We finished Cozy Stickerville, which was way too addictive and fun to save for later, and a sick weekend at home was the perfect excuse to plow through it. It reminded me of when we had COVID in 2020 and could not stop playing Legacy of Dragonholt […]

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And of course, even drug dealers should not be executed without a trial. Of course. We don't do that to mass murderers who kill with guns. We certainly don't do it to people who have tattoos affiliated with violent fringe gang organizations, or Pete Hegseth […]

@VCP Oh NO. Truly, nothing says "We appreciate your $200,000" like not even saying your name when your parents show up to hear them say your name.

@karlsteel.bsky.social Oh man that is gonna be good.

(We went along with the "you go to your parents'" plan because they never ask, so we thought something important might be going on, and because I really have to finish a big article by Sunday. But it doesn't seem like there was any big news or needs; they just like being around my partner, who […]

I'm not a romantic person--and, obviously, my parents aren't either. I've spent every holiday in the calendar alone, including my birthday, pretty regularly, and not really felt much about it. But I did spend only one Thanksgiving before this one alone, when I was 24, and I remember saying to […]

With my partner, especially since the pandemic, it's become a nice occasion for us to set aside a lot of stress and habit and make things really sweet and pleasant and special--no eating in front of the TV, or doomscrolling email and sighing, just being present and taking stock of how things are […]

I haven't been home for Thanksgiving since I was 17 due to my vegetarianism, which makes having me home not particularly fun for my mom, all of whose celebratory recipes involve meat in everything. So, for my whole life, it's been a day I spend with friends, especially friends who are immigrants […]

@carstenfranke @mattblaze So hoping to come across someone crowing that "Matt Blaze once politely reminded me that there is more to life than haranguing strangers online."

@VCP Apparently it has been out for 5 months in Japan and people are going to see it over and over.

@sundogplanets I don't know if this is helpful, but I use this with my students to try to get enough information to write a good letter. Feel free to adapt the list as appropriate for your discipline! Writing rec letters is awful, but I find it slightly less so if you're getting good input […]

And the revulsion she feels to it, its bland smiles and saccharine praise and total lack of values or tastes, its inability to tolerate or acknowledge disagreement, its witless flattering platitudes, is exactly the feeling I get when I am grading a generated paper, and all I can think is, be […]