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 · 17/09/2026Other nations think it is a good idea to exchange their raw materials, manufactured goods, food, even talents of their people for these portraits. And the president thinks it means they win, and wants to stop it. Brilliant, sir. Absolutely brilliant. 2/2 000
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 · 15/09/2026Allen's career was over. Virginia never pressed R in presidential elections since. Now, in 2006 the state had drifted left for some time, and probably would become bluer anyway. However, Allen evidently accelerated the change 7/7 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"So it was not a random slur, but the usual name for us among your staffers?" It turned out that an important part of GOP coalition in Virginia were conservative prosperous Asians. Now they were shown what the rest of the party thinks about them. 6/7 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"If GOP sees him as a monkey, what do they think about all of us?" asked Indians. Allen tried to explain that he thought Macaca was the student's name. Evidently he overheard the staffers calling him this and did not know about monkeys. This enraged Indians even more. 5/7 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sidarth was Indian. This phrase quickly spread over the Indian community. The thing was, Sidarth was a textbook case of a prosperous American of Indian origin. Graduated from a competitive high school, joined a prestigious university, started a career in politics. 4/7 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Once at a town hall Allen said, pointing to him, "This fellow over here with the yellow shirt — Macaca or whatever his name is — he's with my opponent... Let's give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." 3/7 100
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026GOP senator Allen cruised to reelection and nursed presidential ambitions. S. R. Sidarth was a student volunteering for the Dem campaign. He followed Allen's town halls and filmed them— the usual practice during elections, when campaigns look for sound bites. 2/7 100
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 · 29/08/2026 A two acrors play about people who just cannot allow themselves to be happy, precisely directed by Susan Marie Rhea & Kurt Boehm and stunningly performed by Irene Hamilton & Jimmy Bartlebaugh. A small theater with great art. 2/2 000
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 · 08/04/2026Looks like Trump just had a lunch with Iran. 3/3 000
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026"Pancho Villa laughed so hard that he dropped his gun. I grabbed it and said, 'Give me back my horse.' He did. I pointed to the heap of cow dung and said, 'Eat.' He started to eat. So, you asked whether I knew Pancho Villa? We had a lunch together!" 2/3 100
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 · 07/03/2026For 90 minutes Irwin grips the house by talking about Beckett, reading his prose, acting his plays - and yes, performing the good old clowning schticks. A fascinating performance at Washington Shakespeare company. 2/2 000
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 · 16/01/2026I nominate Donald Trump. He is going to claw the award anyway, so why don't we save the effort and give it him now? 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 · 19/12/20252nd place. A statue of Stalin reading Pushkin's book. And the winner: A statue of Stalin reading Stalin's book. 2/2 000
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 · 30/11/2025Some turns in the play seem to be outlandish, but a quick check shows they are historically correct. This reminds of "The Death of Stalin" by Ianucci, where the most absurd details are the most accurate. A great play for our times 4/4 010
borisveytsman.bsky.social @borisveytsman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Rajiv Joseph understood that the language of absurdist theater was the perfect one to explore this absurdity. His "Archduke" looks into the story of Gavrilo Princip. Brilliantly performed by @roundaboutnyc under Darko Tresnjak's direction, the play is very topical. 3/4 110
