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∑Π≃λ×🍩 Wayward physics girl doing work in Haskell and Agda now HoTT, literature, film, history, bicycles, roadsters, trains, and of course cooking @petrockette@masto.ai

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I don't like sand. It's course and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere

11.03.2026 23:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

and Wynona had a pet big brown beaver

11.03.2026 03:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In our brave new world, with morons empowered by lying machines of terminal mediocrity, that should be updated to Almost Right is Worse than Wrong

11.03.2026 02:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In software, the mantra used to be Worse is Better (referring to how the works-well-enough C and Unix team came to dominate the industry over the perfectionism of Lisp and the Lisp Machine team)

11.03.2026 02:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously on Epstein's Island

11.03.2026 02:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not your fault that modern cars are so ugly

11.03.2026 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe if we combine all the things, like crypto, nfts, the metaverse, and generative LLMs we can get our magic unicorn pony

Sort of like how my sister and I would combine all of the cleaning solutions in the kitchen when we little to do "science"

11.03.2026 01:12 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

voice in the back: I'm not!

10.03.2026 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NixOS logo with trans pride colors

NixOS logo with trans pride colors

We are all special snowflakes

10.03.2026 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Which very wise Americans are going to be rewarded first? The people who plunked down $50,000 for a Tesla Roadster reservation, or the ones who plunked down $100 for the Trump Phone?

10.03.2026 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are all in the mirror universe now. President Trump could never exist in the real show

10.03.2026 21:17 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"

"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

10.03.2026 03:05 👍 2917 🔁 402 💬 71 📌 13

Weirdly, that was also the result of shooting ourselves in the foot with poorly managed support for Israel

10.03.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New falling cat paper just dropped! So I’m now known as the falling cat physics guy, thanks to writing a popular science book on the history of scientists studying how cats land on their feet (“cat turning”) that yo…

Since I've had journalists asking me about the recent falling cat science paper that just dropped, here's the blog post I wrote about it recently. 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/03/07/n...

10.03.2026 01:20 👍 75 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 0

It was American colonial propaganda during the cold war

In any case, whether we deserve it or not, we are never going to the stars because physics does not care about morality or ethics

But that's okay. We care

09.03.2026 11:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The problem is Ezra Klein and co who do not think Trump is a problem

bsky.app/profile/polp...

07.03.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chomsky, causing them to overlook atrocities committed by Assad, or Putin, or the totalitarian Iranian regime and who cannot see Trump being any worse than Hillary or Harris--in fact, they might prefer Trump as he weakens the American position

06.03.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some are clearly bots, some are clearly foreign nationals trying to divide, but too many are ordinary Americans susceptible to malignant influence

Many are campists, perhaps a better term than tankies, for whom the enemy of my enemy is my friend whose big bad is American imperialism, like Noam

06.03.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

An article could be written about the people who refused to vote for Harris because of the Gaza genocide, when the Palestinians were begging us to not elect Trump, Netanyahu's choice, and now claim she would have been as bad, would have invaded Iran, and how the Democrats are the same as the GOP

06.03.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This should really be getting more attention, but thank you for writing it

06.03.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

male insecurity is why noticing very obvious facts was dismissed as hysterical

newrepublic.com/article/2042...

06.03.2026 21:05 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
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Trump screwed them 3 times and dared to ask for a 4th.

06.03.2026 01:55 👍 1046 🔁 277 💬 54 📌 16

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbsm...

06.03.2026 06:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
EBN - Electronic Behavior Control System (HD)
EBN - Electronic Behavior Control System (HD) YouTube video by EMERGENCY BROADCAST NETWORK (EBN)

Electronic Behavior Control System

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZs...

06.03.2026 06:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's working for the Ukrainians now ...

06.03.2026 02:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shooting puppies in the face monkey paws a reverse Dorian Gray

06.03.2026 02:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They wouldn't be the first young girls Trump had murdered

06.03.2026 02:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

US : Cuba :: France : Haiti

06.03.2026 01:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump doesn't care about murdering or torturing american citizens, or fraud, or grift, or criming, or raping children

The one unpardonable sin is someone else dipping their beak in the government money trough, which he considers his personal property

Noem crossed that line with the ads

05.03.2026 23:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's not forget the unnamed goat. But to be fair, Trump raped and murdered children for fun, just to put this in perspective

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/02/n...

05.03.2026 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0