One of the things I find interesting about parasocials is that it might help that they don't talk back. Dogs don't talk. Babies don't talk. Donkey talked in Shrek but this was characterized as super annoying.

Maybe weebs don't have girlfriends because they don't like the imperfection of reality.

I'm tired, hoss. Tired of people who act like their rational intelligence is strong just because their emotional intelligence is so much weaker.

A thing I didn't grok when I was younger: You can just... do stuff. Anyone can write a book-- just open a document or buy a composition book and go. If you want to try an art form, you can take a class, watch a YouTube video, or borrow the tools from the library. You don't need permission to play.

Whatever you're looking for, you're not going to find it on your phone.

email is so great because you can put your coworkers in folders.

The bulk of the work on this was done in 2021, but I forgot about it repeatedly until I decided this morning to give it a little more polish and call it done. #art #artsky #flora #nature

taking care of a plant in the ground is like taking care of someone else, but taking care of a plant in a pot is as hard as taking care of yourself

before hitting that post button ask yourself if you want it to come up in your los Alamos national laboratories secret clearance background check

I don't want a new meme format for two people having a conversation I want the return of big chungus

Imagine being a squirrel all day every day.

Scientists believe neutron star SN 1987A is as many as three years older than the Simpsons.

Problems? Yeah I have problems. My squash slices get slanty when I get near the end...

Normalizing flows are a fascinating technique for nonlinear principal component analysis. The technology is finally here; we can extract candidate-explanatory model variables from datasets with a single general tool. I don't think scientists have fully woken up to this new world.

where on the child of imperialism spectrum are you if you can eat very spicy food but not the whole cow

I went to Norway last year and saw the best northern lights I've seen since I went to Iceland in 2016.

I took these photos and I had the best time just photographing the stars and night.

#northernlights #norway #photography

This odd little deep sky object is an irregular galaxy. IC 1613. If it's clear again tonight or the night after I'm going to try for another night of this. It's one of those faint objects that really needs a lot of total exposure time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography