Banjo-learner, gardener, roller derby announcer, AFT Local 223. Mostly bad jokes & socialist grumbling; science at @merz_garrett. he/they, I guess?

Joined January 2012
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Ain't no party like a physics party because a physics party don't stop unless acted upon by an outside force
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Invertebrate paleontologists are a wonderfully eclectic group of scientists. Anyone can love a trilobite, but only a special few could truly love a graptolite, bryozoan, or Monte Carlo simulation
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How did I just learn that Wilfred Voynich, the guy who the Voynich manuscript was named after, was the son-in-law of George Boole, the inventor of Boolean logic
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i had a dream i was in a world where chicago is in arizona and i kept trying to explain to people that it’s supposed to be in illinois and that something is wrong and long story short i was captured and dipped in a substance they called chicagunk. my body was destroyed
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These research questions are situated at the intersection of this fellowship application and my desire to be awarded a fellowship
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Trying to avoid eye contact with my wife this Saturday morning as she has a big exclamation point quest giver mark over her head
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“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage
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RIP David Hockney
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the city heaves and stutters like an animal troubled by dreams
A day in Manhattan, warped so that distance ≈ drive time. Drive times swell in the morning and evening rush hour, then contract in the night.
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by thomas wykes. had me crying laughing
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i apologize in advance for the shoddy footage of this once-in-a-generation event. this was the only copy we could license on our budget. tell you what: why don't you try going to another news provider to watch the video, and then just... come back here to read the story? okay, you're back now? alright, just pretend that you didn't hear about this yet. alright, here we go. well folks, you heard it here first: after millennia of stagnation, it seems that the mammal stacking scene has been brought back into global relevance... and it's all thanks to the talented antnards at the gigglegrub provincial zoo and bar. from what we've heard, the crew behind this feat is intending to take on the dreaded four-stack, once believed to be a TAS-exclusive stack for mammals. you can bet we'll be tuning into the event, sponsored by sloppco energy, when it airs live in early 2027.
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young woman at the bar playing solitaire with a physical deck of cards. proper old head entertainment. you don’t see that much anymore
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I've got to tell you how I love you always
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the trouble with reading ursula k. le guin rn is i'm getting mad all over again at what's been done to sff over the last decade lmfao
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very struck by this tiktok where a divorce attorney said the best heterosexual relationship dynamic is “evil witch devoted henchman”
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i still think about this specialization is for insects
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I've heard this is the most weirdly illustrated maths book
Anatoly Fomenko
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Halos over Beaver Island, Michigan
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I made a very important purchase at the medieval festival
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