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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saw this article about remotely controlled roaches stabbing people with needles. Why does it make me think we're going to declare war on Naboo and try to assassinate their leader Padme Amidala? spectrum.ieee.org/cyborg-rescu...

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Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

Remote-control robot bugs could deliver lifesaving aid to disaster victims

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why does the phone hold music at my medical insurance company sound like a 1970’s porn sound track?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Everyone is criticizing ICE spending $20M on shock gloves, but what if they went to Congress, the White House, and SCOTUS instead? m.youtube.com/watch?v=JFCg...

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The Simpsons - Shock Therapy

YouTube video by AreaEightyNine

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just read a fantastic article using cookware as an example of how everything went wrong for America. The four lessons to take home at the end of the piece apply to a lot more than buying pans! www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Another shitty day being jerked around by American Airlines, world class waster of other peoples’ time.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Didn’t Peter Sellers do a movie about our current diplomatic situation? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mou...

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The Mouse That Roared (film) - Wikipedia

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I step outside the US for three short weeks and while I am gone they swap the 12 oz bags of chips for 9 oz bags???

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

BWI airport is strangely empty of planes for a Monday afternoon. Jet fuel shortages maybe?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Thanks Trump. My college student daughter is trying to file her (very simple) Federal taxes and TurboTax wants $172. What a scam! Enshittification of everything.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

An excerpt from Science: “Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce...represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in STEM or health.” Hollowing out our economic future.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I saved this from a post I saw once. It seems appropriate today.

four panel cartoon of fears trying to talk the hero into giving up

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Of course when the staff comes to make up my hotel room I am stuck in until the storm blows over that is when Spotify chooses to play Super Freak.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Stuck again in a strange airport. Every single time I fly United Airlines, every time ☹️

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

(1/3) I have papers for a conference due, and was pulling some data from an old Google Slides presentation when Google asked me if I wanted to use Gemini to make a new slide presentation. So for a bit of fun I entered this prompt...

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Has anyone else noticed that ChatGPT is becoming more like Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, since it sometime enters long, uncommunicative trances?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Starting the week of cooking as I do every year with Alice’s Restaurant since it the only Thanksgiving song I know of. Seems more relevant this year.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It is a sad state of affairs that when I scan the news on Bluesky everything sounds like it is from The Onion.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Uh oh, it looks like sandwich assaults are going to go up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In heaven, look what I found at CostCo!

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

From my HR Department today: "The cost of our 2026 medical/Rx coverages reflect an 11.1% increase across all plans". And to keep the costs down they raised the deductible. Thanks Republicans.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

About twelve years ago I arrived to my job at NSF a little earlier than usual to prepare for a panel. The elevator was empty. As the doors were closing a woman slipped in behind me, and I said, "which floor?" She said six and that is the morning I rode the elevator with Jane Goodall. 😢

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Just unsubscribed to Disney Plus. When asked the reason why I copy and pasted Clark Griswold's rant from Christmas Vacation, but replaced Frank Shirley with Bob Iger.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Did you know that decades before pulling @jimmykimmel.com from the air Disney used to make war propaganda films vilifying the Axis and promoting American values such as freedom? Just go to YouTube and search for "disney ww2 propaganda cartoons".

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Every time I get a little demotivated at work I turn to social media for a few minutes. That makes work seem so much less stressful.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

As always learning a lot and having my views challenged at the Human Development and Capability Approach conference in Bradford England.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

As a subscriber to the New York Times, putting the mini crossword behind a separate paywall is a bit of a dick move.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Why do I have the feeling Trump thought the movie “Escape from New York” was a documentary?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Cheville's Law: The amount of information submitted to an online form scales proportionately with how much you are allowed to upload. (In response to a form that lets me upload up to 1 GB when half a page of text is all that is needed).

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Looks like the Justice Department has gone full George Orwell on its latest guidance on what are and are not discriminatory practices in higher education: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

In a fit of pique the now defunded Letter Man rips the P off of his shirt... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Letter Man from the Electric Company show back in the '70s

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hunter S Thompson said “When the going gets tough the weird turn pro.” Thanks to The Onion for stepping up their game!

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am not a big fan of my representative GT Thompson's voting record, but I am impressed that the last two times I called his office in DC I got to speak with a human being. Kudos to him for staffing the lines. If you are in his district please call and ask him to vote no on the budget bill.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thanks for passing the BBB and screwing over 99% of us senate Republicans. This song from my college days back in Houston is for you. I hope it becomes the anthem of the midterm election. Enjoy your Kool-Aid, and I'll see you at the voting booth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjHR...

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Guyana Punch - The Judy's

YouTube video by Eaglebauer's Record Collection

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It is a long document, but the NSF budget request to Congress eviscerates science funding (57% cut) and zeros out STEM education. Summary budget starts on page 204. Great way to destroy our future. Make America Gormless Again. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Clearly either I ate something I should not have yesterday or tiny ICE agents showed up my intestines while I slept. This is the theme song for today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiF...

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NANOWAR OF STEEL - The Power Of Imodium (Official Live Video)| Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s.... Our modern world relies on complex, distributed systems like the power grid, food web, water and transportation. Education is another complex distributed system. Thanks for undermining it DOGE 🤬

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Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When did it start to make sense for our student housing staff to pay for software to send an email with my full name asking me to log in to an external portal then enter my full name and email address just to verify a student needs summer housing? What happened to phone calls?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Let’s just break everything that works well… As a former PD I know how effective SES folks are in running NSF. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Am I the only one that thinks enacting policies that cause job losses to a bunch of organized, motivated scientists is going to result in pissed off, politically engaged candidates challenging incumbents?

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Well, the world seems to get shittier by the day. A platform we use in our student MakerSpace, Dozuki, just got "acquired" by Marlin Equity Partners (www.marlinequity.com) who are taking our cost from $0 (for education use) to over $15K for having a small number of users.

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Marlin Equity Partners

Fueled by the spirit of entrepreneurship, our global software and technology investment firm transforms market-leading companies into strategic platforms.

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kridnix.bsky.social @kridnix.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Apologies in advance for posting something that is probably behind a paywall, but as a former resident of Oklahoma I thought this NYT article captured the effects tariffs will have in a more personal and human way than most of what I've read: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...