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Matt Rich
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Geneticist in Erik Jorgensen's lab @UUtah. Trying to turn worms into yeast. Also neuron maturation and giant ankyrin. PhD with Stan Fields @uwgenome. Princeton ‘09. (he/him)
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Oh you mean this guy hates NY?
I'd retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Today in 🙄😳WTF🤬🙃 letters to @sltrib.com

www.sltrib.com/opinion/lett...
There simply isn't enough land to build affordable housing on.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It is going to take hard politics. The kind that shows up in communities between elections and solves problems that don't sound glamorous on television talk shows. It looks like facing down the Klan in a trailer park, not complaining about racism while doing far too little to avert it. It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people's political power. And - most critically — it looks like not wanting, even for a second, to be confused with the people who would do that. You don't wear a red hat as a joke. You don't fly the ironic flag of historical hate to get a rise out of people. You don't wear the cool tattoo for over a decade that maybe, kind of, possibly, probably looks like something horrible and hateful. It is a remarkably low bar to clear.
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Unfortunately for Japan, she isn’t nice…
Takaichi has been described as having a "staunch conservative" 2 or "ultraconservative" [3), , and is a member of the Japanese ultranationalist organization Nippon Kaigi. She has argued that Japanese war crimes have been exaggerated, that Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War was a "war of self-defense", and has made visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. In foreign policy, she supports the revision of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, 4) 151 which renounces the use of military force, and is considered a staunch China hawk. In domestic policy, she supports the continuation of Abenomics, and has opposed same-sex marriage and laws to address gender inequality in Japan.
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Coming around on the big foil
A big ass cast iron pan covered by a single piece of the big foil
August 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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afternoon surprise
A dead -80C freezer with a burned out plug A blown outlet
August 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Now changed to “scraps plan”
Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Also this 生 pineapple sour SLAPS
nama pineapple sour, squuezed
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Got some very fancy coffee
The menu from Koffee Mameya
July 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Pretty sure the samgyeopsal grill at this hole-in-the-wall korean place used to be a shovel?
An old shovel(?) now carbonized from decades of frying pork
July 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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lol on is just making the dad/uncle sandals now. @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
An ad for on running slip on sneakers
July 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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ØL Tokyo, the bar that replaced the Mikkeler bar we went to all the time ten years ago when we lived in here, has become one of our favorites.
A small beer in front of a candle
July 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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bummer
STOP STEALING OUR POSTERS YOU DUMS !!!
July 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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went to Ginza to see the fish art exhibit
Big colorful cylinders full of goldfish A japanese lantern but with goldfish Neon that looks kinda like a chinese restaurant(?) but goldfish
July 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I just read the rest of that screenshot and my god
…experts warn these breaks could come with long-term financial and career tradeoffs. Is unplugging worth the risk?
July 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Got the BIG foil at the grocery store and friends, i did not need the big foil. It’s like a cricket bat.
long foil
June 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Sinner:
Hailey Van Lith shrugging as Caitlin Clark absolutely cooks her
June 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It does
May 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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“with observer” lol

(landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/taxus...)
Chicken and yew
May 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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you mean I could have been drinking out of the toilet all through college?! missed opportunity.
A sign above a toilet at Princeton University: NON-POTABLE WATER DO NOT DRINK To conserve water, this building uses reclaimed water to flush toilets and urinals.
May 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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ass of 1990
A laser light at Princeton Reunions celebrating the class of 1990, except as projected in the tent it says “ass of 1990”
May 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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only off by three orders of magnitude lol
The Delta snack package saying a cloud weighs 1.4 billion pounds Physics Stacks Exchange post saying a cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds
May 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Initially misread this as “you’re being gentle with yourself…” and said “god! fine! I’ll work harder!”
A Panda Express fortune that says BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. YOU’RE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN.
May 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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lmao this was dastardly
A zoom in on the intersection of the four yellow squares
May 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM