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Vaishnavi S
@vaishs.bsky.social
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Gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome | Occasionally a computer scientist https://vaishs.github.io
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I painstakingly wrote out a series of seven explanation/examples-plus-fill-in-the-blank-exercises style Lean files (à la Software Foundations) for my Logic course, and I got this feedback. I didn’t think my spirit could be crushed any more, but here we are again, at the end of yet another semester!
A snippet of course feedback, which reads as follows: 1. no background was given for lean we were expected to pick up everything from ourselves 2. it was not even told to us what all do we need to learn in lean 3. all assignments were prepared by TAs and were clearly chat gpt created 4. feedback for even the first lab has not been provided yet and it is almost time for majors
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Introduce yourself with:

One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
The cover of the book The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam’s A still of Buttercup holding onto Wesley the Dread Pirate Roberts in an autumnal wood (from the movie The Princess Bride) Album art for Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Any description that I am capable of would not do justice to the swag dripping off this image. A shot of the main cast of The Good Place on and around a blue couch
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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One of these things is not like the others
A Spotify wrapped screenshot showing my top artists. They are Queen, Huntr/X, The Beach Boys, ABBA, and Fleetwood Mac, in order A Spotify wrapped screenshot which says “My listening age is 63 Since I was into music from the late 70s”
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin has zoned out in class and is (in the first two beautifully coloured, extremely detailed panels) mentally a pterodactyl, who suddenly barely evades capture by a water dinosaur who shouts “Calvin, pay attention!” and brings him back to reality. In the inset to the panel, Miss Wormwood tells Calvin “We’re studying Geography! Now what state do you live in?”, upon which he looks very happy to get one right for once and replies “Denial.”. Miss Wormwood walks away sighing and tiredly says “I don’t suppose I can argue with that”, Calvin looks dumbstruck at the camera, and in the final panel, we see the pterodactyl flying away unharmed, implying that he’s gone back to zoning out.
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Of course women don’t like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it’s KITT.

Chicks dig the car.
KITT, the car from Knight Rider, is parked next to the curb with some greenery in the background
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I know you didn’t intend this to be the fallout, but all I could think of was this 😁
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin tells his dad that he’s realized that words have no fixed meaning, and two generations can be divided by the same language. He then proceeds to use the words “spam”, “lubricated”, and “phasing”, in unlikely contexts, to which his dad responds with “marvy”, “fab”, and “far out”
September 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Asked a Sanskrit expert friend who has this to say
A description of the Sanskrit text in the manuscript above (it’s not even interesting enough to alt-text in full)
August 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Someone with better meme skills than me needs to do this, but I couldn’t resist!
The Homer Simpson drooling meme, where it says “Mmmmmm” on top and “Twisty Berry” at the bottom, but the Greek poet Homer’s face is overlaid onto the image
August 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I have never felt more seen by the opening of a book in my entire life (of course, my name is not Rosa, but nobody’s writing books with protagonists with my — not particularly common — Indian name) @tkingfisher.com
The first paragraph of a book, which reads as follows: « ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a girl named Rosa. She had black hair and brown skin and brown eyes and she was a little bit plump and her favorite color was purple and she was deeply, profoundly, exquisitely bored. "I am more bored than anyone has ever been in the history of the world," »
August 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Bonjour, je viens de finir cuisiner le déjeuner maintenant, au meilleur temps.
Screenshot from a weather app showing current weather in Delhi. As of 13:00 IST, it is 39°C with haze, and feels like 47°C.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Corporate wants you to find differences between the two pictures
The leafy branches of a tree overhang the banks of the river Seine on a sunny day. A bridge and some buildings can be seen in the far distance.
May 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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¿Por que no los dos?
'It's a cushy posting if what you want is to travel abroad on someone else's money,' said Anthony. 'But academics by nature are a solitary, sedentary lot. Travel sounds fun until you realize what you really want is to stay at home with a cup of tea and a stack of books by a warm fire. (Excerpt from Babel, by RF Kuang)
April 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Happy International Carrot Day!

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Carrot Ironfoundersson, from Discworld (as illustrated by Paul Kidby)
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Reminds me of one of my favorite paintings I ever saw! (Unfortunately I never checked who it was by, and I haven’t been back to that museum even if they still have that exhibit)
A picture of a very realistic painting. It shows only the left arm and part of torso of a woman lying on her side wearing a blue-and-white patterned dress, and there is an old-timey white car in the back, with a tree whose leaves are casting shadows on the car. The whole effect is very reminiscent of a lazy afternoon picnic in a park.
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Haha, can imagine. I had to live in this building for a while: ephoto.lescrous.fr/link/rrs19zh.... Did NOT like it.
A white concrete building with oblong balconies jutting out at all sorts of odd angles
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This, but modified i.pinimg.com/236x/2d/81/4...
A section from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. Mrs Wormwood asks Calvin what state he lives in, and Calvin responds with “Denial.” Mrs Wormwood sighs and says “I suppose I can’t argue with that”.
February 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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As someone with no artistic skills, the best I can do is that the squid is behind this splotch of ink.

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Happy birthday!!
Splatter of black ink on a white background
January 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits

The spirits
From L-R: Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup
December 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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TLDR: The distracted boyfriend meme but for unread books. A guy in a blue shirt is labelled “Me whenever I have free time” and turning around to look lasciviously at a woman walking by in a red dress labelled “the Libby app on my phone”, while the woman with him looks shocked/disgusted and is labelled “My growing TBR pile of physical books”
November 18, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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If you see this, post a beach photo from your gallery
A beach with bright blue water and foamy white waves crashing against a rocky shore
November 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Dr Doofenshmirtz next to a device saying “Behold, the drawinator”
October 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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If you see this post a pic taken in the mountains
Lush green mountains with a valley in between on an overcast day. A muddy river runs in a C shape around part of this valley, and there is a red-roofed house on the elevated ground next to the river.
October 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Keep the chain, post a favourite character.

To all those who don’t quite fit in, but somehow find their kindred spirits nevertheless.

Tagging @chembarathi.bsky.social
@cookieduh.xyz
@thesimplecrew.com
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A young girl with greenish eyes, freckles, and Titian hair in pigtails is wearing a hat and a plain dress and smiling. A horse is standing in the background near a barn and a fence. (Anne of Green Gables)
October 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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Similar vibes
A picture of a Gulmohar (Delonix regia) tree with dark green leaves and brilliant red flowers, against a blue sky flecked with white clouds
October 16, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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As she fixed herself breakfast, she idly mused about which book she might pick up that afternoon. Maybe a visit to the library was in order! That cheered her up, even as it looked grey and gloomy outside; certainly not park and ice cream weather.
We’re playing Exquisite Corpse, Bluesky style. Copy this image and alt text and add it to your reply.
October 8, 2024 at 1:43 PM