Fiziker
@fiziker.bsky.social
Data scientist, recovering particle physicist. ער/אים
*Scratches head about what pianos have to do with this and searches Google*
Apparently panda diplomacy doesn’t work when the other side has even more kawaii than you do
Two pandas at a Tokyo zoo will be returned to China in January, the Tokyo government said on Monday, potentially leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century. In full: buff.ly/rEClYlE
December 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
*Scratches head about what pianos have to do with this and searches Google*
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Distracting from attacking the corpse of Rob Reiner by attacking the fighter pilot turned astronaut senator.
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Distracting from attacking the corpse of Rob Reiner by attacking the fighter pilot turned astronaut senator.
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there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold
YouTube’s recommendation engine does an excellent job for me. “Why yes, I would like to fall down a Voynich Manuscript rabbit hole.” But every so often I venture too far outside my comfort zone and experience the horrors of YouTube.
A few years ago I agreed to let my two kids watch YouTube Kids. I came back to check on them ten minutes later and they were watching a flat earther video made for children.
YouTube and YouTube Kids included.
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
YouTube’s recommendation engine does an excellent job for me. “Why yes, I would like to fall down a Voynich Manuscript rabbit hole.” But every so often I venture too far outside my comfort zone and experience the horrors of YouTube.
Show young, impressionable children even a handful of Wendover Productions videos and they’ll be obsessed with trains, planes, and logistics for life.
I'm really, truly not trying to be judgmental here. I know how tough it is to keep children away from screens. I fought that awful battle for many years.
We tried to set limits or whatever. It doesn't work. Just ban YouTube. It's a radicalization machine.
We tried to set limits or whatever. It doesn't work. Just ban YouTube. It's a radicalization machine.
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Show young, impressionable children even a handful of Wendover Productions videos and they’ll be obsessed with trains, planes, and logistics for life.
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I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
I followed a former Republican to hear his views. I was knowingly signing up for some bad opinions. I just expected them to be more around Reagan than TV.
Much as Gilligan and Seehorn are getting now
OH YES I DID
OH YES I DID
Gump got a lot of credit it didn’t deserve because the received wisdom at the time was that Tom Hanks could do no wrong, so it must be a great movie!
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December 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I followed a former Republican to hear his views. I was knowingly signing up for some bad opinions. I just expected them to be more around Reagan than TV.
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Going to Broadway to watch a movie of a Broadway show.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Going to Broadway to watch a movie of a Broadway show.
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I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
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Dear Turtle Island Liberation Front:
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
/2 If your friend introduces you to a third person you don’t know to help you achieve the goals in your manifesto, your friend is cooperating and the third person is an FBI agent
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dear Turtle Island Liberation Front:
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
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Yeah, this comes off as the FBI entrapping some idiotic Luigipoasters. TBF, it's not exactly a *bad* thing that these idiots are going to be removed from society and the public discourse at a very dangerous time.
And I don't think they're going to squeeze much juice out of the narrative here.
And I don't think they're going to squeeze much juice out of the narrative here.
I'm assuming three-quarters of the people in this group were feds to begin with.
If this is the usual FBI sting operation, you'd also be pretty safe betting that every step of this plot from concept to sourcing to buying fake bomb parts was instigated by informants and undercovers
If this is the usual FBI sting operation, you'd also be pretty safe betting that every step of this plot from concept to sourcing to buying fake bomb parts was instigated by informants and undercovers
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yeah, this comes off as the FBI entrapping some idiotic Luigipoasters. TBF, it's not exactly a *bad* thing that these idiots are going to be removed from society and the public discourse at a very dangerous time.
And I don't think they're going to squeeze much juice out of the narrative here.
And I don't think they're going to squeeze much juice out of the narrative here.
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Annual repost of my thread on Hasmonean military equipment. ]
Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah!
I celebrate Xmas by family tradition, but as a military historian of the Hellenistic (c. 300-100 BCE) Mediterranean, Hanukkah is the holiday that falls within my professional bailiwick.
So, a Hanukkah themed military history 🧵
So, a Hanukkah themed military history 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Annual repost of my thread on Hasmonean military equipment. ]
Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah!
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The civil war on the Right is between those who hate me and everybody I love because we're Jewish and those who hate me and everybody I love because we're rootless cosmopolitans.
One more example of "the Woke Right" narrative, where the right tries to frame members who have gone too far as actually sort of leftist. In Fuentes case, it is the overt nature of the anti-semitism. Dreher has no problem working for a govt whose leader (Orban) engages in dog-whistle anti-semitism.
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The civil war on the Right is between those who hate me and everybody I love because we're Jewish and those who hate me and everybody I love because we're rootless cosmopolitans.
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Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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First thing I thought of.
Bondi Beach👇 Budapest Holocaust Memorial 👇
Bondi Beach👇 Budapest Holocaust Memorial 👇
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
First thing I thought of.
Bondi Beach👇 Budapest Holocaust Memorial 👇
Bondi Beach👇 Budapest Holocaust Memorial 👇
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Remember when they tried to make criticizing Charlie Kirk after his murder into a capital offense?
(Yes, this is real.)
(Yes, this is real.)
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Remember when they tried to make criticizing Charlie Kirk after his murder into a capital offense?
(Yes, this is real.)
(Yes, this is real.)
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Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial on Monday. Here’s what to know about the landmark trial:
What to know about the trial of former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai
A Hong Kong court convicted pro-democracy former media mogul Jimmy Lai of conspiracies to commit sedition and collusion with foreign forces in a case that marks how much the semi-autonomous Chinese city has changed since Beijing began a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent five years ago.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial on Monday. Here’s what to know about the landmark trial:
Noise is the number one reason I hate apartments. More that I’m self conscious about creating noise for my neighbors than their noise bothered me.
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Noise is the number one reason I hate apartments. More that I’m self conscious about creating noise for my neighbors than their noise bothered me.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.