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can't stop listening to kesha while writing the third blog post in a week that has a poor chance of ever seeing the light of day

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inquired today about the worst outcomes anyone had ever seen from not balancing a centrifuge. unconfirmed secondhand anecdote about an unbalanced centrifuge going through a wall. "i still sometimes run the small one unbalanced for the adrenaline though."

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Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field: Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air: Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing, Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years: Rise and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open. And let his wife and children return from the opressors scourge. They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream.

— William Blake, America a Prophecy (1793)

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in reservoir dogs sauce money says "now i concentrate on your camp like jews"

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so if you've been wondering why @jumpingjacktrash never posts anymore... hey you remember back in november when i posted that PSA about stroke symptoms? yeah.

things looked bad for a while, and then good for a while, and then bad for a while, and sometime last night jesse wildly misunderstood the term "death of the author".

if you're thinking about sending gifts or something, i'm all set, but hey, trevor project and the like are always looking for support.

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bro jumped over a candle stick

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now. not that the author takes no blame for this awful choice. but i refuse to believe there were zero other signs that this book sucked and i feel that this post reveals a lot about the OP,

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Clinical Syndromes are not God’s gift to cognitive neuropsychology: A reply to a rebuttal to an answer to a response to the case against syndrome-based research

Caramazza and Badecker (1991)

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BaseBall pants By McIver

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Amitava Kumar, Passport Photos, 2000

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1, 4, and 12 for all souls ask game. or just pick one if you don’t want to answer all 3 of them.

"How can you know anything about literature if all you've done is read books?" [Geoff Dyer] MANY believe that reading books is the same as touching grass. it is not so. though, having both touched grass and read books, i still don't feel like i know much about literature. and so my answer to this question is more of a guess ("you can't") than a conclusion. i think more people should read literary criticism, too. not because most literary criticism is super wise but because knowing what to look for makes understanding a book and placing it in some sort of context much easier, and this is a sense that can be hard to develop without seeing examples (i would like to read enough literary criticism/review that i do not feel totally lost when trying to do my own analyses of books. have not yet gotten there)

4. When we make contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization, what should we tell them is humanity's greatest achievement? as i've seen other answerers say... probably something like eradicating smallpox. or showing them a graph of mortality rate. i think even humans don't appreciate this enough and i would be really proud about getting to show this to an alien (plus i think aliens are more likely to understand the concept of death than other human stuff we could talk to them about)

12. Why do autocrats oppress?

this one seems hard to give a concise answer to. i think humans just bend towards desiring power and towards overestimating their own ability to wield it in ways that are good for people other than themselves (or even good for themselves, in many cases).

i'm not sure i'd get a good grade on this exam to be honest.

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it is nice to be in a situation where you feel you are being quite noble and upstanding and whatever simply by existing within it and not going totally insane, but then after you finish listening to the song and understanding that you are its long-suffering main character, then you are still stuck wherever you are. so, it's probably good when good things happen

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If I were God I'd constantly be fiddling with the value of pi but only for the digits that no sentient beings had calculated yet. Why not. It's stress relief. I'm not hurting nobody.

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looks like those "no kings" protests didn't work since all my homies still around 👑