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Your basic child of the 80s nerd. I love #Transformers and #ITeachPhysics in Massachusetts. Posts prior to July 2023 were imported from Twitter using BlueArk's service. Mastodon: https://retro.pizza/@sstoneb

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If you haven't played Chicory and don't think you'll ever get to it, I recommend at least checking out the review by Keven Hernandez that I linked to once before in this old post: bsky.app/profile/ssto...

I honestly have a hard time thinking or reminiscing about the game without tearing up a bit.

08.02.2026 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lena Raine, composer of the music from both #Celeste and #Chicory has announced a giant Chicory remix album coming next month!

BRB gotta go listen to "History Against Us" into "Do the Impossible" again, then annihilate the suffocating injustices of the past to allow everyone self-actualization. nbd

08.02.2026 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love them, what are their names?

08.02.2026 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I race to the bottom, and you don't race to the bottom, who's going to reach the bottom first?

08.02.2026 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 135    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing ๐ŸŒญ

07.02.2026 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5178    ๐Ÿ” 1091    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47

During my deep dive for Black History month I came across this gem...'hadar and needed to share. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฟ

06.02.2026 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 332    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The 2025 Desmos Art Contest gallery is now live ๐Ÿ“ฃ! Filter by feature and find your new favorite graph at desmos.com/art ๐ŸŽจ
#mathsky #iteachmath #mathart

06.02.2026 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
**PRE-ORDER** 'I Appreciate The Muppets On A Much Deeper Level Than You' Hat
Show Your Appreciation. Pre-order now at The Onion Store.

**PRE-ORDER** 'I Appreciate The Muppets On A Much Deeper Level Than You' Hat Show Your Appreciation. Pre-order now at The Onion Store.

Show Your Appreciation. Pre-order now at The Onion Store. https://store.theonion.com/products/i-appreciate-the-muppets-on-a-much-deeper-level-than-you-hat?variant=44611294789701

05.02.2026 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 574    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Body Odours" illustrates the chemical compounds responsible for four common smells. It features a central human silhouette with lines pointing to the mouth (Halitosis), armpit (Underarm Odour), digestive system (Flatulence), and feet (Foot Odour). Each section provides chemical structures, names, and scent descriptions, such as hydrogen sulfide smelling like rotting eggs in halitosis and isovaleric acid smelling cheesy or rancid in foot odour.

An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Body Odours" illustrates the chemical compounds responsible for four common smells. It features a central human silhouette with lines pointing to the mouth (Halitosis), armpit (Underarm Odour), digestive system (Flatulence), and feet (Foot Odour). Each section provides chemical structures, names, and scent descriptions, such as hydrogen sulfide smelling like rotting eggs in halitosis and isovaleric acid smelling cheesy or rancid in foot odour.

Today is #NationalFartDay ๐Ÿ’จ Here's a look at some of the goaty, cabbagey and pungent compounds behind various body odours: www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/07/t... ๐Ÿงช

05.02.2026 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about โ€œille...

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

04.02.2026 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1223    ๐Ÿ” 618    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70
A selection of old (60s/70s) NASA research notes.

A selection of old (60s/70s) NASA research notes.

That time I found a pile of old NASA research documents in a skip and took them home for a lark.

03.01.2026 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 522    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

My school plays a different "song of the day" before first period every day. We're also running spirit week, and today's theme is "dress like a teacher".

Today's song was "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" ??????

03.02.2026 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...and half is madness: we must freeze intellectualism into a form centuries or millennia old, the best way to test critical thinking is with classical texts, dysfunctional political discourse is caused by not having a common canon in school...??

03.02.2026 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I read this and the linked (old) article about common core being "incompatible" with Catholic education, and... they are so full of non sequitur.

Like, half is stuff I agree with! Read actual books, fiction is important, teach logic and critical thought, virtues outweigh "career readiness"...

03.02.2026 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the game Star Wars Outlaws. The heroine, Kay, stands in the foreground on a broken walkway. Far below in a red sandstone chasm a Jawa sandcrawler vehicle appears to have crashed. Boulders lie on its roof. A shaft of light from the cave roof illuminates the background.

Screenshot from the game Star Wars Outlaws. The heroine, Kay, stands in the foreground on a broken walkway. Far below in a red sandstone chasm a Jawa sandcrawler vehicle appears to have crashed. Boulders lie on its roof. A shaft of light from the cave roof illuminates the background.

Screenshot from the game Star Wars Outlaws. The heroine, Kay, stands silhouetted in the foreground. Her pet merqaal Nix is wearing adorable goggles. They are in a cave or deep stone chasm, and looming above them is a Jawa sandcrawler vehicle that appears to have crashed. Boulders lie on its roof. A shaft of light from the cave roof dramatically illuminates parts of the vehicle.

