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Doctor Apatite

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Skittle-haired, charmingly insubordinate, disabled, punk rock ukulele playing, mid-century glassware collecting, BVB/USMNT/USWNT/USYNT supporting, Belgian-loving, planetary scientist. Normally busy making hand-crafted mischief for the swap meet of science.

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When Democrats are in the White House a $.25 increase in a gallon of milk is enough to topple an administration.

09.03.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

New achondirite dropped.

09.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you allowed to be on both the Paralympics and Olympics teams?

09.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Collaborator.

09.03.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
woman in hospital bed smiling while doctor says 'have you tried? not being sick?  

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09.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Now do every field of sciβ€”eh, why bother we are royally fucked no matter what.

09.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I look forward to being told that hiring back a small percentage of the initial 10,000 is both "a great victory for the left" and also "unnecessary big government".

09.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

look, I’m just a dipshit writer but all the people going β€œlol they’ll never do a draft” like. idk man. wish I had the confidence but every single time I think β€œthey’d never” they fuckin *do*

08.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I know driving is only a small part of the energy crisis that we've just caused, but for the "gas prices" part of the problem, I very seriously recommend a used BMW i3 starting around $5K.

08.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

HELPFUL FLOWCHART

Are you a dude who is about to reply guy mansplain an expert woman on Bluesky?

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Don't Good

08.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 706 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4

I also had a joke about him being a cat operative in deep cover who just can't take it anymore.

08.03.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The greatest trick the Dog ever pulled was convincing the owners he couldn't hear their commands."

08.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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BAR DOWN BANGERπŸ”₯

USWNT x VolksWagen

07.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favourite mathematical facts… πŸ§ͺ

08.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This album is one of my favorites from that era and has four of my favorite Offspring songs, including "Tehran", which has been in my head ever since we started a war with Iran.

08.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is nearly impossible to answer (without further beers and much debate). In the Solar System - not a planet, but can I have Titan? That would be fun. In the galaxy - one of the worlds with a double star, just to see the sunsets. Maybe PH-1b for its quadruple system.

08.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

They say that sending your kid to college is a great way to save money, but more importantly it is a great way to get them away from "being American" which is going to worse than 30 years of student loan debt.

08.03.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Joke's on us

08.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look, you get your summer salary by writing proposals like some sort of sucker, I'm going with the paid shill route.

08.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We make similar jokes about "diversity" and "inclusion" but then we make sure not to use those words for exactly this reason.

And I know it is giving in to fascism in advance but I'm tired of fighting.

08.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can't even log into NSPIRES without using the letter I, but I bet I could do five pages without using an A.

08.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That means there's still time for the cross-disciplinary AI Research In Planets (AI-RIP)!

Too subtle?

08.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Didn't y'all just hire ~100 faculty for your new AI institute? Surely you can uh collaborate or whatever, synergy something something.

08.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

US GEO folks: A few NSF POs are traveling again (!!) & several are hitting the regional GSAs. @drrocks1982.bsky.social + @llautz.bsky.social are headed to the Triple-Joint meeting in Memphis, I'll be in Hartford for the Northeastern. We are hype to see the community! Reach out if you'll be there!

06.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

What, you don't want to hang out in your offβ€”never mind.

06.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

06.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1371 πŸ” 503 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 136

You misspelled "2037", but otherwise, yes.

06.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I learned from Disenchanted that we might need someone to pull on her legs or the hanging will take all day.

06.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No, it's 100% on the post-calibration, interpretation-side.

"We saw A it means A" but thermodynamics says no it doesn't!

This is a waaaaaaay bigger problem than that recent GRL paper.

Anyway the point is that I am not making new friends.

05.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing will reveal the depravity of humankind more than playing scrandle, lmao.

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05.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0