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Barney Grubbs
@barneygrubbs.bsky.social
chemist
he/him
north central long island
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you can probably acquire facsimiles at a nearby Rad Owl show radowl.bandcamp.com/album/aladdi...
Aladdin's Castle EP, by Rad Owl
3 track album
radowl.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Every summer olympics I get excited to see televised water polo & then am reminded they always ruin an already pretty hard-to-follow sport by repeatedly cutting to the underwater camera when something interesting is happening.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
can’t spell lolded without old
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
skadjacent
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
just in case anyone else needs it youtu.be/F8w16SCFBo4?...
It's Not My Goddamn Planet!
YouTube video by HydratedPizza
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
they make tasty beers (though it cracks me up that a brewery called Equilibrium has a beer called Kinetics)
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I might actually like to have a sharply appointed vaguely humanoid sidebot to follow me around injecting strategic “pick it up”s and offbeat “chicka”s
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm not sure how many of my students find it interesting, but I make sure to tell them that all of the organic chemistry words that start with "al-" (alkane/ene/yne, alkyl, alcohol, etc.) all come from Arabic اَلْكُحْل
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We're going to reinvent the rhyming demon
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
read through all the other i words looking for the I word!
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
also conveniently ignores questions about how the hydrants came to be placed where they were
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
she does the same with pancakes
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I was in college in Claremont in the early 90s and saw a couple of solo Mountain Goats shows at dorm coffee houses and parties (and took a creative writing class with Mezey)--it was great to learn more of the old history and to see that things mostly worked out well.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
also XIV Leos—coincidence?
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
bottom appears to be the Pentagrammaton in the same script, but no idea what it all means
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM