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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 11/09/2026

Let us make punching Nazis a Rosh Hashanah custom.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 27/08/2026

He: ChatGPT doesn't affect my brain. His brain:

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/08/2026

how can a guy who sucks this much not vacuum?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/08/2026

The industry is the same in terms of how it operates, so yes, banning will work. olivia.science/before They are powerful and rich, and in the case of petroleum we still also have a ways to go, but to not act is to allow them to kill us with impunity and destroy the planet for profit.

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We've been here before!

Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 04/08/2026

Me whining to my bestfriend, every day: I want a girlfriend! No one ever likes me on dating apps. blah blah blah... The only content on my dating app accounts:

Picture of Zohran Mamdani facing the camera with the subtitles quoting "Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal".

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 29/07/2026

Emojis are fascinating creatures. Unfortunately, there aren't many Science emojis out there. (especially Astronomy ones) UNICODE consortium is the body that manages the standard emoji list. Proposals for addition of new ones could be submitted by the public. Maybe a few of us should submit one.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 29/07/2026

This reminded me to talk about the difference between a visa and status in the US immigration laws, and how what we regularly refer to as a visa, is in fact usually not a visa. Imagine how disastrous it could be if you need to explain this nuance to a bigoted ICE agent with a gun aimed at your face.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 22/07/2026

How I cringe when someone says "AI" is inevitable.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 21/07/2026

As an Iranian, I fully support her majesty's coronation as the Shah of Iran.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 21/07/2026

Study suggests we might all be wormholes:

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 18/07/2026

My legacy here would be that I bake fresh cakes for people attending our weekly seminar-thingy.

A glass pan of Coffee cake and Cinnamon on a conference-room table.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/07/2026

Class, repeat after me: "AI" is not a search engine. "AI" does not search webpages and return results. "AI" scrapes together random shavings from the internet and presents them as though they're answers. If you use "AI" as a search engine, you're better off consulting your own rectum with a mirror.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 17/07/2026

I am once again asking us to abolish men. This guy has zero awareness on how embarrassingly stupid he is.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 13/07/2026

It's a moral imperative to abolish ICE, the Rich, and Men!

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 12/07/2026

"Nothing really new in here but recent debates have prompted us to offer further clarification on the topic building on the excellent previous contributions" [Continues with citing prominent transphobe grifter and fraudulent data-fabricating spider guy]

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 11/07/2026

Random dude on the Internet/Street: "I'm apolitical, but everything is woke nowadays." "Chill! Nothing is that serious. We're just having fun." RFK with his explosive diarrhea:

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 11/07/2026

Born to do science and read poetry, forced to fight Fascism and AI slop.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 10/07/2026

How did I miss that UW Astro has a new graduation banger! youtu.be/8bwoPD1A0EU?...

youtu.be

PAB - 2026 Astro Graduation Video

YouTube video by James Davenport

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 08/07/2026

Star Trek has been the faithful companion of my depressed periods in the past few years, so here are my unsolicited controversial opinions: Best ST series IMO is DS9. Voyager, Lower Decks, and TNG are next in no particular order. Best ST captions IMO are Janeway, Sisko, Picard, and Burnham.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 05/07/2026

On top of all the brilliant things people have said in the comments here, it is very absurd that MS products are the standard in our governmental and public services. (also administrative work in academia)

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 21/06/2026

I've been at the LIGO Livingston for 5 weeks now, and the experience has been mesmerizing. People are nice, and the science is mind-blowing. It's a shame that we can create such amazing public-serving facilities, with people who absolutely love to do the work, but instead use the money on wars.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 21/06/2026

Today's APOD is so fascinating! Here is the explanation from its creator:

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 20/06/2026

Shall we even call it a dog whistle at this point?

A member of the Nazi party standing behind a podium, with a Swastika and the slogan "Blood and Soil" on the wall behind him. The Swastika is defaced for obvious reasons.

A portrait of Hitler, with the slogan "One People, One Nation, One Fuhrer!" written on the bottom. The portrait is defaced for obvious reasons.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 16/06/2026

Strongly agree! Ads in public spaces? Nope! Not happening at all. Ads in my personal spaces? Nope! I should be able to easily opt out of all of them. My services should not be conditional to me seeing ads. Ads with unsupported or exaggerated claims? Heavy regulations should stop them.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 15/06/2026

Right after reading this and being very pissed about the way we tolerate harassment in our communities, I read the official news that a well-known bully from my own institute has won the best graduate advisor of the year award. They f*** dare calling him supportive of "underrepresented students".

