one fun fact about harvard, the wealthiest university in the world, located in one of the highest-cost-of-living cities in the world, is that some grad student workers only make $26k

you've gotta crack some eggs to make an omelet

I blame the fact that I accidentally fried three quarters of the LEDs while I was sewing them on

it does! it ramps up between 3 rad/s and 15 rad/s. I fiddled with the brightness curve a lot and it's just hard to tune it to where you can tell

this week's sewing/microelectronics project is a skirt for contra dance that glows when I spin

thank you very much!

hello!!

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Me standing inside an MBTA subway car wearing a black and grey jacket with a multicolor squiggle pattern that resembles the train seat fabric and a red zipper. I'm leaning against a pole and looking at the camera with a black KF94 mask on and a neutral expression.

Jacket laid out on train seats. The grey fabric is lighter than the train seat upholstery and the multicolored squiggles are smaller and more densely packed, but it looks similar enough to blend in. The jacket also has black panels and cuffs and red zippers and piping.

please don't phase out the old red line trains yet @mbta.com, I only just finished sewing my camouflage jacket

Screenshot of conference program with text: PP13C-0896 Repeated Snowball-hothouse cycles within the Neoproterozoic Sturtian Glaciation. Monday, 15 December 2025. 14:15-17:45. Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)

Rolled-up poster with words "hothouse" and "Glaciation" visible in the title. Most of the poster isn't visible but a couple edges of line plots are exposed and a few words ("Temperature (K)", "rapid freezing", "cycle imbalance forces", and "hot, ice-free climates").

going to #AGU25 next week? come watch me realize in real time that I've been studying Snowball Earth for four years and still can't reliably pronounce "glaciation" out loud

Rainbow over houses and trees in dark cloudy sky at golden hour, with power lines in the foreground

Good shit

in other words every post I make

the postprint is here! essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

also happy to send PDFs to anyone who DMs or emails me :)

What does it take to turn Earth into a Snowball? Formation of a volcanic plateau about the size of India at the equator, according to our new study led by Charlotte Minsky:

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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me fantasizing about getting a tattoo when I was a teenager: it has to have 14 layers of meaning and represent core aspects of my personality and values that will never change

me shopping around for artists as an adult with a frontal lobe: what if I got an armadillo on my arm. arm-adillo.

on the one hand I get it because it's really just pickled radish and what is a pickle brine if not a solution of ⊆ {acid, salt, sugar}

on the other hand I do not at all get it

Picture of radish container that's says "spicy radish kimchi(s)" and then "ingredients: korean radish, sprite (carbonated water, corn syrup, citric acid), sugar, scallions, vinegar, red pepper powder, salt"

YEAH

what's your ranking?

you to use any WiFi or zigbee bulb from any brand, and also have fully local control w/ no third-party cloud-based stuff unless you want it. So I use that + cheap non-Philips zigbee bulbs (and that also lets you do more useful customized automations)

yeah, I've had a perfectly fine time with my WiFi-connected lights, but I also don't have a ton of them so I haven't experienced the potential network interference consequence

I will say, what I actually recommend is setting up a raspberry pi with Home Assistant (open source IOT OS), which allows

Hue uses the Zigbee protocol, which is going to get you more longevity and reliability and less interference with your WiFi network than the WiFi-based Wiz bulbs if you have a lot of devices, but that may not be worth the price differential (both per bulb and the overhead of the hub for Hue)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk? Less of a "puzzle-y" mystery in vibe, perhaps, but deliciously wintery with a bit of dark humor

we 👊 recruit

don't talk to me about the Boston and Albany Railroad

Never clicked on a ‘continue this thread’ faster.

lol

Picture of three books stacked on top of a cardboard box labeled "free." Books are Machine Translation by Thierry Poibeau, Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger by Hartmut Lange, and Types and Programming Languages

spotted an extremely Cambridge, MA box of free books (not pictured: stacks of 70s Star Trek novels)

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I agree but only bc I just did the math and I don't think the salt content is high enough

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