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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp

@scaryboots.bsky.social
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Artist formerly known as @schrodingerskit on the bird, then @mammalofmystery. #Drag #artist, comedian, #scientist, burner, non-binary, tired. These views are extremely not those of my employer.

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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ontario means 'lake of shining waters'. America means 'a scurvied Italian 'discovered' it a while back'. No contest.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The logical finale of Trump's presidency is that every noun in the US will be replaced with either Trump or America.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Where do you quiz? This seems great
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026
my 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
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Berlin wall falling. Watched it on Newsround. I didn't understand why people were happy but they were and they were tearing down walls.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well I snozt and lozt! Will keep an eye out in future...
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Did my first life drawing for years. This one in paint by @lycomorpha.bsky.social .Trying to loosen up a bit.
Watercolour painting of a pale nude with short hair reclining on a green sofa.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Omg I have no idea what is going on with this paint but it's beautiful
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes, I'm a descendant. Yes, the blood *is* strong.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Some days you get sad about the Holocaust and need to make pickles.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
an 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
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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
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
On 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.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One 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.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026
New progress pride flag dropped
A progress pride style flag. The horizonal colour bands are the decimal resistor number codes. The chevrons are the resistor tolerance bands
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Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 17/07/2026
It appears I came to #emfcamp to be attacked.
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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)
Brown Ink drawing of a quarter of a humanoid robot's face, showing black fluid leaking from the eye. Text says 'we all leak a little sometimes'
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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)
Brown marker drawing of a quarter of a humanoid robot face leaking dark fluid from an eye. Words next to it say "we all leak sometimes"
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Now the temp has dropped a bit, yes. Last time, I should have stayed home. I wasn't well enough. But I do prefer burns
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Anyway. Palate cleanser. Hardcore reverse engineering / modern life is rubbish / sispheyean self assigned task talk.
Slide. 
Title: my shower needs WiFi
Subhead: my shower forgot how to be a shower when the cloud provider pulled the plug (no pun intended)
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
See, 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It'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.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026
It'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
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'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!
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Vignettes 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
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey 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
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hahaha!
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Qotd, pride month edition: "I am not explaining cottaging to the CEO"
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I 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!'
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The 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?
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
No, *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...
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Brown Bag Filling Machine Museum and Archive
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As a physicist, sometimes you need to get down and dirty with the data. You know. Touch graphs.
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Joanne 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...
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Gingerbread announces closure of helpline   | Gingerbread
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
One charity down then.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thanks for helping me work through this :)
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hm. 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
11 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
Charmingly irregular home made biscuits on a tray. Some are shaped like cylindrical cups filled with colours, and one like a piece of bacon.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My love is unable to change his costume in #worldOfWarcraft and I am dying laughing. Left, the dream: right, how it's stuck now.
A chunky metal character with no face visible, in steel grey armour  glowing from within with fireA character in chunky metal armour, missing a helmet. Instead, he has a stuffed derpy looking fish on his head. I am informed this is permanent..
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Very 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?
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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Apropos of nothing, thinking of James Baldwin today.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Same. Thank you NATO. I have saved it for future listening when I need it as well.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I 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.
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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My love informs me this is a very specific dream (My PhD was in anisotropic gels)
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