Everybody in this house is sick. What are some good movies I can watch tonight that aren’t slop, but which ask nothing of me?

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Snoot

Did you just make a discord competitor of of spite?

גוט שאבעס

Can we not make cracks about the physical appearance of high school kids?

This was a really fun talk. Partly a technical discussion of various neutrino experiments and partly a meditation on the process of scientific consensus. 🧪 indico.fnal.gov/event/73017/

I’m imagining a Sherlock-Holmes-like space alien who has only learned this one fact about our society, but uses it to deduce everything else about our society with startling accuracy. www.cdc.gov/lyme/about/l...

You MAY NOT fuck with the maintenance and development of matplotlib. If I have to go back to gnuplot I will quit my job and become Everyone’s Problem.

I don't think you can revoke a scientific finding.

Challenge: point to anything in popular culture that reinforces this idea, instead of trucking out cliches and half-assed heuristics where kids are seen as accessories to or challenges for parents.

One way to think of parenting is as the temporary stewardship of a whole actual human being, with their own interiority and with immature but constantly developing agency. This ends up being pretty hard, considering everything in human history and also almost everything in our present culture.

Minimalist Microraptor

One thing about working in an underground cavern is that you get really interested in gutters. All our delicate work happens below the water table, so there are persistent drips we gotta worry about. One of our facilities guys just installed a new gutter system and I love it and I love him.

Look at this

Post a banger that’s not in English youtu.be/Q8dxVi053Lk

I met a turtle

Ah cool my parents got to see the Walk for Peace

Really generous of Benito to do this little gig.

I have an extremely clear memory of my friend’s mom looking at me with concern when I was like seven and asking me if I was ok. And with a flat voice and the utmost sincerity I said “I’m just depressed”.

A big reason I share my art on here is to force myself away from the idea that it has to be perfect before anyone sees it. If I’m posting my art it’s because I had fun making it. No other reason.

Need my child to become best friends with this girl who is giving out instant ramen in her birthday gift bags

Physicists, we need to get better at naming things.

The kids and I are experimenting with a genre of art I’m calling “weird little guys”

Nature is telling us it’s dinner time.

Loot that drops after defeating me: - several pounds of loose magnesium carbonate - brass M4 screws - Carmell's סייעתא לגמרא (fair condition) - cursėd amulet (+1 WIS, 1d4 psychic damage per turn) - black licorice

We went out to eat tonight and the guy at the table next to us took a call on his speaker phone. You know, because there's no such thing as society anymore. I started to do the normal thing of silently seething, but then I realized I've got all this white privilege that will spoil if I don't use it

[ smokes huge blunt wrapped in a page from The Life You Can Save ] "Actually, we can find an exchange rate between QALYs and schadenfreude-minutes through a revealed preference analysis, which shows that taking Elon's money is morally right regardless of how it's spent. If you look at table 2..."

Guys blowing paycheck after paycheck on tacticool swag will never look a fraction as tough and cool as this.

A detailed write-up of various deliberations surrounding C.S. Wu and a deserved Nobel Prize that she never received

Finally got around to reading Doppelganger. This is a Naomi Klein appreciation account for the foreseeable future.

it's not really practical for me to [TOS redacted] and I haven't been able to figure out yet how to [TOS redacted]. But today I did some long-deferred self care and now I feel a little better. That's what I wish for you too.

Ah, it's unvandalized now

I was just checking movie showtimes online and uh. This is a bold choice for a movie poster.

Artie Gopnick might of been onto something with that ol Mentaculus of his.

The 6yo has just showed me a dance that she learned (?) from school (?). "IT'S CALLED TWERCHING" she hollers, while kind of bending over and shaking her shoulders like a quarter-speed dog that just came in from the rain.

Old enough to remember feeling this exact same way in 2001

A cool thing that happens now is, when your neighbor's contractor backs their truck into your fence, you've got to figure out a solution that won't involve the dipshit secret police disappearing the driver

Libertarians have an amazing opportunity to prove to us all that they actually exist.

Cold enough for my dude to consent to dog boots

We have a new paper out, looking at using Bell states to cancel certain types of background in quantum sensing measurements. I think it could be useful for certain types of dark matter searches. 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2601.09792

I mostly agree with this but Neptune is too cold and distant for a functioning marriage. I would marry Jupiter, with the added benefit that I could get more stupiter.

How do you approach nonsense tasks at work? Every job has this category, I think: you’re asked to do something thoroughly pointless, you’ll need to spend hours or days on it, and you just have to suck it up. It’s part of being an adult to just auto regulate while doing stuff that sucks. BUT (1/2)

In the pilot episode of TNG we learn that in Earth’s “history” there were militarized police bent on eugenic violence, who were pilled to the gills, armed with automatic weapons, and who all looked like big thumbs in tactical gear.

Fibonoccoli

Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

I finally got around to watching Midsomar and it’s not scary? Like at all??? Not sure what all the fuss was about.