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Nathan Roach
@natproach.bsky.social
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Bad opinion haver, leftist, scientist, bioinformatics PhD, Rust lang enthusiast, Python begrudging-acceptor, in that order.
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God I wish that were me.
Screenshot from the article. “Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios. “What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said,
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Been doing some traveling
The view from a sand dune in great sand dunes national park. A long sand stretch in the foreground, and a mountain and the sky in the background. A selfie with two people in front, and a stone palace behind, the cliff palace at Mesa verde National park. A sunrise over the desert of canyonlands national park. A mesa is in the middle of the rising sun. The view from the top of a rock in canyonlands national park. Rocks and mesas dotted with sparse foliage.
August 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Gif from futurama. Slurms Mackenzie (a slug man) says ‘I’m so tired of events, so very tired’ while taking off his sunglasses, revealing yellow eyes covered in burst blood vessels.
July 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Factory worker meme saying “guess we’re doing consent now” where the visual of consent is taken from the cover of Noam Chomskys manufacturing consent
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I was just in Puerto Rico and really enjoyed these sheep conquistadors
A statue of a lamb, holding a flag and with its hoof while standing. A statue of a lamb, laying down, with a flag held by its hooves.
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Did a thing
Me in front of the finish line of the bolder Boulder, a local 10k
May 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I am not convinced that the king or parliament would have been convinced by other means, but fair enough. That said, in the modern era no one is outside of these regions. We all are present and viewing what tech is doing. And what they did worked to maintain their wages, for a while anyway
Excerpt from “Blood in the Machine” Relevant section: The disturbances convinced the Nottingham hosiers to call a meeting two weeks later, on March 26, where the first order of business was to condemn “the illegal measures which have been resorted to by some of the framework knitters.” The second order was to issue a proclamation that resolved to “recommend to the Trade in general to give for all full fashioned work the old prices”
May 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Technically not mine, but my parents dog and dogs from the shelter I walk dogs for -
A white dog with brown fur sections looking over their shoulder while lying down. A white dog laying down on her side, with one leg up in the air and her ear up. A tan dog on a dog bed, enjoying being scratched behind the ear. A German shepherd, with their tongue hanging out the side of their mouth
May 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Finished my first sigmar unit yesterday.
6 Warhammer: age of sigmar Croxigore models. They have teal and blue scales and yellow bellies. They are on brown terrain with plant detritus on the bases.
April 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Todays mood
The deserter from Disco Elysium, on top of a poorly drawn lines comic saying panel 1 “I can’t be mad forever” panel 2 “but I can be mad until I die”
March 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Onion headline. Reads “‘seek funding’ step added to scientific method”
March 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The factory “guess we’re doing x now” meme format with the factory worker saying “I guess we’re doing consent now”, with the word “consent” copied from Noam Chomskys “manufacturing consent”
March 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Getting ready for Stand up for science here in Denver
Protest sign, reads “My colleagues deserved better This is not efficiency This is sabotage by the billionaire posers who would own you”
March 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It has been far too long since I got some painting done
Warhammer Age of Sigmar croxigore model with teal green scales, and a yellow belly. A buff crocodile with a large club. A small frog rests on a rock at his feet. Same model as previous, in profile.
March 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Look the odds are not _good_ but I think we at least owe it to ourselves to consider the possibility that the New York Times has been Andy Kauffman-esque performance art this whole time
A graph in the Times wherein opinion columnists rank the relative importance and badness of horrors unthinkable as little as 2 years ago.
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Mol bio + bfx people - some good combos to be found here too
Scissors cutting dna Magnet attracting dna Hands working at computer with dna in the background DNA graph with the line going up
December 8, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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“Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts all day, but he exhibits theory by stating "Lets-a go!" Keep it up, baby!-“
English essay by Phil Jameson text of the essay reads Phil Jamesson Philosophy 101 02/18/22 Midterm I Mario, the Idea vs. Mario, the Man Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck. But who knows what he's thinking? Who knows why he crushes turtles? And why do we think about him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent?) Or Pepper? Perchance. I believe it was Kant who said "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts all day, but he exhibits theory by stating "Lets-a go!" Keep it up, baby!- When Mario leaves his place of safety to stomp a turty, he knows that he may Die. And OK! yet, for a man who can purchase lives with money, a life becomes a mere store of value. A tax that can be paid for, much as rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. We think of Mario an saying this a hero, but he is simply a one percenter of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. Perchance. The essay is heavily marked up in red ink, showing the grader getting increasing frustrated with comments like horrible opening also gross You can't just say "perchance" STOP
October 13, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Happy Labor Day.

(Poem is Absalom, from The Book of the Dead, by Muriel Rukeyser)
ABSALOM I first discovered what was killing these men. I had three sons who worked with their father in the tunnel: Cecil, aged 23, Owen, aged 21, Shirley, aged 17. They used to work in a coal mine, not steady work for the mines were not going much of the time. A power Co. foreman learned that we made home brew, he formed a habit of dropping in evenings to drink, persuading the boys and my husband— give up their jobs and take this other work. It would pay them better. Shirley was my youngest son; the boy. He went into the tunnel. My heart my mother my heart my mother My heart my coming into being. My husband is not able to work. He has it, according to the doctor. We have been having a very hard time making a living since this trouble came to us. I saw the dust in the bottom of the tub. The boy worked there about eighteen months, came home one evening with a shortness of breath. He said, "Mother, I cannot get my breath." Shirley was sick about three months. I would carry him from his bed to the table, from his bed to the porch, in my arms. My heart is mine in the place of hearts, They gave me back my heart, it lies in me. When they took sick, right at the start, I saw a doctor. I tried to get Dr. Harless to X-ray the boys. He was the only man I had any confidence in, the company doctor in the Kopper's mine, but he would not see Shirley. He did not know where his money was coming from. I promised him half if he'd work to get compensation, but even then he would not do anything. I went on the road and begged the X-ray money, the Charleston hospital made the lung pictures, he took the case after the pictures were made. And two or three doctors said the same thing. The youngest boy did not get to go down there with me, he lay and said, "Mother, when I die, I want you to have them open me up and see if that dust killed me. Try to get compensation, you will not have any way of making your living when we are gone, and the rest are going too." I have gained mastery over my heart I have gained mastery over my two hands I have gained mastery over the waters I have gained mastery over the river. The case of my son was the first of the line of lawsuits. They sent the lawyers down and the doctors down; they closed the electric sockets in the camps. There was Shirley, and Cecil, Jeffrey and Oren, Raymond Johnson, Clev and Oscar Anders, Frank Lynch, Henry Palf, Mr. Pitch, a foreman; a slim fellow who carried steel with my boys, his name was Darnell, I believe. There were many others, the towns of Glen Ferris, Alloy, where the white rock lies, six miles away; Vanetta, Gauley Bridge, Gamoca, Lockwood, the gullies, the whole valley is witness. I hitchhike eighteen miles, they make checks out. They asked me how I keep the cow on $2. I said one week, feed for the cow, one week, the children's four. The oldest son was twenty-three. The next son was twenty-one. The youngest son was eighteen. They called it pneumonia at first. They would pronounce it fever. Shirley asked that we try to find out. That's how they learned what the trouble was. I open out a way, they have covered my sky with crystal I come forth by day, I am born a second time, I force a way through, and I know the gate I shall journey over the earth among the living. He shall not be diminished, never; I shall give a mouth to my son.
September 2, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Cartoon meme template of woman being approached in office by two figures. Photoshopped over the attractive man is Karl Marx saying “The traditions of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. The woman replies “awe you’re so sweet” Photoshopped over the homely man is Kamala Harris saying “you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”. The woman is distraught on the phone saying “hello Human Resources?”
July 21, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Go Khive baby love the Khive.
Steve Buscemi with reversed cap and skateboard, (how do you do fellow kids meme format). Bottom text reads “How do you do fellow social democrats”
July 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Fred from scooby doo unmasking a villain. Villain is labeled “private equity and shareholder profit incentives”, Fred is labeled “any journalist who bothers to look”
April 7, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Imagine staring at the chubby water salamanders with a mane and having the nerve to feel anything other than joy. But also - their genomes are huge and their lampbrush chromosomes during mitosis are a pretty useful model system for genome organization.
April 7, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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@kcg.bsky.social thank you, I love him.
Question dog (the dog from the “This is Fine” meme) in all his glory, as a diorama.
April 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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Really only tangentially related to the original post but I love Adams’ story of the day he came up with Hitchhikers.
March 30, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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I am not sure non academics are aware that _we pay the journals_ for the privilege of providing them all of the rights and contents of our research and that there is an upcharge for making things accessible.
March 15, 2024 at 9:19 PM