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@seren.monster.bsky.social

Experimental quantum research • photography and music • Au • she/they

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I know this is 750% not the point but I like this idea of Aussie servicepeople watching on as shocked naifs completely agog as the USA do a big war crime. I feel like this isn’t the likely scenario for me. The energy I’m imagining is more in the vein of standing around watching a mate play COD

06.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 32    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Def seen other people make the comparison, even with stuff like the colour of the columns/station specifically matching Chicago as opposed to NY or something.

05.03.2026 00:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why The U.S. Chills Its Eggs And Most Of The World Doesn't In many countries, eggs aren't refrigerated and they're still considered safe to eat. But in the U.S., we have to chill them, because we've washed away the cuticle that protects them from bacteria.

refrigeration otherwise bacteria can penetrate. So if not washed it means they're stable and sterile at room temperature, which is good for a lot of places where refrigeration infrastructure might be intermittent. All info from here, not an egg nerd just a curious Australian lmao

27.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think with salmonella, if the chickens infected it's as likely to be in the egg as it is on the outside, so its commonplace to vaccinate laying populations against it. Also there's a natural protective barrier on the outside of eggs thats destroyed by washing, meaning afterward they need constant

27.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

24.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 324    🔁 132    💬 8    📌 17
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The making of Australia's police state – part one Over two decades, Labor and the Coalition have jointly built the legal architecture of a police state at the expense of democratic rights. This series traces how.

Over two decades, Labor and the Coalition have jointly built the legal architecture of a police state at the expense of democratic rights.

Our new series, 'The making of Australia's police state', tracks how.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-making...

22.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 46    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 4

Oh boy yeah I've only ever run into one before but definitely one of the grossest things I've seen someone do.

22.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

currents and apparent nonlocal effects that enable ftl stuff in 40k. I like that this conception also lends a concrete idea to the "deep warp". Where most applications stay very close to w=0 as that's almost predictable, if you go far from that point, deep into w_space, then things get very strange.

22.02.2026 05:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People or technologies that interact with the warp have some perception of this 4th dimension, and an ability to interact strongly enough to kick the local spacetime out of that local minimum. When w =/= 0, this novel force has complex interactions with our spacetime that result in the

22.02.2026 05:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ohhh I've thought about this a lot! I conceive of the warp as a fourth spatial dimension, with some energetic minimum of an undiscovered field/interaction/force at w=0 which confines the normal 3 spatial dimensions to exist on an isosurface within that volume.

22.02.2026 05:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'd suggest contacting a studio like canberraglassworks.com or www.studioglassworkshops.com and seeing if they would be interested in buying or accepting a donation, and if not they'd absolutely be able to tell you who would.

15.02.2026 06:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunset Mission - YouTube

Damn now I'm thinking of more.
Adore this m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Kind of Blue is fav of Miles Davis'

13.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SPIN, by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin 5 track album

This is def up there for all timer
nikbaertsch.bandcamp.com/album/spin
And maybe not all time but some other faves from the last few years that I've listened to a *lot*.
hypnoticbrass.bandcamp.com/album/bad-bo...
illconsidered.bandcamp.com/album/limina...

13.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So nice to see someone else talk about this. I've only just finished my PhD but I'm already painfully aware and saying having to say no no a lot. Depressing how even pure research is absolutely rife with it in disciplines like quantum.

13.02.2026 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally had a chance to listen to this and love it! Definitely gonna be listening to more of his over the next few days.

11.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't think I've ever even heard of doing that here in Australia, does it alter the acidity?

10.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

we’re told to value cohesion right up until someone asks to be paid, housed, or listened to.

as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.

10.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Queensland government to outlaw ‘from the river to the sea’ Hate speech laws mandate up to two years jail for saying ‘proscribed phrases’

Saying, publishing or displaying the phrases ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘globalise the intifada’ will be punishable by up to two years jail under new laws set to pass in Queensland.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/queensland...

10.02.2026 02:35 — 👍 21    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

Return to forums+IRC. This is the platonic ideal.

10.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Unfathomable state violence': NSW Police set upon Muslim prayer group, protesters at Sydney rally Muslim groups decry 'shocking abuse' of peaceful worshippers

Muslim organisations and civil liberties groups have slammed NSW Premier Chris Minns after NSW Police threw punches, used pepper spray, charged into pro-Palestine protesters and forcibly broke up a Muslim prayer group outside Sydney Town Hall yesterday.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/unfathomab...

09.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 250    🔁 118    💬 10    📌 9
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The racism of Australian institutions is so off the charts that it doesn’t occur to a major newspaper to seek reactions from Palestinians to a visit from the president of the genocidal regime. Palestinians are simply non people.

06.02.2026 06:45 — 👍 90    🔁 38    💬 3    📌 1
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Quoted Printable Email showing equal signs in certain email clients I'm generating emails. They Show up fine for me in gmail and Outlook 2010. However, my client sees the = sign that gets added to the end of lines by the quoted-printable formatting. It also eats...

Oh... oh no... This post on StackOverflow from 2011 may be related to why the MIME decoding is all messed up in the DOJ's released Epstein emails.

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

05.02.2026 04:47 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Let's not forget that there's far more ionising radiation even in low earth orbit! This means that your error rates for any computations go up massively, due to modern gates being so small that single electrons are pretty important! This is a big unsolved issue so good luck lmao

04.02.2026 22:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Directed by Anno??? Will have to add this to the list!

04.02.2026 09:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This has been a thing forever and its really frustrating that its still happening, but absolutely not just you. Unfortunately very little that can be done really. Got some python that can grab follow lists for later comparison, but unless you never follow or unfollow its not been much use for me :(

26.01.2026 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lot of people probably do streaming playlists but ew spotify. I think bandcamp recently added playlist functionality, though don't know how it works. I usually just do USB or upload a zip of the mixtape to filesharing of somekind. Or go for bonus points and edit all the songs into one file.

24.01.2026 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The National Socialist Network is dead The far-right group is gone but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors.

"The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors."

independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

24.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

the cloud is just someone else's computer

24.01.2026 00:58 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

I found this recipe a few years ago and I've never looked again for a carrot cake recipe, its perfect. Usually do 1.5 on the icing but the recipe is generous and with that amount its enough for the icing layers to be thick enough it starts having structural issues. Can't recommend enough.

22.01.2026 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've just finished mine and it would never occur to me to try and show it off unprompted or unrequested, that's so strange.

21.01.2026 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0