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Dark matter, quantum sensing, professional mole-man. Very Dad. He/him.

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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 23h
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s right
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read this story to a bunch of 2nd graders today. Blew their minds. I’m-doing-my-part.gif
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got my Covid and flu shots on the same day that I had a dry needling session with my physical therapist. Put em all in me, why not
The cool handsome guy from the hellraiser movies with his head full of pins, can’t remember his name
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah
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Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This graph represents probably more than a hundred thousand hours of work by our community. Every year when I look at it I think our current proposal model is broken.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Teaching my beautiful children some flamboyant new swears in several languages, and incidentally repairing this broken hijo de puta vacuum cleaner.
Filthy circuit board inside the handle unit of a Dyson stick vacuum.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scrolling though my timeline and holy shit. Take care of yourselves, everyone. Here are some photos of a wet dog.
A large monochrome poodle looking up at the camera. He has a striped towel on his head. Same deal but now he’s looking off to the side and kind of smiling.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading about quantum principal component analysis is like trying to take a census of an anthill someone has just kicked
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m at the grocery store. Quick, what’s a good food to get for solving my emotional problems
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"paperclips", "stochastic parrots", "x-risk", listen to yourselves. I get that we have to talk about these people sometimes, but don't you feel like it's undignified to use their in-group jargon? Surely it's constraining our thinking about this stuff in unproductive ways.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of our neighbors enjoy circulating a rumor that the accelerator at the lab somehow controls the weather. When there's a tornado warning, you can find people conspiracyposting about this. Of course this is false, but it's useful in obscuring the actual truth: we have a Swamp Thing
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Divers at the lab cleaning out zebra mussels and other gunk from the pond plumbing. Here's a before and after photo
Diptych photos. Left: a person in a full-body black scuba suit and helmet, standing in front of an ornamental pond in front of a 15-story high-rise building. This is a "before" photo. Right: swamp thing.
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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 30/09/2026
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I got it, but only because the prompt made me slow down and think about it.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s raining so much and I’m so sleepy. What’s the bluesky equivalent of your teacher putting on a movie because everyone just needs to chill out?
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh the whole thing is on YouTube. Of course. youtu.be/cKOoOK09HvQ
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Buster Keaton - The Haunted House (1921) Silent film
YouTube video by Classics of World Cinema
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
4yo demanding to watch Buster Keaton. Yes, I will be insufferably smug about this.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chicagoland! Fermilab is hosting a public lecture and discussion on the future of fusion. I don’t know what it will be like but I know I love it when people come to visit the lab. 🧪 Registration required indico.fnal.gov/event/76235/
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A Special Public Evening at Fermilab
FUSION  The Promise, the Progress and the Path Ahead  Join us for conversation on fusion and what will it take to turn fusion from a scientific breakthrough into a practical source of energy. Featurin...
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s weird about these LLMs is that there’s no good preexisting mental frame for talking with them. If one pushes back against something you say, it’s not appropriate to react the same way you would to a person pushing back against you.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yapper’s Regret is the far less popular B-side to Rappers Delight.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My too-earnest answer is that everyone feels totally overloaded all the time and the prospect of offloading things — even catastrophically wrong things — is too good to pass up. Why did we spend all that time in school studying Adam Sandler‘s “Click” if yall don’t apply its lessons in your lives?
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A kindergartner has just explained to me that the only spicy food they like is ketchup.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man come on. Be for real.
A large monochrome poodle with his paws up on a wooden fence. He has his tongue poking out like he’s blowing a raspberry
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As above, so below. The primary way I see these things used is children throwing them as hard as they can at a bnai mitzvah, and then going “oh no what have I done” and running to pick them up again so they can eat more.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chag Sameach 💙
Screen grab from the original Zelda NES game. Link has just come into a room with an old man, a sword, and two flames on either side. The original text reads ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS

But I used Averlong’s Death Generator to change TAKE to SHAKE. And I knocked out a quick pixelated lulav and etrog and pasted it over top of the sword.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having some intrusive thoughts connected to my recent Leckie binge.
Campaign bumper sticker design. Blue background, border of stars. Text reads

