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Working on more detail with the pasta roller press #Intaglio #Printmaking

Watch out for early detection signs of the bird flu becoming a major pandemic like threads explaining what each of the letters/numbers in "H5N1" mean and "why H5N9 is worse because 9 is bigger than 1"

i don't know what to say that someone smarter won't say better. but i was a trans kid when there wasn't care for trans kids & i can tell a short story since that's allegedly my deal. i survived. but you know the survivorship diagram? i'm that fringe dot. i survived by accident.🧵 cw: self-harm ⬇️

This will force out many early career researchers. I'm not even in a "controversial" field and my grant renewal has been delayed. So much public sector research relies on efficient training and knowledge transfer, breaking the academic pipeline will take years to fix.

For real, though

John Locke (1689)

What fraternity is this "GAP"

I want to be the best at Duolingo but not in the way that I'm in the diamond league with the sickos

they’re bringing jimmy carter back to fight for middle earth

Polar Express is a movie about Catholic guilt

I feel like Polar Express would have been just as good if Tom Hanks were just nice instead

I can never remember which one is the sparkling wine and which one is the dried ham

U.S. Drivers Run Over 15 Children Every Day In Parking Lots And Driveways. Tall vehicles and long hoods contribute to increasing number of "frontover" [awful term] incidents. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social jalopnik.com/u-s-drivers-...

The birds have a designated toasting area at Daley Plaza

As an accelerator physicist, I can tell you this is what happens

I walked in the door and my dad told me he thought I'd "look more professional now that I'm out of grad school." At least let me sit down before I'm attacked

If you feel like you didn't understand physics in school, it's because we make up cool sounding fake shit to keep the govt interested

Who needs an alarm to get out of bed when you just remember deadlines and wake up in a panic

I can't believe I have to work the day before the day before Thanksgiving

I still don’t fuckin know what tariffs are don’t care that’s nerd shit

It's been a while since I've done much printing, mostly because I don't have access to a press anymore, but it turns out that a pasta roller can produce pretty decent prints.

I like to describe my research as being like an electric guitar because instead of a powerpoint I can just fucking shred

It's actually called cloud gate, not a lot of people know that

Seeing a table of four drunk tourists next to me getting their order taken first by being rude to the wait staff feels about right

I'm not saying not to celebrate Christmas whenever you want, but there are only like 12 songs. It's just not sustainable

Every academic I know really wants to open a bakery. If your grad student friends seem sad, ask them if they really just want to bake something

My emails are a mix of "will this sound passive-aggressive" (hopefully) and "will this sound passive-aggressive" (hopefully not)

I wish I could tell trees that the universe exists...

Tort as in illa or ellini?