purchase because they thought my account was suspicious. TEMU thought there was something suss and dodgy about ME!!
I know Amazon is evil and I should feel bad for buying shit from them but fuck they’re a cheap and convenient source of much needed whimsy in a bleak fucking world
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I know Amazon is evil and I should feel bad for buying shit from them but fuck they’re a cheap and convenient source of much needed whimsy in a bleak fucking world
Hilarious moment that nearly broke the scene tonight: set off the fall detector on my Apple Watch with a spank and it tried to call an ambulance 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hilarious moment that nearly broke the scene tonight: set off the fall detector on my Apple Watch with a spank and it tried to call an ambulance 🙃
Really interesting read on aphantasia and hyperphantasia. I, too, found out I have aphantasia by reading about someone else discovering they had aphantasia
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
www.newyorker.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Really interesting read on aphantasia and hyperphantasia. I, too, found out I have aphantasia by reading about someone else discovering they had aphantasia
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
That’s a weirdly specific first autocomplete
October 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
That’s a weirdly specific first autocomplete
It’s nice to be appreciated 🥰
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s nice to be appreciated 🥰
The bereavement admin, the cold logistics of patching around the hole where a human used to be… there’s just so much more of it than you expect and it just doesn’t get easier
October 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The bereavement admin, the cold logistics of patching around the hole where a human used to be… there’s just so much more of it than you expect and it just doesn’t get easier
In case of you ever wondered, when you explain Wear It Purple Day to someone who has lived in Singapore their whole life, they look at you like you’ve grown a second head
August 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In case of you ever wondered, when you explain Wear It Purple Day to someone who has lived in Singapore their whole life, they look at you like you’ve grown a second head
In my dream last night, one of my oldest friends taught me how to do nangs using a toaster full of water and a pen 🤔
August 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In my dream last night, one of my oldest friends taught me how to do nangs using a toaster full of water and a pen 🤔
Old Guard 2 is objectively bad, but I love Uma Thurman as a villain and she makes a great foil for Charlize Theron
August 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Old Guard 2 is objectively bad, but I love Uma Thurman as a villain and she makes a great foil for Charlize Theron
Might go fuck around and hope to remain in blissful ignorance later
June 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Might go fuck around and hope to remain in blissful ignorance later
I don’t know anything about Fletcher except that she’s apparently a musician and she’s dating a man. I know the second thing because I’ve seen at least 30 separate attempts at Discourse over it just in the last four days (to clarify: I do not wish to know more and in fact regret knowing this much)
June 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I don’t know anything about Fletcher except that she’s apparently a musician and she’s dating a man. I know the second thing because I’ve seen at least 30 separate attempts at Discourse over it just in the last four days (to clarify: I do not wish to know more and in fact regret knowing this much)
Send more paramedics 🤒
June 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Send more paramedics 🤒
Spouse: I feel bad that I don’t really know what National Reconciliation Week is and I’m married to an Aboriginal woman
Me: It’s NAIDOC for whitefellas and you don’t know much about it because your Aboriginal wife doesn’t give a shit about it
Spouse: Ohhhh
Me: It’s NAIDOC for whitefellas and you don’t know much about it because your Aboriginal wife doesn’t give a shit about it
Spouse: Ohhhh
June 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Spouse: I feel bad that I don’t really know what National Reconciliation Week is and I’m married to an Aboriginal woman
Me: It’s NAIDOC for whitefellas and you don’t know much about it because your Aboriginal wife doesn’t give a shit about it
Spouse: Ohhhh
Me: It’s NAIDOC for whitefellas and you don’t know much about it because your Aboriginal wife doesn’t give a shit about it
Spouse: Ohhhh
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Ah my greatest foe, someone whose politics are
95% identical to my own
95% identical to my own
May 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Ah my greatest foe, someone whose politics are
95% identical to my own
95% identical to my own
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It’s finally cold enough to turn up the heat on my self-heating toilet seat [I am seized by a jeering crowd and carried to the guillotine]
May 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It’s finally cold enough to turn up the heat on my self-heating toilet seat [I am seized by a jeering crowd and carried to the guillotine]
Chair: Any questions about the presentation on AI research assistants?
Me: Yes! I am wondering how we as producers of academic knowledge reconcile the ethical concerns of using a tool trained on stolen information to replace functions previously performed by junior researchers
[chair cuts me off]
Me: Yes! I am wondering how we as producers of academic knowledge reconcile the ethical concerns of using a tool trained on stolen information to replace functions previously performed by junior researchers
[chair cuts me off]
May 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Chair: Any questions about the presentation on AI research assistants?
Me: Yes! I am wondering how we as producers of academic knowledge reconcile the ethical concerns of using a tool trained on stolen information to replace functions previously performed by junior researchers
[chair cuts me off]
Me: Yes! I am wondering how we as producers of academic knowledge reconcile the ethical concerns of using a tool trained on stolen information to replace functions previously performed by junior researchers
[chair cuts me off]
Apple’s AI email summary function continues to nail it
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Apple’s AI email summary function continues to nail it
I’m watching the new Alexander Skarsgård show Murderbot where he plays a self aware cyborg and we got 19 minutes into the first episode before the plot demanded he get naked
May 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m watching the new Alexander Skarsgård show Murderbot where he plays a self aware cyborg and we got 19 minutes into the first episode before the plot demanded he get naked
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as a chronic illness haver, one energy management strategy i will execute every now and then is called “just keep moving until you fall down” it is wildly unhealthy lmao
May 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
as a chronic illness haver, one energy management strategy i will execute every now and then is called “just keep moving until you fall down” it is wildly unhealthy lmao
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i'm generation lead/generation microplastics cusp
May 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
i'm generation lead/generation microplastics cusp
It was section 44, not section 18 (see: nation of idiots)
On my way home from drinks with my Irish friend. I explained Clive Palmer and the section 18 constitutional crisis. I’m pretty sure he thinks we’re a nation of idiots
May 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It was section 44, not section 18 (see: nation of idiots)
On my way home from drinks with my Irish friend. I explained Clive Palmer and the section 18 constitutional crisis. I’m pretty sure he thinks we’re a nation of idiots
May 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
On my way home from drinks with my Irish friend. I explained Clive Palmer and the section 18 constitutional crisis. I’m pretty sure he thinks we’re a nation of idiots