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The Boron Sheikh
@dasfuller.bsky.social
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Former planetary scientist, now software engineer and all-around funny guy. Got two kids, two cats, and one saucy wife. Baltimore.
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Describe your cat’s personality with one photo.
Chester the cat gazes into the mirror and only finds questions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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I paid $26 for this book, and this wild-as-hell New Yorker Eurostep alone is worth at least half of that.
“…with a bit of a lisp. He had started to read while in jail, was profoundly curious about all kinds of things, and somehow we found ourselves talking about the Roman Republic and then the Frankish dynasty of the Merovingians. He was astoundingly well informed about them. During an event Tyson did at the New York Public Library with a friend of mine, Paul Holdengäber, I got Paul to ask the audience beforehand: Of the 650 intellectu-als, writers, and academics present, who had ever heard of Pepin the Short, the father of Charlemagne and founder of the Carolingian dynasty? No one present, not one, put up his or her hand. And then Mike Tyson went on to speak eloquently of him and other equally obscure Merovingian kings. “Back to the Donation of Constantine. Pepin was an anal-phabet, he could not see the forged document for what it was.”
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This book is giving me whiplash.
“…Childeric III, was shut away in a monastery, and Pepin saw his chance to become king, by asking the Pope in Rome for anoint-ment and blessing. In 753, the Pope, Stephen II, set out across the Alps-the first Pope ever to do so-and met Pepin in France. He too, under pressure from the Eastern Empire, needed help, so there were common interests. The Pope forced Pepin to acknowledge the Donation of Constantine. Pepin in return gave him his most recent conquests in Lombardy. “All this is just to say how much our views of people and events can be distorted by preconceived opinions and perspec-tives. Often, the truth is merely a construct of our prejudices. I am thinking here of Mike Tyson, who at twenty became the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion of all time. I had a meeting at the house of a Hollywood producer who wanted…”
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Impulse purchased Werner Herzog’s new book, “The Future of Truth,” today, and my head is still spinning after this jump scare shoutout to Henry Kissinger in the first chapter.
“…somewhat disturbing, innovations is also on the way—for in-stance, the possibility of comprehensive, mass supervision, of disinformation, of manipulation on a vast scale. Is truth done for, the same as various branches of the economy? The risks are clear. Shortly before his death, Stephen Hawking warned us regarding the danger of advances in Al, and one of our most significant political thinkers and actors took up the theme when aged almost one hundred. I am speaking here of Henry Kissinger. No matter what one makes of him politically, such intense efforts on the part of a centenarian should make you sit up. In 2023, some thousand scientists and programmers published an appeal calling for a pause in the development of AI,…”
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I’ll never unsee it now.
Cover of the commercial release of the movie 300. Cover of the commercial release of the movie 300 with a face revealed in Leonidas’s abs.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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My new strategy for dealing with spam texts is 100% effective.
Screenshot of spam text from 757 884 2202 Spammer: “Are you at work ?” Me: “No, I’m sitting here waiting for you to send me the money you owe me.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The “the more you know” gif but instead of a shooting star it’s explosive diarrhea.
Screenshot of text exchange. Wife: “Something about "5 requests". But zoom isn't listed in the apps with permission to use the camera, and there is nothing for me to toggle” Me: “Dude I have no clue.” Wife: “Figured it out. There is a dedicated camera toggle button on the side of the laptop” Me: “Ha ha! Of course there is!” Wife: sends the-more-you-know.gif
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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It’s Ohtani. Stop playing with our hearts like that.
Screenshot of tomorrow’s World Series Game 7 pitchers matchup: TBD and Scherzer.
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Is it a good sign when your git commit history reads like this?
A git repository commit history, read from the bottom up: "Formatting updates to the new [REDACTED] bulk user creation doc." 2 months ago "More [REDACTED] commands." 2 months ago "Adds a new doc based on the need to get full-text search going in [REDACTED]" last month "New DB query just dropped." 2 weeks ago "Brings over the [REDACTED] Upgrade Testing list from the todo-lists repository." 4 days ago "Adds the new [REDACTED] Upgrade notes file." 4 days ago "More updates before we've even touched a filesystem." 4 days ago "Moving through the [REDACTED] upgrade process." 4 days ago "Gets us all the way up through implementing patches by hand to new [REDACTED]." 4 days ago "Hit a snafu on the [REDACTED] upgrade...luckily before anything serious was done." 3 days ago "This [REDACTED] upgrade is getting crazy." 3 days ago "This upgrade is a real battle." 3 days ago "What a disaster this is turning out to be...." 1 minutes ago
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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If I can’t use AI to troll my Miami Dolphins-loving in-laws, then AI will never be useful.
Apple Genmoji feature fails to generate an NFL Lombardi Trophy emoji.
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Wait, what? Prepping for Cub scouts meeting today, and I genuinely did not know this.

