A. Fresnel

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY and i would like to shamelessly self-promote my dog comics and associated merch if that's alright with you i make a silly webcomic about my dog and then i post it online for entertainment it's called the pyr review and you should check it out (instagram: @the_pyr_review)

My brain needs chaos right now. Tried putting on some of the Thelonious Monk @bowlerhatscience.org suggested which I'll 100% revisit, I just felt the need for an absolute fire hose of music so I pivoted to Weather Report which was also too tame so I'm now listening to Gentle Giant. 🤷‍♀️

Whoever did this is spreading unbelievable amounts of joy. Thanks to my friend for spotting this on our ride yesterday

I really hope Amy Acton wins Ohio, because Vivek Ramaswamy is an absolute dumpster fire of a human being, but I'm also terrified that we'll somehow collectively forget that and it will be read into history that she won because transphobia and six more people will do it next election cycle.

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There is nowhere where there isn't a leaf blower and I'm in hell.

Physicist William Higinbotham was born #OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he was the Electronics Group leader at Los Alamos. In 1958, while working at Brookhaven Lab, he invented one of the first video games: “Tennis for Two.” It ran on an oscilloscope! 🧪 ⚛️ Image: Brookhaven National Lab

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

We fixed the hole in the ozone layer and Y2K so well people now think we made a whole stink over nothing.

one of the best parts of having no gender is there is no concern that anything can make me less of a man/woman/whatever

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Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Lots of things are terrible, but there are so many smart, generous people who are doing the work to make things better, which is not nothing.

I'm terrified when Acton wins it will uncritically be attributed to her rampant transphobia and nobody will ever acknowledge that Ramaswamy is so transparently awful that he'd lose to a ficus plant. Also, if we had ranked choice voting I'd be ficus, Acton, and not rank Ramaswamy at all.

Ursula K. Le Guin was born #OTD in 1929. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for "The Left Hand of Darkness," 1970. In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #SciFi #LitSky #BookSky

I was riding a bit of a high using "I'm reasonably certain I'm autistic" to interpret a lifetime of experiences, thinking it'd help me take better care of myself moving into the future, but now I've gone over a cliff into "oh no, now this makes everything feel new, novel, and terrifying". 🤷🏼‍♀️

One time I was writing code to control three high voltage supplies via serial/RS-232 and for some reason it would only work if I called them 1, 2, and 4. If any one of them were indexed to 3 it would stop working.

a personal thank you to all of you joining in

In very fun news I learned this morning that my Beloved nonsense space facts book, The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries, is on its way to a second paperback printing. Congratulations (& thank you!!!) everyone for buying copies and emptying the warehouse 🎉🫡 🧪🔭📚

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A drag queen named Miss Ophonia who only performs to songs and artists mentioned in the Weird Al parody Achy Breaky Song.

i wish white christian politicians would get asked if they will denounce the crusades, the christchurch shooting and the kkk

My partner and I are trying to restart our habit of reading to each other. They're reading @margaret.bsky.social's The Sapling Cage and I think when it's my turn I want to reread @catvalente.bsky.social's Deathless.

If I ever play Doctor Who, my weird thing, like the rainbow scarf or the celery in the pocket, is going to be just me saying ‘JKR sucks’ all the time.

For Day 18 #spacetober_challenge prompt launch vehicle/rocket- my portrait of mathematician & NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). 🐡🧪👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (& its predecessor NACA), she was known for her

I'm going to start signing off like this with my friends I text like once every eight months.

It's wild when 1958 science fiction short stories feel culturally relevant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fee...

i want to be excited about something, about anything, in this shit fucking dystopia we live in

One of my special interests is weird engineering dead ends and this is one of the most satisfying things I've read in months. 🧵

This is an "it's Friday so I stabbed myself with sex hormones so I feel less like shit" gang solidarity post.

I'm listening to Loreena McKennet--streaming a pop-new age crossover playlist I made, for the record--and the phrase "1997 called and it wants it's Loreena McKennet CD back" has popped into my head.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Trans Siberian Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band (With Choir)

I am my favorite Gail Simone-style poster.

I used to work in a neutrino physics lab long long ago and they are delightfully weird little buggers.

If you play Sleepwalker backwards on it, it opens a portal to Toledo, Ohio.

I'm on day one of having a standing desk in my home office and I've realized that I wanted a standing desk because sometimes the physical sensation of sitting at a desk becomes overwhelming and I need to move and now I can just switch desk modes and not have to interrupt whatever I'm doing.

I figured out why my computer couldn't maintain a wifi connection and it was because I never screwed the antenna all the way in. 😅

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, according to a definition of 100% I made up myself.

My 50 pound (22.7 kg) hound boxer mix: I mean, same...

So we went straight from summer to late autumn for a bit, but now we've bounced back to 80 degree weather.

UV jupiter says trans rights