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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D.

@skugelgen.bsky.social

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Synthetic (in)organ(ometall)ic chemist 🧪⚗️ at Sound Agriculture, embracing weird interdisciplinary limbo for sustainability. Pro people-powered transportation🚶🚲, magnetic resonance 🧲, chemical education 🥽, & cool cats of all stripes 🏳️‍🌈. He/him/his

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

man we need more stories of platonic love that doesn’t fit the societal definition of standard friendship?? like we NEED that passionate intimate friendship shit that blurs the current lines so that people can be okay with having intense affection for someone they don’t want to romance or bone

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda bothers me when fans interpret every close same-sex relationship in media as romantic/sexual. Like I fully grasp how much "historians call them roommates" shit sucks

But I also don't think "Healthy platonic emotional intimacy btwn guys is impossible, they just wanna F U C K" is the answer?

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2d

California when?

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah:

"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."

www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

Utah rolls forward on statewide freeway system for bikes. Here’s where the trails would go.

Utah plans to build a statewide network of paved trails that will act like an interstate system for bikes.

www.sltrib.com

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 2d

me explaining daylight saving time to the cat

tuxedo cat swatting a man’s nose (cat paw somewhat motion blurred). the man is recoiling/wincing.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 2d

My brother found a miraculously good deal on eggs so, naturally I had him over to make a frittata (with spinach, tomato, onions, and bacon) and mini breakfast quiches (with sausage, scallions, and Fresno chilis)! #ChemistsWhoCook

A frittata in a black cast iron pan, its yellow surface flecked with red bits of tomato and green bits of spinach

The frittata from the first picture turned out on a plate, showing a deeply browned bottom.

Three cupcake-sized mini quiches sit on a cooling rack, their shells overflowing with yellow custard, decorated with green scallion bits, brown breakfast sausage, and red Fresno chilis

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 2d

Ebay the rest?

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 3d

A lappy #caturday from Merlin — remember to find the skritchy spot of the day! #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 4d

@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 4d

Why are you arguing this from a baseless position of ignorance? There’s no pan involved here. The initial temp is irrelevant, as it spends 95+% of the time boiling at the fixed temp of 100 °C.

Please go away.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 5d

Due to an overwhelming amount of Nonsense going on in the US farm sector, I am in need of a half-time to full-time video editor

Anybody know someone who is 1) real good at it and 2) not heinously overemployed already?

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 4d

My dude, what is your point here? This is a self-contained appliance, my refrigerator and air temp and pans are irrelevant.

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 4d

Actually the instructions were for *precisely* this model!

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

For most applications that call for caramelized onions, these definitely require a sauté to dry them out. But if you’re making French onion soup, they’re basically there already!

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve seen folks say you can caramelize onions in a slow cooker for years, but I finally tested it. The same reactions should be accessible with lower kinetic energy input, albeit at a lower rate.

Recipe said “6-12 hours on low” but clearly needed 18-24. Pics are t= 0, 6, & 19 h. #chemistswhocook

A crockpot full of raw sliced onions, a large pat of butter sitting on top.

A crock pot about half full with a light caramel-colored slurry of partly-caramelized onions and their juices.

A crockpot ~1/3 full of mahogany-colored caramelized onions swimming in their own juices.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

While my story has always had a science trajectory, it certainly hasn’t been straightforwardly linear!

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

The answer is trivial: Coulomb’s Law.

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

He’s so friend-shaped!

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

And a new one just went in at 40th&Webster in Oakland! I thought I had snapped a pic, but alas.

Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

Worse: they don’t even have the slightest inkling that it’s anything but objective good/truth

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 6d

The irony of Chegg calling LLMs parasitic...

(They are both parasites!!!)

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

CEO gets $3.2M severance deal as Bay Area tech company lays off 388 workers

Chegg's four recent layoff rounds combine for 1,396 jobs.

www.sfgate.com

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

There is something truly cosmically 🫠 about preparing documents via a clunky system with no active support for a grant the gov’t might not fund b/c you can’t reach the PO involved because the government is shut down, especially b/c they’d reject it for delinquent submission if it’s late.

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Scalli @viceandviolence.bsky.social · 6d

Considering making a GM screen that's all the basic rules printed on the player facing side and just heaps of naked elves shagging on the GM side.

Doesn't that seem more useful to everyone involved.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 7d

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight.

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Feline_Tales

My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”

“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

purrfect_logic

I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.

But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 6d

If you apply the new 10% tariff, does that mean it will cross with 12.6 hours of darkness?

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 7d

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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