Also, of course, Trump declared this illegal, what, a week ago or so.
Paragraph on retiring a U.S. flag in the Citizenship section from the Cub Scouts handbook for bears: “When a United States flag becomes worn beyond repair, it should be retired by burning it completely to ash. This should be done in a simple manner with dignity and respect. Your den or pack may do this as part of a ceremony, but your family could do this as well. Be very careful when retiring a flag so you don't injure yourself, especially if the flag is made of synthetic material. Melting nylon can cause serious burns if you let it touch your skin.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I love this song. No idea what she’s singing, but it sounds like it’s about spring flowers and how good boys don’t break their mammas’ hearts.
Screenshot of Apple Music playing the song “Hao Ri Zi” by Howie Lee.
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Wait what? Ohtani is hitting only .214 in the postseason? H-how is that…I mean, his last game….
MLB app box score from top of the second inning in the first game of the World Series.
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Comic book panel of Mojo Jojo approaching a door and saying: ...DOOR? A DOOR... WITH THE IMAGE OF A DOOR?! WHAT COULD THIS BE? THE MIND, EVEN THE MIND OF I, MOJO JOJO, IT BOGGLES AT THE POSSIBILITIES. WHAT GREAT MYSTERY LURKS INSIDE!? I, MOJO JOJO, PICK THE ONLY DOOR ONE COULD POSSIBLY PICK, THE DOOR WITHIN A DOOR!
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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People, you have no idea how much more time I spent trying to get the y-axis to look somewhat normal versus coding *everything* else (including robust data pickling to account for my bad internet connection at home).
A scatter plot showing the number of NFL Scorigami games per year since 1920. A scatter plot showing the cumulative number of NFL Scorigami games since 1920 with a regression line fit to the data that predicts there will have been 1106 scorigamis by 2035 (there have been 1093 total from 1920 to today).
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Here are the regression lines for all the awards on one plot.

What's going on with the Peace Prize? Is José Andrés too old now to win the Peace Prize?
Plot showing regression lines for the ages of the Nobel Prize winners through the years.
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Same deal with Stamp Collecting.
Scatter plot of how old all the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners were when they received the award. Histogram plot of how many years the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry lived after receiving the award.
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Practicing my python pandas plotting skills on Wikipedia data for Nobel Prize winners.

Winning the Nobel in Physics used to be a young man's game, but not anymore. A sad reminder that we're long past the Heroic Age of Physics.
Scatter plot of how old all the Nobel Prize in Physics winners were when they received the award. Histogram plot of how many years the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics lived after receiving the award.
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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C’mon internet don’t let me down!
Google search for “bald white guy who played for the yankees and retired a few years ago who i really fucking hate.”
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This sign is going to get me divorced.
A sign from the middle aisle in the Lidl grocery store, fueling the debate about whether it’s pronounced with a short or long i sound.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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“Milk is the universal American drink, ain't it, bigger than beer, even in Milwaukee.”
"Could be the one spark that sets it all off. Won't take much. Milk is the universal American drink, ain't it, bigger than beer, even in Milwaukee. Don't believe me, talk to your pals up on Yankee Hill. Track down Bruno Airmont wherever he's got to."
October 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Thank. Fucking. God.
An email from Greedy Reads saying my copy of "Shadow Ticket" is available for pickup.
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Oops! Forgot I've got *two* more pre-orders coming out today!
Screenshot showing a Greedy Reads book order of "Blue Lard", "A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid", and "Physics for Cats" from 16 June. Screenshot showing a second Greedy Reads book order of "Shadow Ticket", "Changeover", and "Black Arms to Hold You Up" from 20 Aug and 27 Sept.
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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A Reddit post where user ‘natdanger’ writes, “Shoegaze pronounced like Fugazi is literally my aesthetic.”
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Yahoo projects Tyreek Hill to be back by Week Six. There’s still hope for my Flacco-led fantasy team.
Yahoo Fantasy Football game log for Tyreek Hill which projects him to return on week six.
September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM