@mbkplus.bsky.social
Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Mathematicians know of many different types of infinity, none larger than the number of bathroom stops on a road trip with children
“If the thought you followed brought you to this, of what use was the thought?”
No better model of positive masculinity than Daddy Pig
It’s all about having something easy to print and feeling like you’re special for having that access, apparently. They don’t care what he’s saying, who he’s insulting, or who he’s barred from the room, just as long as they’re part of the club
Love to learn about the country by studying the incredible variety of personal injury lawyer billboards
“Have you tried turning it off and back on again?” remains a son-in-law’s best friend
Beware the Clydes of March
(Re)entering my bus pervert era
We talk about him being an aspiring king, but he really seems to want to be considered a god.
My ATX crew is keeping me up to date on the Verde’s ups and down
(Re)entering my bus pervert era
It’s very funny to me that the same crowd that is terrified of big US cities thinks ships should just take a chance on the Strait of Hormuz right now.
Just halve the staff and double the productivity of those who remain. It’s so simple! Now I get why Bezos is so rich.
Mom! Dad! People are being weird on the internet again, make them stop!
lol I thought you were doing a play on beats or something that I was too dense to understand.
No beer (sadly), but now I’m also sad because i missed kid’s birthday party beer discourse. Maybe it’s good, actually, so I don’t reveal my full degree of sicko.
“Keep the strait open”: buddy, I have some news for you
It’s the only party I’ve ever been to where the party gift to everyone was a box of beignet mix. I’ve accidentally run into a very sophisticated crowd
Calling that line one of Trump’s greatest is an incredible unintentional burn 😂
I didn’t say that no one has this on their radar. People who are subscribed to those kinds of newsletters are not close to the median information consumer
Feels like the fact that one of the first acts of the not-a-war was to mistakenly bomb a school, killing almost 200 girls, has not gotten as much attention or thought as it deserves. We are altogether too inured to death and destruction
Broken windows policy for the world
“Keep the strait open”: buddy, I have some news for you
Little known fact that you actually get 12 steps! First: gather. Second: collect. Third: lift. fourth: pseudo bobble. Fifth: clutch. Sixth: raise. Seventh: secondary gather. …
4(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9-...)
Going to call the NLRB, I have concerns
the bar has been set impossibly high: we’re at a birthday party for a kid on our block and they have a jazz band
Just halve the staff and double the productivity of those who remain. It’s so simple! Now I get why Bezos is so rich.
It’s common to win stupid prizes even when playing smart games, which makes playing stupid games all the more stupid
Good news: Bluesky has already come up with many solutions for Hormuz in n graphical form, and I’m sure we can just transfer those to Bab El-Mandeb.
It’s very funny to me that the same crowd that is terrified of big US cities thinks ships should just take a chance on the Strait of Hormuz right now.