Nick Taylor
@tienelle.bsky.social
Physics, polymers and composites, high-rate mechanics, and what I'll euphemistically call "software carpentry" and not "hideous hacks". Occasional uninspired photography.
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Biphobic lesbians will be like, "I could never date a bisexual woman, what if she leaves me for a man?"
Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.
Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Biphobic lesbians will be like, "I could never date a bisexual woman, what if she leaves me for a man?"
Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.
Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.
I'm in Boston (MA, not Lincolnshire) and it's both walkable and very pretty. Now I have walked too much.
Anything in particular I should do on Sunday? I've already ambled along the Freedom Trail.
Anything in particular I should do on Sunday? I've already ambled along the Freedom Trail.
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm in Boston (MA, not Lincolnshire) and it's both walkable and very pretty. Now I have walked too much.
Anything in particular I should do on Sunday? I've already ambled along the Freedom Trail.
Anything in particular I should do on Sunday? I've already ambled along the Freedom Trail.
So it's not dreadful, but I played and enjoyed Shadowrun so probably I'm already lost. Shadowrun's model for blast propagation in a confined space was crude, but that's still a model for blast etc. in a tabletop game about orc wizards.
Anyone who likes the #Palladium rules system is a serial killer and I'm sick of pretending they aren't. It has a worse alignment system than #DnD for Grud's sake. Thst includes Rifts and Beyond tte Supernatiral. I'm prepared to make an exception for #TMNT fans but only because those folk are armed.
August 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
So it's not dreadful, but I played and enjoyed Shadowrun so probably I'm already lost. Shadowrun's model for blast propagation in a confined space was crude, but that's still a model for blast etc. in a tabletop game about orc wizards.
Someone's doing very well at Nitrogen Buckaroo.
News of a new “stable” Nitrogen (N6) allotrope and initial thoughts were “stable from how far far away and what no stop”
phys.org/news/2025-06...
phys.org/news/2025-06...
Successful synthesis of neutral N₆ opens door for future energy storage
Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, Giess...
phys.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Someone's doing very well at Nitrogen Buckaroo.
Studio execs are one of the few jobs which can usefully be replaced by AI. Confident, even when wrong; incapable of critical thought; and pretty racist.
It’s official. Studio Execs are now using Chat GPT to evaluate screenplays. Here’s proof from a friend’s pass letter:
Not only is it vague and unhelpful, it references one specific — an antique camera.
The problem?
THERE’S NO ANTIQUE CAMERA IN THE FUCKING SCRIPT.
Not only is it vague and unhelpful, it references one specific — an antique camera.
The problem?
THERE’S NO ANTIQUE CAMERA IN THE FUCKING SCRIPT.
June 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Studio execs are one of the few jobs which can usefully be replaced by AI. Confident, even when wrong; incapable of critical thought; and pretty racist.
But hey, all that "usage" means some exec's KPIs are through the roof. They'll be able to afford a second yacht!
The new Google AI functionality in Docs is total mind-ruining shit. Hit enter in docs, it takes over your cursor to offer to help you write. Every. Time. You. Hit. Enter. Do you know how annoying that is when you are writing something? It's someone interrupting you every minute. MAKE IT STOP.
May 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
But hey, all that "usage" means some exec's KPIs are through the roof. They'll be able to afford a second yacht!
Another vaccine that wears off: whooping cough/pertussis. Only lasts a decade or so; babies get vaccinated because the disease is bloody lethal to them, but it's absolutely no fun as an adult either.
April 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Another vaccine that wears off: whooping cough/pertussis. Only lasts a decade or so; babies get vaccinated because the disease is bloody lethal to them, but it's absolutely no fun as an adult either.
Also, the vaccine wears off! If you were vaccinated as a child and are now in your forties, either get tested or just get vaccinated again.
UK people who only got one dose as a teen (hi), definitely get re-vaccinated properly.
UK people who only got one dose as a teen (hi), definitely get re-vaccinated properly.
Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:
MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.
The measles surge in the southwest is now the SINGLE LARGEST OUTBREAK since 2000 and the United States is now at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.
The measles surge in the southwest is now the SINGLE LARGEST OUTBREAK since 2000 and the United States is now at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.
April 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Also, the vaccine wears off! If you were vaccinated as a child and are now in your forties, either get tested or just get vaccinated again.
