can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 14hThis is probably a stupid question. If I asked my partner, their answer would be an immediate "yes!" Anyway, I'm already feeling the catastrophizing over the SOPs and LORs themselves. 000
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(Random Thoughts) Talking about my mental illnesses is always a mixed bag, but I really dislike how my bipolar disorder has been weaponized against me. It’s a bit disheartening seeing assumptions that people with bipolar are violent or, using the ableist language used against me and others, “crazy.” 130
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I need to tap into skeb more. Just got some legendary pieces. 050
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stealed my resolve. I’ll at least attempt to get into a PhD program first before making this sort of decision. 130
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Genuinely thinking about quitting my pursuit of physics academia. 030
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Didn’t go *badly*. I think. I’m drunk as hell right now and badly needed a break. 020
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I take my Physics GRE at 12 PM tomorrow. Wish me luck. 010
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I haven't been doing very well on Physics GRE practice, and I feel like it's weighed against me because a lot of it runs on swift recognition and recall for trick questions which, having taken exclusively grad classes, I'm not used to. Not that it's unfair, but it's something I never trained for. 130
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't talk enough about how discovering furries online became my biggest money sink and the single most life-changing thing that has ever happened to me. 160
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I feel like a total dork listening to video game OSTs sometimes (in principle, I think video game music is beautiful, but I'm a person with a lot of shame), but The Last Guardian's soundtrack sometimes does the trick for my stress better than therapy. I can feel my gray hairs retrieve their color. 041
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026After two months of back-and-forth and the testing organization questioning my diagnosis in a dehumanizing charade, I finally received testing accommodations. 120
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I tried THC drinks for the first time a couple days ago, and it's unbelievable how much they did for my mood. 020
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think an underrated defining piece of tech during my youth was the BlackBerry. I have a weird attachment to phones with physical keyboards. 130
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If I were liberated—cringe and free—I’d paste song lyrics all over my Discord profile. 020
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think I keep overexerting myself in everything I do—or I have a low threshold for work. Either option sucks. 030
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Made some grass you can trample. I don't know if I did it correctly, but after a lot of documentation and tutorials I wrote a small shader that would randomize the sway of the grass texture. Then, I put the scene in a TileMapLayer and duplicated. I don't know how to use MultiMeshInstance2D. 170
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Lack of jump animation bothered me. I'm a spoiled artist. 050
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I was only on my first day of learning any sort of game development, but it made me feel alive. Did I choose the wrong pursuit? 150
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Literally started like yesterday—don't laugh. I learned how to do a few movement things, added an NPC with random movement, and implemented a working dialog system with chat area detection. Basic stuff, but it was more of a pain in the ass than I expected. Also learned pixel art for the first time! 390
Reposted by canSerpent_x @zorrito.bsky.social · 05/09/2026random drawing as i feel uninspired today 62501432
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026At the same time with learning GDScript, I think I need to get back into learning frame-by-frame animation. I went on a roll this summer doing some of the key exercises. 030
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Recently started watching Link Click with my partner. The pacing in the first season so far throws me off sometimes, but it’s pretty devastating. 020
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I really need to get back to finishing up FFIV. Was awestruck with every part of it. 110
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm quite excited for my research in the coming half-year. This summer, I made a few discoveries that require investigating. In particular, I enumerated a number of novel theories and analyzed their behavior when you adjust their energy/length scale, which we call the renormalization group. 1/7 140
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Never introduced myself. I'm can. Most people who knew/know me knew/know me as an artist online. Eventually, somehow, I became the "physics fella" in my circles. Now, I'm back to being an "art fella". I mostly do quantum field theory/string theory with a focus on non-perturbative aspects of both. 070
can @canary-cannery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think the stress of graduate applications—especially in high-energy theory, which is especially competitive—has been making me ponder a lot on what my goals in life are. I love what I do in quantum field theory. I believe in it. I also recognize just how grueling everything surrounding it is. 1/N 150