Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)
@funranium.bsky.social
The Cenobite of Sharing
The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions.
www.funraniumlabs.com
The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions.
www.funraniumlabs.com
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Hard Life Lessons from the Land of Q Clearances - Funranium Labs
In an ongoing effort to share helpful things in life about topics other than delicious coffee & beer, I want to take a moment to discuss something that effects all of us, every day. First, let us revi...
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Because sometimes I need a reminder of how to step back from the brink and maybe you do too. DON’T BECOME A WAR THUNDER FORUMS VICTIM! www.funraniumlabs.com/2011/12/life...
To the person with the car alarm that went of continuously for over an hour, starting at 0530:
I hope your battery is dead and that you really were looking forward to that fun thing you now can’t do.
I hope your battery is dead and that you really were looking forward to that fun thing you now can’t do.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
To the person with the car alarm that went of continuously for over an hour, starting at 0530:
I hope your battery is dead and that you really were looking forward to that fun thing you now can’t do.
I hope your battery is dead and that you really were looking forward to that fun thing you now can’t do.
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I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
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It's Movember time again, when many silly moustaches are grown to support men's health issues of prostate & testicular cancer as well as mental health and suicide prevention
Ive been doing it 16 years. Can you support?
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/globalmoma...
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Ive been doing it 16 years. Can you support?
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/globalmoma...
@funranium.bsky.social
Dave Taylor's Mo Space
Motivation: Year 16. From my first tentative mo in 2010 to the mo madness I do now, it's been a long journey.
It was about year 4 that my father got diagnosed, year 7 or 8 when he finally got clear...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It's Movember time again, when many silly moustaches are grown to support men's health issues of prostate & testicular cancer as well as mental health and suicide prevention
Ive been doing it 16 years. Can you support?
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/globalmoma...
@funranium.bsky.social
Ive been doing it 16 years. Can you support?
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/globalmoma...
@funranium.bsky.social
While I have your attention with the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Imaginary Cadorno, and drowning the Kardashians in tar, I must inform you that we are 5.5 days out from Team SENSIBLE SHOES' Extra Life game day.
Somehow, @blarkytopia.bsky.social & I don't know our background character classes.
Somehow, @blarkytopia.bsky.social & I don't know our background character classes.
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
While I have your attention with the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Imaginary Cadorno, and drowning the Kardashians in tar, I must inform you that we are 5.5 days out from Team SENSIBLE SHOES' Extra Life game day.
Somehow, @blarkytopia.bsky.social & I don't know our background character classes.
Somehow, @blarkytopia.bsky.social & I don't know our background character classes.
A personal favorite that @araina.bsky.social likes to play for me.
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A personal favorite that @araina.bsky.social likes to play for me.
I just poisoned a friend’s brain with figuring out the are of irrational numbers of the Battles of Isonzo. This cruel to do to a math major with an interest in military history.
You see, there were battles on that site prior to WWI and the enumeration as a function of the commanders’ mental state…
You see, there were battles on that site prior to WWI and the enumeration as a function of the commanders’ mental state…
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I just poisoned a friend’s brain with figuring out the are of irrational numbers of the Battles of Isonzo. This cruel to do to a math major with an interest in military history.
You see, there were battles on that site prior to WWI and the enumeration as a function of the commanders’ mental state…
You see, there were battles on that site prior to WWI and the enumeration as a function of the commanders’ mental state…
I would also happily support the reality TV game show “Sticking With The Kardashians” as teams of celebrity teams compete to escape the tar pits.
Another random fic idea, free to a good home:
A drama about a group of celebs who find themselves starring in a reality TV show (subtype: roughing it in the wilderness), some time after cloning and re-wilding of extinct species becomes a thing. Ominously, it's called:
Glamping with Smilodons
A drama about a group of celebs who find themselves starring in a reality TV show (subtype: roughing it in the wilderness), some time after cloning and re-wilding of extinct species becomes a thing. Ominously, it's called:
Glamping with Smilodons
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I would also happily support the reality TV game show “Sticking With The Kardashians” as teams of celebrity teams compete to escape the tar pits.
As “A Kiss To Build A Dream On”came on at the restaurant I was typing “NUKE THE LAKES”. Get a GECK for this, Gitche Gumme.
today, like every day, is a good day to remember everything Lake Superior has taken from us. the only language the Great Lakes understand is force.
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As “A Kiss To Build A Dream On”came on at the restaurant I was typing “NUKE THE LAKES”. Get a GECK for this, Gitche Gumme.
PROTIP EVERYONE!
Note that this is the US public domain. Some of these are already public domain elsewhere, and some will not be for a while. Be sure to check local laws before putting a film into production based on your Miss Marple/Betty Boop slash.