ZEIAT / DLIQUE ‘28
VOTE
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been sick all week and the obvious upside is unlimited dog pets
A large monochrome poodle asleep on my bed. My hand is on his head
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What is cuter than a bunch of 4 and 5 year olds in karate class?
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If my beautiful children are eating kpop demon hunters sheet cake, that’s sheet cake that I am not personally eating. This is basic game theory, people.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone [crying]: Please. Astronomers. “The Big Bang” is a ridiculous name for a universe-spawning cataclysm. Next time PLEASE be serious. Astronomers: Got it got it. So there’s a galactic collision that formed the Milky Way. Everyone: … Astronomers: Gaia Sausage www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evidence of a massive accretion event 1.8 billion years before the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger - Nature Astronomy
By studying the dynamical properties, age and metallicity of globular clusters in the inner Galaxy, the authors found evidence of a massive dwarf galaxy that was accreted by the Milky Way 1.8 billion ...
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning here is a cool thread about distributed cognition.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I see it’s our turn for $5 gas now. Prices shot up over the last few days and now all the stations in my area are clinging to the fig leaf of $4.99 per gallon. I wonder how long they can hold on.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The reason everyone takes their phone into the bathroom now is because this feeling is not limited to four year olds
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reporting from the parenting front lines: the hottest toy for kids right now is a stress ball. I'm not kidding. It's called Needoh and it's so popular that the local toy store refuses to answer questions about it, either over the phone or in person.
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boonque @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It didn't occur to me that this could be an issue. "Most people on GLP-1 drugs can safely fast for Yom Kippur or other religious observances, but they may need to plan ahead, take certain precautions or be ready to call it quits if they feel ill." religionnews.com/2026/09/17/i...
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If you’re on GLP-1 drugs and plan to fast for Yom Kippur, here’s what you need to know
(The Conversation) — Most people on GLP-1 drugs can safely fast for Yom Kippur or other religious observances, but they may need to plan ahead, take certain precautions or be ready to call it quits if...
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh hey check this out, we found a commemorative coin from the 1933 worlds fair
A brass coin about an inch in diameter. The front of the coin is visible in this photo. It shows the date, 1933, and a design of some swishy ribbons circling a ball. At the bottom it says A CENTURY OF PROGRESS / CHICAGO”Reverse of same coin. At the top it says GOOD LUCK and at the bottom it says WORLDS FAIR. On the left it reads 1833 and on the right 1933. In the middle it gets weird. There’s a horseshoe, a four leaf clover, a … sword? I guess? And an Asian-style swastika. And an elephant.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The lab photographer has been doing a #tbt thing that knocked me down a retrocomputing rabbit hole. This is a photo from 1973 of a Bryant Ex-Cell-O disk drive used with a CDC 6600. The platters are about a meter wide. www.couperus.org/Albums/Bayvi...
barely recognizable as a computer. black and white photo of a bryant computing disk drive cabinet with the outer panels removed. You can see two rows of meter-high disk platters, with a bunch of extremely clunky-looking I/O hardware in the middle. The meters and buttons on the interface make it look like a cartoon robot with rectangle eyes and button teeth. Otherwise a very normal looking office setting. Drop ceiling, fluorescent lighting, carpet.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Brains ain’t sense” is my only comment at this time.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Critical Darlings they were talking about how WB had such low regard for these cartoons while they were being made, they didn’t even give Mel Blanc a studio. Apparently he had to wait until an active film production took a lunch break and pop onto their set so he could borrow a mic and do this.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Respect to @segyges.bsky.social for Lookimg Directly At It, evidently for a very long time. I can only imagine the costs involved in doing this sort of work.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, it’s easy to forget how hard it is to be a kid.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"we thank the referee for this comment", bro no you don't. You are so mad at me right now.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The central question in this article seems not to be “what if we never find dark matter”. The central question seems to be “what if I, the author, never find dark matter”. And like, I think we all need to stop trying to be the main character.
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Seems worth your while
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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fast forward 10 years and my HR partner is asking me with concern in their voice why I haven’t taken my Quarterly Meeting Scream during the last eight months
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