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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am having the absolute weirdest logistical conversation about my birthday plans/not-plans with my best friends. It literally reads like a treaty negotiation.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Butterfly meme but with a CNN: "is this a chatbot?"

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Imagine pulling up to your kids' school in a mahogany station wagon suby with this shit. Deeply embarrassing but these people are so out of it they're like "yeah, got 'em." Your kid probably can't read a full book.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These people are so fucking stupid. not pictured: the "taxation is theft" bumper sticker.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very cool and normal. Also you are driving a Subaru and are parked like an asshole, on top of being in an EV spot. Wow. Neat. Much Ayn Rand. I'll buy your kids spray paint to be shiny and chrome.

Weirdo car decal on a Suburu station wagon cross over thing in the ugliest mahogany: "I'm raising a future warlord your children will serve"

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If it's a means to a "turn the crank" job (distinct from vocations or crafts), sure, there's maybe some argument for pushing things out expediently. Computers are good at synthesis and... computing--film at 11. This isn't the same as using a graphing calculator in Calc I. It's blunting how to think.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do I resent that they were done with their problem sets in two evenings vs. four? At the time, a little. But I did learn how to think through problems by sitting with them a bit longer. I suppose it depends on your philosophy on education.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

*how not using AI. My undergrad physics degree is a BA because it was from the college of science and arts at my university. I had people in my cohort who knew about this cool thing called "Wolfram Alpha" that I was oblivious. Pages of solving quantum problems with tables of integrals.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They were not. I agree with the stance of "my life as a student was miserable, so yours should be, too" is awful and has no place in academia (or anywhere) but I don't see how using AI to learn how to short cutting thinking about hard problems is remotely hazing or (big WHOA THERE) slavery.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As someone whose first advisor was a guy who smashed a keyboard during a screaming match with his only grad student besides me, and suffered under a verbally abusive postdoc who I am still convinced was trying to sabotage my experiment at best, kill me at worst: this is a really gross and wild take.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It disappeared for a week because of a VIP visit, but a helpful admin helped me locate it in a recent retiree's office where everything that wasn't a glossy document was stashed, and it's since restored to its rightful place in the central suite.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Update: I did it and it's still there with my 3D printed artist's statement.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Mandrake the Magician Sunday strip from September 6, 1959.

In this six panel color Sunday strip, a man is walking down the street when he is suddenly held up by a talking horse holding a gun.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah "universe *when it was*..." Not age is.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Planck collaboration's CMB-based estimate pins it around 13.8 billion years. A few orders of magnitude off humans!

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He looks like he was lovely and loved. 😞

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Boltzmann is an amazing ESA for alerting on anxiety but man, this dude is not Lassie. Still a good boy. Shout out to the super nice guy who saw me flat on my face taking a moment to regroup and ran over to check on me because I'm sure I looked pretty pathetic.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lol, I literally ordered a new brace the night before posting this and then ate (uneven) sidewalk during Boltzmann's walk after my ankle rolled. My entire right side hurts (fell to avoid landing on the dog). Leg scraped to shit and now my dominant hand is in a splint for the rest of the week.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My dad called me every night, at 6 pm sharp, on days when he didn't have me. He spent most of his job on work travel. I remember seeing those "AT&T future commercials" and imagining awesome talking to family over video would be. These parents are wack, can't stand their kids, and should be shamed.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thinking about maybe interval sprint-walking a 5k (fuck running) and all of the local ones that are during cooler weather are trail routes, but my ankle still randomly decides it doesn't want to do the whole "be an ankle thing." Feels bad. I just really like walking : /

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Now do cars." "Car-brained propaganda." - people who can't hold multiple thoughts at once, probably. You all should be wearing helmets *especially.*

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ban these and Class 2 e-bikes. The convenience of micromobility doesn't override pedestrian safety. I see maybe 1 e-bike/week using the brand-fucking-new bike lanes installed by my city. 2 e-scooters and 2 e-bikes nearly hit me on my walk *this morning* alone. All driven by teens.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Billionaires suck for all of the obvious reasons but I'm also amazed at how BORING they are. "I have 20 houses with 80 bedrooms and 500 bathrooms" "Here's my goofy boat with a smaller, goofier boat that goes inside." 100% proof of minimal "merit" due to sheer basic-ass taste and 0 creativity.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

