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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me at home: *never gets poisoned* Me packing to cross North America in 1804: Every guy on this expedition will get poisoned 35-40 times.

An excerpt from The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker. “… knew that they were in for an unpredictable adventure, so they loaded up on supplies. Lewis reportedly spent $2,324 on gear - equivalent to about $50,000 today - for his thirty-man crew. The pacing included, among many other things, 25 hatchets, 45 flannel shirts, 500 rifle flints, 35 oars, 1100 doses of emetic (to induce vomiting in case of poison), 20 pounds of glass beads, a 4-volume dictionary, 3 bushels of salt, and 193 pounds of “portable soup”…”

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My politics have changed a lot over my adult life, so I'm generally not overly confident in my political opinions. I'm likely still naive and wrong about a lot of things! But I've never wavered on this. I know to the depths of my soul that I'm right. The death penalty is a stain on our society.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being a cyclist has really shifted my mindset about speed when I'm driving. Cycling, I often see the same cars at several lights in a row, so I know cars are going through the city about as fast as a bicycle. When I'm driving, I relax bc I know I'm getting through the city at 10-15 mph regardless.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Low-stakes spousal disagreement: we have some lights/ceiling fans that can be turned on and off using either switches on the wall (separate switches for light and fan) or pull chains. Does it make more sense to use the switches or the pull chains?

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Meet a Mathematician @meetamathematician.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

MEET Evelyn Lamb! 🥰 youtu.be/LScIDabdOAQ (Alt text: this is an image of Evelyn Lamb holding the Meet a Mathematician sign)

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MEET a Mathematician! - Evelyn Lamb

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 03/08/2026

Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have a rental car right now and I'm not connecting it to my phone. I got an alert sound and popup from the car while I was driving saying I needed to do something to connect my phone. Please, just leave me alone, I'm driving!

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I find it pretty depressing that we just totally gave up on even pretending to care about distracted driving. There should not be pop-up text notifications in your car! 🙃

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

next Greek epic for hollywood treatment needs to be Euclid's Elements. overdue

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's so funny to me that I worry about using acrylic paints in my paintings, and there's a petrochemical giant that's like "tell you what, lets dump our whole inventory into a river"

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Degenerate neckpinch: technical term in mathematics or devastatingly accurate insult for Tuvok? (This skeet brought to you by Simon Brendle’s lovely talk about Ricci flow at #ICM2026)

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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s cheesy, but I feel really proud and happy that there are 18 more books in my local library (where I’ve lived for less than a year!) because I asked for them. The authors got sales, I got to read them, and now other members of my community can stumble on them on the shelves!

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“I am a perfect baby and my feet are RIDICULOUS”

A moorhen chick, a hand-sized ball of black fuzz with a bright red beak, is sitting on the grass with his HUGE spindly feet stretched out in front of him. His beak is open as he is doing a petulant “wheeeeep” which his patent, just out of frame, is ignoring.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How do you make these your spelling bee letters and not accept caryatid???

The NYT Spelling Bee letters: YTARIC, with D in the middle.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Berenstains, Ann M. Martin (Babysitter's Club) and Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children) might be the only ones. I loved Oz, but Baum only wrote 14 Oz books. I loved Cam Jansen, but it looks like the 20th book wasn't published until 1999, and I was past the target age by then.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I saw Ragtime at the Lincoln Center yesterday and strangely today I think my computer is broken: it's only opening Joshua Henry youtube videos, not the things I'm supposed to be working on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNP...

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"Wheels of a Dream" - The Broadway Production of "Ragtime" feat. Joshua Henry & Nichelle Lewis

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Guy who has only encountered a list of firmly-held principles one other time in his life: "This sign is giving major Nicene Creed vibes"

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The axioms of Euclidean geometry are such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Landscape and Time by the King's Singers

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Justin Lanier @jlanier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What do mathematicians do? How do they make new mathematical discoveries? Why does that matter for K-12 math education? If you are a math teacher and you are curious about these questions, join in on "21st century mathematics" in July! Free, online, and flexible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIx...

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"21st century mathematics" returns in July 2026!

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I keep coming back to this violation. My work was used, without my permission or any compensation, to train these models. I know a lot of people who have been using these things more, and say they the quality is much improved now, but it's still built on theft of my (and many others') work.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A vaccine against cancer still sounds so futuristic to me. It happened when I was already an adult! Now in places where the vaccine is available and encouraged, almost no one will have to suffer and possibly die of this cancer! Isn't it amazing what we can do??

