The Boron Sheikh
@dasfuller.bsky.social
Former planetary scientist, now software engineer and all-around funny guy. Got two kids, two cats, and one saucy wife. Baltimore.
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The Boron Sheikh
@dasfuller.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Theeeeeeeese motherfuckers.
The cat acting like my legs slipping under the covers aren’t my legs but instead ghosts.
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The cat acting like my legs slipping under the covers aren’t my legs but instead ghosts.
Half day at work today. Here’s what I did after:
- built a firewood storage shed for about 1 cord;
- wrote a python script to generate /fill commands so the 8yo could create “spheres” in Minecraft;
- unclogged a toilet that someone else abused.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
- built a firewood storage shed for about 1 cord;
- wrote a python script to generate /fill commands so the 8yo could create “spheres” in Minecraft;
- unclogged a toilet that someone else abused.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
www.epa.gov
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Half day at work today. Here’s what I did after:
- built a firewood storage shed for about 1 cord;
- wrote a python script to generate /fill commands so the 8yo could create “spheres” in Minecraft;
- unclogged a toilet that someone else abused.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
- built a firewood storage shed for about 1 cord;
- wrote a python script to generate /fill commands so the 8yo could create “spheres” in Minecraft;
- unclogged a toilet that someone else abused.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
"The turkey gets a sweet-tart pomegranate glaze that looks like lacquered mahogany. The mashed potatoes are tinted gold with turmeric and sharp Cheddar."
Tell me your chef is Iranian without telling me your chef is Iranian.
cooking.nytimes.com/article/andy...
Tell me your chef is Iranian without telling me your chef is Iranian.
cooking.nytimes.com/article/andy...
Make Your Most Beautiful Thanksgiving Yet
Andy Baraghani’s bright, brilliant menu is a feast for the eyes, too.
cooking.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The turkey gets a sweet-tart pomegranate glaze that looks like lacquered mahogany. The mashed potatoes are tinted gold with turmeric and sharp Cheddar."
Tell me your chef is Iranian without telling me your chef is Iranian.
cooking.nytimes.com/article/andy...
Tell me your chef is Iranian without telling me your chef is Iranian.
cooking.nytimes.com/article/andy...
Just finished "Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens", and, holy shit, I, embarrassingly, had no idea Kepler was such a goddamn scoundrel! Like, thanks for the laws of planetary motion and all, but fuck you, man!
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just finished "Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens", and, holy shit, I, embarrassingly, had no idea Kepler was such a goddamn scoundrel! Like, thanks for the laws of planetary motion and all, but fuck you, man!
Is this regular irony or Alanis Morissette-flavored irony?
My kids' cub scouts pack was short-staffed after this summer, so I've been volunteering as a den leader. And what I'd viewed as a bit of a hassle has now become ... yet another front in our patriotic resistance to Trump's regime? WAT?!
My kids' cub scouts pack was short-staffed after this summer, so I've been volunteering as a den leader. And what I'd viewed as a bit of a hassle has now become ... yet another front in our patriotic resistance to Trump's regime? WAT?!
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Is this regular irony or Alanis Morissette-flavored irony?
My kids' cub scouts pack was short-staffed after this summer, so I've been volunteering as a den leader. And what I'd viewed as a bit of a hassle has now become ... yet another front in our patriotic resistance to Trump's regime? WAT?!
My kids' cub scouts pack was short-staffed after this summer, so I've been volunteering as a den leader. And what I'd viewed as a bit of a hassle has now become ... yet another front in our patriotic resistance to Trump's regime? WAT?!
It haunts me that I don’t know if Vespucci States of America might’ve been a better punchline.
The United States of America is named after the discoverer of the continent, Joe States of America.
German chocolate cake was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, and uses baking chocolate—which may be the Baker’s Chocolate brand which was named after the Baker family who owned that chocolate company.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It haunts me that I don’t know if Vespucci States of America might’ve been a better punchline.
I literally need “three point three points” to win this game.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I literally need “three point three points” to win this game.
Vrbo’ed a house in Westport, CT, this weekend so wife could go to her The Game, and every time I used a faucet or lowered a toilet seat, I thought, “So this is how rich people live.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Vrbo’ed a house in Westport, CT, this weekend so wife could go to her The Game, and every time I used a faucet or lowered a toilet seat, I thought, “So this is how rich people live.”
Wife: “He looks like a skilled professional in Andor. Like, that’s what some profession in Andor wears, and that’s his role as an extra.”
Lamar Jackson says injuries are not holding him back
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Wife: “He looks like a skilled professional in Andor. Like, that’s what some profession in Andor wears, and that’s his role as an extra.”
Sean McVay looks like a 2-month-old kitchen scrubber. I want to grab his head and use his face to scrub some pots.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sean McVay looks like a 2-month-old kitchen scrubber. I want to grab his head and use his face to scrub some pots.