UK people who only got one dose as a teen (hi), definitely get re-vaccinated properly.
UK people who only got one dose as a teen (hi), definitely get re-vaccinated properly.
Someone just discovered that it can't just go down the drain and someone will notice.
#BREAKING: Yellow and Green fire was seen exploding out of a manhole at Texas Tech University moments ago.
Evacuations are underway for the whole campus.
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Evacuations are underway for the whole campus.
x.com/Collins_Wx/s...
March 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Someone just discovered that it can't just go down the drain and someone will notice.
This is quite a lot of fun, managing to hit a lot of the notes of MilSF in a setting where people are dubious about the *concept* of a military, much less actually supporting one.
FYI there's a Kindle deal on Ancestral Night this month!
$1.99 in the USA!
If you could use a little hopeful SF about STEM lesbians in space.
a.co/d/2rqDy83
$1.99 in the USA!
If you could use a little hopeful SF about STEM lesbians in space.
a.co/d/2rqDy83
March 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is quite a lot of fun, managing to hit a lot of the notes of MilSF in a setting where people are dubious about the *concept* of a military, much less actually supporting one.
Russia could end the war in Ukraine very cheaply and it wouldn't even take a week. They could just take all their soldiers and drive back to Russia or Belarus.
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Russia could end the war in Ukraine very cheaply and it wouldn't even take a week. They could just take all their soldiers and drive back to Russia or Belarus.
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“WHY DID YOU SLASH THE MAINTENANCE BUDGET?!” you scream. “THERE ARE BABIES DYING OF DYSENTERY! ONE OF THESE SOLID GOLD PUNCHBOWLS WOULD FUND IT FOR A YEAR!”
“But then I wouldn’t have a solid gold punchbowl,” says the industrialist, as a rat tapes dynamite to his eyelids and pushes the detonator.
“But then I wouldn’t have a solid gold punchbowl,” says the industrialist, as a rat tapes dynamite to his eyelids and pushes the detonator.
February 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“WHY DID YOU SLASH THE MAINTENANCE BUDGET?!” you scream. “THERE ARE BABIES DYING OF DYSENTERY! ONE OF THESE SOLID GOLD PUNCHBOWLS WOULD FUND IT FOR A YEAR!”
“But then I wouldn’t have a solid gold punchbowl,” says the industrialist, as a rat tapes dynamite to his eyelids and pushes the detonator.
“But then I wouldn’t have a solid gold punchbowl,” says the industrialist, as a rat tapes dynamite to his eyelids and pushes the detonator.
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Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
December 20, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
Starting a simple plumbing job: "Who puts caulk in G threads have they not even read the title of ISO 228?"
Half-way through: "Those isolation valves, um, don't."
Giving up: "At least the leak's down to something I can control with a towel."
Weirdly I can install FreeBSD just fine.
Half-way through: "Those isolation valves, um, don't."
Giving up: "At least the leak's down to something I can control with a towel."
Weirdly I can install FreeBSD just fine.
December 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Starting a simple plumbing job: "Who puts caulk in G threads have they not even read the title of ISO 228?"
Half-way through: "Those isolation valves, um, don't."
Giving up: "At least the leak's down to something I can control with a towel."
Weirdly I can install FreeBSD just fine.
Half-way through: "Those isolation valves, um, don't."
Giving up: "At least the leak's down to something I can control with a towel."
Weirdly I can install FreeBSD just fine.
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When I look upon its sides, I can see the rusty stains
Water in the wiring, don’t you know it’s such a pain
Repairs take forever, then it breaks down once again
Cybertruck can’t handle all the cold November rain
Water in the wiring, don’t you know it’s such a pain
Repairs take forever, then it breaks down once again
Cybertruck can’t handle all the cold November rain
November 27, 2024 at 6:58 AM
When I look upon its sides, I can see the rusty stains
Water in the wiring, don’t you know it’s such a pain
Repairs take forever, then it breaks down once again
Cybertruck can’t handle all the cold November rain
Water in the wiring, don’t you know it’s such a pain
Repairs take forever, then it breaks down once again
Cybertruck can’t handle all the cold November rain
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When you ADHD too close to the sun, and decide that the few minutes in between meetings is the time to build that bookshelf you bought but hadn't put together yet, which leads to removing all the furniture in your office and completely reorganizing it and the furniture placement.
