Peter Jurich
peterjurich.bsky.social
Peter Jurich
@peterjurich.bsky.social
science writer 🌍️ | actor 🎭 | comedian 🎤
📍 Madison, Wisconsin
https://sites.google.com/view/peter-writes/home
"So, wait, is this despite the fact Peach has kissed Mario multiple times and baked multiple cakes for him?"

I believe the word you're looking for is 'queerplatonic'

www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07...
Random: Don't Worry Folks, Nintendo Says Mario And Peach Are Just "Good Friends"
Hmmm, we've heard this one before
www.nintendolife.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hulk Hogan may be gone, but he lives on in every old white guy who addresses another old white guy he's known for three seconds as "Brother."
July 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
ok but who was like "one of the spice girls needs to be scary"?
July 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm back in Madison, WI after living in Chicago for five weeks, which means I'm going to begin every sentence with "Well, when you've lived in the city for as long as I have,"
April 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Very excited for the inevitable email from my bank rebranding their high yield savings account as a yield savings account.
April 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Before you go and get super excited about the live-action Zelda movie, please remember...
March 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Rock on, brother🤘🤘🤘"

Me as a medical professional, during intake with a patient who just said they smoke, drink, and are sexually active.
March 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Omg. Only two sessions into #theIIJ conference for independent journalists and I already have 5 full pages of notes!
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm so excited for today's kickoff for "Beyond Surviving", the @indiejournalists.bsky.social 2025 conference. Connecting with other journalists has been so great for my mental health lately - exacty what I've needed in the current political landscape.

Who else is attending?

#theiij
February 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
America is trying to force a new beef between Kendrick Lamar and Eddie Vedder.
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How I feel laughing at all the "Who's #KendrickLamar?" posts.
February 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just received an automated message that inspired me to update my out-of-office email game.

It said the writer is out of town, but "in the meantime, check out Wikipedia's list of uprisings led by women, list of inventors killed by their own inventions, or their list of lists of lists."
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm looking for credible ways to help rebuild Gaza. If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know. I'm wary of phony GoFundMe pages, etc. where my money will just go to some guy in Minnesota or something.

🇵🇸 #gaza 🇵🇸 #Palestine 🇵🇸
January 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The modern Republican ethos feels like someone read "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" and took it as fact.

"If you give a worker a raise, they're going to ask for PTO..."
January 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
VIDEO GAME NEWS STORY: "For simplicity, we are referring to Nintendo's next console as the Switch 2, but it will almost definitely not be called the Switch 2. That is not creative nor is it Nintendo's style."

NINTENDO: "Behold our new console. It is called the Switch 2."
January 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It is exhausting and dehumanizing to watch everyday as rich and (therefore) powerful people make objectively and intentionally bad decisions that impact us all and see zero repercussions for those actions.

These people really do believe they are entitled to our acquiescence.
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Hello, it's nice to see you. How was your holiday? What is my job again?"
January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I just received the most embarrassing phone call of my life.

A real life person from the library had to call to tell me I returned one of the Twilight movie cases without the disc inside.

Excuse me. Just going to walk into the ocean now.
January 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Fuck it. This year I'm signing off every professional email with "Love always,"
January 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This morning I said 9/11 was 10 years ago and that is the correct amount of years.
December 29, 2024 at 7:33 PM
So excited that I get to celebrate @theopennotebook.bsky.social's second edition of "The Craft of Science Writing" with @siricarpenter.bsky.social and @kellyperil.bsky.social! Congratulations to you both and all your contributors!
November 20, 2024 at 12:33 AM
For those just getting to know me, I perform stand-up comedy in addition to doing science writing.

Last night I accomplished a major goal and got to perform at The Second City in Chicago.

There's a lot of bullshit going on right now, but this was a major bright spot in my life.
November 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I met Laura as a grad student at UW-Madison in 2019. Even before then, I couldn't go to any #scicomm event without somebody mentioning her name. She's an absolute powerhouse and I consider myself so privileged to ever have gotten to learn from her - including this past weekend at #SciWri24.
I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)
November 15, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Overheard on the plane: "I'm absolutely done with Dallas. Just last week, I saw someone get run over by a truck and the driver took it. I thought 'Jesus criminy, people!'"

Seems like a less than appropriate response frankly.
November 11, 2024 at 2:01 PM
November 11, 2024 at 1:53 PM