Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
@merz.bsky.social
"There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
He /was/ gracious about it.
![Edward Tufte
The government’s sentencing memorandum makes excellent use of visual evidence, including these images (all beautifully integrated into the text): the menu of bribes, copies of bribe checks, handwritten notes fabricating evidence, and color photographs of bribe payments (Persian rugs, real estate, a yacht, and 2 lead glass armoires).
Viewers should click through the pages to see the excellent presentation, which almost looks like a Sotheby’s or Christie’s auction catalog. I couldn’t have done the sentencing memo any better.
This is a wonderful find [which eventually appeared in my Beautiful Evidence] by Kindly Contributor Alexey Merz.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q25tg5qy6kzwtuecpe6b4shw/bafkreihbom3sxj23bbqtk6vfw7pw5iadtm432y5ejh2vdt7ztprbijvfre@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
He /was/ gracious about it.
Now that last is not fair, there was usually a non-smoking section, out on the wing
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Now that last is not fair, there was usually a non-smoking section, out on the wing
Illustrative, but it's a shitbot.
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Illustrative, but it's a shitbot.
Starmer didn’t listen to that voice and look where it got him
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Starmer didn’t listen to that voice and look where it got him
At long last, a rational way to sort and store stainless M4 and M5 washers
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
At long last, a rational way to sort and store stainless M4 and M5 washers
GO GO GO! Wish I could have voted for you, good luck Josh!
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
GO GO GO! Wish I could have voted for you, good luck Josh!
It's a fucking bot, you idiots.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It's a fucking bot, you idiots.
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
I mean I can see how they'd have things in common
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I mean I can see how they'd have things in common
well that's a bit on the nose
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
well that's a bit on the nose
even in death one can judge a bigot by the company he keeps
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
even in death one can judge a bigot by the company he keeps
He's still wearing cover makeup on his right hand.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
He's still wearing cover makeup on his right hand.
Also, backatya (drank it a while back but saved the can).
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Also, backatya (drank it a while back but saved the can).
Placement: NYT photo editors know the score.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Placement: NYT photo editors know the score.
The Sizemore is the only custom frame I ever got. Essentially a hybrid. Ritchey-style break-apart frame, Columbus SL, 650B with room for 40mm tires or 35mm with fenders. Quick, long trail geometry. I've taken it mountain biking in Moab. By far the best riding, most fun bike I've ever owned.
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Sizemore is the only custom frame I ever got. Essentially a hybrid. Ritchey-style break-apart frame, Columbus SL, 650B with room for 40mm tires or 35mm with fenders. Quick, long trail geometry. I've taken it mountain biking in Moab. By far the best riding, most fun bike I've ever owned.
Andy's trademark wishbone stay, made with a custom lug. Looked better with single-pivot brakes but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. You can see that the tires were brand new when this was taken.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Andy's trademark wishbone stay, made with a custom lug. Looked better with single-pivot brakes but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. You can see that the tires were brand new when this was taken.
Here's the Strawberry more or less as it is now. 54cm C-T, 54 C-C. Parts-bin and eBay NOS before prices went thru the roof. Mavic 550 hubs, rims, shifters, and BB; Modolo levers, Chorus brakes, TA crank, Super Record pedals, Dura Ace (Nitto) stem, Cyclone II derailleurs. 19 lbs.
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Here's the Strawberry more or less as it is now. 54cm C-T, 54 C-C. Parts-bin and eBay NOS before prices went thru the roof. Mavic 550 hubs, rims, shifters, and BB; Modolo levers, Chorus brakes, TA crank, Super Record pedals, Dura Ace (Nitto) stem, Cyclone II derailleurs. 19 lbs.
Best toe clip straps I ever used: these are the ones Andy/Strawberry used to import. You can't have the Rasta ones, though, unless you promise to put them on that custom Bob Jackson.
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Best toe clip straps I ever used: these are the ones Andy/Strawberry used to import. You can't have the Rasta ones, though, unless you promise to put them on that custom Bob Jackson.
post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
and now for something completely different
and now for something completely different
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
and now for something completely different
and now for something completely different
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
The latter. So new, it’s still clean.
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The latter. So new, it’s still clean.