I feel seen.

Beef tripe. I love white menudo soup, it’s one of my favorite meals from growing up. But I have to take out all the beef tripe. It always makes me want to gag.

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Hey, UC Berkeley chemistry department: C&EN would like to hear from you. DM, or signal Laurel_Oldach.07

(amplification appreciated!)

I assume this was only possible because of my onion subscription.

During the first year of the pandemic when we never left the house, I’d fall asleep during my daughter’s bedtime before 9, then wake up around 1-2 and be awake until 4-5. It worked then because I didn’t have to get up too early. Now when it happens to me I’m a mess in the morning

Tim Curry’s Pennywise is probably the most scary thing I saw as a child. It still haunts me.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

This kind of thinking is taking over everywhere. Our Chem BS is being targeted based on outside consulting, even with 34 majors. Our chem majors take only 16 credits different than our biochem majors (not targeted). And the vast majority of our expenses are in the service courses, not upper div.

Cats the Jellicle Ball playbill in front of the stage

Happy #caturday !

Close up of a fan black fan with the marquee for cats the jellicle ball.

The marquee for cats the jellicle ball. A yellow background with a cat head shaped disco ball

Cats: the Jellicle Ball! And they had out free fans! This is gonna be great!

This might be the most calming soundscape I’ve ever heard.

Is it incorrect to answer my record player? Sorry, I’m a computational chemist. #compchem

I absolutely prefer to print papers. If I try to read them on a screen, I tend to skim/scroll, especially when things get confusing.

I’ve strongly considered getting one of those color, writable e-ink tablets. Something without easy scroll.

I really enjoyed the reminder that there is a human reason why a symbol was chosen. I’m not going to put it before the G. That feels deeply unnatural to write it like that.

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

The grail cannot pass beyond the great seal. That is the boundary and the price of immortality.

The war between viruses and bacteria is getting weird, man.

Puppies falling from the sky sounds horrifying actually, so maybe that one might actually happen

Correction: helpless *billionaire* police commissioner.

When I was a kid I learned about a “Tyrannosaurus cousin from Canada” and for some reason it was like I had secret dinosaur knowledge.

Albertasaurus doesn't make the lost! Does nobody have love for other types of tyrannosaurid?

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

Every school needs a red light camera and a speed camera. Tired of ducking cars when walking my kid to school.

Also, I am a scientist who thinks it’s pretty cool, so it turns out it’s true!

I remember watching it in the summer and asking my sister “so that person is supposed to be a doll? They were a doll? And this is a soap opera?”

This was probably the funniest thing I saw on Bluesky all week.

Cigarettes are about to get even better!

An old Moe from the Simpsons telling Lisa's english fiance "Oh Ho! AN English boy, huh? We saved your ass in World War II." He responds "Yeah. well we saved your ass in World War III."

So the talking points come from old simpsons episodes now.