Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)
@funranium.bsky.social
The Cenobite of Sharing
The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions.
www.funraniumlabs.com
The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions.
www.funraniumlabs.com
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Hard Life Lessons from the Land of Q Clearances - Funranium Labs
In an ongoing effort to share helpful things in life about topics other than delicious coffee & beer, I want to take a moment to discuss something that effects all of us, every day. First, let us revi...
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Because sometimes I need a reminder of how to step back from the brink and maybe you do too. DON’T BECOME A WAR THUNDER FORUMS VICTIM! www.funraniumlabs.com/2011/12/life...
They're all good rocks, Mika.
329 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Anorthite:
- A calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar
- Forms in mafic igneous rocks
- Found on the Moon and and in comets such as Comet 81P/Wild
- Its name comes from the Greek words "αν oρθός/an orthós" (not a right angle) because its crystals have an oblique form #minerals
Anorthite:
- A calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar
- Forms in mafic igneous rocks
- Found on the Moon and and in comets such as Comet 81P/Wild
- Its name comes from the Greek words "αν oρθός/an orthós" (not a right angle) because its crystals have an oblique form #minerals
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
They're all good rocks, Mika.
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
Filthy casual.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Filthy casual.
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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Confirmed, The Drinking Light is ON!
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Confirmed, The Drinking Light is ON!
My wisdom of the evening while explaining news stories:
“Florida Cop is just another flavor of Florida Man.”
“Florida Cop is just another flavor of Florida Man.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
My wisdom of the evening while explaining news stories:
“Florida Cop is just another flavor of Florida Man.”
“Florida Cop is just another flavor of Florida Man.”
Clown Train is MAJOR upgrade on a mere clown car.
Enough with "I'm running on COMMON SENSE values." I want absurd values. Clowns on every train. Possum cops. The government pays in live goats. Worms in every gas tank. A war on clouds. It can't go any wronger than what we've already got going on, here.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Clown Train is MAJOR upgrade on a mere clown car.
If folks spending inconceivable amounts of money to try to make AI happen would like to invest in a wholesale upgrade of the grid to make their dreams come true that would be super! *THAT* would be the "AI dividend" we'd enjoy in the aftermath, like dark fiber was.
[folds hands, waits patiently]
[folds hands, waits patiently]
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If folks spending inconceivable amounts of money to try to make AI happen would like to invest in a wholesale upgrade of the grid to make their dreams come true that would be super! *THAT* would be the "AI dividend" we'd enjoy in the aftermath, like dark fiber was.
[folds hands, waits patiently]
[folds hands, waits patiently]
[wipes tear] My subtle editing of researchers' proposals and procedures has paid off. They started using the terminology I edited them. This then caused things to go MUCH more smoothly with military-ish entities.
Today, over a year later, they recognized what I'd done and thanked me. So proud.
Today, over a year later, they recognized what I'd done and thanked me. So proud.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
[wipes tear] My subtle editing of researchers' proposals and procedures has paid off. They started using the terminology I edited them. This then caused things to go MUCH more smoothly with military-ish entities.
Today, over a year later, they recognized what I'd done and thanked me. So proud.
Today, over a year later, they recognized what I'd done and thanked me. So proud.
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
Canvas of Kings on Steam
Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
[makes note to add "There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history." to my repertoire]
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
[makes note to add "There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history." to my repertoire]
Me: Well, everything seems good. Have a happy Thanksgiv...hang on. Is that water?
Him: Huh?
Me: [touches "water"] Ah. That's oil. I've got bad news, I think your backup x-ray unit is dead.
Him: Why?
Him: Huh?
Me: [touches "water"] Ah. That's oil. I've got bad news, I think your backup x-ray unit is dead.
Him: Why?
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Me: Well, everything seems good. Have a happy Thanksgiv...hang on. Is that water?
Him: Huh?
Me: [touches "water"] Ah. That's oil. I've got bad news, I think your backup x-ray unit is dead.
Him: Why?
Him: Huh?
Me: [touches "water"] Ah. That's oil. I've got bad news, I think your backup x-ray unit is dead.
Him: Why?
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When you think about it, the vast majority of clothing and jewelery worn by the undead was clearly left over from their life. Drip tailored to the dimensions of their post-living bodies really shows how much the necromancer cares.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When you think about it, the vast majority of clothing and jewelery worn by the undead was clearly left over from their life. Drip tailored to the dimensions of their post-living bodies really shows how much the necromancer cares.
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Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
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Some days the Cook Straight is like the Pacific Ocean
Some days it’s the Tasman Sea
And on some days it’s the Southern Ocean
Some days it’s the Tasman Sea
And on some days it’s the Southern Ocean
“NZ is like mainly two large islands?”
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Some days the Cook Straight is like the Pacific Ocean
Some days it’s the Tasman Sea
And on some days it’s the Southern Ocean
Some days it’s the Tasman Sea
And on some days it’s the Southern Ocean
The Infinite Gyoza Lust Is real. The correct number of gyoza is more.
my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The Infinite Gyoza Lust Is real. The correct number of gyoza is more.
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My legs don't get cold easily because I went to Catholic School: an essay.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My legs don't get cold easily because I went to Catholic School: an essay.
"there's no third places"
Wrong. There's volcanoes.
Wrong. There's volcanoes.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"there's no third places"
Wrong. There's volcanoes.
Wrong. There's volcanoes.
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The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ancient prison graffiti in Sicily reveals games and fears of Early Modern inmates
Graffiti from a Sicilian castle prison reveals gameboards and ship carvings that shed light on Early Modern inmates’ daily lives.
archaeologymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Or alternatively they should propose a bill that blocks power companies from passing the costs of their negligence and literally criminal maintenance practices onto customers every time they burn/blow up people
Some CA legislator should propose a bill to move wildfire mitigation costs out of electricity bills & into the general fund. It's more honest (the whole state is affected), more progressive (electricity bills are *extremely* regressive), & would, at a stroke, lower CA electric bills.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Or alternatively they should propose a bill that blocks power companies from passing the costs of their negligence and literally criminal maintenance practices onto customers every time they burn/blow up people
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Sometimes you do find historically accurate info about Japan online. This ancient art of Dutch-catching is called dejima-jutsu and it has applications in business, health, personal relationships, and politics.
![Painting of the artificial island of Dejima off Nagasaki, the only official port where foreigners, but only the Dutch, could trade with Japan during the country's isolationist period known as Sakoku that lasted from the early 17th century to the mid 19th century.
The joke caption above says: "The japanese [sic] built an artificial island, knowing these are the natural habitat of the dutch [sic]. Soon afterwards, a flock of dutch [sic] merchants settled there, allowing the japanese [sic] to easily harvest western goods."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3a2vqx5jnnywl7jeap5d6xab/bafkreiansivpallmscizksaxalcivlmuarwgvp4ia7aftdwdiqflven7du@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Sometimes you do find historically accurate info about Japan online. This ancient art of Dutch-catching is called dejima-jutsu and it has applications in business, health, personal relationships, and politics.
Hmm, pretty sure I remember this from the Fallout 1 intro.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hmm, pretty sure I remember this from the Fallout 1 intro.
Just had to remind two PhD holding physicists about the inverse square law. I think everyone is approaching mental shutdown for the holidays.
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just had to remind two PhD holding physicists about the inverse square law. I think everyone is approaching mental shutdown for the holidays.
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i quit smoking like 15 years ago and have never regretted it. until now.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
i quit smoking like 15 years ago and have never regretted it. until now.