A. Fresnel
@fresnel.bsky.social
An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
There was a text based game called Shrapnel where you needed to repeatedly die and use the corpses of your previous attempts to complete the puzzles and I desperately want another game like that
Text adventure games used to have surreal maps, impossible mc Escher spaces, that you just really don't get in modern visual games
December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
There was a text based game called Shrapnel where you needed to repeatedly die and use the corpses of your previous attempts to complete the puzzles and I desperately want another game like that
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This implies that there are also a Best Shem and a Best Japheth in the airport.
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This implies that there are also a Best Shem and a Best Japheth in the airport.
As a demisexual Millennial I am deeply offended and will make many incoherent obtuse subskeets about it.
zookeepers are pick mes. "zookeeper" is an oppressive class, like Millennial people or demisexual people.
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As a demisexual Millennial I am deeply offended and will make many incoherent obtuse subskeets about it.
Why did you transition? Wrong answers only.
I didn't want to wait in line for the restroom at a Rush concert.
I didn't want to wait in line for the restroom at a Rush concert.
Why did you transition? Wrong answers only.
Because having a house and a stable job was getting really boring.
Because having a house and a stable job was getting really boring.
Why did you transition? Wrong answers only.
As a kid playing catch with my Dad, he accidentally hit me in the face with a baseball. When I started to cry, he told me "Boys don't cry." He always made good arguments, so I figured that since I couldn't stop crying, that meant I wasn't a boy.
As a kid playing catch with my Dad, he accidentally hit me in the face with a baseball. When I started to cry, he told me "Boys don't cry." He always made good arguments, so I figured that since I couldn't stop crying, that meant I wasn't a boy.
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Why did you transition? Wrong answers only.
I didn't want to wait in line for the restroom at a Rush concert.
I didn't want to wait in line for the restroom at a Rush concert.
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Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.
North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking
North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking
A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology
Seventy years ago, a child phoned the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) looking for Santa Claus – and found him, or at least some kindly military personnel who were willing to play along by helping the youngster to track Santa's location as he zipped around the globe.…
dlvr.it
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.
My favorite flavor of fun fact is "how something you've never heard of affected something so mundane you never even think about it."
December 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My favorite flavor of fun fact is "how something you've never heard of affected something so mundane you never even think about it."
Getting my first haircut/style in like two years today and I have no idea what I'm even going to ask for. I used to get the stereotypical nb side-shave fade, but I feel like the stereotypical nb cut is now a wolf cut mullet and I'm too Millennial for that. 🤷♀️
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Getting my first haircut/style in like two years today and I have no idea what I'm even going to ask for. I used to get the stereotypical nb side-shave fade, but I feel like the stereotypical nb cut is now a wolf cut mullet and I'm too Millennial for that. 🤷♀️
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so where are the rest of the brassica oleracea haircuts
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
so where are the rest of the brassica oleracea haircuts
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“We see you” is nice. But nice isn’t really useful.
Want to help trans people? Throw us a few bucks. Give us some work and chances to share our art. Ask what we need.
We can’t live on “You’re valid.”
Want to help trans people? Throw us a few bucks. Give us some work and chances to share our art. Ask what we need.
We can’t live on “You’re valid.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“We see you” is nice. But nice isn’t really useful.
Want to help trans people? Throw us a few bucks. Give us some work and chances to share our art. Ask what we need.
We can’t live on “You’re valid.”
Want to help trans people? Throw us a few bucks. Give us some work and chances to share our art. Ask what we need.
We can’t live on “You’re valid.”
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roses are red
violets are blue
violets are blue
December 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
roses are red
violets are blue
violets are blue
If there were a way to upload audio to this website I would post so much aimless guitar noodling that everyone would unfollow me.
Hey, just a tip: You can talk about other things while you talk about politics. You can continue talking about the injustices going on in the U.S., AND you can talk about positive, happy things, too. You don't have to pick just one.
Please, talk about your hobbies, too. Not just Trump.
Please, talk about your hobbies, too. Not just Trump.
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If there were a way to upload audio to this website I would post so much aimless guitar noodling that everyone would unfollow me.
FWIW, my papal name is Malaprop the Elder.
I'm the Discordian Pope.
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
FWIW, my papal name is Malaprop the Elder.
I'm so tired right now I could probably put on Ozric Tentacles and convince myself I'm high.
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm so tired right now I could probably put on Ozric Tentacles and convince myself I'm high.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
I didn't figure it out until much later in life, but a world in which trans youth aren't allowed to exist is only going to put that much more of a barrier between someone else and figuring it out sooner. 🏳️⚧️
so like. i was a trans kid. my egg cracked when i was in tenth grade, i was maybe 15. and i knew that i couldn't do anything about it until i was at least 18, and that destroyed me. grades tanked. got pulled out of extracurriculars. retreated socially. it was really fucking bad.
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I didn't figure it out until much later in life, but a world in which trans youth aren't allowed to exist is only going to put that much more of a barrier between someone else and figuring it out sooner. 🏳️⚧️
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![Comic. [Equation [rjf = 2GM / (4.5 m/s)2] with small drawing showing a circle with the radius delineated. On top of the circle there is an arc showing a small frog jumping and landing with RIBBIT and PLOP sound effects.] [caption] More practically useful than the Schwarzschild radius, the *Jumping Frog Radius* is the radius at which an object’s gravitational pull is so strong that even a champion jumping frog can’t escape.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie7ex2amt4r4e6xhwf2pvxfejdyi6mv56d3hdfha64wjmp3gkltti@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
I'm the Discordian Pope.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm the Discordian Pope.
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Also yeah I see the news. I have made the appropriate phone calls. You all know what’s going on, you don’t need me reminding you, but I AM reminding you that you should call your congress people and throw a fit and that’s more useful than posting. That’s all thanks
December 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Also yeah I see the news. I have made the appropriate phone calls. You all know what’s going on, you don’t need me reminding you, but I AM reminding you that you should call your congress people and throw a fit and that’s more useful than posting. That’s all thanks
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Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
A Touch of Zen
I still want King Hu's entire filmography on [insert relevant physical media here].
I still want King Hu's entire filmography on [insert relevant physical media here].
Name your fav martial arts film
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A Touch of Zen
I still want King Hu's entire filmography on [insert relevant physical media here].
I still want King Hu's entire filmography on [insert relevant physical media here].
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"Rise again, rise again!
Though your heart, it be broken, or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Then like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
This song can drag me out of the pit of despair or just make me start bawling crying if I feel like I need that?
Though your heart, it be broken, or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Then like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
This song can drag me out of the pit of despair or just make me start bawling crying if I feel like I need that?
Name your fav song lyric.
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"Rise again, rise again!
Though your heart, it be broken, or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Then like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
This song can drag me out of the pit of despair or just make me start bawling crying if I feel like I need that?
Though your heart, it be broken, or life about to end
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Then like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
This song can drag me out of the pit of despair or just make me start bawling crying if I feel like I need that?