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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 04/08/2026

I am eternally grateful that all my friends immediately got with the program and that I live in a (relatively) blue area. I can only imagine how isolating an experience it is for some trans folk

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 03/08/2026

me, watching a movie in a theater for the first time in *garbled* years: wow movies are good people should go to them more often

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 21/07/2026

"Rock Legend" in the headline is doing a crazy amount of work to try to level the playing field with motherf*ckin' Bruce Springsteen

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Are these "quantum computers" in the room with us now?

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

I'm starting to think that adding "quantum" to the popular lexicon was a mistake.... I'm just trying to imagine what anti-science rabbit hole a person has to go down not only to believe this, but to believe that somehow quantum computers are the problem, not the core concept of a data center

Bluesky post with the text "I feel these 'data centers' are actually quantum computers being built. And that seems very dangerous."

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Been hearing that there is some bill with funding for transistors that only transgenders qualify for. Where do I sign up? I got some personal projects I've been sitting on

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Been getting up around the same time pretty consistently for about two weeks now and I regret to inform everyone that it does seem to have fixed many of my sleep issues

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Gonna hang this up at the office

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

I constantly ask myself why I spend so much time on the "destroy my mental health" website. But then someone comes along and reminds me there are tools to make it not completely abysmal

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 17/07/2026

I work in an office that's under roughly 50 meters of limestone and the other day we picked up KCNW 1380 as they beseeched me to accept our Lord and Savior. Through God's light truly all things are possible...or a radio tower is directly above us. One of those two, for sure.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/07/2026

A couple weeks ago, while out on a run, a youngin yelled "you go, girl!" at me. Today, while out on a run, an owner told their dog to "leave that girl alone" as I ran past Running sucks, but ooh, boy does getting correctly gendered by strangers make it all worth it

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/07/2026

Realizing that if I want to have written more that I'm going to have to...😖...have to...🤢...have to write more 🤮🤮🤮

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 13/07/2026

Really feels like a chicken and egg type thing. Does writing cause my insanity or did insanity cause me to write?

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 13/07/2026

Now, did he ride with it on his lap or buckle it in in the seat next to him?

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 12/07/2026

Guys, cut Death some slack. Their dance card just says "shitty old white dude" and its working their way through everyone who meets that criteria

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 08/07/2026

Had a pastor thank god for their working organ after watching me work on it all day. It's just nice to be recognized as a deity now and then

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 07/07/2026

Yachts. thelifeofsharks.com/product/yach...

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 08/07/2026

my general explanation for the state of the world is that the center of this venn diagram is empty

Venn diagram with three circles: "Ethical," "Makes a living wage," "Worth spending your life on." The center of the diagram is marked out.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

Former me, oblivious: huh, why do I always choose the fem option in character creation? *shrug*

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

My spouse has left the house for a couple hours, and now I shall sit and accomplish nothing for the entirety of their absence

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

If a game doesn't involve busting out a stats textbook, what's even the point?

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

New author challenge: write enough em dashes to make an LLM cry

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

See, I would be a redshirt with Scotty down in engineering, which is on its own fine. The problem is that I would also be all doe-eyed and go, "ooh, new alien world! Let me come explore it with you Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk!"

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

1/x Once again, I have to say this, bc even allies, even some trans ppl are being taken in by the rhetoric of "fairness in sport" to the point where they don't know how to respond when the topic comes up. So buckle up, it's another Crip Dyke megathread you need to read all of.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

The big ones were feeding wildlife (or letting their kids chase them), waltzing through areas you shouldn't be waltzing through, and--just baffling--smoking a cigarette during stage 2 fire restrictions/red flag warning

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

And don't even get me started on the guy smoking a cigarette in the middle of the campground during a red flag warning...

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Like seriously, I thought a human was trying to get my attention and jumped when I saw who it was. When my spouse and I didn't give him our food, he and his buddy started getting more and more aggressive until we were forced to move

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Watched a couple feeding a squirrel (while taking a video of it, naturally) only for that same squirrel to literally tap me on the shoulder trying to get me to give it my sandwich a couple minutes later

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Went to the Grand Canyon this last weekend for the first time in my life. While it lived up to its name, the thing that stuck with me is just how many times I saw people doing the *exact* things you are asked not to do

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

My buddy is running a Curse of Strahd campaign that I unfortunately don't have time to join But I do fortunately have time to help him brainstorm all the ways to horrify his players and make them never trust anybody ever again *cackles*

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

He's not lying, it's just his definition of "everyone" only includes his billionaire pals

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

Make the closest guess to how many Roman Coins are in this jar and you win a curse!

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

Airport lounges want you to believe they are a luxurious experience, but I know the truth: They still use single-ply toilet paper.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/06/2026

As soon as I remember to set down my wire cutters in the same place every time I'm done with them, it's over for y'all

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/06/2026

Anyway, hi friends, I go by Lily now! 🏳️‍⚧️

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/06/2026

It's only Pride if you come out during Pride month, otherwise it's just "sparkling sin"

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 30/05/2026

Hey, glad you want to check out the other stuff on my site! I've always had grand schemes to host some of my other ventures there, but for now it's only my blog, so I have it set up so either of those URLs redirect to whatever the most recent blog post is It's a "one of these days" kinda things

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

Yes! Exactly this! I didn't explicitly do the math for this because the radius of the sun << aphelion distance, but I'm fairly certain it would roughly make up for the extra delta-v needed at the aphelion

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

If you time the transfer correctly, that would be much more energy efficient, since you only need to do one half of the Hohmann transfer. But if crashing into a planet is the route you want to go down, you could simply shoot a rocket up a couple hundred feet then turn off the engine.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

Brutal, but fair. I can only hope that there will be a footnote on the Forsyth Transfer wikipedia page mentioning my initial discovery of it.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

Holy freakin' crap guys, that's *the* Bad Astronomer himself tweeting that my blog post on the efficiency of the orbital mechanics of launching your enemies into the sun is quote "amazing." Okay, okay, everybody just be cool about it. Cool and collected, that's me. Definitely...

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

Oh my gosh! That's my blog post! Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read it. You've been a big inspiration to me, and it's *pretty neat* to know you think some of my stuff is cool

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 24/05/2026

Gotten a lot of other pictures I'm quite proud of the last few days, including some cool cat pigeons and a Dodge Charger that just begged me to turn all the Lightroom knobs up to 11

Black and white photo of two pigeons underneath a bridge, one in a drain pipe. They are looking at each other.

Cliff side receiving some glorious yellow sunshine rays while surrounded and topped by verdant trees.

Flowering tree over a quiet gravel road.

A black Dodge Charger parked peacefully in a glade. The photo has been edited to have a Michael Bay-esque shininess to it.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 24/05/2026

On it. If she waits long enough there might even be a zine or--heaven forbid--a full photo book of my bird photos one of these days

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 24/05/2026

Vintage lenses are fun*...if you get lucky and have an Eastern Bluebird pose for you long enough to figure out how to nail the manual focus. Konica Hexar AR 200mm f/4 attached to a Olympus Pen E-PL2 *that is, cheap and therefore actual accessible to me

Female Eastern Bluebird perched on a branch looking wistfully to the left

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/05/2026

There is a $40 dollar product that does this exact thing, but instead I spent $500+ in labor to craft one myself. Worth it.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 25/04/2026

Welp, I have come to find out I have almost no ability to taste bitter. It's not much of a superpower, but I am excited about the prospect of freaking people tf out by biting into a bulb of garlic like it's an apple

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