Screenshot from the game Star Wars Outlaws. The heroine, Kay, stands silhouetted in the foreground. Her pet merqaal Nix is wearing adorable goggles. They are in a cave or deep stone chasm, and looming above them is a Jawa sandcrawler vehicle that appears to have crashed. Boulders lie on its roof. A shaft of light from the cave roof dramatically illuminates parts of the vehicle.

One of my favorite adventure tropesโ€”especially finding them in video gamesโ€”is โ€œboat in a caveโ€. Iโ€™ve been playing and enjoying Star Wars Outlaws andโ€ฆ this wrecked sandcrawler sort of counts I think? #BoatInACave #VirtualPhotography #StarWars

03.02.2026 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so hereโ€™s 81 reviews Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I canโ€™t affordโ€ฆ

HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!

Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.

That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!

Come check it out!

docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...

01.02.2026 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 256    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
A four by six array of images. Images in the top row are labelled A, B, ... F. Images in the second row are labelled G, H, ... L. In the top two rows each image is of a collection of simple shapes, such as three identical circles displaced uniformly horizontally.  The lower two rows are Fourier intensity diffraction patterns. The images in row three are labelled 1, 2, ... 6, and in row four 7, 8, ...12.

A four by six array of images. Images in the top row are labelled A, B, ... F. Images in the second row are labelled G, H, ... L. In the top two rows each image is of a collection of simple shapes, such as three identical circles displaced uniformly horizontally. The lower two rows are Fourier intensity diffraction patterns. The images in row three are labelled 1, 2, ... 6, and in row four 7, 8, ...12.

In this weekโ€™s Fourier Optics course we shall be looking at diffraction from 2D apertures, with arrays of identical structures.

A quiz to test your understanding of the array theorem. Can you match the apertures to their Fraunhofer diffraction patterns?

๐Ÿงช #physics โš›๏ธ #optics ๐Ÿ’ก #iTeachPhysics ๐ŸŽข

01.02.2026 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Written Companions for Physics Classroom Practice The Physics Classroom holds a place near and dear to my heart. For years I thought it was my special secret. Long, long ago the url was something like physicsclassroom.glenbrook225.k12.il.us becausโ€ฆ

Do you use physics classroom? I am ADAMANT about Ss writing things down. I started developing handouts to accompany some of the activities in physics classroom to get Ss thinking, and provide a way to support them with feedback. #ITeachPhysics physicsteachermomma.com/2026/02/01/w...

02.02.2026 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is wonderful news. Please fight JUST AS HARD for the other children and families, even though they weren't lucky enough to have their photo snapped at just the right moment to gain attention.

01.02.2026 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

01.02.2026 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67408    ๐Ÿ” 16160    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2586    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1839
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

30.01.2026 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10413    ๐Ÿ” 3445    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 652    ๐Ÿ“Œ 712
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116 years of Barnard's Star: 1940 to 2056. Proper motion and parallax are visible. The field of view is ~ as wide as the full Moon. #astronomy #astro ๐Ÿ”ญ

01.02.2026 03:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space?

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ญ

youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY

Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon SchmauรŸ

30.01.2026 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 535    ๐Ÿ” 221    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Wow, they nicely included instructions on how to find some of their articles to fraudulently cite as having influenced your work. Very convenient.

30.01.2026 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a โ€œconfidence scoreโ€ of their address.

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a โ€œconfidence scoreโ€ of their address.

30.01.2026 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Original post on toot.boston

For Reasons, Iโ€™m trying to compile a list of phrases / terms of art that are used in Greater Boston, but not really in the rest of the US. (Not words like rotary/jimmies/tonic; phrases that are uniquely local that describe concepts.)

So far I have:
- Getting Storrowed
- Allston Christmas
- [โ€ฆ]

28.01.2026 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Sneak Preview - First Science Video In 3 Years | Physics Girl Get more from Physics Girl on Patreon

Dianna "Physics Girl" Cowern's first science video in 3 years coming soon:

www.patreon.com/posts/sneak-...

(She's slowly recovering from very severe long covid.) #ITeachPhysics

28.01.2026 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

In the sidebar recommendations:

"Peekaboo FULL WALKTHROUGH all achievements 100% no damage"

27.01.2026 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Notably the Palantรญrs provide accurate information but insufficient context, leading to dogshit analysis. Every person who comes to rely on a Palantรญr fucks up and dies.

27.01.2026 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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blocklist for AI music on youtube screenshot of youtube showing a playlist of AI music (& with AI art), and all but one recommended video is also AI generated on christmas eve, we took the family to the in laws to celebrate together,...

It's an uphill battle to identify the AI-music channels since they are so easy to make, but @surasshu.com has a blocklist you can put into the BlockTube browser extension to hide a bunch of them:

surasshu.com/blocklist-fo...

27.01.2026 11:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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