I'm actually glad it was internal, we've been burned by a few external searches recently where folks just got the title and started immediately looking to leapfrog elsewhere

but one of them served as an interim dean but was not then hired as dean, so I think he might be retiring or going emeritus

unheard of:

we're doing a search for associate provost where the all the candidates are highly qualified and it's an internal search

okay, research paper is about half done and is due Thursday night

I feel a little bit better now that I actually have some stuff done

there was one in Tblisi that kept sending me invites for a while and it underscored that you didn't have to show up to get your paper published in the proceedings

We haven’t recovered as a society, and in fact we haven’t even really named it

but when I talk about the lack of distress tolerance for dealing with other humans fueling the AI push, “male loneliness epidemic”, etc.

I think COVID was a huge factor in making it this extreme

I am trying to write about advances in drone warfare in Ukraine

I bought myself a little time by doing homework today day but I need four more pages by Thursday and welp

it is fun and it is incredibly bisexual

super accessible too, very much has the feel of someone's TTRPG

this would be so objectively cool

man I am fucking cooked on this research paper

it's not due until Thursday but mebbe parachuting into a 300-level class in a discipline I've only watched YouTube videos about previously was a mistake

and trying to do scholarly writing for the first time in 16 years with no warm-up?

my leather cannons were getting dusty

cheers!

gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.

gender failure gonzo

SIMP-son

FLAN-ders

If the purpose of the thing isn’t Internet, it doesn’t belong on Internet

One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”

I don't practice Santeria
I ain't got no crystal bal
but I love Josh Gondelman
and for him, I'd risk it all

So now American politics is doing Dönme stuff, neat

me rhyming Bluesky with Lansky

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

that's awful to hear 😕

uuuuugh that is awful 😭😭😭

oof yeah I dealt with some impacted molars re: that shit 😕

thigh GIUK gap

train scenery

second coat and some nascent grain silos

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo

ope, just occurred to me that I am literally watching paint dry

cardboard n gauge buildings drying

factory and warehouse spraypainted

will likely replace this scenery over time but I want to have some stuff on the table

telling myself that my setup is too small to justify a Schwerer Gustav replica

but what if...

we were somewhere around Barstow

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing