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  The #Phillies are winning and I'm snuggling with my velcro cat. It is a good night.

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  Truly is there any feeling better than being hungry and realizing you have cinnamon rolls in the fridge?

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  I need to find a way to break my reddit addiction. The more time I spend on there the worse I feel.

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  Some musings on AI: I'm not a professional SE. I code in the service of solving specific scientific problems or other problems I personally have. But when I fix a bug, or overcome a limitation, all on my own....that feeling is unmatched. Why would I ever use a tool that takes away that sense of accomplishment? I don't want AI to solve my problems. I want to overcome challenges on my own, to build competence on my own, to discover on my own. AI just cheapens things.

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  RE: https://beige.party/@AaronDavid/116897553067447248 You know what else no one used to ask? Whether the paint on your walls, or your water pipes, had lead. Whether that mercury thermometer needed to be disposed of properly when it broke. We know better now, so we ask more now. This boomer nostalgia bait bullshit is so misguided.

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  My hot take is that OO is the best and most powerful programming paradigm.

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  There is nothing I find more annoying, less likely to improve my perception of a brand, and less likely to make me purchase services from a brand, than those goddamn liberty mutual commercials.

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  "Can you feel joy even while feeling deep sadness?" The question posed in my church's sermon this morning in the explicit context of the 4th of July. Yes, our reverend answers.

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  It's 109F outside and my central air is doing it's best but it was not made for this. As @WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network , our weather lords are drunk on carbon and we need to repent.

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  Once I was a C/C++ girlie, but now I'm all about that Rust and Go. The only constant is change.

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  Nothing hurts my feelings more than my cat deciding she actually doesn't want to be in the same room as me when I'm working from home.

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  Thinking back to high school when writing papers was the bane of my existence, even into college, and now professionally I produce something like at least 75 pages of written material every week. Oh how the turntables.....

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  @lzg@mastodon.social I aspire to be whatever kind of cat lies on a comfortable bed napping all day without moving.

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  I have a whole entire doctorate and yet nothing makes me feel stupider than looking at NYT Connections.

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  I offer my cat fresh salmon and she turns up her nose like I am trying to poison her. What a bizarre and picky cat.

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  Cat behavior/communication experts: how do I explain or communicate to my cat that just because I adjusted my position a little bit doesn't mean the cuddle has to be over?! #urgent

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  My amazing wife has completed her #Pokopia Pokedex! She's a Pokemon Master!

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  @caroline@chaosfem.tw that's a kid with a future in industrial engineering.

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  LET'S GO TYSON FOERSTER!!! #Flyers #NHL #Playoffs

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  Truly, is there any better feeling than when a cat who normally hates being touched decides to seek you out and demand pets?

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  The #Philadelphia #Flyers are one of only four teams in #NHL history to ever dig ourselves out of a 0-3 playoff hole. I have faith that we're going to do it again. Let's go Flyers!

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  Currently receiving a very intense finger bath. #cats #catsofmastodon

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  Huge thermos full of delicious coffee? ✅ Blank word document, open to all the possibilities I could ever write? ✅ Motivation to write? ❌

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  Stepped away for literally 30 seconds to change into PJs and the #Flyers immediately scored 2 back to back. Fuck yeah, boys! #Playoff #Hockey

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  I'm trying to listen to this hockey game but there is a cat on my head and all I can hear is her purring, reverberating down my headphones.

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  2 hours until some more playoff hockey! Is it enough the Flyers eliminated bitter rivals the Penguins!? I say NO! The Boston Fleet need to wipe the map! LET'S GET READY FOR SOME HOCKEY!

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  Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a live one. This is an area of particular expertise for me, as it's what I spent my postdoc on. The way we treat youth, particularly Black and Brown youth, in the school system, at the very best possible interpretation Does Not Help. We are teaching Black and Brown kids that adults do not give a shit about them, and it is contributing to a truly staggering suicide rate. Hats off to these researchers doing this study in Trump's America. https://ass...

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  This paper frustrates me. Nothing against the researchers, but if you can find no consistent patterns, the conclusion shouldn't be "the effects are heterogeneous". The conclusion should be "we couldn't find any pattern / effect". Negative results are still significant! It's important to know that Chiari Malformations don't present with a cogent neuropsychological syndrome! Just fucking say that! https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-60062-001

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  This paper is right up there with the "how to give a mouse PTSD" talk I went to once. This time, it's "we took eight healthy people and subjected them to so much stress that their blood proceeded to spontaneously clot" (#hyperbole). Read and enjoy. https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/JP290576

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  I think it is criminal that my phone spell check doesn't recognize "chucklefuck".