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First year of grad school versus the seventh year as an Associate Prof

This is like dinosaurs having their picture taken with an asteroid. #funny #climate

@dhoop@mastodon.social Oh that's nice! I always like it when someone tries to learn Bengali like that. :-)

Yes yes! I am from WB. Howrah.

@madhu_shrieks This Nolan cult following is quite interesting. Ek movie dekh ke people act like they deserve to work for ISRO. Nahin sunna bhai tumhara complexity just shut up about Nolan.

Love EH though. Specially from the Dead Poets Society.

@dhoop@mastodon.social Yes yes! I know Arnob, he is quite famous in Bengal (haven't heard this, though)

Do you understand Bengali? Or wait are you from WB?

@dhoop@mastodon.social Not a very big fan of Arijit Singh (yes, we exist!) and loved the OG version. So not gonna listen to this ever. EVER.

Is it only me who never liked Podcasts and songs getting mixed in ? It is also one of the reasons, I switched to and use as my primary Podcast app.

- mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina/110

New, on Substack: “The Curse of the Long Boom.”

I take a look at an iconic piece of 90’s techno-optimism and ask why its authors now insist they were right all along.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp

@trunksapp Appreciate all the work you're doing! Enjoy your vacation!

One question: is the notification bug fixed?

@dhoop@mastodon.social Insta ads are often very wild. I keep on getting an ad for foreskin removal, I have no idea why. I never searched anything that's remotely close to this. :D

Whenever my husband and I are out in public and having an in-depth discussion and I catch another person eavesdropping, I like to ask my husband something like “so, what do you do for work?” just to make the other person think we JUST met and are somehow suddenly in the midst of a heated debate about why Weezer’s Blue Album is better than Pinkerton.

i have a strict CW Women policy.

i "see" women, and that's a W.

@barefootstache Haha absolutely. In Indian context, it happens to a lot of Army Kids or kids whose parents are government officials. They move so frequently that answering "Where are you from?" becomes a monumental task.

What is your home?

Is it a building? A place? A city? An area?

In this article I talked about how I learned to associate home with more than one place and feeling

open.substack.com/pub/ordinary

all of the rumours keeping me grounded...

I never said,
I never said,
that they were completely unfounded.

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