A Quotidian Mind
@drpolonium.bsky.social
He (they) is a scientist, among other things. All opinions, musings, deep insights, or interminable screeds are mine and mine alone, and do not represent any genius or folly on the part of any organization that I may or may not work for.
I know there's a lot going on, but I've just remembered about this classic and y'all need to see it NOW. (You'll never see a sandwich the same way again.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD2...
October 19, 2023 at 4:59 PM
I know there's a lot going on, but I've just remembered about this classic and y'all need to see it NOW. (You'll never see a sandwich the same way again.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD2...
Deep Thought of the Day (tm): considering that a coin flip is a mechanical action dependent on how much force is applied, how far the coin travels, and how fast it spins, is it possible for a person to train themselves to control the outcome? 🤔
October 8, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Deep Thought of the Day (tm): considering that a coin flip is a mechanical action dependent on how much force is applied, how far the coin travels, and how fast it spins, is it possible for a person to train themselves to control the outcome? 🤔
This can’t be said too much.
I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
October 8, 2023 at 4:40 PM
This can’t be said too much.
As usual, Israel barely allows the world to condemn an attack on them before they do something horrible. Like clockwork.
October 7, 2023 at 6:12 PM
As usual, Israel barely allows the world to condemn an attack on them before they do something horrible. Like clockwork.
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[sitting bolt upright in bed at 1am] most of the ways the coyote tries to kill the roadrunner would, if successful, render it totally inedible
October 6, 2023 at 2:38 PM
[sitting bolt upright in bed at 1am] most of the ways the coyote tries to kill the roadrunner would, if successful, render it totally inedible
Jesus performing miracles on people without their consent? That's peak Christian shit, and he's doing it before it was cool!
October 3, 2023 at 7:11 PM
Jesus performing miracles on people without their consent? That's peak Christian shit, and he's doing it before it was cool!
Ayup. The more time, energy, and political capital the GOP spends on infighting the less time, energy, and political capital they'll have to wreck this nation.
Matt Gaetz has filed a motion to vacate the chair, meaning Kevin McCarthy's job is on the line. Democrats should unite behind Hakeem Jeffries and not get involved in the chaos of the GOP. You can't wrestle a pig in the mud, after all. Stick together, watch them squirm.
October 3, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Ayup. The more time, energy, and political capital the GOP spends on infighting the less time, energy, and political capital they'll have to wreck this nation.
Saying the things that need to be said. For every one of those who gets lucky and wins a Nobel there are legions that labor their entire careers in squalid anonymity. I’m glad Karikó is using her fame for good.
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we@jpeg)
October 3, 2023 at 3:06 PM
Saying the things that need to be said. For every one of those who gets lucky and wins a Nobel there are legions that labor their entire careers in squalid anonymity. I’m glad Karikó is using her fame for good.
Gamer and reader of Star Trek books. In the 90s, before those things were cool. Went on to become the explosives expert of my college Chemistry Club.
I can’t imagine any Bsky early adopter was cool in high school, so what kind of loser were you?
October 1, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Gamer and reader of Star Trek books. In the 90s, before those things were cool. Went on to become the explosives expert of my college Chemistry Club.
🤯🤯🤯
sorry if this is controversial but i like when video games are fun to play and not a punishment
September 30, 2023 at 9:25 PM
🤯🤯🤯
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Incredible. Laziness is so important
September 30, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Incredible. Laziness is so important
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🎶 But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity 🎶
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity 🎶
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has filed for bankruptcy protection, less than two days before a new state law takes effect allowing victims of child sexual abuse to sue institutions, no matter how long ago the abuse took place
Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, facing possible slew of abuse lawsuits, files for bankruptcy
Baltimore, the country’s oldest Catholic diocese, joins dozens of other dioceses that also filed. If approved, bankruptcy limits and silences victims.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 29, 2023 at 8:11 PM
🎶 But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity 🎶
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity 🎶
Narrator: it absolutely will hurt you
in a hurry? too tired to make fresh coffee? you should consider Yesterday Coffee™️. it is still in the pot and it probably won't hurt you. Yesterday Coffee: It's From Yesterday
September 23, 2023 at 6:22 PM
Narrator: it absolutely will hurt you
I have a request: whilst making fun of David Brooks and his typically ridiculous mouth-farts, could you like NOT inundate my social network with photos of disgusting food? I nearly lost my brunch just now.
September 21, 2023 at 5:24 PM
I have a request: whilst making fun of David Brooks and his typically ridiculous mouth-farts, could you like NOT inundate my social network with photos of disgusting food? I nearly lost my brunch just now.
