Reposted by @borisveytsman.bsky.socialAlexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Testosterone screening in the 21st century..... 011
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I grew up in the USSR when our leaders were going into the semi-vegetative state. I vividly remember the mix of cringe, pity and contempt when I saw old Brezhnev or Chernenko. Why did they torture this sick old man with public appearances? Now I look at Mitch and feel the same 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Let me get it straight. We print portraits of dead presidents (now mostly electronically). It costs us nothing to print them, only we can do it, and the only limitation is that we do not want to devalue them. 1/2 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bo French's tweet reminds me of the events happened 20 years ago in Virginia. When one unfortunate word changed history. At that time Virginia voted R in presidential elections since 1968 (even since 1952 with one exception for the landslide defeat of Goldwater in 1964) 1/7 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Another our paper on virus locomotion as a fascinating example of active matter with outside source of power. Thanks to my wonderful coauthors! doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.org 011
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph is the first show I watched at Keegan Theater, but definitely not the last one. 1/2 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I do not know if McConnell is alive. But if he is in cold storage to prevent Beshear from appointing a senator, this indignity shows God has a sense of humor. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Looks like Trump wants to turn FIFA into UFC. He probably cannot imagine anything different. I am not sure FIFA is completely against it, however. 000
Reposted by @borisveytsman.bsky.socialTeX Users Group Official Account @texusersgroup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026silicon.stanford.edu announced 2027 Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner Program Call for Proposals. Funding: averaging $5,000 per project Aim: to support digital language inclusion initiatives around the world. Deadline: July 24, 2026 at 11:59pm PST forms.gle/hR62LuQXRNPx...silicon.stanford.eduSILICON – Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media 001
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Looks like an influential part of Democratic party is antizionist. On the other hand, an influential part of Republican party is antisemitic. A spectacular failure of Israel establishment and AIPAC. 020
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026My political views are quite opposite to those of Giorgia Meloni. Nevertheless I cannot help noticing this. Trump boasted about powerful people kissing his ass: MBS, Zuckerberg, Bezos. And they all decided to eat the insult. It took a strong woman to tell Trump to stuff it. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The majestic Reflecting Pool is covered by slime after Trump's renovation. The apologists say, it is due to algae dormant in the old pipes. I do not know whether it is true, but what a perfect metaphor! All the rot dormant in our system is now in full bloom. 000
Reposted by @borisveytsman.bsky.socialJava Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴🏳️🌈 @javajoe.boo · 07/06/2026Those that did the reclassification fired all the specialists and can't attract new talent, disbanded all the communities, and intentionally embraced wilful ignorance around consequences. It is the hallmark of a dying empire 011
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Not being a Christian, I do not have an opinion whether LDS are Christians. However, I do have an opinion about the reclassification. It looks like it was done in an amateurish manner, without consulting specialists & communities or understanding the consequences. 110
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026According to Suetonius, to prevent a famine after a crop failure, Augustus deported from Rome the foreigners with the exception for physicians, teachers, and slaves. Looks like H1 visas have a long history. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026It would be much better for everybody if Thiel fled to Argentina earlier and did not spend years trying to make Uriburu's Argentina out of this country. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026So, Bill Cassidy sold his soul, his professional dignity as a physician, betrayed kids to a hack sniffing coke from a toilet seat — and had not got even Wales? 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Our paper in PLoS CompBio doi.org/10.1371/jour... I am so grateful to my great colleagues from three continents that made this paper possible.doi.orgBiomedical open source software: Crucial packages and hidden heroesAuthor summary Scientists today use software as an important tool for their research. The progress of science depends on the people who write software being properly recognized, rewarded, and incentiv... 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A sob story about Trump voting farmers going to lose their farm. Joseph Heller was 100% right. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u... www.goodreads.com/quotes/13757...nytimes.comThe Last Days of Butter Ridge 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A very good analysis. Looks like Bibi's game might backfire. Unfortunately, it will backfire on all of us. What a bunch of nogoodniks. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/prot...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comProtocols of the elders of Trumpism - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyTucker Carlson’s NYT interview is very long but also quite revelatory about a number of things. A Jewish friend of mine suggested to me that Carlson is at least strongly implying that people either in... 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Yitzhak Shamir, as a Lehi leader, organized the assassination of UN rep Bernadotte. Years later, as the Israel foreign minister, he met UN official Brian Urquhart. "This is the first time I deal with UN," said Shamir. "Did not you deal with Count Bernadotte?" asked Urquhart. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026There is a classical joke. "Granny, did you know Pancho Villa?" "Once I drove my horse and met Pancho Villa on foot. He showed me his gun and said, 'Dismount.' I dismounted. 'Give me your horse.' I gave. He pointed to a heap of cow dung and said, 'Eat.' I started to eat" 1/3 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026bsky.app/profile/404m... youtu.be/SDuHXTG3uyY?... 