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computer science lecturer, avid reader and knitter, language enthusiast, TED translator, tweet deleter, ...
oh no, just found another (new for me) cat grooming YouTube channel
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
just read "NVIDIA Earnings" under trending as "NVIDIA Earrings" ... it would probably be better for everyone if they produced earrings instead of ai chips
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
the piggy statement alone should suffice to utterly, thoroughly despise the man, let alone involvement in the Epstein crimes... or all the other disgusting things he has done
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
it's wild how we traded the open, decentralized web for a handful of centralized services and gladly hand over our data/attention. today's outage affects major ai services ... let's see what happens
How often do I have to keep reposting this strip?
#cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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First Aid Kit for the mind. Benevolent Armour. Forest Opening.
Your keep sane pocket companion. Size 7cm x 10 cm

A repost. Why? I like this piece.
Photograph 2023 ©Linda Hubbard

#firstaidkitforthemind #firstaidkit #forestopening #forest #narrativephotography #documentaryphotography
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
looking at the "word of year" winner & contenders, it's clear that 2025 was a bad year: vibe coding (winner), “aura farming”, “broligarchy”, “taskmasking”... as if we needed any more proof

blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lov...
Collins’ Word of the Year 2025: AI meets authenticity as society shifts - Collins Dictionary Language Blog
‘Vibe coding’, a software development that turns natural language into computer code using AI, has been named Collins’ Word of the Year 2025.
blog.collinsdictionary.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
got myself some Turkish classics as an early birthday present. i rarely read them, because they're usually sad and dramatic. found a short story and a mystery novel this time and might have been influenced by the lovely covers. hoping for the best ... #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 14
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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This perfectly explains my current feelings of helpless anger and frustration. #academicsky #edusky
#AcademicSky

As an educator, this resonates
January 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Things Become Other Things" by Craig Mod @craigmod.com #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
finished reading & highly recommend this walking memoir by @craigmod.com

it almost got me with “I never beat you in a race again, did I?” and finally, inevitably, got me with his story about his grandfather

if I hadn't been reading in public, i would have cried my eyes out
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
hoping to hear/read some good news from the US for a change #Mamdani
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
excited to plan an on-site programming event at my former university for the end of the month. it will be nice to see the students face to face again. online lectures are much more productive with people who actually know each other. so i hope, subsequent bootcamps will benefit #academicsky #edusky
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
that's why grading submissions feels so pointless these days *sigh* #academicsky #edusky

original by @nedroid.com from 2013: nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4187900...
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"People always think something's all true." #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
good catch, huh? this is what nightmares are made of... #academicsky
October 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
one of my fav authors #booksky #jerome

available as ebook on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2183
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
anxiously following the global Sumud flotilla live stream ...
October 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Doomscrolling used to refer to social media consumption of one emotive post after another.

These days, it pretty much describes just reading the news ... 🤦‍♀️
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
one of the most Turkish food combos there is: tea & sunflower seeds 🌻
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
filled the car to the brim with tools and materials (again!) and headed to the "House of Angles (except 90)". three weeks of building cabinets, digging, laying subsurface drainage, skim coating, and panelling will hopefully bring the house up to a livable state. wish me luck
September 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
seven-hour data analysis class held, online meeting with students later in the evening... the semester has officially started! #academicsky #edusky
September 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
as September approaches, i'm itching to teach again. creating a slack group to gather current and former students at one place. and also students from other universities. any tips & tricks to make it more engaging are welcome #academicsky #edusky
August 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
took niece & nephew to the pool. left with the worst earworms from a variety of Turkish music genres. so much for guarding my headspace for months
August 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
another interesting topic i would love to learn more about. not only for my students, but for myself as well. where to find the time, though ...

Genomic Data Science Specialization: www.coursera.org/specializati... #academicsky
Genomic Data Science
Offered by Johns Hopkins University. Be a next generation sequencing data scientist.. Master the tools and techniques at the forefront of ... Enroll for free.
www.coursera.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM