The Magic Rat

The Magic Rat

@magicrat1091.bsky.social

Mathematician, educator, dynamicist, human.

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Just got screwed out of something like $600 by @t-mobile.bsky.social, for no other reason that they felt like it. Why is it that pretty much every company out there currently is looking for small and large ways to screw over their loyal clientele. It cannot simply be a bottom-line thing.

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🍀 Match Day Cannon! 🍀 A massive thank you to @magicrat1091.bsky.social for sending in this beauty from Baltimore in Maryland, USA! 🇺🇸 📍 Let’s hope it helps us beat Sunderland tonight 🙏💪 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️ #CannonNumber1014 #afc #Arsenal #Gooners #COYG #SUNARS

Balogun can play!!!! I don’t get these rules, and it feels weird to benefit from sone sort of exception. But there it is…. I hope Trossard plays well and Belgium falls! 🇺🇸

From this article: "An aspect of mathematics that is cherished by mathematicians is that it is one of few successful examples of a gift economy". So true. We never compete in an adversarial way. We collaborate, share, and defend each other's successes. All we really care about is understanding.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arsenal Cannon Pics@arsecannonpics.bsky.social

We’ve done it. We’ve fucking done it. 22 years. I can’t believe it, I’m crying. This club man 🥺 Go light it up Mikel, you deserve it ❤️ ARSENAL ARE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 💪 COME ONNNNNNNNN!!!!! #afc #Arsenal #Gooners #ARSBUR #COYG #BOUMCI

The physical world is beautiful!

Wonder of Science@wonderofscience.bsky.social

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and seemingly random motion. 📽: Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations

Just like back in high school: "I'm sorry, but you cannot break up with me and then tell me I cannot date other people!"

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

It’s posts like this that make Canada and other countries want to do deals with China and leave the United States all alone. This is the language of an abusive ex.

Which came first? The Buckyball or the soccer ball?

Physics@physics.bsky.social

C₆₀ is a carbon molecule that adopts a truncated icosahedron structure—20 hexagons and 12 pentagons—exactly like a classic soccer ball. It’s composed of 60 carbon atoms, each bonded to three neighbors in a purely sp² network, forming a closed cage.

It is a great moment to be a Gunner fan!!

now.arsenal@nowarsenal.bsky.social

Top of the Premier League. Six points clear. Top of the Champions League. Two points clear. This is the Arsenal Football Club Mikel Arteta has created. We’re the best team on the planet right now.

I choose to believe that everyone who is still around tomorrow has been rejected by the rapture. Imagine all of those falsely pious individuals having to answer questions about why they are still here. 😆

Mathematics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat with a flashlight, and more than happy to give a shout out at all the other really cool things found in that room.

GreenWitch Tea@greenwitchtea.bsky.social

🙃 #greenwitchtea #greenwitch #animism #harmnone #philosophy #science