Some days you get sad about the Holocaust and need to make pickles.

an immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4d ago

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

"And here's a link to the statement of work.. I apologise, that's a link to Apex Twin's Windowlicker." #OfficeWorkQuotes

On my way to see the Odyssey at the cinema. I love greek myth but at 3h, they better have pee breaks. If anyone was wondering, listening to the full oral odyssey would take 4-5x longer than watching it.

One time Sergey Brin asked me a weird question about shark science! He was concerned about sharks by his favorite beach, and asked why we didn't create a network of drones to patrol the whole coastline. I pointed out that doing this would cost several times the entire annual NSF budget.

New progress pride flag dropped

It appears I came to #emfcamp to be attacked.

#emfcamp Menopause talk was very good and extremely relatable. Lasted 25 of 40 minutes before I started leaking. But we all leak a little coolant sometimes. (Art by me but not today)

It is probably topical that I am waiting for a menopause hacking talk at #emfcamp while wearing the powered neck cooling unit I was able to let myself buy because it operates on a cool niche semiconductor principle (peltier effect 🤓). It's easier to buy myself tech toys than assistive tech.

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

This morning at #emfcamp : lessons from astronaut planning for dementia and hacking for menopause. It's important and probably helpful but wow it's an emotionally intense morning.

I'm at #emfcamp but I'm also not very heat tolerant and melty and stressed. Maybe catch you when it's cooler, or at a very low intensity, friendos!

Vignettes from my household: Manpet: I'm beat. I'm going to go to sleep now. Me: Darling, I am *trying* to read the Wikipedia page for the Lawrence Livermore national lab at you #sciencelyf #science

Hey fellow team leads. You can tell your team, today, right now, that you don't expect them to perform as well in the heat and that's okay. Cut everyone some slack. We don't need permission from management to recognise reality and extend kindness. #heatwave

Qotd, pride month edition: "I am not explaining cottaging to the CEO"

The reviews for cooling tech on Amazon reveal quite how little sense thermodynamics makes to most people. "Cooled me to start with, but then got hot itself!"... Yes, it was.. absorbing the heat? Not disappearing it?

No, *you* decided to buy your seeds from @realseeds.co.uk (whose account has apparently lapsed) because they have open source seed machine plans, art nouveau packets and photos of their beautiful Victorian filling machine. realseeds.co.uk/brownbagmach...

As a physicist, sometimes you need to get down and dirty with the data. You know. Touch graphs.

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding. She's a billionaire. She doesn't care about "single mums". www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

Gingerbread announces closure of helpline   | Gingerbread

gingerbread.org.uk

One charity down then.

11 years since I did my first wet lab placement (the sort of lab with liquids and chemistry rather than electromagnets: not my home turf back then) and made them biscuits to say thanks. There was a lot of work with crucibles and some with barium cobalt nitride. #Science #Baking #chemistry

My love is unable to change his costume in #worldOfWarcraft and I am dying laughing. Left, the dream: right, how it's stuck now.

Very small crew of friends here: I have an issue. My current art project (still in progress) is quite a labour of love, and I'm happy with it and want to show it off but it's sort of.. a bit blasphemous What do?

Apropos of nothing, thinking of James Baldwin today.

I learned on the weekend that mesopotamia literally means 'between the rivers'. Which is a charmingly basic way to name a whole human civilization. I crowbarred this into a meeting today and it did not go well. So hello bluesky.

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?

I dreamt my friend from PhD had got three additional degrees, invented a way of making anisotropic gels and got a Nobel prize. I died of jealousy.

I made a new art challenge for reposting your art! The challenge is to find existing works that fits the prompts (get creative!) - no new work needed! woho!! Starting April 1st I will be reposting existing art based on these prompts!! All artists welcome to join :) #repostyourart

Iconic that NASA woke up the #Artemis II crew with Pink Pony Club