I know that its not actually that hard to learn to draw. or paint. or cook. or learn to speak a new language. or code. or any of a myriad of other possible skills or hobbies. but at some point you need to pick some single digit number of those ten thousand things that anyone can do, and to everything else say "i have other priorities" because otherwise you will never do any of them.

and so i think when people say "i wish i could..." they usually don't believe that they couldn't do it if they really tried, or even that they've overestimated the difficulty of doing so. I think what they're really wishing for is that time and energy were not finite quantities and that everything that was worth doing could also be done. because it's cosmically unfair that that isn't so.

#mood today

here's an opinion about physics textbooks:

the first time you use a Clever Mathematical Trick, you need to write it out in excruciating detail, because it's an intuitive shortcut that requires no facility with the maths to YOU, but your students are learning. They are sitting there, staring at the 'worked example' at step 3 and going "no wait what happened there? How did you get. that?!"

the gremlins are a bsod loop with variable error codes, and I am Very Frustrated about it. The hard drive seems fine, so I'll see if I can't put it into another computer, if we can't get the original husk running properly again. However, this is not helping my ongoing suspicion that windows update is out to get me specifically.

hi hi hello frends, I am for the moment locked out of my skype for reasons related to gremlins, and won't be able to claw myself back in for at least a week.

hi hi hello frends, I am for the moment locked out of my skype for reasons related to gremlins, and won't be able to claw myself back in for at least a week.

Turn your sound on, YOU WON’T REGRET. (This video is not mine)

I would like to note that contrary to popular belief, tuxedo cats are not little businessmen!

tuxedo is formal party attire, if you wore one at a business function, you would be inappropriately dressed!

tuxedo cats are, instead, lil fancy guys, darling socialites, even

IT WAS ONE GIANT FROG

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The Moon by Alice Blake

My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

don’t forget the chronic deja vu

via Elle.cordova on tiktok

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived