Sent to my CS students.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I'm a G cup, and use it for everything but running. Though I do wish someone would do a wool encapsulation style sports bra.

Branwyn merino bras are magic, both to wear and how stink resistant they are.

They are! It's still an absolute delight to work here, though the big dark certainly has its low points. (But we're having a creepily fine spring. We shouldn't get this much sun until July...)

Hope things are going well there!

Oh gods I wish I could have been there

Only about a third of the ways I miss NC are about BBQ, which says something about how much I liked NC generally.

Actual sex peaked in the eighties and has been on the decline since.

Just a periodic reminder that when Hilary Clinton was running in 2008, she campaigned on rolling back presidential authority.

But ProPublica would have been 🔥

Co-fucking-signed.

Does anyone really have this kind of passion for whether Pluto is a planet or not?

Do not fuck with dinosaurs.

If ever there was a bot to turn on its makers...

Exactly one year ago today:

I've been thinking I'd really love to teach a 16 credit coordinated class - possibly multi-quarter - called "Just Blame Reagan".

The material is just so rich.

That was such an improvement!

...I was hearing "Imperium Compound". Apparently I remember quite a few verses. 😱

A Schatch Sidekick - a portable spinning wheel - sits on industrial carpet amidst desk chairs.

I'm getting over a cold, so while my teaching partner teaches his part of the course, I'm sitting in the back of the room spinning.

And am ear wormed by old SCA drinking songs. Woe!

In the current context it reads like a prayer to "Saint Mangione"

If you're heard the grousing about how white girls aren't having babies that they're forced to give up so that other white folks can adopt them, this would be no surprise.

They want teenage girls to have kids, but also to suffer and be stigmatized.

I think a lot of people get way too caught up in the differences, while ignoring the central similarity: that both are made of people.

The good and the bad comes from that.

Because I don't think he has the base of supporters to be mouthing off in public the way he is.

Then again, this is a guy who thinks the Crusades are something to emulate.

I'm really wondering what Hegseth's angle is.*

His position is pretty obvious. But does he seem himself as a presidential candidate? Or potential military dictator?

* For all that he's basically a delusional larper, so it doesn't have to make sense.

I've wondered if Francis' being born outside of Europe gave him extra Obama vibes. Seemed to bring out the crazy assholes in a similar way.

I would be much more enthused had I not been somewhat following the New Apostolic Reformation.

(Hey, Trump adjacent. And it's sort of horribly fascinating.)

To the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social crowd:

Who would have standing to sue Hegseth for religious discrimination? I can't imagine his anti-Catholic bias is likely to find many friends in the current court...

They shouldnt teach history at all until 12th grade, because the fairy tale nationalist version kids get before that colonizes most of their brains forever. Forget deprogramming college freshmen, people go to their graves believing that.

Just move language classes earlier and history ones later.

Oh, we definitely do. And using ephedra as a base seemed like a natural move to me? (I mean, it grows wild in a fair chunk of the US.) But apparently not.

It's not hard to use safely.

I spent a while wondering if part of the reason it was banned (well, partially banned) was that you can use it in making meth. But it sounds like that's just not something that folks do in the US. I think I heard it is done in Afghanistan?

(My suspicion just came from the chemistry.)

And ephedra even more so...

It's like he's an embryonic Sad Puppy