yeah, this is my hunch: that it's just a hangover from Cartesian dualism fused with the historical prejudices of 19th-20th-century medicine like what are we doing here:

this man has a structurally & functionally altered brain as a result of gambling again and again with variable results ranging from the very positive to the very negative!!! his cortisol and heartrate and physical risk-tolerance are implicated! he dies as a result! physically, in his body!!!!

found a lil handwritten flash fiction from years ago, and decided to type it up, without edits I wrote in an creative writing therapy group at some mental health program or another, but it's the germ of an idea I want to expand into a novel

I've returned mainly for two reasons: (1) To inform you all 'Common Side Effects' is kinda a masterpiece and you should all watch it. (2) To inform you all that a mouse ate all my bread but left just the crust (plus droppings, obvi).

lmao, it's also hilarious that this place is in Berkeley, which I recently learned is actually named after Berkeley anyways, i'm gonna do some subjective idealism right now (eat almonds which I enjoy)

Do we all agree that this is a rude message to send to a person you've never met on the occasion of their grandmother's 98th birthday?!?! PS mfer never even read my response!! PPS My grandmother and I have different last names, so it's unclear if he knew we were related.

"i got a bone to pick with Kyle" — Lake Merritt picnic table, Oakland

last of all, foldable dog

furthermore,

reclining sphinx

ngl it's fucked up that Lego gave everyone's spacesuit a helmet except Milou

Surely it matters that for decades (& especially the last year), Newsom has cultivated a sort of blue-state macho/dandy persona. He is vain, cruel, & close to wealth. The argument isn't that he failed to prevent his son from going down a bad path, but rather that he affirmatively modeled the path!

I would kill to watch an Eric Bogosian + David Strathairn buddy comedy/math class

tired: pumping iron with Arnold Schwarzenegger wired: pumping lemmas with Daniel Molloy from Interview with the Vampire

Two currents in my life are coming into collision: (1) I'm becoming fascinated by the pragmatics of bilingualism in Canadian media. (2) I don't think I can handle another winter as cold and isolating as the one I just experienced in Boston.

I only got LLM-pilled like two days ago (ambivalently pilled) and I was all giddily impressed with Claude's reasoning until the bizarre failure below, wherein I lead up to pasting lyrics for Claude to analyze, forget to paste the lyrics, and get a confabulated analysis instead. What happened here?

Post a random GIF, and everything will go good in 2026:

Like, if you ran the sequence in reverse, would it make for a felicitous discourse? Q: Who are the slut gnomes of false Berlin? A: Feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for sexual favors, but don't say "guten Tag" - they're not actually German! ?????????

This is a nice in-the-wild example of a rather complex dynamic semantic speech act: a conditional with a factual antecedent, an imperative consequent which itself embeds a factual consequent, producing a warning, and is itself conjoined to another disjunctive imperative consequent. 🐦🐦 #philsky

This is one my favorite photos ever taken of me. Shout-out to my friend Doug. MEMENTO MORI

The 28th floor hotel lounge has infinite free drinks included as part of our reservation and I have intense FOMO

Why is this appliance (toilet) taunting me with its superior Japanese skills, my self-esteem is bad enough already "Oh your ass hasn't been taken through the car wash? AND you're bad at Japanese?!?!? You filthy barbarian"

Back on the West Coast and in SF for the first time since June, and let me tell you, the NorCal foliage and soil and breezy humid Pacific fog really hit different than Boston lol

I'm in Providence and I found a lil baby river?

Hell yeah, I finally have a purpose! When dyou need it by? It won't be anything fancy. Here's a mockup that took me like 2 minutes to make. The real version will be hand-drawn and maybe have our guy perched on roof of a building looking down at a sketchy vacant lot labeled prejacent or something 

This is still my favorite, though a bit of a stretch "As the girls reported, wearing black would have been too radical a statement, so they chose pegging as a more moderate sign of independence" — Eckert (2019)

I feel like linguists should just embrace it at this point, as our microculture

Sent my parents this pic and joked that the look I was going for was "Gulag Reject". Behold my mom's amazing response. INSTEAD OF LABOR CAMPS THINK OF ORGANIZING LABOR lmao