yessss Jon this is the correct reaction

To my NYC loves: I'm coming your way in just a few weeks! I'll be in town May 3-6. Drop me a line now to get on my dance card!

For reference, this is how cute my butt looked last time I was there.

I have now taught my stepmom the term "competence porn" ... doing the lord's work corrupting the boomer ladies

Someone just told me that my tiny lisp (thanks, dental crowns 😑) is cute, and it changed my perspective for the better ... I guess it is on-brand! 🤓 Pairs well with glasses.

Yes, and I get to be *inside* both of them 🥵

"Sinners Pizza," which has charmingly over-the-top Satanic branding, just opened across from a Christian coffee shop, and they've been bringing each other pizza and coffee across the street all day, it's cute af

So I guess I ship them now? (The businesses, not the people ... very Chuck Tingle)

Robin sits sprawled in a brown leather armchair, wearing a black latex jumpsuit, a lab coat, and patent leather heels.

In my mad science supervillain era

(... which is always)

(and yes, that is a lab coat from NIH)

"Oh shoot, I'm covered in lint."
"Lint from the kangaroos?"
"No, lint from the blanket I hid under when I found out that Hank Green is bisexual."
"Bisexual blanket lint."
"I think all lint is pansexual."

- A conversation I just had that contained mostly never-before-uttered sentences

Congratulations on both fronts! 😆💙

(In fairness, I do need my PhD, and most of what I learned from it, for my day job, and I no longer regret going to grad school ... but I do look back and marvel at how bad my mental health was, despite my insistence at the time that I was fine)

I think I need to regularly clarify that the "doctor" thing is not some kind of medfet bit, it's an attempt to signal that I have a PhD for those who are into nerds (and I might as well get SOME use out of having spent my 20s in a dark tunnel assailed by self-recrimination and doubt)

Last year, I started my April newsletter with an announcement that I was retiring to become a bhikkhunī (Buddhist nun), followed by "lol just kidding." The number of email responses I received saying "you scared the crap out of me" was extremely gratifying.

A screenshot of a text message that reads, "Although that's not the first time I made stupid sexual decisions as a result of learning that someone was a math nerd so maybe it's not drug-induced"

Best excerpt from today's Signal messages so far

The AI Doc is exceptionally well done. It could've erred in so many ways, and it mostly managed to navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of the subject matter while being both accessible and beautiful. And it's (further) evidence that the humanities have the potential make a tangible difference.

So optimistic of you to assume there will be "future" film makers 😓

Yes/no, as in, "Does the esteemed reader agree with my assessment?" I recognize that I am writing like a kid on Tumblr and I am not especially sorry

A platter featuring nine smaller dishes of food (Korean banchan)

I'm thinking this should be the normal quantity of banchan y/n

The toe floofs!!!

Which were some of the most challenging foods to source, and how did you manage to find them?

Robin's cat, belly up in a sunbeam. The cat is mostly white with gray spots and has extra toes (i.e., is polydactyl).

I'm sorry that your pet is the second-cutest, but sometimes that's just the way the cat treat crumbles

"Having all of my sexual buttons pushed at once by a quantitative methodology podcast episode about fungible parameter estimates" was not on my bingo card for today, but here we are

Robin standing on a deck wearing a white tank top, jeans, and a gold chain necklace

Bringing my best daddy energy

This library is so empty ... I think it may be possible this week to fulfill my lifelong dream of having sex in the stacks without getting arrested

Anyway my schedule's pretty open this week so

Robin reads a book while lounging supine on a log surrounded by forest greenery. She is wearing a green bra, blue panties, and a blue robe.

I thought it was spring, but when I left the house this morning it was 35 degrees, so I'll just have to dream of reading outdoors for a few more weeks

A photograph of an orange-and-white striped traffic barrier with a sticker of an alligator (or is it a crocodile?) with its chin in its "hands" like a 14-year-old girl at a sleepover saying, Tell me MOOOOORE."

This might be my favorite sticker I've ever seen in Seattle

What is up with LLMs' apparent compulsion to declare things "real"

"XYZ is doing real work here"
"The concern you raise is real"

Nobody writes like that (I hope), so it's not in the corpus and must somehow have gotten trained in by RLHF???

Me, going about my business: I am the very paragon of normality, the standard against which normal behavior should be evaluated, so sensible and sophisticated

Me, accidentally hearing an audio recording of myself speaking: Now THAT is an autistic person

The food was attractive AND delicious--that shaggy thing that looks like the dragon from The Neverending Story is a pile of mushrooms with white kimchi, truffle cream, and parmesan--and my date said that my outfit made him think I could be an anime villain, so I'd say the evening was a success.

Proud to have taught my mom the terms "thirst trap" and "down bad" within the past 24h

When I was in college, I just bought OTC asthma meds + caffeine pills at the pharmacy, and yeah, it was a decent time