Matthew Cushman

@astragalus.bsky.social

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Adjunct math prof at Hunter College in NYC. Lefty. Kindness is the only thing that matters.

Definition of perfectly normal space from Munkres
Clip from a news article with a quote that says "I remember him getting irritated about the quality of food on campus, especially the lack of high-quality fish"
A plump tabby cat who is very proud of himself, and rightfully so
Screenshot of the Wikipedia disambiguation disambiguation page
Dude with an awesome Luigi mask and a sign with a pic of Trump that says "DEPOSE"
The "Capital One Café" on 34th St in Manhattan. Big bank logo and inside people at tables with atms in the back.
It looks like a pp
A proof in the form of a series of equalities of very bizarre looking string diagrams
A tiny mouse wearing a medieval peasant hat carrying a raspberry and what looks like a tiny sword, with the text "i am plagued by concepts"
An adorable chubby little orange cat with a very meh expression on his face next to a bowl with a cat face made out of dry food bits
A large sassy tabby cat named Linky looking majestic
Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.” The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.
Picture of a plastic table with the chair fallen over that says "we will rebuild"
Eddie Archie Williams, EMT and combat medic who died of Covid after volunteering at St. Luke's hospital in New York City early in the pandemic.
A photo of some kind of odd light fixture that resembles blocks of delicious flan suspended from the ceiling
A fat tabby cat sitting on a pile of papers looking very regal
An ad posted to the public Facebook page of Israeli real estate company Hari Zahav. Its Hebrew text reads "A house on the beach is not a dream! We at Hari Zahav are working to prepare the ground for a return to Gush Katif a number of our employees, they started working on the reclamation of the area, the removal of waste, and the expulsion of invaders. We hope that in the near future, all the abductees will be returned safely to their homes, our soldiers will return home, and we will be able to start construction in the Gaza Strip, in all of Gush Katif."
A Halloween costume featuring two people dressed up as the halves of the broken Ocean Gate submarine
Picture of my cat Smoochie, née Midnight, with hims little teefies sticking out