Andrew Bissette

Do any of my mutuals know anything about PC building?

Think mine needs a pretty hefty CPU&mobo upgrade but honestly my knowledge is 6 years out of date and I've no idea what's good any more

you can do what now

my meme efficiency is UP

ironically I don't have time to photoshop so did, in fact, use gemini to make this meme

My German is largely limited to saying "das ist verboten" thanks to years of me and @kthxrawr.bsky.social winding up a mutual friend

UK rw papers went to press with the same line as the left hand NYT headline below. Fools and lickspittles.

I don't get the appeal of still being there surrounded by Nazis and with elon's ketamine-fuelled racism being pushed into your feed.

Remember chemistry twitter?

"Biotechnology Science" new journal name just dropped

Our government is being taken for a ride by tech companies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

quality meme that

People did argue Eliza was self-aware. And it was just about 200 lines of code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA#R...

See this a lot - not sure if it's the pressure to get results out fast, leading to cutting corners, or a fear that if something else outperforms by 5% it'll get rejected. It's one of the more common requests I see from reviewers, though.

Revealed: the new affordable commuter hotspots in Great Britain The lowdown on journey times, season ticket costs and average house prices in places you should know about

I'm sorry, what? Who thinks that 60+ minutes one-way commute and £10k-£16k annual season ticket is in any way "affordable"?!

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...

reddit /r/chemistry post: Can isotopes of the same element bind together? For example, can an O2 compound be composed of an oxygen-14 atom and an oxygen-16 atom? Top reply from /u/Tortenn: Yes, but one half weighs more so it will tip over

59/ kemistry ⚗️🧪👍

I don't know of any specific cases of it being used. It's against our policy. But if a shortcut exists someone, somewhere is going to take it.

Submit to places and editors you trust, I guess.

I'm sure some people are. We don't.

getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

The wp@washingtonpost.com + Follow To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced Al it's ever used in warfare. Anthropic's Claude partnered with the military's Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. wapo.st/46BFe1T The U.S. military used the most advanced Al in warfare yet to strike Iran Majid Argaripour/WANA/via Reuter 4:00 AM Mar 5, 2026 Everybody can reply

Two of the worst traits of journalism (persistently horny for the theatre of war + impossibly credulous about chatbots to the point of pathology) are combining in a terrible new way

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it.
A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

A few things I've learnt from writing >4,000 word pieces:

- They tend to be more popular than my short pieces!
- They're more definitive - like reference material, not a hot take.
- Not everyone will reach the end, and that's okay.
- Write so that the people who do find it incredibly satisfying.

Ouch - hope you're ok!

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a crowd of people with monorail written on the bottom ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a crowd of people with monorail written on the bottom

"company trying to sell you crap hypes crap" why do they keep writing these headlines

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Well, this takes the biscuit.
I know of cases where people were named as authors without their permission, and where it's difficult to get anyone to do anything about it. But here we have a particularly brazen publisher who says they'll remove it if you pay $500!
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/p...

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.