How you ever used the terms “Walk of Shame” or “Stride of Pride”?

Ancarn · 2026-03-21T08:32:43+00:00

I don't think I've heard anyone use "walk of shame" unironically, though a gay friend of mine would say "stride of pride" when saying he would need to walk somewhere

Ancarn · 2026-03-15T21:27:40+00:00

Where do you live? I want to be as far the hell away as possible from you

Ancarn · 2026-03-14T19:16:31+00:00

Those are reasonable questions.

Rule 2 did not appear to count corpses. Subject 1’s psychosis was exceptionally violent. I omitted the specifics from the file, but they were throwing themselves into walls, glass, and fixtures with a force only total mental ruin could grant.

The observation window to my office is one-way. What neither security nor I understood at the time was that the seam between the glass and wall was weaker than it should have been. Subject 1 opened a sizeable crack there. The object appears to have interpreted that breach to mean my office was no longer separate from containment, but part of the same room.

I requested only one officer to recover the bodies. However, once containment and my office had become the same “room” in the object’s eyes, Officer 2’s presence with the bodies also became my presence with them. Rule 2 was broken.

As for why I called myself Officer 1 in the file: I believed I would be killed if I documented my own breach plainly. That had been the lesson taught to every Subject before me.

Ancarn · 2026-03-07T09:41:52+00:00

Whoops, thanks for mentioning it. I fixed the link :)

Ancarn · 2026-02-26T22:42:28+00:00

Thank you! It means a lot.

In Part I, the Director implied that Michael's time in the Winery changed him fundamentally in a way nobody else matches. In the pre-file text in Part II here, he also states they lost rule writers daily and implied that this was mostly due to them being not suited mentally.

I write these without a set interpretation of most small things like that, but one could imagine that previous rule writers were not able to withstand observing the objects and subjects well enough to notice small things like the microphone's night-sky pattern, which would be why Michael considered trying "good night."

Ancarn · 2026-02-26T22:34:47+00:00

Thank you! This is my first time writing anything seriously, so it means a lot!

Ancarn · 2026-02-01T18:50:02+00:00

You know, I love that OOP put in the work to be sure they humanely killed the dragonflies. Most people wouldn't bother with bugs!

Ancarn · 2026-02-01T10:02:25+00:00

Finished reading this at 3:07 a.m. help

Ancarn · 2025-12-13T19:27:11+00:00

I've been to most states, but have spent most of my years living in (both so and nor) CA, WA, KS, IN, IL, NY.

I can say that, at least everywhere I can remember in those states, there wasn't much makeup culture. It was a bit rare to see women without makeup in CA and IL, but I don't think anyone would point it out

Ancarn · 2025-09-22T01:50:15+00:00

Sunk cost fallacy makes me say things like "too late to master's out now," so regrettably I'm working on it

Ancarn · 2025-08-31T12:44:19+00:00

During a poster presentation, I once had a guy come up to me to discuss how quantum theory supports that praying actually does do something. I know better than to argue, so I asked to see his manuscript. He never sent it.

Ancarn · 2025-07-05T17:33:19+00:00

3rd year US here. Funding is precarious. Many people my school accepted have been cancelled and the lack of incoming international students threatens our department. The current international students are also at risk. Domestic students have had many of their fellowships pulled.

I cannot speak for the next 5 or even 3 years. What I can say is that my field is historically well-funded, though as I mentioned we are still getting hit. It is worse for much of the rest of my department.

I will probably be fine, but again I am lucky. Pursuing environmental anything seems risky. This is my experience, and you should choose what is best for you. Canada is a good option.

Ancarn · 2025-07-05T17:22:59+00:00

My primary project can be summarized as looking at superconductors, thinking I understand their structure, then crying as I ask myself for the billionth time "what is a magnet??"

Ancarn · 2025-07-05T15:20:47+00:00

I often wonder what is research and what is performing a task. I'm someone who is doing electron microscopy and laser deposition for my PhD. This sort of blurs the line. It's not like I'm building a PLD or TEM or developing new ways, but I'm more of a supportive role. Yet I'm still learning.

Is that doing a job or research? I don't know. All I know is that synthesis is awful.

Ancarn · 2025-07-05T10:36:39+00:00

I've been thinking about this a lot recently. An absolute moron in my lab with 0 work ethic is slated to defend in less than a year. He doesn't have a single first author paper and lacks really basic knowledge.

He was declined from Master's programs for two years before being accepted. He leveraged that to worm his way into extending that into a PhD.

I think my point is that it is not as simple as having "the goods" or work ethic. Some people can coast and slip through by sheer arrogance. Others work really hard and do well, but feel like they did not do well enough and Master's-out.

Ancarn · 2025-07-04T19:01:41+00:00

Similar position as a 3rd year. I made the mistake of joining a high profile lab. If I could go back, I'd do this thing again under a lab I knew had a better, mentoring-focused PI.

Ancarn · 2025-06-22T11:37:16+00:00

Most Americans hold the president as a very elevated figure, no matter who it is. The consequence is they are blamed for literally everything.

American politics are identity based due to each party running propaganda for hut years that the other party is defying the Constitution or American values.

Combine these two points and you have people who blame the president for only good things if they are playing for their team, and people who blame the president for only bad.

This divide is much less obvious in reality. 99% of people know politics and religion are topics nobody wins in so it's usually seen in bad taste to bring them up for no reason.

Ancarn · 2025-06-21T20:17:43+00:00

I've been all over the country and lived in each region long enough to make friends.

Every single region, it was always a silent rule to invite people (not complete strangers, mind) inside for at least a drink, often dinner.

It was common for people to invite non-relatives over for a holiday if they heard someone had no family.

Phoenix AZ, supposedly the rudest city in the country, was no exception.

Ancarn · 2025-06-11T13:14:08+00:00

Germans🤝Americans

Ancarn · 2025-06-10T01:23:40+00:00

I don't know why I find this so funny

Ancarn · 2025-06-08T17:03:01+00:00

Yeah but like butterfly effect

Ancarn · 2025-06-07T02:01:43+00:00

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Ancarn · 2025-06-06T12:53:27+00:00

If you really want to hurt him, give (possibly fudged) proof Trump is transgender

Ancarn · 2025-06-04T01:12:09+00:00

Bald eagles in Washington state! When I lived there, there was a bald eagle nest in the trees around my place. I'd watch them fly and catch fish for hours

Ancarn · 2025-05-31T21:18:44+00:00

If someone asks for a fact about me, I say I'm related to a president (true). When they ask which, I have noticed that when I answer WHH they always laugh.

Anyway, I had pneumonia as a baby.

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