Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ontario means 'lake of shining waters'. America means 'a scurvied Italian 'discovered' it a while back'. No contest. 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The logical finale of Trump's presidency is that every noun in the US will be replaced with either Trump or America. 110
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I once went on a trip to an agrotech campus in a minibus which took Dolly Parton on tour. The driver couldn't remember where she sat, so I sat in every seat in that bus to make sure we had been into the same one. 151
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Where do you quiz? This seems great 000
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026my view on driverless cars is if the tech billionaires wanted me to trust them on this, maybe they shouldn't have adopted "move fast and break things" as their motto 4681102
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Berlin wall falling. Watched it on Newsround. I didn't understand why people were happy but they were and they were tearing down walls. 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Well I snozt and lozt! Will keep an eye out in future... 100
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Did my first life drawing for years. This one in paint by @lycomorpha.bsky.social .Trying to loosen up a bit. 082
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Omg I have no idea what is going on with this paint but it's beautiful 110
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Yes, I'm a descendant. Yes, the blood *is* strong. 030
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Some days you get sad about the Holocaust and need to make pickles. 100
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026an immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm 22862294
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"And here's a link to the statement of work.. I apologise, that's a link to Apex Twin's Windowlicker." #OfficeWorkQuotes 020
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 28/07/2026On my way to see the Odyssey at the cinema. I love greek myth but at 3h, they better have pee breaks. If anyone was wondering, listening to the full oral odyssey would take 4-5x longer than watching it. 010
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026One time Sergey Brin asked me a weird question about shark science! He was concerned about sharks by his favorite beach, and asked why we didn't create a network of drones to patrol the whole coastline. I pointed out that doing this would cost several times the entire annual NSF budget. 25713
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026New progress pride flag dropped 618934
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampRyan Bateman @boat.horse · 17/07/2026It appears I came to #emfcamp to be attacked. 1403
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026#emfcamp Menopause talk was very good and extremely relatable. Lasted 25 of 40 minutes before I started leaking. But we all leak a little coolant sometimes. (Art by me but not today) 020
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026#emfcamp Menopause talk is very good and resonant. A lot of relevant content. I lasted 25 minutes before the coolant started leaking. But we all leak coolant sometimes. (Art by me) 000
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Now the temp has dropped a bit, yes. Last time, I should have stayed home. I wasn't well enough. But I do prefer burns 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It is probably topical that I am waiting for a menopause hacking talk at #emfcamp while wearing the powered neck cooling unit I was able to let myself buy because it operates on a cool niche semiconductor principle (peltier effect 🤓). It's easier to buy myself tech toys than assistive tech. 120
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Anyway. Palate cleanser. Hardcore reverse engineering / modern life is rubbish / sispheyean self assigned task talk. 000
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026See, for instance, being at a festival in 29°C. I can't walk as fast as the people I'm with and a lot of effort had to go to just keeping the meat machine running. And when the protein hardware glitches, the electric ghost loses 5 troubleshooting ability points. And -8 on even theoretical max happy. 220
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I'll be real with you, internet friends and strangers, trying to deal with my changes in ability and needs has been and continues to be A RIDE. And not in the Derry girls sense. 100
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It's 1116 in a field full of hackers ( #emfcamp ) and I have already ACHIEVED because I didn't cry at the #dementia / ageing adaptations inspired by astronauts and their support teams. 100
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society 841311270
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This morning at #emfcamp : lessons from astronaut planning for dementia and hacking for menopause. It's important and probably helpful but wow it's an emotionally intense morning. 110
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm at #emfcamp but I'm also not very heat tolerant and melty and stressed. Maybe catch you when it's cooler, or at a very low intensity, friendos! 030
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Vignettes from my household: Manpet: I'm beat. I'm going to go to sleep now. Me: Darling, I am *trying* to read the Wikipedia page for the Lawrence Livermore national lab at you #sciencelyf #science 040
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Hey fellow team leads. You can tell your team, today, right now, that you don't expect them to perform as well in the heat and that's okay. Cut everyone some slack. We don't need permission from management to recognise reality and extend kindness. #heatwave 040
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Qotd, pride month edition: "I am not explaining cottaging to the CEO" 130
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I am lucky to have the advantage of a brain that gets this stuff easily and an education that fed it. But imagine: 'this hot water bottle is rubbish, it heated me then got cold itself!' 'this water bottle is rubbish, I filled it with water and then it was full!' 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The reviews for cooling tech on Amazon reveal quite how little sense thermodynamics makes to most people. "Cooled me to start with, but then got hot itself!"... Yes, it was.. absorbing the heat? Not disappearing it? 110
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 03/05/2026No, *you* decided to buy your seeds from @realseeds.co.uk (whose account has apparently lapsed) because they have open source seed machine plans, art nouveau packets and photos of their beautiful Victorian filling machine. realseeds.co.uk/brownbagmach...realseeds.co.ukBrown Bag Filling Machine Museum and Archive 020
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/04/2026As a physicist, sometimes you need to get down and dirty with the data. You know. Touch graphs. 010
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampCaelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding. She's a billionaire. She doesn't care about "single mums". www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...gingerbread.org.ukGingerbread announces closure of helpline | Gingerbread 121853582
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Thanks for helping me work through this :) 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Hm. These are good questions :) I think my ideal would be to be able to filter out people who would be offended by it. I don't want to upset people unnecessarily: the world is rough, it doesn't need to be harder. But I don't think filtering is practical. I think it just has to be an offline thing. 010
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/04/2026They made exotic oxides and nitrides in the hope of fun superconducting or magnetic properties. And we played metal in lab. The work was a little rote and chemistry based for me, but the group were excellent. 000
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/04/202611 years since I did my first wet lab placement (the sort of lab with liquids and chemistry rather than electromagnets: not my home turf back then) and made them biscuits to say thanks. There was a lot of work with crucibles and some with barium cobalt nitride. #Science #Baking #chemistry 110
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I usually put my art on my Instagram/FB. I know I'm feeding it to the ai machine but I care more about how nice it feels to have feedback than the machine being able to copy me, given I don't sell. 100
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My love is unable to change his costume in #worldOfWarcraft and I am dying laughing. Left, the dream: right, how it's stuck now. 140
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Very small crew of friends here: I have an issue. My current art project (still in progress) is quite a labour of love, and I'm happy with it and want to show it off but it's sort of.. a bit blasphemous What do? 100
Reposted by Scary (they/them) @emfcampNato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Apropos of nothing, thinking of James Baldwin today. 210525
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Same. Thank you NATO. I have saved it for future listening when I need it as well. 000
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I learned on the weekend that mesopotamia literally means 'between the rivers'. Which is a charmingly basic way to name a whole human civilization. I crowbarred this into a meeting today and it did not go well. So hello bluesky. 040
Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My love informs me this is a very specific dream (My PhD was in anisotropic gels) 010