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nooooo magdalena bay is in cleveland in may but the concert's already sold out 😭

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z

Words like “woman,” “trauma,” and “ethnicity” are enough to get a grant thrown out.

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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

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a quirk of my psychology is that I've found talking with grad school professors after I've already been admitted to be more stressful than the actual interviews. at that point, if they didn't like me, they could just not admit me. at this point, if they don't like me, they have to realize they made a mistake and then possibly resent me for years.

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the internet is now telling me there are role-playing games on the computer that are not CRPGs. giving up on being a genre understander.

ok so you know how JRPG means japanese role-playing game, so like a role-playing video game made in japan or—importantly—that is not actually japanese but is inspired by the style of those games and so included in the genre. (which I don't know any details about; I don't know many things about video games which will quickly become clear.) I've been operating under the belief until about 5 minutes ago that CRPG meant chinese role-playing game. and not computer role-playing game. my brain was presumably drawing parallels to J-pop/C-pop. well. anyways I'm a little disappointed that there isn't a chinese video game tradition of games similar to disco elysium, because people were always calling disco elysium a CRPG and I knew it wasn't chinese so I assumed there were all these chinese games with similar elements it was drawing from.

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ok so you know how JRPG means japanese role-playing game, so like a role-playing video game made in japan or—importantly—that is not actually japanese but is inspired by the style of those games and so included in the genre. (which I don't know any details about; I don't know many things about video games which will quickly become clear.) I've been operating under the belief until about 5 minutes ago that CRPG meant chinese role-playing game. and not computer role-playing game. my brain was presumably drawing parallels to J-pop/C-pop. well. anyways I'm a little disappointed that there isn't a chinese video game tradition of games similar to disco elysium, because people were always calling disco elysium a CRPG and I knew it wasn't chinese so I assumed there were all these chinese games with similar elements it was drawing from.

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Random PNGs, part 201

(1. Crab bowl from Peru (2nd–4th c.), 2. Spiny ammonites, 3. Daddy long-legs, 4. Spiny ammonites, 5. Centipede obidome pin (early 20th c.), 6. Lalaounis jewellery set, 7. Articulated snake bracelet or necklace, 8. Spiral design disc (?), 9. Mosquitos)

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who let biologists play dnd

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Knowledge, learning, understanding, are not linear. They are not little bits of facts lined up in rows or piled up one on top of another. A field of knowledge, whether it be math, English, history, science, music, or whatever, is a territory, and knowing it is not just a matter of knowing all the items in the territory, but of knowing how they relate to, compare with, and fit in with each other. It is the difference between being able to say that a room in your house has so many tables, so many chairs, so many lamps, and being able to close your eyes and see that this chair goes here and that table there. It is the difference between knowing the names of all the streets in a city and being able to get from any place, by any desired route, to any other place. I believe this now more strongly than ever, and it seems to me as important as any other idea set forth in this book.

— John Holt, How Children Fail

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ITS DOECHII BITCH MISS D-O-E DON DADA BITCH YOU NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DOECHII'S full performance of catfish and denial Is a river at the GRAMMYS

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Sculptures by Eva Funderburgh. ~ Large Cloud Cow, 2007. Woodfired Stoneware. Photo by Steve Sauer. ~ Cuckoos #1: Discussion over an Egg, 2009. Burnished and Saggar fired porcelain.

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cat living in a radio station

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saw some prints by yoshida hiroshi at a local museum and I'm now obsessed

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fun fact: punxsutawney phil is now a father to two baby groundhogs. now, when I learned this information, I immediately thought of this screenshot I had in my phone from the official groundhog day phil faq:

phil receives an elixir of life every year and is canonically immortal (the questions raised by the existence of an elixir of life are not at all answered). his wife is not immortal which is very sad. of course, I needed to know the answer to the question: are his kids immortal? will phil be forced to live to eternity (or whenever this elixir of life runs out) remembering the deaths of his children?

there is no answer. https://www.groundhog.org/phil-faq no longer exists. it disappeared sometime after september 23, 2024, the day I took the screenshot—the last capture on the wayback machine was on september 20. they're rewriting history as we speak. the phil lore may be gone forever. is he even still immortal?

anyways the groundhog babies are named sunny and shadow and here's a cute picture of when they were little. happy groundhog day.