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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My son took this from our driveway. He calls it “Orion’s kilt”

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My son did this last night in our backyard. I’m kind of flabbergasted.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sometimes the timeline is a magic eight-ball of wisdom.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We did Jack’s DNA and turns out he’s 100% good boy

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m in Calculus III right now and LOSING MY FRIGGIN MIND! This is wizard school!

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Painters: I started with five pigments and recently started playing with two others: 1) Burnt umber 2) French ultramarine 3) pyrrole rubine 4) cadmium yellow 5) titanium white Then 6) ivory black 7) yellow ochre Honestly not finding the black very useful. Yellow ochre, maybe? What about you?

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” — George Orwell, Animal Farm

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thanks, Mike. Here’s one of mine. Full-spectrum modified Canon EOS M50.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m still an undergrad but I’m prepping for the professor times

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The bookshelf above my desk. The positive x-axis points upwards.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I hope this differential equations section lives up to this title.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

On Complaining About the Cold On a night this cold the stars are twinkling o’er dark seas so vast we have no inkling. Neptune has the strongest winds in Sol’s realm. Venus, her sulfuric acid clouds swell- hotter yet than Mercury, the fleetest. Listen, I don’t mean to sound defeatist. 1/3

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I started Calculus III yesterday, Differential Equations and Physics II today. Wrote an essay about Socrates and Bertrand Russell and turned that in before dinner. Took the boy out to shoot Saturn. Bought groceries. That’s enough. G’night.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Got some pretty snow last night here in North Carolina. Woke up to ice. Making French toast as per tradition.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It’s been thirty years at least since I played D&D. I managed to kill a giant rat with a ball of fire. My charisma was -1 and wisdom was +5, so it was hard to relate to the character. Shout out to @ncstate.bsky.social C3 program!

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

On Closer Inspection Down the dark hallway around the ground glass, through still small cells with luminous windows a leaf or lung sliced thin as twilight stained beryl as one might paint a child’s bedroom 1/n

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is the best physics textbook I’ve used, by far. Unfortunately, there are a lot of wrong answers to the odd-numbered problems in the back, at least in the fourth edition (which I could afford). However, there’s a fantastic errata list on their website! matterandinteractions.org/errata/

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I made my first 3-D thingie! Please clap.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A physics textbook will say, “compare the change in magnitude to the magnitude of the change” to remind you that philosophy never goes away.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

For millennia, humans have gazed up at the night sky and wondered, who is a good boy? My personal research has shown that Jack is a good boy. (Sorry, it’s not a blurry picture. It’s a blurry dog.)

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’ve started thinking about the internet like I’m reading a newspaper in 1987. Would I type a letter, lick an envelope, and use a stamp to mail my response to AlphaMale2940.Jesus?

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Finals today! We’ll find out if I’m a physicist or a physicisn’t.

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Jonathan Byrd @jonathanbyrd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Going into finals tomorrow, I have a 97 in calculus II and a 97.66 in physics I. Honestly, those grades are mostly due to completing tedious things on time. I could make 60s on these exams and still finish with As. 1/2