JADE MAO

happy contrapoints day to all who celebrate

in a past life i was a medieval scribe of some sort writing into the night by candlelight which is the most romantic pastiche i can paint of how this semester is working me to the absolute bone. and yet the suffering is still preferable to continuing to have my brain ground frictionless by email job

i had an ex who would get jealous when i cuddled my cat, like she thought he was competition or something. lady, i let this animal lick my face with the same mouth he uses to clean his asshole and eat his own puke. you aren't even a contender

alysa liu makes me so proud to be a chinese californian alt girl w fuckass hair

guy who's never done anything wrong in his life (guy who commits felonies daily)

your mistake was writing more than three sentences (or one lbr)

research funding in the US has been decimated under the current regime. as it relates to palestine, israel has destroyed all palestinian universities. no more palestinian physicists.

which only reinforces @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social and @mattxiv.bsky.social's point: everything is political

The Epidemic of Celebrity Cowardice (with Gianmarco Soresi and Caroline Kwan) YouTube video by matt bernstein

to @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social's comment about becoming a physicist if you want to stay apolitical — i'm an astrophysics student. on the first day of my first class, astro 101, we discussed how the field has long excluded marginalized people and been subject to political tides

youtu.be/dGjM44xI_3k

oh my GOD i'm glad you caught it... once i thought i smelled gas and realized either jaspers or i bumped a stove knob and we were huffing good old CO

don't give mr beast any ideas

since i'm studying astrophysics because of liu cixin could you say i'm in a very chinese time of my life (was literally already chinese)

i *can* make him fit the curve...

TA, about data: it's noisy

jaspers 🐈‍⬛, simultaneously: waAAAaaahhh

went on wikipedia to check my info and the foxtrot was originated by black americans so nvm y'all really can't help yourselves huh

i don't think we should bring back most things from that period but maybe if y'all still had poodle skirts and the foxtrot you would culturally appropriate less

i've been listening to vintage music while i study and i gotta say the white folks don't have moves like they used to... where are the little twirls. what happened to your funky leg swings and wobbles

can you have a parasocial relationship with a show

miss them sooo baddd 😭

when they rest their chin on the chinrest... and not as visually upsetting but emotionally is no shoulder rest (that said i played w no shoulder rest for years when i first started bc nobody told me it wasn't supposed to hurt THAT bad)

DUDE CONGRATULATIONS!! 🥳

it took me like twice as long to figure out how to draw chibi that were only a little horrifying as it did to draw regular-sized people

Cursed hongbao alignment chart meme by OP. Top headers: Packet Purist (packet must be red and made of paper), Packet Neutral (packet must be made of paper of any colour), Packet Rebel (packet can be any material) Side headers: Content Purist (packet must contain money), Content Neutral (packet must contain a trading resource), Content Rebel (packet can contain anything useful) Each combination of headers contains a photo of the specified object. Packet purist, content purist: Hongbao containing money is a hongbao Packet neutral, content purist: Pikachu hongbao is a hongbao Packet rebel, content purist: Wallet is a hongbao Packet purist, content neutral: Hongbao containing chocolate coins is a hongbao Packet neutral, content neutral: Monopoly game box is a hongbao Packet rebel, content neutral: Yu-Gi-Oh booster pack is a hongbao Packet purist, content rebel: Sun-Maid raisin box is a hongbao Packet neutral, content rebel: Chicken rice packet is a hongbao Packet rebel, content rebel: Tissue packet is a hongbao

it's that time of year

(cw food)

professors love to assign a workload that assumes theirs is the only class or overall obligation in your life

whoever designed the apple pencil to roll into the abyss at any opportunity should be sentenced to push one up a mountain for eternity like sisyphus

not me working myself into an early grave to meet a deadline and the prof extends it. always procrastinate, kids

the instinct to lie on the carpet is how i know i'm back in college fr

physics prof this semester is an asian milf with a cute voice who gave me extra credit for including my cat in my profile it's so over for me y'all

im gonna put them in my mouth

a bunch of different pikachus!

Pikachu day???
Old art!

i forget how commonplace generative a/i is to normies, prof is letting us discuss the class policy and everyone else is like i use it sometimes :) meanwhile i'm off in the corner ranting about data centers polluting marginalized communities and intellectual property theft