Tom Stearns @tomstearns@octodon.social
I do stuff sometimes. Teaching, research, data analysis, sometimes write a song or write a thing. I keep busy. What do you do? Why?
@peternauta Esa película es un tesoro.
Dear Mastodon Admins,
I didn't want to admit this, but the inter-instance drama is pretty compelling. Please take careful notes and possible consider acting out the dramatic episodes with the use of puppets or stuffies or something. Kthx.
@bbc Royalty in a repressive, socially-reactionary society are abusing their politically and economically powerless servants?
I am shocked, I tell you.
12 years ago a lovely person made me the best #magneticPoetry set ever. Sometimes I still play with it.
Sometimes I make non-numbers into numbers then make them do very strange things and then I turn them back into non-numbers. Mostly, though, I try to trick people who paid money to know things they don't really want to know to know the things they don't really want to know.
You?
Something something tree storm
...and here's the "hello" song. Seriously, Ariel is pretty impressive.
In the future, we won't be able to rely on the technical incompetence of autocrats. This shit just keeps getting scarier.
Trump's team attempts to purge past press releases from the web:
http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/donald-trump-campaign-muslim-ban-press-releaes
A talented student singing her "goodbye" song (written for children), apparently unaware of the bittersweet nature of singing this to her labmates a few days before she graduates.
@masklayer Give it a few years. It will be.
@PoliticalVoyeur Damn. World Masturbation Day was like three or four days ago. I'm afraid you're fucked. Or, you know, sadly not.
(If I can't see this photo posted in my timeline, then it didn't post, right? I'm not spamming people with the same photo over and over?)
@DialMforMara OK they made me cry. Gave me a card and everything. And one of them sang songs. The rest played Cards Against Humanity.
Kids these days.
@DialMforMara Those are great suggestions. Thanks! We have some vegetarians, a few who might want kosher, but I forgot about allergies until you mentioned it. Thanks!
I have worked with about ten great undergrads this year in mentored research.
I invited them to have an end-of-year party at my house this evening. I haven't hosted a party in, literally, 15 years. They like drinking so I bought some... beer? and hard lemonade? I chose by label color. People like chips and dip, right? And hot dogs?
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/0a/0a3d2a086eaafe832d58281eeab1858cd3bd3e3d4736e582a383b3aee933a14c.jpg
@atomjack IIRC these kinds of motions are instinct (i.e., hard-wired neural relays that make stereotyped behavior patterns) in most vertebrates. Yoga poses, "classic" sports poses, and "good form" in many kinds of dance and other athletics often mimic fundamental reflexes that get "overwritten" in humans by higher-order and more complex patterns of behavior... but the traces are still there.
I've never lost my love for taking the kinds of photos that first-year photography students probably take. Which probably means I'll never be a pro photographer, but after two decades in a completely different branch of academia I think that was already pretty obvious.
She is (almost) all the reasons.
