Good for them! And they only had to strike for a week. UC grad students were on strike for way longer and barely got anything.

Yes! Pippin LOVES going on walks. I like that he gets some exercise and mental stimulation. He loves to explore new places and cackle and squirrels and birds.

Conan is adorable!

Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory

V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)

Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited

“The point of the white people's meal is to learn what it feels like to be dead, but I've taken two bites and it was so bad it made me realize how alive I am."

These are hilarious. But there’s a tidbit in there about the “996” work thing in China. 9am-9pm 6 days a week. That’s terrible. How do you do literally anything else?

For sure! I’m about to teach a class and am using a really great free textbook from OpenStax. It was really important to me not to increase the financial burden on my students.

Before I turned off NSFW I was getting stuff from a community called “teens”. I doubt they’re doing age verification…

ME series is my absolute favorite! Hope you have fun with ME2, it’s a blast.

I was big in fandom spaces circa 2002-2008 and it’s pretty crazy to me how much the culture has changed. Livejournal is where I got introduced to the concepts of social justice and intersectionality and all that, and it’s morphed into something pretty weird.

I’m personally kind of a prude and am uncomfortable with oversexualization but I don’t think this puritan, regressive path is the way to go.

I imagine a lot of them were Apollo users, who are upset about the loss of their app and the way Reddit has treated its creator.

Apparently I am really sensitive to motion smoothing/video interpolation/“soap opera effect” that TVs do now. I’ve pointed out that people have the setting on so many times and most of them never noticed things looked weird.

Some ones I’ve had a lot of fun with recently:

-Herd Mentality, where everyone tries to guess what the most popular answer to a question is

-Loaded Questions, where everyone answers a question and someone has to figure out who put what answer (both of these are really great for getting to know people better)

-Monikers, great for a larger group, a mix between taboo and charades. Super super fun.

-Mind the Gap. Great for mixed age groups like families. It’s like trivial pursuit but you have to answer questions from different time periods.

I’m working on my Astrophysics PhD. I study “galactic cannibalism” aka how galaxies grow and change by eating smaller galaxies. My big focus is on teaching and outreach though rather than research.