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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 12h

Does the FBI have any ordinary agents

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder how the "invite-only social media firm for mission-driven voices making an impact in the human origins and evolution space" market is doing these days

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Una birra giapponese, è poca. Ma due sono asahi

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can I say something with everybody getting mad? Pediment is a shit name for a gable

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If we had stayed furry, at the end of scenes like this actors would do doggy water shrugs in slow motion

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Daniel Craig James Bond

ALT: Daniel Craig James Bond

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

claude.ai/artifact/Mwi... can you make an aqueduct bridge that resists the elements? try your hand. beta version

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Comparison of Chicago O'Hare versus UK airports

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You rarely see people take pride in their work like this

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I bought this cheap washing machine from a guy who told me it fell out the back of a truck, and let me tell you times have changed

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's amazing being early to a field because you can name obvious stuff after yourself e.g. the biggest minimum distance between two curves, the Haussdorf Distance

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They should do family friendly car washes

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you buy a beer at the zoo, 10% goes to the Rhino fund. Now I am all for animals being buzzed but they can buy their own drinks

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Such is the nature of such things: that the exceptional becomes famous, and its exceptionality is considered ordinary by virtue of its familiarity.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the time I thought this song was about the lady checking the guy remembered her name

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Using AI is a bit like being a spymaster. you need multiple independent sources to see who corroborates whom, keep agents in the dark about what you're really after, occasionally collect evidence in a third independent way...

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A multitool Is a great gift because even if they don't find it useful, it's flattering that you thought they were the sort of person who would find it useful

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I won't be using my Claude allocation this week so if somebody wants to borrow it the can pay me back later. Just 2 points a week easy peasy. Must not be too big to beat up in case of non payment.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When my kid asks me if ywo boys can pee in the same toilet simultaneously

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When child religious education goes badly, it's a chateclism

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our children did a sport in school with kinda like a golf club but a hook and we were trying to think what it could be and I flashed back to my exchange in Rotterdam

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What was the range of Neanderthals? They did well in action comedies but struggled to convince in dramatic roles.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

trying to buy a multitool as a gift but hard to find one with aless stabby shaped knife

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Was talking to a history teacher and her theory is Zendaya isn't playing Athena at all, she the priestess and Odysseus hallucinates her

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

JMC with their paper, ASSA 2015, colorized

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Sun obviously always rises in a different place every day, but not so the stars. From any given latitude, if a certain star breaks the horizon due NE, it will do so in summer and winter (though it will rise at different times. This was crucial for Polynesian navigators

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ever wonder why there are caterpillars but no dogerpillars. Also not caterlintels. It's suspicious

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A third of PM 2.5 pollution in the Po Plain valley comes from farmers applying nitrate fertilizers with obsolete methods

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TIL that one of the five enigma rotors was in keyboard order

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Italia est omnis divisa in partes tres: the part with the landslide risk, the part with the flood risk, and the part with both

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The funny thing about good will hunting is you can tell actors wrote it because they think hacky grad students can just memorize a couple of pages of text on the off chance they can use them to impress girls in bars

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am not saying that people shouldn't publish math results they don't understand, but we should accept that in that case the contribution is more in line with the birdwatcher that spots a southern speckled finch somewhat outside it's previously documented range.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somehow in all the academic costcutting nobody ever gets rid of the desk phones

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In Sopranos, after they killed Big Pussy, what did they do with the boat.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ever wondered how does square sailed ships work?

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In hindsight, accepting so many refereeing requests was not the healthiest way of processing my guilt over being so far behind on refereeing.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

None chucks nunchucks like a nun chucks nunchucks

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Does this research have practical applications?" is just "Is this going to be on the test?" but for administrators instead of students

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're having problems making dough rise, you can use Baking Yoda

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally saw The Odyssey. A few observations in random order.

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andrew van dam @andrewvandam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

as the Washington Post reeled from layoffs and, uh, other things, a heap of stellar reporters and columnists (and also me) left for NOTUS to help build a new newspaper for D.C. Good news! NOTUS is now The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com/about-us/pre...

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