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Postdoc @ UT Austin Searching for Dark Matter with LUX-ZEPLIN and CrystaLiZe | HuntsForWIMPS.com | He/They

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Hope I didn't miss any important news in the last 3-4h while I was watching and then thinking about Pluribus

10.11.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pluribus has to be some of the finest television I've seen in a long while. Refreshing to see a show where the writers have clearly sat down and thought through the full implications of the premise, and it's always great to see Rhea Seehorn. Go watch it!

10.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

01.11.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10841    πŸ” 1921    πŸ’¬ 179    πŸ“Œ 109
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As Palisades works to load fuel, person falls into reactor cavity A person fell into the nuclear reactor cavity at the Palisades plant in Southwest Michigan on Tuesday. They were taken for a medical evaluation and have returned to work.

Nuclear science week tip: do not fall into the reactor pool!
www.michiganpublic.org/news/2025-10...

25.10.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 23

The album cover is the opening "Skeet Surfing" bit from Top Secret!, right?

09.10.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a LeberkΓ€ssemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast

06.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3414    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 36
The War on Science
YouTube video by Shaun The War on Science

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

23.09.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3698    πŸ” 803    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 143
From β€˜The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship

From β€˜The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship

From β€˜The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

18.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3850    πŸ” 674    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 60

You could visit The Cuckold of Skeppsbron (I have never visited Sweden)

16.08.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is bonkers.

14.08.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 139

You said 'nationalize rail', not 'nationalize a single rail line'. Don't you think it's concerning that Labour's pledges have either been completely dropped or diluted to this extent?

10.08.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You've not seen them 'nationalize rail', for a start: you've seen them set up what's effectively a PFI for managing private rail companies, with the promise that they'll buy back these companies once their long, long contracts expire - by which point we'll have a Reform govt who'll backpedal on this

10.08.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We all read the full article, and saw Starmer saying he wants to 'get [the Hillsborough bill] right' before passing it - and if you think that's why he's blocking it, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you

10.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i like how self-conscious they are about how wildly outdated their book is

26.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1831    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2
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The UK could stop supplying arms to Israel (www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...) and could acknowledge their spy planes flying over Gaza since December 2023 (www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-are...).

26.07.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course πŸ“· | Lesson 3: Detecting dark matter
Hello again! It’s time for the third installment of our crash course! #DarkMatter101 #LZCrashCourse #DarkMatter #DetectingDarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics #ScienceSeries #SpaceMysteries #DirectDetection

25.07.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Logging on

21.06.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love that a politician can say something like β€œI believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

14.06.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10629    πŸ” 2416    πŸ’¬ 257    πŸ“Œ 60

If an American posts β€œoh shit oh fuck” with no other context it’s because something happened in a baseball game, if a British person posts that it’s because something happened to Doctor Who

01.06.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3999    πŸ” 521    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 19

Great movie! Very difficult to do on KJB without a flow chart though

17.05.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 60388    πŸ” 20696    πŸ’¬ 600    πŸ“Œ 832
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On sex, the Supreme Court has brought only doubt Politicians seem confused after the ruling that sex should be understood as biological under the Equality Actβ€”and trans people are waiting to see how ...

Politicians seem confused after the ruling that sex should be understood as biological under the Equality Actβ€”and trans people are waiting to see how much their rights have been reduced. @jessothomson.co.uk analyses the judgment for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine...

28.04.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

"now son do you know why i pulled you over tonight?"
"no officer, what seems to be the trouble?"
"well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"

28.04.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3008    πŸ” 476    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 16

The decision to use an image of a Gaza protest as the representative image of a British β€˜civil war’ when there were literal race riots and proto-pogroms in the streets less than a year ago is one of those editorial choices that says far more than the article itself possibly could.

04.04.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 357    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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This image brings me peace.

02.04.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3430    πŸ” 567    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 24
Recent Sabine Hossenfender video titled "should we defund academia?". In the icon is the caption "academia is communism", a blatant right-wing dogwhistle and a weak attempt at clickbait

Recent Sabine Hossenfender video titled "should we defund academia?". In the icon is the caption "academia is communism", a blatant right-wing dogwhistle and a weak attempt at clickbait

So Sabine Hossenfender went right off of the deep end, huh

02.03.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
I'VE JIST FOUND THIS CALYPSO IT IS FOOKEN MINGING
YouTube video by tekeer I'VE JIST FOUND THIS CALYPSO IT IS FOOKEN MINGING

Context

youtu.be/NlZzftmtGJY

04.02.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great stream, be sure to join and donate if you can! Just made Shaun aware of the scouse Calypso girl

04.02.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a good time to move to the US, as it turns out!

07.11.2024 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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