Cats, Computers, and Creative Writing

I'm Laura (She/Her) and this is my public blog! I'm a PhD student in computer science. I also write stories and have a good cat named Socks, hence the title. I intend to use a Tumblr instead of a Real Academic Personal Website until someone stops me. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lauralikescats.bsky.social Links to my stuff: ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Story of Your Lazy Function’s Life: A Bidirectional Demand Semantics for Mechanized Cost Analysis of Lazy Programs appearing at ICFP 2024 STORIES A Puzzling Scene published in "Unfortunately, Literary Magazine" Of Flowers and Thread, Public Copy awarded second place in the Verses from the Rainbow contest by "Wingless Dreamer Publishing" Hey, they put this story in a book! Turns out, they don't pay me for that. But if you want a copy of this story in a book, you can get one here. CONTACT ME: [email protected]

[catscomputerscreativewriting]

soon i will return, but unfortunately, the internet is just barely out of reach in my humble abode.

(I got out of the basement, but the wifi installation guy for my new place didn't show up when he said he would D:... so, I'm stuck without wifi when not at work, and at work I probably shouldn't be on here...)

[yanushkaa]

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this giant beetle sculpture!

[importantcatpics]

@importantcatpics

[littlecozydoodles]

little house in the hills ✨

[tommiemommy-deactivated20251120]

Sharing wired earphone is a lost art.

[dailyclassicart]

Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins - "Moonlit view of Hull"

[depsidase]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

(talking to my buddy about some weaving we just saw) the warp was decent. but can we talk about the weft?

[devinellekurtz]

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

[hollow-head]

i've always been dogshit at pottery on a wheel because i have weak noodle arms and can't hold my hands firmly in place to center the clay but i finally realized the root issue was that my legs are SHORT since i have the limb/torso proportions of a dachshund and i couldn't brace my elbows on my legs, so i put bricks under my feet and now i can sort of do it!! i've tried to learn twice in the past from TALL people but had a revelation when i watched a medium size guy throwing.

The moral of the story is: don't give up, maybe you just need bricks

[teaboot]

[misheancolchester]

[thefroglab]

before you beat yourself up for not cleaning, ask yourself:

is there a proper place to put the things you're tidying up?

[thefroglab]

a lot of times i would find myself struggling to finish cleaning things when the real problem was that I didn't actually have a permanent place for things to go once I had actually picked them up.

once I was making sure I had shelves or bins or organization things first, it became a lot easier to actually finish tidying things up since I knew where things were supposed to belong

[ghostofbriggiesmalls]

Oh.

[frightfullytreeish]

oh to be a cat in a pile of blankets

[escapethemojave]

@kittybroker

[kittybroker]

Terrifying little blanket lurker leaving a menacing mark on the market with all these sales! Now only $23.21!

[spicymochi]

you are invited to their party!

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: when a cat decides it's going to make a very difficult or precise jump, spends several minutes examining the problem from all angles and warming up its muscles and minutely adjusting the positions of its paws and such, then proceeds to totally eat shit.

[j-tee]

Dragon crossing ⚠️

[4yvle1]