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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)

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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

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · Nov 23

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...

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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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1m

Some people are going to end up in the pool with no ladders and a toilet suspended above it.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3m

[pounds on table] HOVERCRAFT! HOVERCRAFT!

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7m

If you're unlucky, they will emit a formidable apple powered wet fart as they do so.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 25m

And they will absolutely FLOUNCE away when you're out of apples.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 43m

“I am the senior cursed tech reporter.” - Victoria Song

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @davidjroth.bsky.social and @vicmsong.bsky.social to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

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Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 9h

At the end of the month, I have a plane that just bounces back forth to SEA all day.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 9h

This is going to be another one of those “At least the soundtrack is good” movies.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 9h

Yep. I do not fear ATL routing. I grumble at JFK. ORD? ORD I will make convoluted plans to avoid.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 10h

I make a point to see if connecting flights I have in other airports have ORD origination or passthrough. I have been fucked by ORD indirectly just that many times.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Actual tan, rather.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Type 3 is the “Berber”, aka the curly red heads. They can actually can, the bastards. Unfortunate suites of food allergies also.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Ginger is a fun mutation that’s happened at least three times and each comes with a suite of other genetic quirks.

Type 1 is the “Scandinavian”, aka tends to be light red hair with blue eyes. Cancer & baldness

Type 2 is the “Celtic”, the darker red hair with brown eyes. So many drug problems.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Kat, you go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done. You are allowed to look at your cocktail from the corner but not have any, no matter how long a straw Kevin brings you.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

In my defense it has been a very, very long 9.5 months. The zone of brain is very flooded.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Morphine family: causes puking, redhead type 2 opioid resistance

Caine family: increasingly resistant to most all varieties

Is this a secret third thing?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

Ah, Phil’s Magic Vomit Pill. Opioids and I don’t get on well.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

[scratches at memory] Something is telling me that Elon promised some vaporware that would solve all the ATC problems forever. Maybe @niedermeyer.online remembers better than me.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

I have a safety posting for this.

OSHA 1993 style posting

DANGER signal word

Social Media Access Point

EXTREMELY ON LINE

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

Ah. Well, that will fuck the ENTIRE network of flights. Not just in the US either.

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

I have some suspicions now.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

If only our 7-11s had their game, much less Lawson or Family Mart.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

The painting milestone for my first $500 raised for this year’s #EXTRALIFE are these fabulous Magma Fiends. I am very happy happy with how they turned out, and they look great on the board with their lava trails.

Team Sensible Shoes will have a fiery good time fighting them in six weeks!

Living rocks dribbling a trail of lava behind them, it’s Magma Fiends for Shadows of Brimstone!

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grumdholt.bsky.social @grumdholt.bsky.social · 15h

HP Lovecraft might have eaten Cheez-Its

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13h

Ever since I caught that one episode of Idiot Box in the narrow window of the “Santa Cruz Mountains got cable again” and MTV pulling it off their line up, @alexwinter.com has been yelling “RECTUM? DAMN NEAR KILLED ‘EM!” in my head.

I am not mad about this. Just part of the internal soundtrack.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13h

Ops guy is a jerk, but I suspect that was very educational to you. Important lessons like "I work with jerks."

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