I have eaten lunch and put on comfortable pants and realized the house sitter set the ac to 65°f, so I am ready for a nap

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

Yes, calling the pharmaceutical company was easier than my morning. That is also done, so hopefully the specialty pharmacy will get that info and I'll be good to schedule my first dose of dupixent

Lots of Romantasy release dates are pouring into the booksphere.

A small cluster of new, curled green leaves with bright pink buds in the center.

Future apples for your timeline 🌱

Wine industry person here in Napa. Wine sales are declining even across wealthier brands because normal people cannot afford to splurge on wine. The wine industry is suffering because of idiots like Aravind Srinivas and every wealthy executive. Go to hell. We hate you.

the only picture you'll ever need when explaining "sea lions are what happened when bears decided they wanted to play in the ocean as a full time job"

Things they care about: being perceived as cool, clout, old white boomer men
Things they don't care about: troops, anyone other than their friends or families, that the flu can kill indiscriminately

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

‘Operation Zero Out’ Campaign Seeks to Clear Expensive Water Bills in Jackson, Mississippi Operation Zero Out: Jackson aims to provide relief to Jacksonians facing expensive—and at times inaccurate—water bills.

“ This is a process that we're fleshing out ‘cause it's only like two or three weeks old,” Brad Franklin said. “It took off faster than we could even imagine, so now we're trying to figure out how to meet the demand and also do it in an efficient and fair manner.”

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I dunno, I managed to critique the system and lay out a vision for reorienting public higher education around a shared vision of human flourishing without having to give any credence to the clearly bad faith attacks on universities. www.amazon.com/Sustainable-...

I bet calling a pharmaceutical company this afternoon will go better than my morning

So early for things to go wrong

Me: I would like to be at the airport at 5
Reality: still not at the airport

This morning is not going as planned

It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.

People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

So, so much. I really think a lot of what's going on physically is trauma and burn out on top of doing a PhD in the middle of a global pandemic...

I lost a lot in 2020. Nothing will ever be the same. But I did it with community, even if I couldn't have dinner physically with them. And while I'm a broken, chronically ill human who will never be "healthy" again, I know it's important for me to keep building community, to know neighbors names.

When my dad needed things, I could text folks that he was having a bad day and they'd call and chat for hours. He thought it was just a coincidence that people knew to call him.

No, it was community.

We couldn't find flour, so I posted on social media that I'd make fresh sour dough and exchange it for anyone willing to drop off King Arthur AP flour.

I got into baking *hard* and when we had too much (I made 4 doz English muffins once) we delivered them to front porches.

During one of my mom's hospitalizations, friends helped me knock out my dad's house to do list, including basic repair work and painting.

Once my mom died, a lot of my friends disappeared because I couldn't do the social thing. I couldn't check in. But others showed up with meals.

During 2020, when my life turned upside down, it was my community that kept things going. Husband was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy and a friend came over and both of us in masks cleaned my house in prep for him to return.

Husband: do you want to join us outside?
Me, who has been surrounded by people for many days: no

look at this crazy mfer who thinks he's going to survive the apocalypse without cooperating and being in community with other people.

IMO the technological singularity tech bros are endlessly saying is right around the corner is just a secular rapture, a moral offloading, kicking the can of responsibility for the welfare of the human species down the road to a technological god who will solve the problems and absolve the guilty.

And gastrointestinal distress is a common side effect that I heard a doctor say "most people can tolerate"

"we don't get PhDs for vibe research" is quite the statement coming from an astrophysicist.

Ooo, this makes me think about ed psych engagement scales that moves into unengaged (passive) and disengaged (refusal to engage).

Shred for a salad!