TL;DR: people have short memories and most things feel pretty bleak rn. The latter is probably a "me" problem but the average person seems to engage in fairly antisocial behaviors regularly vs. a decade ago. 🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

These parents are squarely middle/upper middle class and I suppose they could be in meetings or something but there's the whole phenomenon of devices all the time and I say this as someone who, as a kid, watched A LOT of cartoons and played video games but also read and learned how to be bored.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not a parent but I think about how my parents (worked full time, often on weekends) who took down time to talk with me, find inexpensive enrichment opportunities, ask about school, read to me. They had their own lives outside parenting, too, but they liked being around me while also giving me space.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

many folks simply do not like spending time with their kids. I get Zoom school was challenging logistically especially for parents who couldn't WFH but 6 years out I see parents at the local community pool sitting in their cars scrolling on their phones while the kids are doing swim team practice.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I went in about 3-4x a week staggered with the rest of my group to total 24ish hours in-office. Office doors were to be kept closed. My biggest takeaways were: my dad was absolutely correct that Americans would abandon the social contract when confronted by a mass contagion/existential threat and...

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

SF Bay Area, btw. The favorite "oppressive regime" boogeyman along with NY. There's some serious Shazam-style misremembering of early pandemic realities: essential service workers abused by irate, mildly inconvenienced customers, freezer truck morgues, overflowing hospitals w/o PPE

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was deemed essential and had printed a note I was asked to carry in case I was stopped by law enforcement on the way to work. Guess what I *never* needed to use? There was no """"lockdown"""" in the US anywhere.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wouldn't be surprised to see a NextDoor sob story about how a "vicious" 'yote "attacked" his dogs off-leash dogs and calling for extermination. Just absolutely the worst.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

His dogs have no recall, so instead he decided to come up to me less than 2 feet away, yelled gendered slurs, and acted physically threatening. Once he realized there was a witness across the street filming he backed down.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every time I see him, I remind him about the leash ordinance and mention there's definitely rattlesnakes in the area. For a long time I carried two leashes on walks. Once his dogs ran up on Boltzmann and I yelled from distance he needed to recall them/control them immediately before I did.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I see SO many unleashed dogs and usually remind folks leashes are required in the area. Most leash w/o complaint. One guy is really nasty and lets his 2 off-leash dogs harass Boltzmann in the park and pretends they're game dogs by flushing the wildlife (usually native birds) in the protected area.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Saw this nice neighbor on my morning walk. Kept distance, made loud noises to haze. "Escorted" us away 100 ft+ ahead. My dog is always leashed & gives 0 shits about other dogs/critters. Managed to snap this after we were well away and he'd jumped a wide creek. Surprisingly good zoom on my phone.

Slightly blurry pic ultra zoomed pic of a youngish coyote sitting on the side of a wide creek near a small clearing in some dried grass brush, looking to the right. The 'yote looks healthy, with thick fur. Probably contemplating which ground squirrel would make a good breakfast.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What is with all of the Communism talk? 1956 ass speech.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In the middle of the night, Boltzmann let out the saddest, mournful howl in his sleep. Loud enough to wake us up. SO helpfully suggests maybe Boltzmann had a nightmare about us dying. 🫠

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tetris Effect Connected is such a great game. Love the packaging.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Late, but here is a pic of Space Shuttle "Discovery" I took at the National Air and Space Museum annex last week! I was lucky enough to see "Atlantis" in March. Hoping to see "Endeavour" in its launch pose after the new display building at the CA Science Center opens in Nov. to round out the year!

Discovery space shuttle at the National Air and Space Museum

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Boltzmann says there's nothing else we can do tonight and we should go to bed which is a good idea from a v. good boy. I really love my dog; he's the best.

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is after her 2x hospitalization for sepsis a few weeks ago. Losing my mind over this. She's only there because I *can't* take care of her myself yet here I am, taking time off work to do super basic stuff that they're theoretically on the hook to do.

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