I sent out so many emails today and haven't gotten a single reply

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then

Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I need to make supper but I have a lapcat

Well I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
(because the Strait of Hormuz was closed)

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

uh oh lol

also I interviewed him for a story ages ago and he was a hoot, but absolutely impossible to keep on topic

oh yeah I don't think I would pick it to teach from! supplemental text, yes, but not primary

I have been fortunate enough to see this in person and it is a legit crazy thing to see.

I was hoping to see this on an observatory tour years ago, but they weren't ready to fire the lasers while I was visiting

I miss when billionaires used to implode 3000 m underwater

Zee's book is the one I wish I had had as a grad student

ooh haven't run across that one (but admittedly I've been out of this game for a long time)

what book are you usiiiing

Moe Sizlack

Every guy who supports eugenics looks like this

this goes with the saying (I forget who first told me, maybe my dad) "writing is never finished, only given up on in despair"

If I was Barack Obama I would regularly call Donald Trump and say the craziest shit I could think of and then forcefully deny ever having spoken to him

or y'know... Buddhism. Or if that's too far east for you, Ecclesiastes.

no worries, it's something you learn as a journalist: NASA is happy to let its researchers talk about NASA work, but not comment on other science. Generally when I'm looking for sources, I need the latter.

good lard, a real recipe is extensively tested. Anyone using an untested recipe from "AI" is gonna have a bad time.

alas as we've discussed, she can't officially comment on other people's published work anyway

if anything you're underselling the racism of Firefly

Let Firefly Stay Dead! Reminder! You can still get a signed, personalized, doodled copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel about a trans witch, her grief-stricken lesbian...

I woke up this morning and chose violence

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

oh yeah it's *pathetic*. But because he's wealthy he gets treated like he's saying something new and brilliant instead of utterly ignorant. Charles M. Schulz, who never went to college and drew a comic strip, was far more insightful about the human condition.

not *quite* what I'm looking for I think, but her work looks awesome and fascinating!

hm I didn't realize that was his specialty! he seems too busy for this sort of thing but I might be wrong

Just following up until the day I die

I even started writing a funk song called Bootsy After the Revolution

after the Revolution we will need Bootsy more than ever

Next question! do I know any biogeochemists? particularly someone who has looked at the biogeochemistry of meteorites, asteroids, and/or comets? This might be a very long shot but ya never know! Thank you friends! 🧪🔭