Aris Merquoni @aris_tgd@mastodon.sandwich.net

Caviar (the fancy food delivery service) just sent me an email with the subject line UGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

u get me, caviar, u rly do

What is best in life? Icy-Hot no mess roll-on with the massage ball applicator. Oh yeah.

I finished my project proposal, so now I just have to create an engaging presentation on mixed quantum/semiclassical modeling and spectroscopy for next week, woo.

This is easier than it sounds, the people I'm trying to engage are all theoreticians.

I am likely preaching to the choir here, but hey.

https://twitter.com/sarahthemoose/status/982720956463505408 <-- Thread. (Content notes: Sex work, abusive relationship, drug use, cops being useless) Backpage and other services which help sex workers screen clients? Help save lives. FOSTA/SESTA puts people's lives in danger and makes sex workers more vulnerable.

As anyone could probably have told you, Jane Austen pastiche is difficult to write.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink <-- A really interesting and thoughtful look at John Hughes' movies and trying to balance the good and the bad.

Genuinely thinking this is illness and not just stress.

Though of course it could be stress-induced illness. Best of both worlds!

I just misaligned my jaw trying to eat jellybeans. WHY.

I live again, more or less! PDX Hamilton was awesome, as expected!

It turns out, as predicted, the difference between my results and the professionals was my fault! Hurray for spotting typos.

If it turns out the differences in my results from this 1980 paper are entirely because I have a powermac on my desk I'm going to be so frustrate.

(I'm sorry if you wanted more hot Franklin Graham takes)

(That's the sort of hashtagcontent I'm gonna be bringing, folks, anxiety and fanfic, aw yeah)

@korybing this is me stalking your birdsite but: I am torn between wanting to ask DID YOU READ MY PACIFIC RIM FANFIC and being terrified that you did indeed read it

Hottest of takes: I have some complaints with the Mastodon UI!

Okay, if I'm actually going to be using this as a social platform (possibly for some Hot Takes) I should actually start making posts to it!

P.S. you might recognize Slacktivist for his takedowns of the Left Behind novels as Terrible Writing and even more Terrible Theology: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/11/05/left-behind-index-the-whole-thing/

Fred Clark is a Christian so he obviously feels more fondness than I do for Graham the elder, and is more willing to forgive him his years of bigotry and the popularization of evangelical Christianity than I. But we can all agree Franklin Graham is a shitstain.