I did get a very sincere apology from this friend after I reached out and it helped so there's that
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His person has cancer and surrendered the pup because treatment has made him too weak for caretaking, what a heartbreak and also I would maybe want to figure out staying in touch with the person??
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Once again I am struggling with not just going to adopt a good Kitty-coded dog I saw online https://nycacc.app/#/browse/218330
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First official night of teaching update: mostly good vibes from the students, I made a lot of dad jokes
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"please read it back to me—no no, I told the Senator to 'retire BINCH, b-i-N-c-h', it's important"
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all in all my life is probably for the better no longer being part of that org but being rendered disposable by that org really fucked with me in 2018 and contributed to a super-low point in my life where the suicidal ideation got really fucking bad, & seeing this news brought that all back up for me
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also: someone who I considered a friend of mine is going to be a fellow doing research for the new initiative and while i don't fault them taking the money/affiliation, it feels shitty to not get a heads up about an org that made me feel disposable is going to announce a big new program in this area! it sucks to find this out via a "thrilled to announce", and makes me feel like I do not matter to you!
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i recognize that my former employer is taking climate impacts of tech seriously now mainly b/c 1) it's trendy and 2) the person pushing it in the org has a PhD so they take her more seriously than they ever took me, but it still really stings to see everyone patting themselves on the back about something I couldn't get any traction on w/leadership 9 years ago
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like as someone who has also spun the silicon valley superfund yarn before, it's good to keep that history in the discourse AND ALSO if you're not adding anything new please cite the people who did this work already
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watched some of a webinar of academics talking about labor and tech history and I know this sort of just demonstrates I've developed some expertise or whatever, but got so annoyed watching a presentation on the Silicon Valley superfund sites that was basically a recap of scholarship done in fucking 2002. you got a dissertation grant for this man? come on.
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Exception: Matt Stoller being confused at what's happening, that guy is bad faith all the way down and is owed little to no grace
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watching an old video of bill clinton from a 1996 event and i know we do not gotta hand it to him but really disarmed to remember how well he understood the value of talking like a regular fucking person as a politician
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"red states not getting federal aid heh heh" also qualifies in this genre, sorry
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the smug "see how you like it" in the face of people suffering (eg "Trump is also bad on Palestine, take that ppl who called him 'Genocide Joe'") is so fucking corrosive on the soul and is pretty ineffective at coalition building, and I say this as someone with a long history of soul-corroding takes and tendencies
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For a Ruthless Posting Through of Everything Existing
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The egg is objectively both the funniest and the absolutely most devastating foodstuff to have its supply chain collapse in the first weeks of a fascist regime
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https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-109/ this week in sentences: baboon heart, daily in contraband, kind of impressive, beep-boop, coffin-dark, stubborn intuition, oysters instead, lonely sunfish, his resonance, Augustine and Aristotle, a stone thrown, incomparably strange
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My sister watched I Saw The TV Glow and loved it
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More saw than overheard: a guy on the F train with a very well behaved husky doing little nose boops and telling her how good she was being
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Overhearing this older white Brooklyn guy opthalmologist speaking OK Spanish with a patient and then demonstrating a pretty impressive knowledge of Ecuadorian cities when she tells him she's Ecuadorian (he identified her hometown as the third largest city there). What a guy, this opthalmologist, contains multitudes
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