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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

We're getting the home microscope set up while my precious boomer dad texts us selfies from the slopes. For breakfast we have cold carbonara and the last of the panettone/pandoro. Cats are catgacating. Life is good!

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

...and now overleaf is down, presumably because it didn't like being compared to whole foods dramatic sigh

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I've been slowly going crazy all day and it's entirely because I've switched from holiday hosting mode back to math mode and my brain keeps parsing the overleaf logo as yet another food prep tab I forgot to close

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My entire discover weekly is Christmas music and my recommendations are torched. Send help

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The fact that Spotify does not come with a "Christmas mode" toggle is absolutely mindboggling

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Which one of you has a list for people building a better internet/techsphere?

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I don't know the answer to this but I support you in your quest to find one and I'll let you know if I get there first

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

With the new year upon us, I'd like to remind everyone to eschew standard standards, which are driven by bare mediocrity and will never produce greatness

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Frankly the two-panel page is vastly underutilized in academic publishing

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

For long enough papers with the terms appearing sparsely enough, we should be using thick margins with a little key on every page

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It's been on my to-read list for a while! Up to the top it goes!

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

What should I put on my 2025 reading list?

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Hey #MathSky! I just made two new #VisualAlgebra videos, and each of them has some fun group theory puzzles. Lecture 2.7: Dicyclic and diquaternion groups Lecture 2.8: Semidihedral and semiabelian groups Come learn about these fun relatively unknown groups! URL in the replies. 👇

$Cayley graphs of the quaternion group Q_8, the dihedral group D_8, the dicyclic group Dic_8 (i.e., the generalized quatenrion group Q_{16}), and the diquaternion group DQ_8.$ $Cayley graph of the diquaternion group DQ_{16}, and a Cayley graph of a mystery group that's slightly different.$ Two Cayley graphs (?) of mysterious group of order 32, that resemble the Cayley graph of a generalized quaternion group.

Two Cayley graphs (?) of mysterious group of order 32, that resemble the Cayley graph of a generalized quaternion group.

Two Cayley graphs (???) on 32 nodes, that resemble the Cayley graphs of the semidihedral and semiabelian groups.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I think I'm more biased than average towards seeing inherent value in learning new methods of representation/languages/thought systems, but the other side of this is that I'm a bit far removed from the concrete practical results that these things can provide, and I'd like to change that in this case

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

There are also two more related notes but their referencing behavior is only implied

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This is a man known for his Systems, and yet the look in his eye suggests that I may have gone too far

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I twisted my knee on some Ice and cannot help with the grocery shopping; Man Of The House is left alone to parse my two long mutually referential "Christmas prep" notes, which I sat him down to explain before he departed because there is a System, and which appear to frighten him

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thread on how I dramatically lessened my average weekly suffering, in case anyone is curious.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The two make a good combo! Hope you find peace and success whatever you choose

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Weenie-level megadose, 800-1200mg per day "mega" compared specifically to what supplement companies recommend

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- I also stopped identifying as someone who suffers a lot, or really much at all. I decided that gaining social capital from one's dysfunction is disordered behavior and have been living accordingly ever since. This is probably second to the L-Theanine in terms of magnitude of impact.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- Biggest single impact: took a gamble on megadosing L-Theanine as a sort of a Hail Mary for severe autonomic dysfunction and PTSD following a TBI. By that point I'd figured out the flavor of problem I was dealing with but hadn't found a good solution. The gamble gave me my life back.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- At one point I stopped suffering from fear by recognizing that, you know what, XYZ is actually *really scary* and my response is reasonable, and then just allowing myself to be afraid

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Can't really tell you how I did it beyond just deciding that it could probably be experienced that way without stretching too far and so I was going to experience it that way. This came about a year after reading "the body keeps the score" in which I learned of the benefits of Shaking Vigorously.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- Several months ago I successfully psyopped myself into parsing some symptoms of adrenaline dumps as ecstasy rather than panic, which decreased average suffering per week by several orders of magnitude and ultimately lowered the incidence rate significantly.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- After speaking with a close friend about their sensory issues several years ago, I realized that I could remove a lot of low-level suffering from my life by paying attention to my sensory experience and making accommodations accordingly. Huge QOL boost there, plus less nameless angst.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I was able to do that specifically because I was encountering a wide variety of negative experiences in this time (lots of data!) but had a profoundly safe context from which to parse them.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- Over the past ~5 years I developed a robust internal model of my own cognitive landscape, which I can now use to get my bearings and chart a course to somewhere I'd rather be. Experiences that were once profoundly distressing are now at most inconvenient simply because I know how to deal with them

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The thing that finally got it to stick was the Covid lockdowns. I was literally only spending time with my fiancé (and calling my mother more frequently than I had been beforehand) and the break from constantly switching modes allowed me to achieve quite a bit of clarity.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Fundamentally I had to learn how to be far more socially discerning. I grew up making friends easily, code-switching between wildly disparate circles, and hardly thinking at all about the fact that I could craft my social scene intentionally to fit my needs. Had to figure out those needs/wants too.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

- When I was much younger, about 16-17, I noticed that I was adopting whatever misery people expected from people in my peer group and claiming it as my own. Figured out how to stop doing that over the course of 5-10 years by periodically reminding myself of it until it stuck. Also ditching people!

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Went to a holiday market this evening and Man of the House immediately spotted a thousand-piece puzzle of one of our favorite Wholesome Winter Paintings so we have a puzzle now

A painting of a snowy landscape with a little red house in the background and a large tree in the foreground. Inside the tree, woodland creatures gather around a festive table with warm drinks and pie. An owl rests upon an upper branch. Somehow there is a fireplace in the tree without causing serious problems. Peak cozy etcetera

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hilariously, I am literally working with a matryoshka of sets; the union is an onion

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Reminds me of the student-run MIT "missing semester" for computer science. Would love to compile a master list of classes/programs like this, especially ones with publicly available resources!

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hope you feel better soon! Even if not "serious," it still totally stinks

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Just wrote "an union" and now my proof is a cookbook

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

These are the vibes we are cultivating in my household

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cam forever @sincerely.cam · 15/12/2024

paying attention is good

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I've seen a ton. Used those two lists you mentioned so we'll see if there's any improvement. Currently going through the large number of people who followed me from a starter pack and blocking the tiresome ones. Wish we had a "remove follower" feature here like on twitter

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

- It's not misinformation to deny/oppose research that suggests something other than the narrative we believe in - The total dissolution of sex-based roles in society is a good thing - Equality of outcomes is a reasonable and worthy goal - Vegetarianism is always better for the environment - etc.

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

- People who disagree with us are subhuman/not worthy of basic decency - People who disagree with us view us as subhuman - People we perceive as our oppressors are subhuman/not worthy of basic decency - All reasonable, intelligent people who think hard enough about _____ will end up agreeing

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm not super familiar with the right's version of this actually! Common stuff I've seen (prefaced with "we obviously all believe that..."): - Republicans are stupid - Conservative ideology should be suppressed - Exclusivity is bad - Elitism is bad - People who question mainstream medicine are dumb

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Really good question tbh; for me it's based on the implicit assumptions present in the convo (ie which ones are present AND how strongly they manifest) but formalizing it is tricky since what's obvious to me may not be obvious to others

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🌱Julia M. Rosedale 🌱 @jmrosedale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

How do you draw the line between political discourse and a lefty bent to "non-political" communication?

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