A. Fresnel
@fresnel.bsky.social
An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)
I have a finite non-zero concern that humanity will be wiped out in a war between people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and destroy us and people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and offer us salvation.
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I have a finite non-zero concern that humanity will be wiped out in a war between people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and destroy us and people who think autocomplete will inevitably rise to become a god and offer us salvation.
Dwarf Fortress, but only if you're the kind of person who's always wished they could beat the final boss of Microsoft Excel.
Name an S-Tier Videogame.
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Dwarf Fortress, but only if you're the kind of person who's always wished they could beat the final boss of Microsoft Excel.
It's been over 20 years since it was played every fourth song on the radio, but I swear if I hear Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden one more time I will walk into the sea.
Name an over played Song.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It's been over 20 years since it was played every fourth song on the radio, but I swear if I hear Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden one more time I will walk into the sea.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
ITS FIVE-DROP FRIDAY!
Let's hear the crowd go wild for
📢📢📢
GARY!
Let's hear the crowd go wild for
📢📢📢
GARY!
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ITS FIVE-DROP FRIDAY!
Let's hear the crowd go wild for
📢📢📢
GARY!
Let's hear the crowd go wild for
📢📢📢
GARY!
Somehow I haven't caught a ban for threatening to shell the rescue party coming to save me off this desert island.
Honestly, at this point I'd bring a coastal defence battery. 🤷🏼♀️
"What would you bring to a desert island" a boat, motherfucker, we are in the middle of the ocean
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Somehow I haven't caught a ban for threatening to shell the rescue party coming to save me off this desert island.
An ekranoplan is legally a boat.
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An ekranoplan is legally a boat.
Honestly, at this point I'd bring a coastal defence battery. 🤷🏼♀️
"What would you bring to a desert island" a boat, motherfucker, we are in the middle of the ocean
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Honestly, at this point I'd bring a coastal defence battery. 🤷🏼♀️
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the vet wrote in one of our ferrets’ charts “patient was wiggly” and I keep thinking about how cute that is
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the vet wrote in one of our ferrets’ charts “patient was wiggly” and I keep thinking about how cute that is
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BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
So the sound I heard in the other room was Cecilia putting her chew stick in the middle of the floor and repeatedly pouncing on it. I asked her what she was trying to do and the expression she gave me in return I can only describe as "painfully confused".
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So the sound I heard in the other room was Cecilia putting her chew stick in the middle of the floor and repeatedly pouncing on it. I asked her what she was trying to do and the expression she gave me in return I can only describe as "painfully confused".
Study enough quantum mechanics and start doing this with π/2 as the answer to every question.
Any time I don’t know the answer to a question, I say “the surgeon was the boy’s mother” just in case
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Study enough quantum mechanics and start doing this with π/2 as the answer to every question.
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Here's my contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day, the infamous folk rock ships playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Songs about Specific Boats or Ships
YouTube video by onesigmaoff
music.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Here's my contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day, the infamous folk rock ships playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
This just came back into my head from like 2006 or something? youtu.be/Wz-mJed_bP0?...
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This just came back into my head from like 2006 or something? youtu.be/Wz-mJed_bP0?...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains | WCMU Public Radio 🦑🧪🌎
Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains
Ron Bloomfield of Central Michigan University and member of Michigan's Underwater Salvage and Preserve Committee discusses why the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains unexplored since the early…
radio.wcmu.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why can't people dive to see the Edmund Fitzgerald? A preservation expert explains | WCMU Public Radio 🦑🧪🌎
The 2020s will go down in the history books as the era we tried out the concept of rule by the unimaginably incompetent and I'm not enjoying the ride.
"I'm gonna say a bunch of things I probably shouldn't say," Musk says to cheers, "but that keeps it interesting. "
He says other shareholder meetings are boring, but Teslas are "bangers."
not sure I can do this, chat
He says other shareholder meetings are boring, but Teslas are "bangers."
not sure I can do this, chat
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The 2020s will go down in the history books as the era we tried out the concept of rule by the unimaginably incompetent and I'm not enjoying the ride.
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SHELVE YOUR LONGBOW, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SHELVE YOUR LONGBOW, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
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Good Morning! If you are an American in a locale with an election today, please go VOTE!!
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Good Morning! If you are an American in a locale with an election today, please go VOTE!!
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that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
that's me in the corner
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
that's me in the float point
losing my precision
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Hey Canada you okay?
Canada:
Canada:
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hey Canada you okay?
Canada:
Canada: