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enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow
Joined March 2011
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Making a second brief return to twitter to report that @TBQuarterly sent me a (very nice!) rejection letter for a poem I wrote about tacos, which I am using as permission to just throw the thing on Medium along with several paragraphs of commentary medium.com/@Birdbassador/obj…
Briefly back on twitter to say that I got laid off, so let me know if you know anybody who is interested in the stuff I do enough to pay me for it
had a dream that i submitted something so bad that they gave me a video of looping stock footage of sharks with the words “CAN’T WRITE” prominently displayed that i was (legally?) obligated to prepend to all future writing
mockup attached
ALT sharks swimming in an aquarium with the title caption “can’t write” in repeating colors
if and when this website dies i will just retreat down a strata or two to earlier websites. see you all on the something awful forums to discuss the plot progress of keenspot webcomics and uk twee/anorak. failing that, my aim screenname is also available on request
Why do conferences/journals sometimes ask reviewers for a novelty/originality score? The only thing it does is create bad incentive structures. Reject work if it’s plagiarized, sure, but why on earth should a reviewer care about “originality” beyond that?
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Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr).
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“I can’t believe twitter is free” it isn’t, there is an inconceivable toll
After several months of truly insufferable writing, I have completed my initial summary of the Lacanian elements of the anime where master tactician Zhuge Liang becomes a club promoter.
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ALT Eiko from Ya Boy Kongming!, wearing a baseball cap that just says "Cap," smiles while looking at her phone. Her boss looks on dourly in the background.
in scooby doo, the desire to get those teens away from the pirate gold or whatever is, in a libidinal sense, more "real" than the villain's identity as an inn keeper etc. so, the mask, to me, is precisely what fred paradoxically "reveals" when he removes the visage of the monster
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According to The Inner Bird by Gary W. Kaiser, the true bird is ”a strange goblin-like creature”, ”a puppeteer behind a screen of feathers.” Can’t really disagree here.
it’s a testament to charlotte the spider’s inherent goodness that she can say “salutations” and we think it’s endearing instead of being the start of an e-mail where they try to convince me that the IRS needs iTunes gift cards
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こんばんは🐥🤣👍
体力有り余り系コザ女🐥💕
#コザクラインコ
#ゴミ箱大好きラブちゃん
relaxing post conference trip to the museum of osteology
ALT Articulated humpback whale skeleton
ALT Articulated skeletons of hornbill and alliess
ALT Articulated skeletons of toucans
I will be giving this talk in mere minutes. I was convinced by well-meaning friends to cut out the five slides I had about Jacques Lacan and the 12 slides about Gettier problems in epistemology #ieeevis
What will VIS look like in the future? What are people worried about when they think about visualization as a field of research? Investigate our laundry list of anxieties @birdbassador #ieeevis bit.ly/belivprogress