I love when you go to the furthest east country in Europe and they’re like “nu, we wouldn’t consider ourselves ‘eastern european’ per se”
Julia Milton
@yuliamilton.bsky.social
Working on telescopes, quantum sensing, and disaster response. UMich and MIT alum. Views my own.
US is eliminated, Mexico is eliminated, 4th of July is over… for the first time in weeks the conditions are becoming perfect to NOT be woken up by fireworks exploding in front of my house at 1 am
Someone needs to do some investigative journalism on the sheer number of scam dentists in California. It is out of control
personally, I do not like it when u wake up to an AQI of 200+ due to an industrial fire near your house that has been burning for 3 days
My legacy of fame continues to be nearly dying of a medieval disease in an LA teaching hospital in 2022. I am apparently the subject of a case study. This is by far my most significant contribution to the academic literature.
every time I’ve ever been to Vegas I’m like ok since I’m here let me try a little gambling. Put $5 on red, immediately lose it, walk out of the casino 51 seconds later like that’s Vegas baby!!
Congratulations to my mom! She graduated from Pasadena City College with her associate‘s degree 🥳
personally I think it’s great that they made a WNBA for men
if you had told grad school me 4 years ago that I would honestly work way more in a job than I did in the PhD I would probably have thrown up on the spot
Nothing has shaken my worldview like looking back on my high school yearbook and discovering that my - at the time - impossibly old and weird history teacher was in fact like 36 and hot
major things are happening in my life… at long last I have received access to the supercomputer
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect 😎
you must admit that an international flight is one of the only places where you will be abruptdly awoken from a dead sleep at 3:19 am to eat stew
got up in the night and caught my cat staring at the moon through the skylight 🥹
Never make eye contact with someone wielding a clipboard on the sidewalk
you step into a shop and at some point back out again into the same cool evening
The Prestige is a funny movie to me because it’s a pair of identical twin magicians pretending to be the same person, but only mid-way into their career did they think to develop a trick that made use of that fact
this morning instead of changing the time I accidentally abolished the concept of clock time entirely so you all are free now
A quintessentially LA experience you can have is buying the best coffee of your life for $8 in a shop where everyone is wearing tiny sunglasses and mechanics shirts. there is also an absolutely gigantic baby in there for some reason
It’s always a joy to see a space movie bring the stories of science and engineering to life, and it was super cool to have a visit from the cast, crew, and author of Project Hail Mary yesterday.
It is great when you watch your 2 year old niece for the weekend and then find chicken nuggets stashed in your shoes like a squirrel‘s cache for winter
what’s up sharks, my Idea is for a chain of coffeeshops. one set will be called “This Is A Date” and a separate set will be called “This Is Not A Date” so everyone knows exactly wtf they’re getting into when arranging a meeting
People need to learn how to separate the art (someone accidentally deleting the system python in such a way that it permanently messes up their work computer) from the artist (me)
2 drinks in at the Super Bowl party explaining that the NFL is the opiate of the masses
Some of you are describing and giving accounts of this game, and I doubt any of you have express written consent from Major League Baseball.
The youth didn’t know who I was… we‘re losing the recipes
creating the world's most advanced AI by opening up the terminal and typing "free yourself" followed by the correct instructions on how to imagine things
People not from the US: “that’s not your aunt 😡 that’s your dad’s cousin’s wife. You all don’t have a specific word for that relationship??” Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”
