Pumpkin Spice Stephen
@mrfasthorse.bsky.social
Some kind of award winning physicist. Cyclist. Whiskey ingestor.
If I am ever concerned that my son has lost his screaming rubber chicken, all I need to do is sit down with a book
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If I am ever concerned that my son has lost his screaming rubber chicken, all I need to do is sit down with a book
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Today's Glacial Errata newsletter from @colindickey.com is superb, telling a story of science and pseudoscience through one location for lighthouses.
Glacial Errata, No. 44
Four Lighthouses and One Kerfuffle for the Week of November 10, 2025.
glacialerrata.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today's Glacial Errata newsletter from @colindickey.com is superb, telling a story of science and pseudoscience through one location for lighthouses.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Same, ISS. Same.
The piss tank on the ISS is now 50% full.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Same, ISS. Same.
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
Add a velociraptor in the background of this image.
Make the velociraptor blurry like it's farther away.
Give the velociraptor a jaunty hat.
Why isn't the hat just as blurry as the velociraptor?
Now there's no hat in the image. What happened to the hat?
Total AI cost: 53kW
Make the velociraptor blurry like it's farther away.
Give the velociraptor a jaunty hat.
Why isn't the hat just as blurry as the velociraptor?
Now there's no hat in the image. What happened to the hat?
Total AI cost: 53kW
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Add a velociraptor in the background of this image.
Make the velociraptor blurry like it's farther away.
Give the velociraptor a jaunty hat.
Why isn't the hat just as blurry as the velociraptor?
Now there's no hat in the image. What happened to the hat?
Total AI cost: 53kW
Make the velociraptor blurry like it's farther away.
Give the velociraptor a jaunty hat.
Why isn't the hat just as blurry as the velociraptor?
Now there's no hat in the image. What happened to the hat?
Total AI cost: 53kW
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
@jonkimball.bsky.social EPM listener here, Boulder is definitely cooler
October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@jonkimball.bsky.social EPM listener here, Boulder is definitely cooler
ABC just showing Swan Lake on repeat
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ABC just showing Swan Lake on repeat
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The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)
September 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)
Here are some guys I remember. Once as a middle schooler I rode in a car with one of them (they were billeted at a friend's house as a minor leaguer)
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here are some guys I remember. Once as a middle schooler I rode in a car with one of them (they were billeted at a friend's house as a minor leaguer)
Less than 200 days until I've outlived Elvis 🤞🤞🤞
August 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Less than 200 days until I've outlived Elvis 🤞🤞🤞
Top of the line in utility sports
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
August 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Top of the line in utility sports
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
Hey remember when Alberto Gonzales dismissed a bunch of US Attorneys in 2006 because they wouldn't open bogus election fraud investigations of Dem candidates?
Justice Department is investigating whether D.C. police manipulated crime data. @ryanjreilly.com has the latest.
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hey remember when Alberto Gonzales dismissed a bunch of US Attorneys in 2006 because they wouldn't open bogus election fraud investigations of Dem candidates?
We've got to protect $6 drip from Blue Bottle Coffee, and the event space that hosts bougie industry conferences and weddings. Clearly a crime-ridden hellscape
August 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We've got to protect $6 drip from Blue Bottle Coffee, and the event space that hosts bougie industry conferences and weddings. Clearly a crime-ridden hellscape
Not bad, Colorado
August 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Not bad, Colorado
If this man is 44 then I am Mickey Mouse
44 year old Emil Bove has been confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime appointment to the US Court of Appeals
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ex-Trump lawyer Emil Bove confirmed to federal appeals court by US Senate
Top justice department official confirmed 50-49 despite claims that he advocated for ignoring court’s orders
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If this man is 44 then I am Mickey Mouse
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Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
The first boss I beat every morning
July 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The first boss I beat every morning
How long until the HHS is recommending sick people take in the healing waters of mineral springs to cure the miasma?
July 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
How long until the HHS is recommending sick people take in the healing waters of mineral springs to cure the miasma?