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 14/06/2026

Unpopular opinion: (maybe?) Australian and Scottish are the hottest English accents ever. See Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch clone accents, especially Omega PS I: All other accents from the British isles are also hot PS II: The clones' accent is Kiwi, but the same applies

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 11/06/2026

DHS is a disgrace to this country. What we should demand is not just to abolish ICE, but to abolish the whole system whose whole mission is to dehumanize people based on race and gender identity for profit. We need a second reconstruction, starting with DHS, Citizens United, and private prisons.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 07/06/2026

This guy's understanding of academia, research, grad school, and science in general is so twisted that I wonder what their day job is... Oh, wait, he is a bloody full professor. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 23/05/2026

This f'ing department is regressing day by day. My brothers and sisters in Christ, being a boot-leaker would not save your asses from the other racist and sexist assholes. Grow a spine and f'ing protect the most vulnerable people in your vicinity. This is your responsibility as a faculty member.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 16/05/2026

"Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down But our union's gonna break them slavery chains"

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 13/05/2026

I made it to Louisiana. 🥳 The journey was great! In 3 days I passed through ~10 states. I loved how what I was seeing was not just cars and highways, but farms and mountains and deers.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 10/05/2026

This glorious journey has started. I'm taking the Amtrak from LA to Chicago, and from Chicago to New Orleans. Then I'll take a taxi from there to Baton Rouge. It will be 3000+ miles in 3 days!

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 08/05/2026

This is my alternative career path option. If academia at some point decided that it doesn't want me anymore, the alternative is public service.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 08/05/2026

Maybe unpopular opinion: Any service with a profit motive has no place in an academic setting.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 08/05/2026

Sorry for being such a killjoy, but I think every single one of these could be a possible academic misconduct investigation.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 08/05/2026

We're all the Barnard's star, existing at both extremes, minding our business at U kelvins. Too hot for a dwarf, Too cold for a giant. And the real question is that if there are any axolotls living on the planets orbiting Asptholol.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 06/05/2026

Multitasking in academia:

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 06/05/2026

I will be going to the LIGO Livingston in less than a week from now, and I can not state how excited and terrified I am right now. The science that we do is so fantastically cool, and yet I am anxious and depressed all the time. I wish we humans had a switch to tune this thing down.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 05/05/2026

I am once again asking us to heavily regulate (ehem, ban!) this madness. It is one of the basic purposes of having any form of government to regulate misconducts like this. And for the rest of the mere mortal souls like you and me, please let's stop normalizing this.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Whatever—the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it’s other humans.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 16/02/2026

This was such a painful and empowering interview to read.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 25/12/2025

I so much feel like I'm the worst graduate student, researcher, and friend ever. So here are the comments that I got this quarter from my students. Let's hope that bragging in public about how good a teacher I am will cheer me up a little bit.

Q7 - What are some of your TA's strengths?
He explained a lot of the concepts that we went over in class. If we had any questions, he would try his best to answer to the best of his knowledge and if he wasn’t sure, he would figure it out in that moment, which also helps us see the thought process behind solving problems. He was always very inviting and encouraging of participation and questions which was very nice to see.
Extremely kind, welcoming, and understandable during discussions.

Q9 - What might your TA do to improve?
I don’t think he had anything lacking.

Q8 - Do you have any additional comments?
I really enjoyed having him as my TA as he was very insightful with his explanations and methods of solving problems.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 15/12/2025

This thread made my day. I want every single of the animal and fruit menorahs.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 15/12/2025

There is no legitimate use for guns in the modern civil society. Our goal should be to limit them, and hopefully, to completely get rid of them someday. The same goes for billionaires, for-profit healthcare and education, and borders.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 12/12/2025

Found the reviewer number 2!

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 01/12/2025

What's happening to my mental health is not a decline anymore. It's a nosedive free-fall.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

phones should be DESIGNED to be repairable and last a lifetime we have ALL the tech, skills, materials and energy we need to make this happen what we do NOT have on this planet is the materials, energy, or space for toxic trash to sustain the throwaway overconsumption that creates billionaires

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 29/11/2025

Me: We should aim for free education, universal healthcare, sustainable environmental practices, and universal basic income if we plan to overcome the problems that we are facing today. The path there starts with intersectional feminism and... Hinge: Sir, this is just a dating profile.

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