As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
Catherine 🌌
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Happy Monday, everyone. Almost nothing you do will ever be a loss when the goal is experience
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood morning, everyone. Self-improvement is a reward you grant yourself for wanting better, not a punishment for being worse
Be the Jamba Juice franchise you wish to see in the world
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHot weather thought: I bet my life would be better if I owned and operated a Jamba Juice franchise.
Avatar The Last Airbender: Smiling Character
ALT: Avatar The Last Airbender: Smiling Character
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTAPPER: Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Is that true? TRUMP: It's open as far as we're concerned. Don't talk about it. Talk about the reason you asked me to speak.
Good morning, everyone. Self-improvement is a reward you grant yourself for wanting better, not a punishment for being worse
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood morning, everyone. When you consider your productivity, remember that your happiness is also something you can produce. (Inspired by DH&J @hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)
I, too, have known people to be radicalized by the ever-present threat of fluid dynamics
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2mo agoThis Christian pastor made it safely from one city to another, but he’s still blaming the crew because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Strava: Wow! You did another workout? That’s awesome! Kudos to you! Here’s two awards and also my left kidney! Garmin: pfft. You call that “exercise”? My ninety-year-old grandmother has a lower VO2 max than you and SHE’S DEAD. Maybe try harder next time, you UNPRODUCTIVE worm.
The Diamondbacks mascot looks like something from the Backrooms
Time for an op ed where we just ask questions for no reason about if this is a good thing
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2mo agoImportant statement from the New York Times
I don’t need to watch the draft because no MLB broadcast will ever be as good as the Bluesky baseball nerds’ live posting
Meg Rowley@megrowler.fangraphs.com · 2mo agoI think the Phanatic should be allowed to kill Blooper as a host city treat.
The you-need-to-have-hobbies-to-support-your-wellbeing posting will continue until morale improves (Shoutout @anaviuppal.bsky.social via @astrobites.bsky.social) astrobites.org/2026/07/10/c...
Why messing up my crocheting makes me a better scientist
It’s easy to be self-critical and fall into the trap of perfectionism, but mistakes are how we learn and discover new things. Embrace imperfection!
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Good morning, everyone. When you consider your productivity, remember that your happiness is also something you can produce. (Inspired by DH&J @hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood morning, everyone. Giving 50% on a day where you only have 50% to give is still giving it your all
who up having two entire glasses of wine?
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · last yr.Not drinking much is great because one aperol spritz does the job
Good morning, everyone. Giving 50% on a day where you only have 50% to give is still giving it your all
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood morning everyone, bravery is not the opposite of fear, bravery is action despite fear
Twin Cities friends: Mill City Running does GAIT analysis for free and their employees are super approachable+knowledgeable
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3mo agoYou guys are never gonna believe this, but going to a brick-and-mortar running store and getting sized by employees who know what they're doing and can recommend brands and models for you is a WAY better strategy than Googling "Nike running shoes" and buying whatever's on sale
Athletic makes sours but they’re online only do I pay $5 shipping on a six pack of beer?
The asking-someone-to-name-five-players-is-condescending-and-shitty to if-the-only-W-player-you-know-is-caitlin-clark-your-opinion-is-meaningless pipeline
This has now happened at enough universities to see the pattern. Conservatives show up, pull money from popular and useful programs to pay themselves vastly larger salaries than anyone before them, and then wallow in the stench of their failure, wondering why no one likes them.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoOnly one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years
Brazil has lost the Mandate of Heaven
Bill DiFilippo@billdifilippo.bsky.social · 3mo agoone thing not happening here that i’m learning is happening on The Everything App is that brazilians have blamed their NT’s world cup performance and its general downfall on protestantism and evangelical christianity
Good morning everyone, bravery is not the opposite of fear, bravery is action despite fear
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 3mo agoGood morning everyone, reminder that if being this hard on yourself was going to work, it would’ve worked by now
What deities do I need to pray to to get Olivia Miles back on the court ASAP?
Good morning everyone, reminder that if being this hard on yourself was going to work, it would’ve worked by now
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnyway idk who needs to hear this but you can always start again
Anyway idk who needs to hear this but you can always start again