Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️
@brachinus.bsky.social
Polymer chemist & engineer in industry. Spent some quality time studying bombardier beetles. CWRU Macro & MIT PPSM alumna. Loves science, animals esp insects & cats, photography, computers, cooking, & the outdoors. Trans queer autistic woman. She/her
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We built the Lego Gingerbread AT-AT this afternoon. Really cute! My favorite details are the dripping frosting and bows on its feet. 😊
#lego #starwars #christmas #gingerbread
#lego #starwars #christmas #gingerbread
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We built the Lego Gingerbread AT-AT this afternoon. Really cute! My favorite details are the dripping frosting and bows on its feet. 😊
#lego #starwars #christmas #gingerbread
#lego #starwars #christmas #gingerbread
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Something outside the window has attracted Oscar's attention on this #Caturday morning. #Tuxedo #Cat #catsofbluesky For a few seconds, Oscar was sitting up on his hind legs like a meerkat, but I didn't snap picture in time. 🐈⬛
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Something outside the window has attracted Oscar's attention on this #Caturday morning. #Tuxedo #Cat #catsofbluesky For a few seconds, Oscar was sitting up on his hind legs like a meerkat, but I didn't snap picture in time. 🐈⬛
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"Still punk as fuck" I whisper to myself as I feed the cats and slink off to bed at 9:30 on a Friday evening.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"Still punk as fuck" I whisper to myself as I feed the cats and slink off to bed at 9:30 on a Friday evening.
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i’m not ready to take down my 12-ft tall turkey skeleton
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
i’m not ready to take down my 12-ft tall turkey skeleton
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🪶 Here’s a couple of city lads from Roslindale (part of Boston, MA). They were jerky and held up traffic on purpose
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🪶 Here’s a couple of city lads from Roslindale (part of Boston, MA). They were jerky and held up traffic on purpose
this is tempting
@mattkamen.bsky.social says that the 3D is the best way to play N64 games in 2025. Smart money says it'll be the best way in 2026, too.
The Analogue3D Is a Retro Gamer’s Dream
This is the best way to play classic N64 games in 2025.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
this is tempting
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America is losing its culture. We must ban weeklong Black Friday sales so we can once again watch people get injured rushing into big box stores.
by Donald J. Trump
by Donald J. Trump
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
America is losing its culture. We must ban weeklong Black Friday sales so we can once again watch people get injured rushing into big box stores.
by Donald J. Trump
by Donald J. Trump
house of cards season six makes no goddamned sense at all. just a complete mess
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
house of cards season six makes no goddamned sense at all. just a complete mess
it’s a tropane alkaloid not an amphetamine
Is Cocaine Having a Moment?
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
it’s a tropane alkaloid not an amphetamine
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I know the answer is the same every year, but this year’s best printer review has an excellent screed on AI slop and the enshittification of Google
www.theverge.com/tech/641940/...
www.theverge.com/tech/641940/...
Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air
Best Printer 2025: wireless laser home office supply shop now Brother
www.theverge.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I know the answer is the same every year, but this year’s best printer review has an excellent screed on AI slop and the enshittification of Google
www.theverge.com/tech/641940/...
www.theverge.com/tech/641940/...
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Firing the last of the shell-tempered stuff this afternoon. I'll be taking it up to 590° C to stay under the lowest calcine temperature of shell. #ceramics #archaeology
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Firing the last of the shell-tempered stuff this afternoon. I'll be taking it up to 590° C to stay under the lowest calcine temperature of shell. #ceramics #archaeology
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today we head home from windy wellington, maybe one of the best two weeks of my life — traveling with family, amazing intellectual exchange, excellent ice cream, hobbit scenery, and this dude at the lego store
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
today we head home from windy wellington, maybe one of the best two weeks of my life — traveling with family, amazing intellectual exchange, excellent ice cream, hobbit scenery, and this dude at the lego store
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The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
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Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
yay ammonite hierarchical suture joints! My grad school lab studied these, we have a couple papers on them
#FossilFriday
Fossilized Ammonite (Bacculites compressus) from the former Western Interior Seaway, which helped form the Pierre Shale formation.
Fossilized Ammonite (Bacculites compressus) from the former Western Interior Seaway, which helped form the Pierre Shale formation.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
yay ammonite hierarchical suture joints! My grad school lab studied these, we have a couple papers on them
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Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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Sharron Davies & Co all advocated and made rules for sports that banned trans girls that experienced a male puberty. Now they want to force these trans girls to experience a male puberty.
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...
Sport's governing bodies are at loggerheads about transgender participation, but Australia can take the lead
Sport's governing bodies are feeling pressured into picking sides in what has become a culture war, although experts warn Australian anti-discrimination policies would prevent blanket bans on transgen...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Sharron Davies & Co all advocated and made rules for sports that banned trans girls that experienced a male puberty. Now they want to force these trans girls to experience a male puberty.
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...
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a vicious apex predator, caught in the act
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
a vicious apex predator, caught in the act
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You actually can transition. It is a thing that is achievable & possible. If you feel like you won't ever be able to "achieve" being a woman, that's just cope sweetie. Don't deny yourself something you know would make you happy. As long as you keep moving forward, you will get there in no time
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You actually can transition. It is a thing that is achievable & possible. If you feel like you won't ever be able to "achieve" being a woman, that's just cope sweetie. Don't deny yourself something you know would make you happy. As long as you keep moving forward, you will get there in no time
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I meant to post about this news from Italy - very glad violence againat women, which has long been normalized, is now punishable with a life sentence. Far too many women die at the hands of their male partners or family members. Gender-based violence is an hourly occurance and needs to stop.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I meant to post about this news from Italy - very glad violence againat women, which has long been normalized, is now punishable with a life sentence. Far too many women die at the hands of their male partners or family members. Gender-based violence is an hourly occurance and needs to stop.
drinkers reportedly concerned about beer shortage
The brewers are so much worse for baseball than the Dodgers.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
drinkers reportedly concerned about beer shortage
but think of all the data they collected!
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
but think of all the data they collected!
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A Sharp pocket computer from 1988 has been brought into the modern era with a Raspberry Pi and ESP32 that allow it to run Linux.
A Sharp Dressed Pocket Computer
A Sharp pocket computer from 1988 has been brought into the modern era with a Raspberry Pi and ESP32 that allow it to run Linux.
www.hackster.io
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A Sharp pocket computer from 1988 has been brought into the modern era with a Raspberry Pi and ESP32 that allow it to run Linux.
i think tomorrow’s project is to try to install OpenIndiana (Solaris OS) on my trusty old Lenovo X270, which has reached the end of its useful life as a Win10 PC. It’ll be nice to have a Unix laptop with VGA, USB-A, etc
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
i think tomorrow’s project is to try to install OpenIndiana (Solaris OS) on my trusty old Lenovo X270, which has reached the end of its useful life as a Win10 PC. It’ll be nice to have a Unix laptop with VGA, USB-A, etc