El :)
lesbian husband to @katieaki.bsky.social | they/them | 28 | rva, “the new york of the south” | what hurts you hurts me! 🏳️⚧️❤️🔥
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- my PhD advisor keeps talking about how AI is getting “scary good” at coding and how it’s great for him since he knows how to code and can test it out. brother your brain is melting and coming out your ears as we speak!!
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- this is who runs this account:
- bring a knife (one boot, the minimum tool) to the knife fight (stomping down the cans)
- got so stressed out re: “do I have adhd?” (almost certainly) “am I doing an okay job of managing it? should I seek out an adult diagnosis?” Snd I became able to take care of a professional email/situation I’d been procrastinating fixing for conservatively 8mo
- I love paying my $30/year student membership for my professional society, with lots of benefits like
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- idk how clear it is in this photo, but there’s an “ice pillar” in the sky in Richmond Virginia rn???
- shoveled ice for three hours in our condo parking lot today, alternating between breaking things up with 1) a hammer and 2) a metal shovel a neighbor loaned us. and it felt great to do something useful! I wish it was as easy to do something for the world
- big ice storm spared us and we kept power throughout, but I am testing out the fireplace cooking setup anyhow… fingers crossed!
- forecast for this week: 7 days, all of them equally beautiful days for Pope Leo XIV to excommunicate JD Vance
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- She Will be hearing from me tonight
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- lrt: every week I become more and more convinced this would be the best excerpt for the back of the Pony Express Book
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- Reposted by El :)Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
- just saw an ad for a weight loss app marketing itself as “cute” and “for the neurodiverse”…. I HATE it here!!!
- filled with anger tonight and one small(*) and legal thing my heart desires is for Pope Leo to excommunicate JD Vance. if God can make that happen I will get my ass to Church. yes, I’m an atheist but I’m not above a little bargaining with the Big Man.! one time offer.
- pestilent vehicle
- Katie and I are back from our Japan trip and finished with our nearly 24h travel day. I ordered groceries to the house and feel so moved by these carefully-packaged eggs in their own separate bag
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- this place was too spooky, so I had to take all the good luck items we bought that day and make a Temporary Emergency Shrine and ward for the door with yogurt gummies as an offering. Inari is mostly the Kami of rice and foxes, not like…. Protection, but things were desperate
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- this “cut your tomatoes off and hang them up in your kitchen” shit really works!! and green onions don’t gaf about the weird early December snows 😈
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- Reposted by El :)NEW EP ALERT 🌳🌿🌱🌿🌳⛰️🌊🏔️ EPISODE 13: MINES OF MENCIA 🧗🏻🦛🦛🗒️🚁
- no, because people don’t read PONY EXPRESS
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- it’s super bittersweet in December still bringing in last remnants of this year’s garden!! it’s supposed to snow overnight so I cut our very last marigolds. tomato branches I cut still ripening hanging in our kitchen
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- oh, you got parentified? that’s cute. I got butch eldest daughter husbandified
- I’m writing a grant to fund a postdoc for me with a very cool prof I’m very excited to work with BUT today they proposed we name a program in our proposal “BuSSE” (“like the bus! 🙂”)
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- feeling self-actualized as the nation’s first male tradwife bc I made fluffy pull-apart rolls for our guests and also a log cabin fire
- 🎵give a dog a booooone🎶
- I’ve been getting into making double portion of pot pie filling this autumn and freezing it, so a few weeks after Pot Pie #1, I can whip out Pot Pie #2 with considerably less effort. and besties, it is really working for me!
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- I’m at the aurora hunt. I’m at the postdoc interview prep. I’m at the combination aurora hunt and postdoc interview prep…!
- dems had to remind us, after last week, that voting for democrats will never do anything ever and they will always generate identical outcomes to republicans. just in case we forgot!
- real fucking interesting Tim Kaine decided to cave on shutdown when his office is closed and not taking my angry phone calls 🤨⁉️
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- all the payday loan app ads are grim as fuck, but the one for "Dave" where the guy is getting an emergency loan on his phone in the line so he can pay for groceries is uh. especially awful! especially now!
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- stress-baked scratch cinnamon rolls and mostly scratch pot pie (puff pastry is store bought)!
- god, I'm glad Winsome Earle-Sears didn't win. feels fucking good to know at least the person who ran the most abhorrent anti-trans ads I can imagine WON'T be our governor. maybe now we can watch tv without having to see those ads, even! imagine!
- Reposted by El :)whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
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- and WHAT, exactly, is wrong with having a beautiful aloof wife with bangs? 🤔😡
- you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like 🐌
- strike these guys out, snell. win the world sneries
