I have April 30 2026 booked off work so I can day drink to either celebrate or commiserate SSHRC results. Something something schrodinger's calendar?

I wrote a brief (bad) paper on how the different iterations of dnd treat gender and if I remember correctly the 1st edition had limits on how strong female characters could be and early Dragon magazine articles discussing the proto-rules for it mentioning "beauty/comeliness." 🙃

Yeah, I've seen the videos on tiktok and they're fun! I just sort of hate the internet tendency to shit on anything that seems earnest.

First thing I did after shouting "STOP BEEPING AT ME!" at my new car dashboard was to figure out how to turn off all the "smart" features.

I love this article and tried to get my students to read it. (Guess how successful that was?)

Education, as it turns out, is much like life: one goddamn problem after another.
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

Definitely worse places to do so!

Fun! Where are you headed?

I feel like I've collected anti depressants like infinity stones for the last 20 years. (Zoloft was not my friend, alas!)

Cats and wellbutrin over here!

Honestly this is how I have some of my oldest friends to date. (And how I made some initial academic contacts on twitter, haha)

I'm so sorry to hear this - my love to you and your family. Losing an animal companion is such a heavy weight on the heart.