A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
Sinboy [He/His]@sinboy.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost. Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
@thorlabs.bsky.social my friends, no snark in asking, but: why, *why* do your breadboard come with those silicon plugs in threaded holes?? Not that they’re not fun to remove, but genuinely wondering.
Therapeut: "Die 8 Bit Katze ist nicht real, Herr Fehrlich. Sie kann ihnen nichts tun." Die 8 Bit Katze:
Cookie decided it's too warm to maintain solid form and he has now transformed onto a liquid 🫠
”Ist mir zu hetero“ oder ihr einfach nicht lesbisch genug? 😁 #JanPrixOlliVision #ichkomme #ESC2025
my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name me:
this bunny is angry at all the shit happening in the world. just like we all should be.
daily bunnies 🐇✨@dailybunnies.bsky.social · last yr.
Hi. I’m very likely autistic. I also have a doctorate in physics, a wonderful relationship and am happier than this doofus will ever be.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
Fuck the morherfuckers doing this. I don’t say this lightly, but they need to go to prison. End stop. That’s it. You can’t normalize this. You can’t pretend the situation is anything but what it is.
Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.
Also not a trans person. As per usual.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · last yr.NOT A DRAG QUEEN
Ew. Ew. Ew. Have I mentioned, ew? @thevivllainous.bsky.social you’re a gem and a very brave one.
Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social · last yr.World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
Wishing a very happy St Patrick’s Day to all of my friends celebrating in Ireland and around the world, especially O’Larry who’s the guard cat at Jameson:
And I so wanted to go to an @apsphysics.bsky.social meeting someday… Well, nope. Not worth it in the slightest anymore.
Annika Brockschmidt@ardenthistorian.bsky.social · last yr.Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S. www.advocate.com/news/germany...
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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