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026What can a clown say about Samuel Beckett? Turns out, a lot. Both theater of absurd and clowning make us to look at the world as a strange new thing, and rethink our ideas about it. The one man show 'On Beckett' by Bill Irwin is a great illustration of this. 1/2 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Harold Meyerson notes that when such opportunist as Gavin Newsom says the A-word about Istael, the mood of Americans definitely has changed. prospect.org/2026/03/04/g...prospect.orgGavin Newsom Calls Israel ‘Sort of an Apartheid State’Gavin Newsom ventured onto new terrain, invoking the A-word—“apartheid”—to describe a nation that had once been the cynosure of American liberals’ eyes. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026We are extremely lucky if in three years we are still having Washington monument and Lincoln memorial. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026JD Vance chose very interesting words when talking about US economy, "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight". Sigmund Freud taught us that word slips often reveal deep desires. I suspect these guys want to crush US economy to build a fascist state on its ruins. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026And again Eccl 1:10 turns out to be right. "In 1943, he [Knuth Hamsun] sent Germany's minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Ha...en.wikipedia.orgKnut Hamsun - Wikipedia 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution enumerates declaring a war among the exclusive powers of Congress. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Dismantling www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...nytimes.comNASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts 010
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025A prediction for 2026. Being offered the choice between Trump-Washington, District of Columbia and Washington, District of Trump-Columbia, the president will select Trump, District of Trump. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025A major part of MAGA is the grievance of those imagined not being promoted because of DEI. The cases of 'unredacted' DoJ files or 'unsuppressed' CBS screening show the real reason for these missed promotions. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The recent news reminded me of an old Soviet joke. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the poet Alexander Pushkin a competition for the best statue was announced. Then prizes were awarded. 3rd place. A statue of Pushkin reading Stalin's book. 1/2 100
Reposted by @borisveytsman.bsky.socialWords of Type @wordsoftype.com · 06/12/2025Words of Type has an article published in the latest TUBGOAT issue! (Volume 46, No. 3, 2025) tug.org/TUGboat/ Thank you @borisveytsman.bsky.social for the invitation to publish an article about Words of Type in this institutional magazine! 131
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I wonder if there is an organization more corrupt than FIFA, not being a drug cartel? 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025One of the words coming to mind about the current politics is "absurd". Two hundred years of American democracy going awry because some young idiots cannot get laid, and some old farts are anxious about their status—what can be more absurd than this? 1/4 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025American exceptionalism. Under our fascists, the trains and the plains do not run on time. 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Google translate is lowering barriers between people. Our car has been transported over the continent. When the Uzbek truck driver sent me the delivery report, I answered, "Rahmat." He replied, "Україна переможе безумовно." 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Looks like the media is trying to use Zohran Mamdani's aunt in the same way they used Hillary's emails. 010
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Ilya Ruderman from CSTM fonts told a funny story in his lecture about the history of Cyrillic. Bodoni made beautiful Cyrillic typefaces (you can see the samples in his Manuale Typograficum). They were gifted to Alexander I during the short thaw between Russia and France 1/2 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025An article in NYT (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...). A whiz kid who made millions in crypto has been kidnapped by his former friend, the de facto ruler of Georgia, beaten and forced to give away his crypto. The techbros supporting Trump do not understand that this is their future as well.nytimes.comOpinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy. 030
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025A talented font artist from India Rajeesh KV added math to the beautiful typeface Arsenal by a Ukrainian artist Andrij Shevchenko: ctan.org/pkg/arsenal-... A rare example of a sans serif font with the full math support. #TeXLaTeX #fontsctan.orgCTAN: Package ArsenalMath 011
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Ins Choi wrote Kim's Convenience and staged it in 2011 in Toronto Soulpepper Theater with himself playing the young Jung. Then he produced a 65-episode sitcom on Netflix, and when the sitcom closed, he revived the Soulpepper show with himself playing the older Appa. 1/5 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025There is a quality of certain books, movies, and shows that can be called timeliness. This is exactly what one needs at the moment. I feel that Noises Off by @sfplayhouse.org has been such a show for me. 1/4 110
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I grew up in the USSR. I remember our leaders with dementia sending our money to prop up corrupt and incompetent regimes in Latin America and Africa because they have been "ideological allies. " Thus, there is nothing new for me when Trump is sending money to Xavier Milei. 010
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025One of the best essays I have read recently. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comThe Failure of 21st Century Liberalism - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyI strongly believe that what Trump is showing is the complete rotten core of 21st century liberalism–and I define this broadly for despite what the say, almost all the self-defined “left” are essentia... 010
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Some people claim that Korean engineers violated the terms of their visas. Thus, their treatment was somehow justified. First, we do not know whether they did. This is for the lawyers to find out. But let us for the argument sake stipulate they did. 1/2 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I disagreed with the late Charlie Kirk on a lot of issues. However, I share his position on Epstein files. We must open them and punish the perpetrators. It is possible he died for this. 000
