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A. Fresnel

@fresnel.bsky.social
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An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/she/ey)

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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I used to work in a neutrino physics lab long long ago and they are delightfully weird little buggers.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you play Sleepwalker backwards on it, it opens a portal to Toledo, Ohio.
A Peavey Powerslide sitting on a guitar stand. It is, near as I can tell, a lap steel guitar designed by Randy Rhoads from the afterlife and transmitted to us via a defective ouija board.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm on day one of having a standing desk in my home office and I've realized that I wanted a standing desk because sometimes the physical sensation of sitting at a desk becomes overwhelming and I need to move and now I can just switch desk modes and not have to interrupt whatever I'm doing.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I figured out why my computer couldn't maintain a wifi connection and it was because I never screwed the antenna all the way in. 😅
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, according to a definition of 100% I made up myself.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My 50 pound (22.7 kg) hound boxer mix: I mean, same...
Cecilia, the brown hound boxer mix awkwardly perched on my lap while I attempt to chill on the couch.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I enjoyed season one and then became interminably bored in season two.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So we went straight from summer to late autumn for a bit, but now we've bounced back to 80 degree weather.
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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UV jupiter says trans rights
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
FWIW, your boobs are boobier than mine and I'm kind of jealous.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll hear it when it gets covered by some band on AV Undercover or one of those power metal bands that people insist take themselves too seriously or something. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we could inflict more agony on them if we got rid of every country music artist except for New Riders of the Purple Sage.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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A person says "whyyyy am I am miserable all the time" 

They go girl mode and say "ok that helped but everything else is still. Fucked"
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most generally speaking, Fate. Dread for horror, Old World of Darkness if I'm feeling nostalgic, and Ars Magica if I want a medieval fantasy game with people who can't play regularly (as long as they can put up with me yelling about cubic meters of wheat).
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just bottled my kombucha for second fermentation. It's going to be pear cardamom flavored this time.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just finished Moss'd in Space today and have started Spiral Dance in my ongoing quest to become a trans witch theydy.
Special 20th Anniversary Edition 

The Spiral Dance

A rebirth of the ancient religion of the great goddess

Starhawk

Rituals, Invocations, Exercises, Magic
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I live in Ohio and have to use a VPN to read my DMs. It's bizarre.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I own two pro wrestling t-shirts and they're with Sonny Kiss and Nyla Rose.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have several late relatives buried in a cemetery in Zanesville, Ohio.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am a sucker for a concept album, that one just never landed with me.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22/09/2026
thread:
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hate how much advice I get for surviving as a trans fem nonbinary person boils down to "just be a binary trans woman".
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Despite Crack The Skye being essentially a perfect album, Emperor of Sand is my favorite Mastodon album and I'm just going to say it in the hopes someone will fight me about it so I can feel something.
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my body is a machine that turns carbohydrates into adenosine triphosphate
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It absolutely slaps when my partner tells me I look pretty.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My understanding, which I frankly do not trust, is that "holy cow" is an attempted get out of purgatory free card by invoking a holy symbol from another religion (Hinduism).
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I still want to convince someone to help me build a GEV and take it out onto the Great Lakes. There's no way that'll end well.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm going to develop my own philosophy for modern esotericism where "gnosis" is just feeling intense existential dread.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Someone wake me up when the trans community isn't being treated like the football Lucy keeps moving out of the way when Charlie tries to punt it.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What about the integrated naval weapons system?
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Goddamn it. It was fun hyping up the sample return mission to my astronomy classes...
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"THANK FUCK"? Because that's still what I think it says...
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Despite having spent the night in a yurt listening to the sound of falling rain and sleeping better than I have in weeks last night, I am very tired. Ask me literally any question you'd like and I'll attempt to answer it as genuinely as possible?
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20/09/2026
cone-ing James Watt is a power move
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
doc.govt.nz
Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can we still talk Bigfoot on the lenai, though?
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
youtu.be
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by TribeCalledQuestVEVO
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
The Venn diagram of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ”white moderate“ and today‘s “we gotta compromise on trans rights moderate“ is a circle
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 15/09/2026
OK this is a weird semi-random question: does someone have a PDF copy of the original Fermi-Pasta-Ulam(-Tsingou) paper? The links to the archived versions I could find are all broken. 🧪
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm tethered to reality by an impossibly thin rope made of "I'm not okay, but nobody's okay right now and if they say they are they're lying."
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh, it's not that exciting. My Lamy Safari fell off my desk a while ago and I found that it rolled under my guitar amp. 😅
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good news, everyone. I found my second favorite fountain pen.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Be nice to all of the trans people in your lives, okay?
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I swear she looked vaguely normal when I got up to take her picture but I stepped on a squeaky toy and she got excited. Anyway, timeline cleanse/enweirdener if you want one:
Cecilia the brown hound boxer mix sitting awkwardly on her bed looking up with eyes that form a window into a mind filled to the brim with canine whimsy. She's surrounded with evidence that I sometimes sit on my beanbag chair with a drink and a blanket.
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'll tune up my lap steel guitar...
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who wants to make a miniatures game based on R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_G...
en.wikipedia.org
World Game - Wikipedia
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A. Fresnel @fresnel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People keep acting like this is just a thing that people genuinely care about, but I don't think the overwhelming majority of people would give trans rights a second thought if they hadn't built this culture that just continuously beats that drum that we're some kind of existential threat.
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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if you see a democrat who wants to “compromise” on trans rights, ask them what part of fascism exactly they think they are fighting by accepting the fascists’ policy positions?
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