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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

anyway, is there still a need for lighthouse keepers anywhere because I'm contemplating a career change and not having to talk to anyone most days looks increasingly appealing

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Am I just really sad/disappointed/crabby tonight or is everything in the world just turbo stupid right now?

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know if the OP blocked them, has me blocked, or if I had them blocked, but this is like how the eloi and morlocks got started, I guess. I'm a STEM person but I care about art and literature and like, history and linguistics.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 5h

we're not doing this again. WE ARE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 5h

I will say my chair said, when I went and explained about the entitled pre-med who was giving me fits (because I was afraid he'd lodge a complaint against me with the chair), "You're not the only one, he's like that to everyone" I feel better but not BETTER. I hope I make it through the semester

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 5h

I will NOT. I will NOT EVER. I will NOT EVER call it that.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 6h

I need to go wash my hair and shower, was talking to my chair, his dog was in w/ him, the dog of course loves me (most dogs do, it seems) & he was snuffling all over my legs and hands and at the end of the convo chair let slip that "oh yeah he had a little ringworm on his nose but I'm treating it"

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 6h

last repost: some days I feel like I live in a local minimum for love, though :(

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 6h

Not one of us knows shit about fuck. But there’s still enough love in the world to tip the balance. Stay the course, dipshit

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 7h

I want mashed potatoes. Don't have the energy to make mashed potatoes. The instant kind aren't good. I don't know what to do other than go without mashed potatoes :(

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 7h

he sure does love trying to rename things. Bodies of water, arts centers, now the slop machines.....

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 8h

I now remember one of the few political/topical jokes my grandmother ever made - she said (after he died) "Andropov? Yes, he dropped off pretty fast...."

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 8h

well, I did do TWO useful things today: 1. mailed my niece's birthday present so it will get there (inshallah) before her birthday on the 4th (I sprang for Priority Mail) 2. Told the lab instructor that our concurrent student (a good and diligent student) was worried because they had to move

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 9h

ah great so bsky won't post my pictures, and my pictures only. they post JERRY'S pictures!

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 9h

I am just a big ball of hurt feelings today and I apologize in advance if I snap at anyone but I am NOT happy and I have more than 2 months left of dealing with the confounding people in my classes.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 10h

I expect at least one of the tech moguls will recreate Jonestown (“from the prestige-tv show, “Don’t Recreate Jonestown”)

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 10h

Jim Jones on this site WOULD make me nuke my computer and leave (Good thing there’s not OuijaSky)

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

wait a Michaelmas Daisy is basically a purple aster?

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

Looked up my problem student. My class is his only in-person class. So just like people in stores now suffer from "living room couch" syndrome (where they forget they're not at home in their own living rooms) , he is forgetting that he's surrounded by other students

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

we live in a world where the cheats and liars are winning and I WANT OUT. I'm sick of this. I'm sick of how corrupt everything is.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

once again wishing this town had a nice, non-fast food, non-heavy-giant-meal place for lunch that was quiet and calm and where I could go to try to cheer myself up after this garbage morning of class :'(

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

we are living through several completely unethical experiments and I want God or whoever allowed this hauled up before the IRB and yelled at.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

nobody loves me, guess I'll go eat worms.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

anyway, maybe I just resign my job because terrible terrible people in a couple of my classes are making me feel like my life doesn't count and like I'm no good at ANYTHING

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

I haven't felt good about myself in so long I don't remember what it feels like

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

I think I refuse to teach this class in the future. I mean, there's the non majors class which is harder and we all have to do service classes but this group is KILLING ME

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h

ALMOST crashed out in class this morning over two people - to whom I have spoken before - were carrying on a separate conversation and one was WATCHING F**KING YOUTUBE WITH THE SOUND AUDIBLE on their phone

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 13h

Fera fruit is a hybrid palm, the company making its oil is apparently in the US, this thing could become a new bad invasive species pretty fast. But of course they don't care, they only care about owning the libs by not using "seed" oils (this is a "fruit" oil)

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h

Fried food does not need to be "clean" whatever that even means. It is fried! It is okay to just have certain foods be indulgent. I hate this fatphobic everything must be "healthy" bullshit.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 13h

disappointed to look up the spelling of the French slang term for "booger" and find out it's spelled Morve, and not Moivre, ,since my prep for biostats tomorrow included references to de Moivre.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

this is the same as that "Man as protector" thing where the interlocutor asked the man who was "prepping" with weapons, if he would make sure his children washed their hands, if he made sure food didn't spoil, if he would wash the bedsheets....

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

Me, waiting for the "predicted heavy rain" that's been predicted daily for like a week

the "c'mon, do something" meme with a rainfall deficit map of oklahoma

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

the legal defense of the guy who beat that Bibberty hairball to death with a hammer

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

the Usual Suspects can cope and seethe all they want about this, but I found it lovely, and a reminder that we are many cultures working together, and it is EVERY American's anthem

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

I am a woman, but the sooner guys learn there actually IS no reward for doing the right thing BUT YOU SHOULD DO IT ANYWAY, the better You don't get rewarded for doing what's right, and worse, you sometimes get punished. it's part of the fished-up nature of this world. It sucks, but it just IS

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

Kurt schlichter is another man who can 100% get in the bin

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry for sharing the horrible man's picture but I laughed and laughed at this. maybe he's like one of the aliens out of Men In Black

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

Uh, I don't use AI now? In fact, I have turned it off in everything I can

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h

the alpha schools seem abusive. these kids aren't going to be able to do a lot of academic stuff because they're outsourcing their thinking. But I think that's what McMahon and company want: ignorant, compliant people who will troop down into the rare-earth mines to labor in darkness for low pay

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 15h

I don't trust that there are good times coming. this is some freaking awful marshmallow test, those guys ate all the marshmallows and are lying to us

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 15h

I may have to mute "Batman" for 24 hours given the Discourse of the Day this place is increasingly not fun, you have to figure out every morning what the new conversational landmine is maybe I go cold turkey on social media. Maybe it's time.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 15h

well, we sure don't get benefits in THIS fallen world...

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