I don’t care how cute he is, motherfucker should’ve stayed hurt.

Hooray for e-waste dumpster diving at work. Nabbed some incubator magnetic stirrers for suspension culture and 2x HP 32" 4k monitors that both still work. Not as cool as the MiSeq from a few weeks ago, but actually useful.

Tagging @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social and her fantastic work here. She's currently working on a commission of Flora and sent a preliminary sketch. It captures her essential derp perfectly and I'm super excited for the stickers coming soon. She's also much better at responding to emails than I am.

Also Mike Johnson saying "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this"? Russ spent his entire career trying to make govt smaller! He wrote the RIF policy in Feb! He wants to put public federal employees in trauma! He takes great pleasure in this! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

Sure am glad that AmiAmi figured out a workaround for US shipping cause I found yet another thing I didn't know I needed...

I have a friend shipping off to a small research post in Antarctica soon. I should buy them a copy to remember me by.

Oh boy. Smell-o-vision comes to books.

What we are discovering is that a huge number of contemporary Americans lack courage, bravery, and a meaningful sense of honor or moral purpose. They are empty.

Ooo. I forgot This Monster Wants to Eat Me starts today. Yay… I think?

Why do I do this to myself?

At the Pentagon: "sir, we cannot allow a catgirl cheating video gap to emerge. We need to give SV 10x more funding."

I thought shipping biological materials to Japan was the worst until I had to coordinate a local handoff to a small startup. How is “show up at x at y am” more difficult than pulling CoAs for every reagent used in cell culture and finding a fax machine?

I’m an adult with adult money.

I’m watching a random twitch politics streamer with 4x the viewers of the Speaker of the House’s live stream. Ouch.

She just like me frfr.

Ah hell, might be time to start ordering lab supplies off of Temu.

There isn’t enough quartz/eternal Daphne in the world to make this worth the annoyance. I’ll be content mindlessly blowing up Dendron Termimus with any old team thanks.

If you see this, qrt w/ a gif of your pfp. It’s not the same without the music…

Hooray! AmiAmi finally figured out a plan b for Japan Post not shipping to the US. Looks like a few question marks remain, but orders that were paid for and paused due to tariffs should start being released to ECMS soon?

I’ve told a few friends with access to my plex server that I’m going to have to charge them a small fee to cover new movie tariffs and they agreed to pay whatever was needed. Are my friends gullible? I’m worried now.

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )

What’s your sign?

Blue Archive captures the current world so well.

Meh. Half right, look careless but am very careful. The harsh is probably correct. uquiz.com/quiz/QSDT7d/...

Bleh, my least favorite part of my lab contracting du to funding is having to pick up mouse work again. I thought seniority came with perks, guess only sometimes.

Hmm. Wonder if there’s still time to get a PhD. I’d cosplay as a conservative for free trips and headpats.

It’s foreign aid money, there’s no way they’ll use this for domestic spending also, right? Definitely a woo moment here.

Hooray! My Star Trek IV sticker made it home in one piece.

"We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained...". I can make one guess as to why.

First real day back in lab after ~two week vacation and I have two observations so far. 1. Coming in for a few hours yesterday to put out the big fires was a good idea. 2. I should never underestimate the ability of people to start new fires. Vacations are fine, but coming back from them sucks.

No worries if not. Lots of worries if.

Man, I love living in normal times.

Look, EVERYONE gets angry about the death cult, but we just partake in a few inconsequential bloodletting ceremonies to E'str'dyol every few weeks, as a treat.

I spent my summers in undergrad doing field work that included scraping barnacles off of oysters. It was never soothing and I was angry 99% of the time. Tik tok crab bro must be built different.

We’re screwed, aren’t we?

If you see this, quote this post with an anime you’d give a perfect 10/10.

Finally, was beginning to wonder if she actually existed in the pool. Probably won’t use her ever, but I get to read her character stories finally!

Me, after several minutes scrolling through current events.

I thought we all agreed that the “garage as the centerpiece of the house” design was bad, and yet…

i truly hate that the language of business has come to define all government functions. like "oh the mail has to make enough money to justify its existence" fuck you its a public service

One of the joys of being a newish mariners fan is you avoid this trap. I’m furious 40% of the time, depressed 50%, and skeptically hopeful the last 10%. I might have to recalibrate that to 15% skeptically hopeful after this season though!

I wish my brain worked normally. You shouldn’t be ready to sleep an hour after 15mg of IR Adderall and an energy drink, right? Was hoping to get some reading some tonight, but I guess it’s bedtime instead.

Call it what it is. FARM WELFARE. Why can't they pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Seems to be their answer to anyone else needing public assistance. Will we put work requirements on their eligibility like we do the disabled, and folks on Medicaid?

Wanna see a dead body?

I needed new AirPods and splurged on the AirPods Pro 3. Can’t wait to try out the live translation options to so I can finally understand the UK folks on my floor! Really hoping for English (Canadian) to be added soon.

I’m probably not going to survive this. Four hours on Krauss et al.’s garbage fire of a book is a lot.

Huh. I just got an email invite to a “small group experience” with my institutional leadership to talk about how things are going. That’s a trap, right?

Super thankful the rapture is happening on the last day of my vacation. I know what’s waiting for me back in lab and none of it is fun. Surely they won’t be wrong this time.

Me in BG3/Skyrim/etc.