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glad things heading up, you got this!

jeff bezos' dad was a star unicycle hockey player?! till now, my most interesting factoid on him was that my former GF was in his email circle that he initially reached out to about his plan to sell books online in ~1995. she said "why would i do that, i love going to bookstores".

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good to know ... but not gonna get started, no time!

eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

social media invited me to congratulate a colleague on a work anniversary, although they sadly and shockingly passed away few years ago. the account still seems active. it's jarring but obviously this happens nowadays. a bit worried if/how AI will amplify on such errors in future.

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family of deer in our yard, looking for lunch in my wife's garden. i gently encouraged them to move along. @nicorobine.bsky.social @grimmrad.bsky.social @dowlab.bsky.social @andreaventura.bsky.social

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💯 after all, there are 12 other word games to get to

yes, my wife is an english phd and people sometimes think, she must like scrabble etc. however, she doesn't have much inclination for word games where there is a points valuation on whether a word is a "good" one or not...

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ok good to know you are an actual person, but i also wouldn't have found (most) of your words. that's why im stuck ~800. part of my increasing score is a sense of what's not a good word score, but only marginally getting better at spotting words. my vocab isn't there.

Keweenaw Peninsula - Wikipedia

adjacent factoid, i grew up in the Keweenaw, aka "copper country". the only place in the world with large deposits of pure copper. though mining days were over, we could still sometimes find copper in the ground, which is a pretty amazing thing for a kid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keweena...

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i realized i havent listened to "supper's ready" by genesis in over 30 years. so i made my daughter listen to it on a car trip. still a banger, all 25 minutes of it.

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my wife and I just compared exhibitor halls at our respective conferences. one looks like this, the other like that. whose is whose??

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Deeply saddened to learn of the death of my colleague Terri Grodzicker. She was an amazing molecular biologist who did fundamental work on adenovirus. Many will know her as the charismatic long-time editor of Genes & Development and organizer of CSHL meetings 1/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_G...

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Terri Grodzicker - Wikipedia

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

☢️ Northern is the best!

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

celebrated my father-in-law's 88th this weekend. he's an amazing fellow, still sharp as a tack, activist minded, in top fitness from daily swims, and regularly writes poems for his granddaughter and daughter (and occasionally me).

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dear #Drosophila and #NewPI community, the mentee survey for this great mentorship program is still open!

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

loving these big big doors that have a regular size door cut into them. #oxford

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back of the oxford NHM is the pitt rivers museum. named not for the pitt rivers, but instead for mr pitt rivers. i can best describe its layout as "higgeldy-piggeldy", in a wonderful way with little explanations. but the collections also tell a story of british imperialism. @walnutalways.bsky.social

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whale jaw in the oxford natural history museum looks like it forms the backbone of the building.

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as i ssid the points dont make sense to me. i got a 94 in my 2nd game yesterday! but mostly im not cracking 800.

don't want to be a skeptic, but i looked at some of the leader boards and just wondering if they are using a word finder. i mean, i have a decent vocab and i never heard a single word on their wordlists... 🤔