<boo> So there's no way to pin a post on this app? </boo>
September 20, 2023 at 8:50 PM
<boo> So there's no way to pin a post on this app? </boo>
Watching this strike spread and engulf more and more industries that exploit artists is exciting. Realizing that it might actually change all of these industries for the better is exhilarating.
BREAKING: SAG-AFTRA members are about to vote on a Video Game strike authorization.
After a year of negotiation the union says the major video game companies have failed to address the needs of actors involved.
So they're calling for a second simultaneous strike.
After a year of negotiation the union says the major video game companies have failed to address the needs of actors involved.
So they're calling for a second simultaneous strike.
September 2, 2023 at 1:30 AM
Watching this strike spread and engulf more and more industries that exploit artists is exciting. Realizing that it might actually change all of these industries for the better is exhilarating.
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I’m pretty sure the Book of Job is meant to be sarcastic, a reflection on the world’s unfairness. God never gives Job a reason for his suffering, but the reader knows it was just a silly & unimportant bet with haSatan. It was meaningless.
@josie.zone wrote a great piece in the same vein last year:
@josie.zone wrote a great piece in the same vein last year:
A Religious Fable That Confounded Scholars for Millennia Finally Makes Sense Right Now
The story is perfect for our harrowing times. But we’ve been reading it all wrong.
slate.com
September 1, 2023 at 5:23 PM
I’m pretty sure the Book of Job is meant to be sarcastic, a reflection on the world’s unfairness. God never gives Job a reason for his suffering, but the reader knows it was just a silly & unimportant bet with haSatan. It was meaningless.
@josie.zone wrote a great piece in the same vein last year:
@josie.zone wrote a great piece in the same vein last year:
Ooo! I'm really learning what "fuck around and find out" actually means! More pls.
A Proud Boys member who was the first person to smash through the Capitol windows in the Jan. 6 insurrection was sentenced to 10 years in prison
First Rioter To Smash Through Capitol Windows Sentenced To 10 Years
Dominic Pezzola is the latest Proud Boy to find out how long he'll be in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
www.huffpost.com
September 1, 2023 at 5:52 PM
Ooo! I'm really learning what "fuck around and find out" actually means! More pls.
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A movie no one ever talks about - it might not even be THAT good - but you still love it. filmsky 📽️🎬
Star Wars (1977)
fun Hidden Fortress remake with a scifi twist made by a still green George Lucas (his 3rd movie) A lesser Alec Guiness vehicle but Peter Cushing is great in this piece of 70s pulp
Star Wars (1977)
fun Hidden Fortress remake with a scifi twist made by a still green George Lucas (his 3rd movie) A lesser Alec Guiness vehicle but Peter Cushing is great in this piece of 70s pulp
August 24, 2023 at 6:00 PM
A movie no one ever talks about - it might not even be THAT good - but you still love it. filmsky 📽️🎬
Star Wars (1977)
fun Hidden Fortress remake with a scifi twist made by a still green George Lucas (his 3rd movie) A lesser Alec Guiness vehicle but Peter Cushing is great in this piece of 70s pulp
Star Wars (1977)
fun Hidden Fortress remake with a scifi twist made by a still green George Lucas (his 3rd movie) A lesser Alec Guiness vehicle but Peter Cushing is great in this piece of 70s pulp
Exactly the same applies to science
Associated with this is "no one goes into the arts to make money." One, it's wrong - I absolutely did, right from the start - and two, it's an attempt to set the expectation that one won't, or shouldn't, have financial concerns (and fairness!) as part of the creative calculus of one's life.
The "starving artist" myth is one promoted by people in power to romanticize the forced austerity of artists and writers -- meaning, to convince creators that being paid less than they are worth is simply part of the expected narrative when it shouldn't be. (See also: the WGA strike.)
August 23, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Exactly the same applies to science
Is it me or does the guy on the left look like a young Nikita Khrushchev?
August 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM
Is it me or does the guy on the left look like a young Nikita Khrushchev?
One thing that Bluesky has that the old Twitter also had: people complaining about bad stuff that I never see or experience. What do you mean your whole feed is one person? Mine is like four people! I don't get it.
August 22, 2023 at 6:35 PM
One thing that Bluesky has that the old Twitter also had: people complaining about bad stuff that I never see or experience. What do you mean your whole feed is one person? Mine is like four people! I don't get it.
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I made this. It took forever.
August 6, 2023 at 5:59 PM
I made this. It took forever.