A. Fresnel
@fresnel.bsky.social
An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)
So the sound I heard in the other room was Cecilia putting her chew stick in the middle of the floor and repeatedly pouncing on it. I asked her what she was trying to do and the expression she gave me in return I can only describe as "painfully confused".
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So the sound I heard in the other room was Cecilia putting her chew stick in the middle of the floor and repeatedly pouncing on it. I asked her what she was trying to do and the expression she gave me in return I can only describe as "painfully confused".
Study enough quantum mechanics and start doing this with π/2 as the answer to every question.
Any time I don’t know the answer to a question, I say “the surgeon was the boy’s mother” just in case
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Study enough quantum mechanics and start doing this with π/2 as the answer to every question.
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Here's my contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day, the infamous folk rock ships playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Songs about Specific Boats or Ships
YouTube video by onesigmaoff
music.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Here's my contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day, the infamous folk rock ships playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
This just came back into my head from like 2006 or something? youtu.be/Wz-mJed_bP0?...
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This just came back into my head from like 2006 or something? youtu.be/Wz-mJed_bP0?...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains | WCMU Public Radio 🦑🧪🌎
Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains
Ron Bloomfield of Central Michigan University and member of Michigan's Underwater Salvage and Preserve Committee discusses why the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains unexplored since the early…
radio.wcmu.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains | WCMU Public Radio 🦑🧪🌎
The 2020s will go down in the history books as the era we tried out the concept of rule by the unimaginably incompetent and I'm not enjoying the ride.
"I'm gonna say a bunch of things I probably shouldn't say," Musk says to cheers, "but that keeps it interesting. "
He says other shareholder meetings are boring, but Teslas are "bangers."
not sure I can do this, chat
He says other shareholder meetings are boring, but Teslas are "bangers."
not sure I can do this, chat
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The 2020s will go down in the history books as the era we tried out the concept of rule by the unimaginably incompetent and I'm not enjoying the ride.
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SHELVE YOUR LONGBOW, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SHELVE YOUR LONGBOW, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
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Good Morning! If you are an American in a locale with an election today, please go VOTE!!
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Good Morning! If you are an American in a locale with an election today, please go VOTE!!
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that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
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Hey Canada you okay?
Canada:
Canada:
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hey Canada you okay?
Canada:
Canada:
I couldn't get a second order coastal lens to light my apartment, but I could get an upcycled runway light from an old airport.
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I couldn't get a second order coastal lens to light my apartment, but I could get an upcycled runway light from an old airport.
I've done it again everyone, I've taken a ludicrously long time to make a pour over coffee because I forgot to turn the heat on for the kettle. 🫡
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I've done it again everyone, I've taken a ludicrously long time to make a pour over coffee because I forgot to turn the heat on for the kettle. 🫡
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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they are trying to kill every trans kid in America
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
they are trying to kill every trans kid in America
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
What if I sing this at karaoke? 🤔
youtu.be/1ib54-mVnGw?...
youtu.be/1ib54-mVnGw?...
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What if I sing this at karaoke? 🤔
youtu.be/1ib54-mVnGw?...
youtu.be/1ib54-mVnGw?...
I've got Breaking Away and The Deer Hunter.
The three greatest movies based in the cities I've lived in the longest are The Big Lebowski (Los Angeles), Pig (Portland) and the X-Files movie (Dallas).
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I've got Breaking Away and The Deer Hunter.
The new Sabaton album Legends is pretty solid. I like it better than The War to End All Wars, which felt like an album of The Great War B-sides except for The Christmas Truce. It's not as "epic" as Heroes or The Last Stand, but it's solid.
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The new Sabaton album Legends is pretty solid. I like it better than The War to End All Wars, which felt like an album of The Great War B-sides except for The Christmas Truce. It's not as "epic" as Heroes or The Last Stand, but it's solid.
I've decided to buy myself a treat and for some weird reason I've decided that it's going to be corduroy pants?
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I've decided to buy myself a treat and for some weird reason I've decided that it's going to be corduroy pants?