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@jowiph

Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.

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Juan de Fuca, motherfucker

11.03.2026 00:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ollie North is tanned, rested, and ready

10.03.2026 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly! I'd think you'd understand the plight of people having their PNW paradise confused with Maine!

10.03.2026 23:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sorry, I just feel like as a Portlander, you especially should be better than this

10.03.2026 23:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OH, SO EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS WEBSITE CAN BE ILLITERATE, BUT WHEN I DO IT, EVERYONE NOTICES, I SEE

10.03.2026 23:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 350 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
10.03.2026 23:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We're going out to visit my folks in June and will be hitting up an Ms/Os game while we're there. I can't wait

10.03.2026 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God I miss Safeco Field so much...

10.03.2026 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh no it's adorable

10.03.2026 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Though thinking about it, the paperback version is probably actually denser and would hurt more

10.03.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh damn, I didn't even know it had gotten a paperback edition! Good for them.

10.03.2026 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now I want a Roland Emmerich disaster movie about the Trump administration ordering NASA to trigger a CME to clear the mines from the Strait of Hormuz

10.03.2026 20:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

New rule: every tech bro that uses the word "objective" is bludgeoned by a copy of Gallison and Daston until they can actually articulate what they mean

10.03.2026 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Edward Teller has entered the chat

10.03.2026 22:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This genuinely blows my mind. Like, there's no way they did this without it be being incredibly obvious that tens of millions of dollars were just being disappeared, right?

10.03.2026 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(god I hate how much I've retained from those books...)

10.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well if Demosthenes and Locke aren't going to do it...

10.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, but we don't talk about the xenocides enabled by countless children playing Solitaire and SkiFree

10.03.2026 22:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

in england they spell it lmaou

10.03.2026 21:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 657 ๐Ÿ” 62 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Being an ACIP member used to mean you were at the top of your field. Now the bare minimum is "this shitty paper didn't actually get retracted but everyone can see it's awful."

10.03.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 41 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What the fuck

10.03.2026 21:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The August 1972 solar storms occurred midway between Apollo 16 and 17.

If astronauts has been on the lunar surface, they would have died from radiation exposure.

Even the astronaut left in lunar orbit in the CSM would have had an awful dose.

10.03.2026 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

$240 worth of pudding

10.03.2026 21:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I mean, they made a movie out of Battleship, I have faith in the slop-industrial-complex's ability to make a movie based on Minesweeper

10.03.2026 21:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So for a while, I thought Minecraft was just Minesweeper and was so confused by the existence of a movie based on it.

10.03.2026 21:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh hell yeah

10.03.2026 21:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

95 and XP were still usable, but imo Windows peaked when it was still just a GUI shell running on top of DOS

10.03.2026 21:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RETVRN to Windows 3.1

10.03.2026 20:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know it's not what this post is about, but we strayed from god's light when Minesweeper stopped being automatically bundled with Windows

10.03.2026 20:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2