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Jerb ⚒️🍉🧬
@jerbivore.bsky.social
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Doctor of Chemical Engineering, awkward postdoc storyline phase. Left with Buddhish characteristics. Likely to be nerdsniped about a stats problem.
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Sometimes I bake sourdough. Sometimes the have Christmas trees.

#Sourdough #Baking #Christmas #HappyHolidays
Two sourdough loaves. On the left is a batard (oblong loaf) and on the right is a boule (round, circular). They have a Christmas tree pattern scored into them.
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"we are like a family at this company"
screenshot from SOMA, a black human woman's body is being infused into a biomechanical entity, absorbing her humanity
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Revisiting this one today: Defacement - Doomed

It's heavy, it's death metal, but also it's gorgeous. Washes in between waves of dissonance, followed by surges of gorgeous, haunting post-metal atmosphere.

Could be AOTY.
Album cover to Defacement by the dissonant death metal band Doomed. A greyscale photo of a giant rock cliff. At the bottom appears to be a miniscule path with two tiny people on it emphasizing the enormous scope of the cliff. There appears to be a body of water between the figures and the cliff.
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Happy Bandcamp Friday, please support artists of all types in your lives!

Here is my haul! (mostly metal, some art rock and math rock and maybe some other stuff)

#MetalSky #MetalBandcamp
List of albums and their covers gotten by Jerb on Bandcamp Friday: Stereosity - New Life Will Grow Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath Defacement - Doomed Species - Changelings Gonemage - Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens Totorro - Sofa so Good Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth List of albums and their covers gotten by Jerb on Bandcamp Friday: Panopticon - The Poppies Bloom for No King Candelabro - Deseo, Carne y Voluntad Cisnienie - [angry noises] Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern List of albums and their covers gotten by Jerb on Bandcamp Friday: Floating - Hesitating Lights Felgrave - Otherlike Darknesses
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Playing Bananagrams and there’s some anti-Pennsylvania racism coming from the Scrabble dictionary
Screenshot of the scrabble dictionary stating that the word “Yinz” is not a playable word
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Hiring is impossible these days, so it seems like staffing agencies can get a yuge cut of the candidate’s salary in exchange for getting a foot in the door.

Left: what Meta will pay for this contractor role (min $170k)

Right: what you get paid if hiring via agency (min $83k)

srry 4 foto quality
Photo of a posting on the left for Meta, where the position is hiring $170k-$240k/year. On the right is a spreadsheet documenting the same position, but if hired through a staffing agency, which hires for $83k-$104k/year, a cut of OVER 50%!!!
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Running into something uncanny in my day to day. Multiple postings for the same type of temp/contract job from Meta. I found six (6) of these same postings.

Context: these are hiring firms that, since it's impossible to get a job, get a kickback from your pay to get your foot in the door.
A posting for a job asking for a materials engineer in Redmond, WA, temporary for 12 months, working for Meta. This is through a contract with the hiring firm Intelliswift. A posting for a job asking for a materials engineer in Redmond, WA, temporary for 12 months, working for Meta. This is through a contract with the hiring firm Lensa. A posting for a job asking for a materials engineer in Redmond, WA, temporary for 12 months, working for Meta. This is through a contract with the hiring firm Pyramid Consulting. A posting for a job asking for a materials engineer in Redmond, WA, temporary for 12 months, working for Meta. This is through a contract with the hiring firm EPITEC.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Chinchilla is 70% fbv (fluff by volume)
A chinchilla napping, a very very fuzzy rodent like animal with a thick layer of fur and whiskers
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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logging in to linked in
Sermon on the Mount painting of Jesus Christ speaking to a crowd, but he has speech balloons saying: "Cringe, cringe, cringe" "None of you are free from posting cringe"
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Feeling seen
Tweet from @alphatransfag bI**ne @alphatransfag• 21h •.. writing cover letters feels soooo "ever since i was a little boy, i knew i wanted to be an administrative assistant when i grew up"
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Update
A man walking down a sidewalk at a protest. The sign says “NAZIS ARE BAD”
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

(I am so close to BTBAM - Colors, but it's good to share this one)
Album cover for Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale A lot of twisting fiery stylized shapes, serpents, and faces twist in a circular manner in a Hellish red/orange/black color scheme.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"just got this great pic of my AI gf without makeup i lover her so much <3" Pic depicts matrix multiplication between a 2x3 and a 3x2 matrix to produce a 2x2 matrix, a common technique in linear algebra, some of the basic machinery that powers Machine Learning
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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important psa.
A stylistic suck meme of garish rainbow colors and bright pastels font/outline choices of the following script: "CHRISTIANS ✝️ ARE GAY NOW"
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Tweet from @hudlion (another Hannah) @hudlion sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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idk man, I think if there’s undisputed messages of “I sure enjoyed Child sexual abuse crimes”, it’s not a great argument to say “but look at all the emails where he *didn’t* admit to Child sexual abuse crimes!”
Headline from r/Conservative: “Democrats released three cherry-picked Epstein emails… so the GOP released 20,000”
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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If you've been teaching in the last few years, this makes a lot of student behavior make horrifying sense.

Introduce new vocabulary to your class and they're not able to recognize words in the text.

The reason they're not following instructions is they're *guessing* what you have told them to do.
Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words. "In efficient word perception the reader relies mostly on the sentence and its meaning and some selected features of the forms of words," Clay wrote.7 For Goodman, accurate word recognition was not necessarily the goal of reading. The goal was to comprehend text.8 If the sentences were making sense, the reader must be getting the words right, or right enough.
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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my concern about him being in clear decline and being propped up and taken advantage of for his cult base has certainly reached a middle
Transcript of President Donald Trump. Relevant text: "Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don't have a magnet, you don't have a car. You don't make a computer, you don't make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things-you don't make anything. It's a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, we'll have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said you're going to play the magnet, we're going to play the tariff on you."
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald meme: "Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours" On the bottom left, a volume dial is being cranked up all the way to ten. On the right a young man is crying in a blurry photo listening to music in his headphones.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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The Good Place writers were not close to mean enough when they made this characters.
Character from the Good Place (a good place committte member), who is very wealthy-liberal coded, wearing a flannel and a down puffy vest. He says "just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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lol prominent bluesky lib all but stated that the doomer leftists are vindicated by this moment
Skeet by sam (handle @samd.bsky.social ) "My simple ask is that Dems stop acting the way bad faith leftists assume they always act. also call your senators today and either thank them for voting against this awful deal + tell them to dump Schumer or yell at them if they're one of the 8 who folded"
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Zohran Mamdani campaign font: "The Democratic Party and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race"
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Zohran Mamdani campaign font: “Not me crying for no reason”
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Sorry fam this is the best I have rn
Zohran Madami campaign font saying “press F for paying respect
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM