[To any couple] so which one of you has taken microbiology and which one of you will eat anything
logicbutton
@logicbutton.bsky.social
she/her but also your poster boyfriend
When you're wearing glasses, a hair clip, and a new ear piercing, the simplest t-shirt becomes an enriching obstacle course
are we all aware that august 4 2026 is There Will Come Soft Rains day
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”
what I really want in a job is "won't turn mustache-stroking evil or collapse within two years," but I know this is an unreasonable expectation
“whats the first thing you think of” is the funniest social media prompt. finally solves the problem of people thinking too much before they post
Birthday present for my friend. This was my first time embroidering a cover, using leather on an exposed sewn spine, and using paper I made (on the inside cover pastedown), which was from my medicine paper class.
Okay I am a little in love with “many Doloreses, no president” as an anarchist understanding of how we do need some scaffolding of organizational work but it can be people like me (well. I’m no Dolores, but)
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 3d agoThinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too") +
(She's in the mines) She's in the binding mines (The binding mines) She's gluing up all her spines (She's in the mines) She's measuring all her lines (She's in the mines) She's in the binding mines
logicbutton@logicbutton.bsky.social · last yr.I don't want to sell my labor I want to toil in the bookbinding mines
I don't want to work, I want to be in the bookbinding mines
two shelves of manga, one for tlt and discworld, one for anthologies, one for German language, one for coffee table books/cookbooks/reference, two for nonfiction arranged by subject, one for fiction hardcovers/doorstoppers, two for the rest of the fiction alphabetically by author. there, I did it
Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?
She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.
oh no, I forgot the ear with my new piercing is also the cat's Nuzzling Ear
Holy shit youtu.be/9wDr2dec474
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
YouTube video by WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
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John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · last wk.You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...
You ever think about how influencers have basically the same job as professional marketing teams but with no employment protections, and hiring laws don't apply to them
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons
How must it feel to be Bowser when Dry Bowser beats him at mario kart
the chill-voiced kid at the Arby's drivethrough gave me ten packets of horsey sauce, I think I met an angel
Sick of being on this work trip (I'm in line to board my plane home right now) so I cheered myself up with an appointment tomorrow for an industrial piercing
Were the shrimp in the shrimp dispenser bad shrimp and that was why they were in the bad place
i am very certain that ditching gas is why my oldest didn't develop asthma after being pretty clearly pre-asthmatic
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Circumstances have forced me to take a part-time job as a small airport. Unpredictable hours and terrible pay. On the plus side, I get to meet a diverse and fascinating range of commuters.