Cake-Pop Demon Hunters
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Cake-Pop Demon Hunters
If toilet paper companies want to prove their strength, forget the cuddly bears with paper flecks stuck to their ample asses. Show me a real person using your triple-ply, wiping peanut butter out of a shag carpet without getting the stink finger.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If toilet paper companies want to prove their strength, forget the cuddly bears with paper flecks stuck to their ample asses. Show me a real person using your triple-ply, wiping peanut butter out of a shag carpet without getting the stink finger.
Mild-to-Mildly-Hot Take:
Pick 6’s are bad because why is the defense working so hard!? Like, you’re gonna intercept the ball and then run it back 99 yards — and then turn around and have to do it all over again when the other team immediately gets the ball back!!
Pick 6’s are bad because why is the defense working so hard!? Like, you’re gonna intercept the ball and then run it back 99 yards — and then turn around and have to do it all over again when the other team immediately gets the ball back!!
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Mild-to-Mildly-Hot Take:
Pick 6’s are bad because why is the defense working so hard!? Like, you’re gonna intercept the ball and then run it back 99 yards — and then turn around and have to do it all over again when the other team immediately gets the ball back!!
Pick 6’s are bad because why is the defense working so hard!? Like, you’re gonna intercept the ball and then run it back 99 yards — and then turn around and have to do it all over again when the other team immediately gets the ball back!!
Senior engineer at my first dev job after grad school used to talk about “build or buy”, and that you could tell a lot about the people in charge based on where on that spectrum they were. This post was all about the people who only ever buy and have no idea of the possibilities of build.
I genuinely think @mrnikli.bsky.social may be one of the best business writers in history, and “Brainwash An Executive Today!” is one of the best written and insightful and funny business pieces of all time. A must read. Execs can be really stupid!
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Senior engineer at my first dev job after grad school used to talk about “build or buy”, and that you could tell a lot about the people in charge based on where on that spectrum they were. This post was all about the people who only ever buy and have no idea of the possibilities of build.
Standing in the chip aisle of a Swiss grocery store, eating straight out of a bag of "American potato chips", grabbing passing shoppers to tell them that this shit *munch munch* is fake as hell *munch munch* and _real_ American potato chips are *munch munch* _much_ better.
The European usage of "American" in its foodstuffs is one of the delights of living here. American Sauce like nothing I've known in the USA; American Brownies, which are the dryest cake squares you can imagine; and American peanut flips, which are... like cheese puffs, but with peanut dusting.
Seen in a Dutch grocery store: BIG AMERICAN pizza 🇺🇸
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Standing in the chip aisle of a Swiss grocery store, eating straight out of a bag of "American potato chips", grabbing passing shoppers to tell them that this shit *munch munch* is fake as hell *munch munch* and _real_ American potato chips are *munch munch* _much_ better.
The United States of America is named after the discoverer of the continent, Joe States of America.
German chocolate cake was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, and uses baking chocolate—which may be the Baker’s Chocolate brand which was named after the Baker family who owned that chocolate company.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The United States of America is named after the discoverer of the continent, Joe States of America.
Reposted by The Boron Sheikh
We need to start modeling ICE deployments as though they're part of a migratory birds pattern. They're out of Chicago, you say? Down in Raleigh and New Orleans now? Just on the cusp of winter? Huh, go figure.
Perhaps Miami and Austin are next?
abc11.com/post/immigra...
Perhaps Miami and Austin are next?
abc11.com/post/immigra...
Customs and Border agents to target Raleigh this week, state senator confirms
Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell confirmed to ABC11 that federal agents will be in Raleigh on Tuesday.
abc11.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We need to start modeling ICE deployments as though they're part of a migratory birds pattern. They're out of Chicago, you say? Down in Raleigh and New Orleans now? Just on the cusp of winter? Huh, go figure.
Perhaps Miami and Austin are next?
abc11.com/post/immigra...
Perhaps Miami and Austin are next?
abc11.com/post/immigra...
Holy crap, Google Antigravity is just VS Code with the GitHub Copilot plugin replaced with Gemini 3. Derp!
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Holy crap, Google Antigravity is just VS Code with the GitHub Copilot plugin replaced with Gemini 3. Derp!
Absolutely pulsating with “Kingdom of Matthias” energy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Absolutely pulsating with “Kingdom of Matthias” energy.
Currently working through two books: “Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens” and a rec from FIL, Daniel Silva’s “Portrait of an Unknown Woman.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Currently working through two books: “Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens” and a rec from FIL, Daniel Silva’s “Portrait of an Unknown Woman.”
Reposted by The Boron Sheikh
another mess
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
another mess
What are the DraftKings odds that John Grisham is in the Epstein files? Can I take that bet?
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What are the DraftKings odds that John Grisham is in the Epstein files? Can I take that bet?
Today was chock full of the saddest football I’ve ever seen. This was funeral wake football. It’s as if someone just died, and instead of relaxing alone after the service with a silly game, the NFL wanted to make sure you thought long and hard about Death and our bleak existence.
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Today was chock full of the saddest football I’ve ever seen. This was funeral wake football. It’s as if someone just died, and instead of relaxing alone after the service with a silly game, the NFL wanted to make sure you thought long and hard about Death and our bleak existence.