iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

once again cannot rely on the bus to get anywhere at a specified time

i wonder how much of this is also just the demand for ever increasing productivity? like i have so so so many papers saved that are not quite as related to my research but sound interesting that i feel like ill just never get around to because it takes time to do a lot of reading

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 13h

speedran finishing this book but im still laughing at the caption (under a photo of the forbes magazine cover) that said they revised her net worth in 2016 to $0 💀

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 15h

i cannot believe this is the second time sean carroll will be giving a talk at my uni and i will be out of town on the day of the talk what the fuck

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 23h

its so weird to me that people will say (to my masked face) that so many people are getting sick right now, which is weird because its not quite flu season yet, i wonder whats up with that i dunno but i havent been sick in a long while so maybe that whole masking thing is working perhaps

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thought i was free from summer but its oct 1 and its gonna feel like summer this afternoon wtf

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wonder if i can convince my collaborators to do this perhaps

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

why the hell is it getting hot again

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Campus sexual violence researchers strongly advocate AGAINST mandatory reporting policies. They actually reduce reports, primarily by silencing discussions of sexual violence on campus.)

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i miss heb butter tortillas does anyone want to ship me some

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

popular with friends tab is broken?

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

every day in academia feels like a new moral injury i dont know how this can ever possibly be personally sustainable

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what in the world possesses someone to go into a department that's not their own, open a closed cabinet with a sign on it that says "for mcwilliams center use only" and decide that the coffee pods in the cabinet must be free to take? just because the actual coffee machine is out on the counter?

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fountain pen people: do yall feel like the con 40 doesnt let ink flow very smoothly? like, when i write i feel like sometimes the ink is actually flowing and sometimes it feels blocked or something. the converter and ink are both brand new so its not actually clogged or anything

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just speedran half the stages of grief because i realized that i accidentally left a small tote bag on a bench this morning (i grabbed my backpack but forgot the small bag) but it was still there when i went back to check just now thank GOD 😭😭😭

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

honestly need more of my favorite artists to make calendars pls pls pls

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 29/09/2026

About to write a reference letter for a student for the first time in my life - exciting! Do you have any general tips on how to write one? Common pitfalls to avoid? I want the student to do well with her applications so I'd like to write a killer letter 🔭☄️

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i dont think car horns should be allowed to make more than a single beep like why did i hear two people this morning laying into their car horns for a solid 5 seconds straight? what about driving makes people act this way

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i sure do love to see an infrequent bus without a gps signal come earlier than expected and be stuck on the wrong side of the road and miss it. always a good start to the day

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

have now reminded myself of how tiny an a6 is and im once again stressed abt this LOL

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so it wasnt on purpose on my end but my library had bad blood available as a skip the line read and i am reading it for the fourth(?) time and now every time it talks about her unblinking stare all i cam think of is that one screenshot

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thinking again about how my friend said they saw chicago and i went "omg did they play 25 or 6 to 4" and my friend said they had an orchestra and it took me honestly far too long to remember that chicago is also a musical

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

love to be waiting for a bus and not only has the expected time til the next bus passed, i have checked the tracker app and the expected time til next bus has increased. great. cool. just 30 min i couldve been doing literally anything else

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

had a dream last night that i put too much pressure on one of my fountain pens while writing and one of its tines snapped 😱 what a nightmare omg

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

as someone who grew up in tx and currently lives in pa, this post really had me questioning reality for a second

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the crickets are so loud when my windows are open that my friend could hear them thru my headphones mic when i was calling them the other day

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

these motorcycles passing by my apartment really should not be allowed to be that loud

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

seeing friends really does reset your entire brain chemistry

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i have been so sleepy all day pls help

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

decided on a pocket sized weekly planner for health tracking next year but im already slightly dreading the fact that this is one of the ones with the page divided into six where sat and sun are half the size of the weekdays

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

shoutout to my 8th grade science teacher who said if i took only one single thing out of that class let it be convection because i do indeed still think about convection as an astrophysicist

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i feel like everyone i know who went to school in like nyc and boston and stuff came back to texas much nicer dressed and i went to pgh and just leaned even harder into hoodie and shorts LOL

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it would be so cool if cars didn't park on the sidewalk

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

very much dislike being able to hear the elevator rattling on the way down

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

gotta love the end of day tension between me needing to be somewhere at a certain time vs my code running at a fixed rate

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i love when i have no recollection of changing anything about my code but now its broken and i wanted to have a specific set of plots to show at a meeting tomorrow 😩

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

50 degrees outside but i had to close all of my windows because apartment management decided to reseal the parking lot today and the fumes are so strong 😩😩

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is so off topic but i fully read this as 50 grams and spent a good while trying to figure out why the hell youd need a 50 gram water heater anyway i think thats my cue to get some coffee

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i dont know how many "this is so orwellian"s i have left in me

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

returning to paper notes and not even bringing my laptop to seminars/colloquiums has been sooo nice

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

cant see out the window because the lights are fully on and theres a really long message scrolling about folding up strollers and carts on the screen instead of saying what the next stop is this is why i hate taking the bus after dark

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

petition for cmu to use the money spent on replacing the lawn three or four times a year on more outdoor seating and tables instead (and preferably not the weird metal slat ones lmao my poor legs)

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