fortunately or unfortunately, i had a productive nutritionist session last week. so i may finally confront my inner demons and write an essay about my eating disorder, a thing which in general i prefer to not intentionally think about at all

i miss eating salads

can i just say that the odyssey conversations are exhausting because everyone is acting as if everyone else is stupid. you’re pedantic and elitist if you didn’t like the film; you’re pedestrian and uninformed if you did. yes the arts have always sparked conversation and controversy but like. my god

it is soooooo fun to feel like a fleeing prey animal literally all the time and to make things even better the predator is inside my brain

bad news, i sprained my foot. good news, i did it by being cool and fashionable (wearing chunky clogs on a slippery museum floor)

Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚

Ancient Roman concrete survives for millennia by chemically self-healing its own cracks through carbonation. This discovery provides @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social a blueprint for designing highly durable, lower-carbon modern infrastructure. #CivilEngineering #Sustainability #MaterialsScience

Researchers shed new light on ancient concrete’s extraordinary durability - Berkeley Engineering

New findings reveal how carbonation could help explain Roman concrete’s longevity over thousands of years

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having a puppy is aging me.…. in the past week she’s eaten one of my mom’s blood pressure pills, got spayed and tried zoomies and i thought she bust her stitches, ate plastic and had to go to the vet for induced vomiting.… i love her very much. but what a troublesome child

while driving home today i saw a guy walking along the sidewalk, unmasked, cigar hanging out of his mouth. sir the AQI is 350

one thing i will say about the american revolutionary war: it has been inspiring to learn how many top guys on both sides were big time depressed. like, the entire time

one of the original sins of The Founders™ is not believing enough in democracy. from the electoral college to the Senate, the constitutional mechanisms meant to protect against a tyranny of the majority have enabled a tyranny of the minority

yesterday i ate a hot dog and it was my first hot dog in (i think) 16-17 years. freedom from eating disorder via hot dog is the most american thing i can do

90F. which is actually a vast improvement over the 98F we had earlier in the week

Uncle Jha@jha973.bsky.social · last mo.

What’s the temperature in the city you’re in right now ?

can i say something. i am so sad that tvl the show completely cut the “brave, not stubborn” line from lestat’s turning ☹️

so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty that is freedom, from mystery that is freedom, from the freeing questions, from the free inner life that is (or should be!) always ours

back on my bullshit unfortunately, but lafayette really is the ultimate poster boy for Don't Let Being Underqualified Stop You From Applying for the Job

the problem is that barnes & noble doesn’t have those big squishy armchairs in their stores anymore

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

and another thing. lestat saying Chipotle took me out. i listened to it three times

the dog is now six months old and she was the most popular girl at lowe's tonight

the most beautiful a man has ever looked but whatever 2.0

rachel@stonefruits.bsky.social · last mo.

the most beautiful a man has ever looked but whatever

tonight i am thinking fondly and quite emotionally about propertius 2.7 (tl vincent katz)

Soft power is when you force the British to make 1776 brand cheddar cheese

italy reminiscing again: i was soooo excited to stand in the presence of bronzino's portrait of eleanor of toledo while in florence! this is one of my favorite paintings ever, and the details in her clothing & jewelry were incredible to see up close

played the vampire lestat in the car and my mom thought it was david bowie. so everyone can jot that down

🩵 Delightful Diana 🩵 This gorgeous fresco is from the Villa Arianna in ancient Stabiae. Diana holds a bow and arrow with billowing fabric out behind her. The yellow tones of her clothing are a striking accompaniment to the vibrant blue background. #FrescoFriday #Diana @chapps.bsky.social

ok, my tvl takes so far - sam reid: incredible, absolute generational talent. we shook the book and lestat fell out - more louis please. more armand please - rolin soundbite about joseph potter being SO good as nicki that they could just give him fewer lines. that doesn’t make sense. i resent it

the most beautiful a man has ever looked but whatever

i was playing acnh this morning and gave coco some apples and in return she said “thanks! i want you to have my jester costume.” thanks indeed

thinking about how i spent the first five months of the year reading only revolutionary war adjacent nonfiction. maybe i am my own Father on this Day