chase those seconds

hockey players when they see Ilya rozanov: I can’t wait to tell this man I’m gay

hockey players when they see Ilya rozanov: this man is a dick but I can’t wait to tell him all my secrets

Ilya: and this is my ex boyfriend Shane

Shane: would you please stop introducing me like that

Shane: I’m his husband

I can’t escape gay hockey brainrot

If you guys haven’t read Rachel Reid’s book Heated Rivalry….. you gotta

This book killed me

4.01 More Joy

Is this even real? I have thought of nothing but you and this for so long. Thought it, but didn’t know how to say it. Or maybe I was afraid to. And now it just feels like I have a future again. With you, just like this.

for context these are the poems

also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:

gotta add my absolute fave ones

performance and self-awareness

You say the whole world’s ending, honey, it already did. BO BURNHAM: INSIDE (2021)

sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it

new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?

me: dONn’t touch those

new guy:

me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.

new guy:

new guy:

me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.

Science is rational, scientists are human. 

In Taiwan we have a special brand of snacks named 乖乖 (literally means “well behaved” but in a casual way like when one’s compliment a child or a pet of being good) that has green package.

It has become the lucky charm in the IT industry because engineers believe it will make machine acting good (like the name of the snack) and stay in green light (like the color of the snack’s package) when a 乖乖 is put on top of a server.

It is the only food allowed in a server room and the biggest semicondoctor company in Taiwan (which is also the biggest worldwide) even commissioned the snack factory to make a customized version with blessing on the package.

This is how a server room is blessed by 乖乖. You put at least one on top of each server. It’s important that the engineers change them before the expire date because legend says the snack looses it’s power after expire date.

You’ll hear engineers swearing up and down that their server room crushed down the one time they forgot to change the snack.  Or some newbie ate the forbidden snack put on top of their server and caused a disastrous crush down.

The 乖乖 religion later spread to all people who want their machine to act nice. In the lab we put 乖乖 on ultra-low freezer (you really don’t want it to drop dead along with your 2 years’ worth of sample/data), mass spectrometer etc.

When Taiwan’s about to launch the first self made satellite in 2017, the develop team even put 乖乖 around the satellite model to prey for a successful launch (it did). This shit is real.

Broke: Humans are inherently good

Broke: Humans are inherently evil

Woke: Humans are, for good or evil, inherently ridiculous

Bespoke: Humans are so incomprehensibly insane that the power of their wild joint beliefs affect the fabric of reality.

in the bones (charlotte brontë / dropdeaddream / jensen mcrae / shinji moon / herman melville / caitlyn siehl / kurt vonnegut)

“What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another. You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.” — Sally Rooney

Normal People (2020—)

Bone of my bones. Were you taken from my rib? You must have been, or maybe I was made from yours.