November 15, 2024 at 4:04 PM
When you ADHD too close to the sun, and decide that the few minutes in between meetings is the time to build that bookshelf you bought but hadn't put together yet, which leads to removing all the furniture in your office and completely reorganizing it and the furniture placement.
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Getting assistance from German colleagues and they’re so encouraging.
November 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Getting assistance from German colleagues and they’re so encouraging.
Happily Veilguard crashes to desktop every two hours. Good for the tedious necessities of shaped existence, bad for immersion.
I am entirely too old for 18 hour gaming marathons anymore, lol
November 2, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Happily Veilguard crashes to desktop every two hours. Good for the tedious necessities of shaped existence, bad for immersion.
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Trans rights are human rights
chat what do you think the odds are we can get a senator on bluesky to say trans rights
Hello (again) Bluesky! I’m going to start posting here again, because that other app has become a disaster.
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
November 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Trans rights are human rights
I hadn't even realized "the cooling water isn't destroyed" was an argument people were making.
Datacenters join a large family of inappropriate and excessive uses of shared water resources, because it's hard to charge correctly and you can't teach a company pro-social behaviour.
Datacenters join a large family of inappropriate and excessive uses of shared water resources, because it's hard to charge correctly and you can't teach a company pro-social behaviour.
The water used to cool the bullshit plagiarism factory is not destroyed... nor is it collected. It boils off to join the atmosphere and will rain again someday, somewhere that is not here.
They are boiling off the water from farm country during a dry season and folks think that's not an issue?!
They are boiling off the water from farm country during a dry season and folks think that's not an issue?!
October 2, 2024 at 7:28 AM
I hadn't even realized "the cooling water isn't destroyed" was an argument people were making.
Datacenters join a large family of inappropriate and excessive uses of shared water resources, because it's hard to charge correctly and you can't teach a company pro-social behaviour.
Datacenters join a large family of inappropriate and excessive uses of shared water resources, because it's hard to charge correctly and you can't teach a company pro-social behaviour.
I don't generally like drop-down boxes for year of birth, but I kind of want to know the story behind this start date for the one on my gym membership. I know it's probably just "no-one's living to 200 in the next 80 years", but immortal professors dodging compulsory retirement sounds more fun.
September 14, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I don't generally like drop-down boxes for year of birth, but I kind of want to know the story behind this start date for the one on my gym membership. I know it's probably just "no-one's living to 200 in the next 80 years", but immortal professors dodging compulsory retirement sounds more fun.
Interesting thread here about war-time German snobbery around the Hurricane. It’s also interesting to compare just how much more popular the Spitfire is than the Hurricane at modern air-shows. Part of that’s attributable to the Spitfire being both prettier and easier to conserve, I guess.
So, the Hurricane may have had its weak spots, but once a German fighter or bomber pilot came into its gunsights, he still ultimately experienced the same fear – & danger – as being on the end of a Spitfire. Without it, the Battle of Britain simply could not have been won.
September 6, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Interesting thread here about war-time German snobbery around the Hurricane. It’s also interesting to compare just how much more popular the Spitfire is than the Hurricane at modern air-shows. Part of that’s attributable to the Spitfire being both prettier and easier to conserve, I guess.
"The Rust rewrite is going great, but we've run all the local pharmacies out of spiro and T"
tbh if your company was affected by crowd strike, it’s because you’re not hiring enough trans people. if you had you’d be running linux. we run arch btw.
July 20, 2024 at 8:16 AM
"The Rust rewrite is going great, but we've run all the local pharmacies out of spiro and T"
Looks as though antihistamines might help avoid covid infection, as well as mitigate the disease. Insert "it's all histamine" meme.
Via @nevadawolf.bsky.social: more evidence that histamine antagonists inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication and some work on determining the potential mechanism journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 | mBio
In addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can utilize alternative cofactors to facilitate viral entry.
In this study, we discov...
journals.asm.org
July 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Looks as though antihistamines might help avoid covid infection, as well as mitigate the disease. Insert "it's all histamine" meme.
I feel personally attacked! Also it's Fira Code.
July 4, 2024 at 7:27 PM
I feel personally attacked! Also it's Fira Code.