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

They love the free market until it produces less racism!

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I love how one of the factors is "rising consumer demand." How dare businesses respond to consumer demand by nefariously...providing a product consumers want?? In a capitalist society????

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

anyone with a stake in the proposed plan to choke out american scientific research should use this handy guide to submit comments objecting the rule changes 🧪

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Folks who know math and Hebrew: I gather that תורת החיתוכים is a set phrase to refer to a concept in set theory. Could anyone help me with what the standard corresponding English term is?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Well, if it’s 30 May, it must be... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 287th anniversary of the unveiling of Jacques de Vaucanson’s marvellous, mechanical shitting duck 🧵

The Flute-player, the Duck, and the Pipe-and-Tabor player. Illustration from the prospectus of the 1738 exhibition of Vaucanson’s automata, Vaucanson, Le Mecanisme du fluteur automate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Image shows these three statue-looking automata on plinths with a landscape visible through windows behind them

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Alison Martin @alisonmartin57.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

hyperbolic quilting - inspired by Costa-Wohlgemuth minimal surface

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wing is approximately seven 1/3 flyers that draw cards @sevenishmagpies.com · 27/05/2026

Interesting how none of the people talking about preserving "white culture" are taking up Morris dancing.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Pretty happy with this picture I got of a heron going for a fish. Splash!

A heron diving its head into a pond to get a fish. The heron’s legs and main part of its body are out of the water. The neck and head are in the water with a nice splash caught on camera.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sorry I didn't reply to your email. I was busy watching this video I took of a heron parading around with a fish it caught one thousand times.

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Tom Hentoff @tomhentoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Some gray catbirds migrate more than 2,000 miles from Central America to New York City to eat pepperoni pizza in Bryant Park. 🪶

Gray catbird this morning, eating a pizza on a paper plate on a table.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 08/05/2026

sorry Allen Ginsberg, sorry, i'm trying to delete it www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix!

Off panel: Wow! Sound pretty intense!
T-Rex: It super was!

Dromiceiomimus: But *I* saw the best minds of MY generation destroyed by pivoting to video, encircled reacting red-arrowed, dragging themselves through the ragebait production pipeline at dawn looking for some angry hits.
T-Rex: Frig!
T-Rex: THAT'S bad too!

Utahraptor: Oh yeah? Well check THIS out!

Utahraptor: *I* saw the best minds of MY generation destroyed by AI psychosis - sycophantic fawning obsequious - logging themselves on to the corporate models at dawn looking for an empty fix -
T-Rex: Okay I get it
Utahraptor: - emptyheaded victims burning tokens for the new and deluded conversation

Off panel: with the lying dynamo in machinery of theft, baring their brains to statistical word generators and receiving only atrophy in return, catatonia, calling them God, angels, radiant cool eyes hallucinating -
T-Rex: OKAY I'LL STOP MAKING AI RESPOND TO ALL THE EMAILS YOU SEND ME, GOD

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Making my way through the Expanse series on audiobook. Just started the 2nd to last novel, Tiamat's Wrath. My book club book is Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi and I'm trying to make inroads on The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, but I keep putting it down for too long in between reading.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Arguably 15 points on his license right there: reckless driving, failure to exercise due care, and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident. 11 points is grounds for suspension. Take away his license! dmv.ny.gov/points-and-p...

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The New York State Driver Point System | NY DMV

The DMV assigns points to certain traffic violations, and accumulating points can result in suspension of your driver license.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If you don't have enough control over your anger to keep yourself from using your car to physically assault college students who annoy you, you should not have a driver license, much less a million dollar a year job as a university president.

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

I was looking around in my computer and found this I made in December 2016. It's all 216 of the "clock polygons", that is, the polygons that can be made by joining some of twelve equally-spaced points around a circle.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/04/2026

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores…

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"One of the 1600 Chili's locations in the world will be closing." "I don't know, that doesn't really seem like front page news to me." "How about 'the restaurant where Tan France decided to move to Utah'?" "Sold!"

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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a close up of a woman 's face with a tear running down her face

Alt: A shot from Hedwig and the Angry Inch zooming out on John Cameron Mitchell wearing a tall beehive wig.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

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