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.
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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...
Artemis says come fire walk with me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Artemis says come fire walk with me.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Young Indy and Downton Abbey overlap. Peaky Blinders follows, with Season 5 overlapping Babylon Berlin. Nothing in the rulebook says they’re not the same universe.
December 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Young Indy and Downton Abbey overlap. Peaky Blinders follows, with Season 5 overlapping Babylon Berlin. Nothing in the rulebook says they’re not the same universe.
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it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands
I still wish I'd taken a picture of the "BEST TACOS IN REYKJAVIK" sign 20 years ago that invited us into a basement. Could have been the start to a slasher movie and we absolutely fell for it.
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I still wish I'd taken a picture of the "BEST TACOS IN REYKJAVIK" sign 20 years ago that invited us into a basement. Could have been the start to a slasher movie and we absolutely fell for it.
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I’d been saving this one for the right moment and I realized you can’t wait for the right moment, you need to make the right moment.
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I’d been saving this one for the right moment and I realized you can’t wait for the right moment, you need to make the right moment.
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Want some avocado-pineapple-celery-cranberry loaf? Chunks of all four bound together by a mix of creme cheese and mayonnaise. Call this thing the Gross of Xmas Past.
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Want some avocado-pineapple-celery-cranberry loaf? Chunks of all four bound together by a mix of creme cheese and mayonnaise. Call this thing the Gross of Xmas Past.
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have a merry Christmas or else
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
have a merry Christmas or else
It do be like this.
Just chilling with @funranium.bsky.social on the way back to do festive things when we both received this... Interesting... Alert.
Sure, 2025. Why not a tornado along the Central Coast of California?
Sure.
Sure, 2025. Why not a tornado along the Central Coast of California?
Sure.
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It do be like this.
I humbly request that the universe provide me a Christmas Babka song. I would like to be able to use my Lathe of Heaven powers to make the world a better place for once.
I'm not good at Christmas but I'm pretty good at making chocolate babka once a year
December 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I humbly request that the universe provide me a Christmas Babka song. I would like to be able to use my Lathe of Heaven powers to make the world a better place for once.
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Merry Christmas from Human Santapede!
#PulpSabotage
#PulpSabotage
December 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Merry Christmas from Human Santapede!
#PulpSabotage
#PulpSabotage
A day without a DAMMIT PHIL is like a day I don’t have the internet.
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A day without a DAMMIT PHIL is like a day I don’t have the internet.
Much like @seananmcguire.bsky.social is comforted by dice, I got a Chessex dice advent calendar from @emperorgoblin.bsky.social and it’s delightful.
December 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Much like @seananmcguire.bsky.social is comforted by dice, I got a Chessex dice advent calendar from @emperorgoblin.bsky.social and it’s delightful.
I have shared this brilliant thought before and I’m gonna do it again.
“Frank’s Wild Years” belongs in every holiday playlist.
“Frank’s Wild Years” belongs in every holiday playlist.
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
December 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I have shared this brilliant thought before and I’m gonna do it again.
“Frank’s Wild Years” belongs in every holiday playlist.
“Frank’s Wild Years” belongs in every holiday playlist.
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I generally despise Xmas music, but I will make an exception for HARDBASS XMAS THROAT SINGING
Courtesy of @funranium.bsky.social, who knows what is best in life.
Courtesy of @funranium.bsky.social, who knows what is best in life.
Ummet Ozcan - Mongolian Jingle Bells (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Ummet Ozcan
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December 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I generally despise Xmas music, but I will make an exception for HARDBASS XMAS THROAT SINGING
Courtesy of @funranium.bsky.social, who knows what is best in life.
Courtesy of @funranium.bsky.social, who knows what is best in life.
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Back when James Ellroy still lived in Los Angeles, he would go into all the bookstores in our mutual neighborhood and obsessively scribble messages in every copy of his books that he could find on the shelves. Sometimes he just wrote “BLOOD”; other times he was more…effusive.
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Back when James Ellroy still lived in Los Angeles, he would go into all the bookstores in our mutual neighborhood and obsessively scribble messages in every copy of his books that he could find on the shelves. Sometimes he just wrote “BLOOD”; other times he was more…effusive.
A very special Crimbus finale from Mr. Weebl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPI...
Sage and Onion - Advent 2025
YouTube video by Weebl's Stuff
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December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A very special Crimbus finale from Mr. Weebl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPI...
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How I'm turning up to the bsky Xmas party.
Also just my normal Thursday outfit.
Also just my normal Thursday outfit.
December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How I'm turning up to the bsky Xmas party.
Also just my normal Thursday outfit.
Also just my normal Thursday outfit.
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Always be stealing Dune memes!
Always be stealing Dune memes!
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Always be stealing Dune memes!
Always be stealing Dune memes!
I'm informed that I broke several former players such that I may have broke them a bit for other games. You set off just one magical criticality, have most of your body get turned to brass such that you feel like your next character ending up as a brain in a jar is reward, and you're a bit nervous.
GM: I am offering you a wand of wild magic that will do SOMETHING interesting, and you’re refusing? WHAT KIND OF ADVENTURERS ARE YOU?!?
PARTY: Ones with trust issues!
GM: *mutter* Cowards.
PARTY: Ones with trust issues!
GM: *mutter* Cowards.
December 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I'm informed that I broke several former players such that I may have broke them a bit for other games. You set off just one magical criticality, have most of your body get turned to brass such that you feel like your next character ending up as a brain in a jar is reward, and you're a bit nervous.
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Laura Palmer's Theme
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Laura Palmer's Theme
I am going to have to check with Indian colleague to see if:
1) She plays D&D
2) Agrees with the assessment
Because I'm pondering this one like a goddamn orb.
1) She plays D&D
2) Agrees with the assessment
Because I'm pondering this one like a goddamn orb.
The Underdark is just Lucknow during a power cut
December 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I am going to have to check with Indian colleague to see if:
1) She plays D&D
2) Agrees with the assessment
Because I'm pondering this one like a goddamn orb.
1) She plays D&D
2) Agrees with the assessment
Because I'm pondering this one like a goddamn orb.
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Sometimes you have the kind of day where you just send your Pomodoro group/friends every one of the Never Say No to Panda cheese commercial gifts you can find. "PANDA RAGE!" *gif gif gif*
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
a stuffed panda bear with a black and white mask on its face
Alt: a panda makes havoc in a hospital room, pushing over monitors, pulling IV lines, and being sinister
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December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Sometimes you have the kind of day where you just send your Pomodoro group/friends every one of the Never Say No to Panda cheese commercial gifts you can find. "PANDA RAGE!" *gif gif gif*
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
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fuck yes fuck yes FUCK YES
The RFQ is out for CAHSR's new delivery plan. This builds on the August business case update, under which Bakersfield-Merced is out and Bakersfield-SF is in. This higher-revenue connection allows HSR to enter a P3 that will bring forward financing to allow them to complete the Pacheco Pass crossing.
December 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
fuck yes fuck yes FUCK YES