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
PROTIP EVERYONE!
Student: Take the spelling of my name up with parents.
Coworker: Could be worse. Parents could have given you the initials KGB like mine did.
Me: Did they do that on purpose?
Coworker: No.
Me: At least, that’s what they told you. All a part of the maskarovka.
Coworker: Could be worse. Parents could have given you the initials KGB like mine did.
Me: Did they do that on purpose?
Coworker: No.
Me: At least, that’s what they told you. All a part of the maskarovka.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Student: Take the spelling of my name up with parents.
Coworker: Could be worse. Parents could have given you the initials KGB like mine did.
Me: Did they do that on purpose?
Coworker: No.
Me: At least, that’s what they told you. All a part of the maskarovka.
Coworker: Could be worse. Parents could have given you the initials KGB like mine did.
Me: Did they do that on purpose?
Coworker: No.
Me: At least, that’s what they told you. All a part of the maskarovka.
I know I've been sending a lot of intrusive thoughts out into the world lately but "Terminal Cancer Sicarii" is not one I expected to come back to me from elsewhere.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I know I've been sending a lot of intrusive thoughts out into the world lately but "Terminal Cancer Sicarii" is not one I expected to come back to me from elsewhere.
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predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
NO LIES DETECTED
It's not escaped my notice that - just like generative AI - a substantial amount of use cases can be summed up as "make sexy lady appear"
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
NO LIES DETECTED
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This has to be the demand - not just a unfocused "fuck the cavers", but a focused demand to replace Schumer with someone who has already proven up to the moment. I will be making regular calls to have Schiff and Padilla demand this, and the more of us that do the more real it could be.
Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This has to be the demand - not just a unfocused "fuck the cavers", but a focused demand to replace Schumer with someone who has already proven up to the moment. I will be making regular calls to have Schiff and Padilla demand this, and the more of us that do the more real it could be.
It’s not just me writing those reports.
In general, you regulators don’t have time to go looking for trouble but they do need to respond to reports. They really appreciate it when you do most of the work for them.
In general, you regulators don’t have time to go looking for trouble but they do need to respond to reports. They really appreciate it when you do most of the work for them.
"you can add a laser engraver module to this machine!"
ok cool does it have an enclosure that will filter out the laser wavelength and does it have an interlock
"no what for"
.....
aight that's a report written for the EU Consumer Safety Gateway on the sale of dangerous goods
ok cool does it have an enclosure that will filter out the laser wavelength and does it have an interlock
"no what for"
.....
aight that's a report written for the EU Consumer Safety Gateway on the sale of dangerous goods
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s not just me writing those reports.
In general, you regulators don’t have time to go looking for trouble but they do need to respond to reports. They really appreciate it when you do most of the work for them.
In general, you regulators don’t have time to go looking for trouble but they do need to respond to reports. They really appreciate it when you do most of the work for them.
“Legally speaking, that’s not poggers.”
Again, intrusive thoughts in my head must be put in yours.
Again, intrusive thoughts in my head must be put in yours.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“Legally speaking, that’s not poggers.”
Again, intrusive thoughts in my head must be put in yours.
Again, intrusive thoughts in my head must be put in yours.
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Marduk totally abides
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Marduk totally abides
Always be reskeeting Cask of Amontillado jokes.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Always be reskeeting Cask of Amontillado jokes.
CONSIDER: horchata + absinthe?
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
CONSIDER: horchata + absinthe?
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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He always looks like he's in an Edgar suit.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
He always looks like he's in an Edgar suit.
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Your Majesty King Charles,
I, JJW, respectfully apply to be the next Duke of York. I’ll champion veterans, youth, mental health, and invest in socks for penguins. Ready to serve with integrity, awkward charm, and a decent hat. PS: I’ve never met Jeffrey Epstein (honest).
Your humble servant,
JJW
I, JJW, respectfully apply to be the next Duke of York. I’ll champion veterans, youth, mental health, and invest in socks for penguins. Ready to serve with integrity, awkward charm, and a decent hat. PS: I’ve never met Jeffrey Epstein (honest).
Your humble servant,
JJW
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Your Majesty King Charles,
I, JJW, respectfully apply to be the next Duke of York. I’ll champion veterans, youth, mental health, and invest in socks for penguins. Ready to serve with integrity, awkward charm, and a decent hat. PS: I’ve never met Jeffrey Epstein (honest).
Your humble servant,
JJW
I, JJW, respectfully apply to be the next Duke of York. I’ll champion veterans, youth, mental health, and invest in socks for penguins. Ready to serve with integrity, awkward charm, and a decent hat. PS: I’ve never met Jeffrey Epstein (honest).
Your humble servant,
JJW
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