Marvin Bonney
@marvinbonney.bsky.social
PhD Applied Physics - Clean materials synthesis, hydrogen production.
I'm not a Mad Scientist, I'm just very, very disappointed
I'm not a Mad Scientist, I'm just very, very disappointed
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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I think Sir David Attenborough narrating video of my freshman physics lab students would be pretty awesome.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think Sir David Attenborough narrating video of my freshman physics lab students would be pretty awesome.
When your government attempts to evade oversight at every opportunity, you can assume bad things are happening.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When your government attempts to evade oversight at every opportunity, you can assume bad things are happening.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Finally, a day where I actually LIKE the news.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Finally, a day where I actually LIKE the news.
Hail! Our robotic overlords!
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hail! Our robotic overlords!
Now that’s what I call baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Now that’s what I call baseball.
Given this administration's ongoing war on scientific research it is increasingly difficult for me to advise students to seek a career in science. It is agonizing.
I keep thinking 'this too shall pass', but will it? Really?
I keep thinking 'this too shall pass', but will it? Really?
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Given this administration's ongoing war on scientific research it is increasingly difficult for me to advise students to seek a career in science. It is agonizing.
I keep thinking 'this too shall pass', but will it? Really?
I keep thinking 'this too shall pass', but will it? Really?
Solar and wind energy are -by far- the cheapest means of production and are not fully optimized yet. They will only get more inexpensive. With recent advances in battery technology and other storage methods we are closer now to a completely renewable grid than the mainstream media reports.
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Solar and wind energy are -by far- the cheapest means of production and are not fully optimized yet. They will only get more inexpensive. With recent advances in battery technology and other storage methods we are closer now to a completely renewable grid than the mainstream media reports.
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
Please do not allow such things to be normalized.
these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Please do not allow such things to be normalized.
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Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
I am a very tolerant person for human frailty.
But those people that define strength as a lack of compassion or empathy? Those people can go to hell. I despise them.
But those people that define strength as a lack of compassion or empathy? Those people can go to hell. I despise them.
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I am a very tolerant person for human frailty.
But those people that define strength as a lack of compassion or empathy? Those people can go to hell. I despise them.
But those people that define strength as a lack of compassion or empathy? Those people can go to hell. I despise them.
I swear these kids come to class in whatever they rolled out of bed in.
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I swear these kids come to class in whatever they rolled out of bed in.
This person is a US cabinet secretary.
Jesus take the wheel.
Jesus take the wheel.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
October 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This person is a US cabinet secretary.
Jesus take the wheel.
Jesus take the wheel.
I'm just a bit confused - Portland, Chicago, LA, Memphis - these are real places you can go to and take pictures and everything. Yet Trump just keeps talking about them like they're burning to the ground. What the hell?
October 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm just a bit confused - Portland, Chicago, LA, Memphis - these are real places you can go to and take pictures and everything. Yet Trump just keeps talking about them like they're burning to the ground. What the hell?
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![Comic. [Two people hiking up mountain] PERSON 1: Okay, we’re nearing the next downhill segment I’ll put in the order. ...Confirming start and end points… Submitted! [water slide being dropped from above by drones] PERSON 2 with long hair: Look, here it comes! [Waterslide positioned on downhill slope of mountain with both people riding down] BOTH: Wheeee [Waterslide carried back into the air] [Both people continuing to hike up next slope] [caption] On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidm63b6uwkz3637hw7j676gmfr7goembontcnk3vq4dakkqbfvg7a@jpeg)
To be honest, the way this administration operates I’m not sure if I could tell the difference if they shut the government down.
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
To be honest, the way this administration operates I’m not sure if I could tell the difference if they shut the government down.
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Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands
In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.
www.reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)
Something I'll never understand: Why people continue to support politicians when they say and do reprehensible things. Minor character flaws are just human nature and while not necessarily okay at least understandable.
But some of these folks...just...wow.
But some of these folks...just...wow.
September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Something I'll never understand: Why people continue to support politicians when they say and do reprehensible things. Minor character flaws are just human nature and while not necessarily okay at least understandable.
But some of these folks...just...wow.
But some of these folks...just...wow.
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Observation: Extant 6-limbed creatures are overwhelmingly within the clade Hexapoda, a grouping of arthropods that contains insects and their close relatives.
Conjecture: Centaurs are particularly large beetles. Western dragons are cryptic parasitoid wasps. Angels are exceptionally large fireflies.
Conjecture: Centaurs are particularly large beetles. Western dragons are cryptic parasitoid wasps. Angels are exceptionally large fireflies.
August 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Observation: Extant 6-limbed creatures are overwhelmingly within the clade Hexapoda, a grouping of arthropods that contains insects and their close relatives.
Conjecture: Centaurs are particularly large beetles. Western dragons are cryptic parasitoid wasps. Angels are exceptionally large fireflies.
Conjecture: Centaurs are particularly large beetles. Western dragons are cryptic parasitoid wasps. Angels are exceptionally large fireflies.
I cannot be the only one concerned with the fashion presentation of federal law enforcement - they look like they bought their gear at a central American death squad surplus sale.
How are we supposed to bend the knee to guys that can't even match camo patterns. Ugh. So humiliating.
How are we supposed to bend the knee to guys that can't even match camo patterns. Ugh. So humiliating.
August 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I cannot be the only one concerned with the fashion presentation of federal law enforcement - they look like they bought their gear at a central American death squad surplus sale.
How are we supposed to bend the knee to guys that can't even match camo patterns. Ugh. So humiliating.
How are we supposed to bend the knee to guys that can't even match camo patterns. Ugh. So humiliating.