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Pseudo-Physicist | PhD student | Playing with Gravitational-Wave detectors @ UC Riverside | Linux Enthusiast | Mustache-bearer | Runner | Feminist | 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
A tangential question: I stopped using Google as a search engine a few years ago, but still use it as a verb in conversations; e.g., "I googled the problem" or "Let's google it before making a decision". What is everyone doing as an alternative? "Searched it on the internet" is a bit mouthful.
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
And of course, it's the name of Nazi invasion of Chicago.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I'm not familiar with Affinity to suggest alternatives for it, but I've been using Inkscape for vector graphics editing, and a combination of darktable and GIMP for editing photograps.
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanks!
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
resources to create cover arts for each episode, but I guess any stock images or public domain ones could work. It could even be a fun challenge for you to find a relevant painting or statue for each cover art, and refer to it in the notes for the listeners to go and read about it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Thanks for covering this!
As a regular listener, may I ask you both to reconsider using AI-generated cover images for the podcast? (CC @mbkplus.bsky.social)
I remember you mentioning it briefly in a previous episode, but it still worths a try. It's understandable that you don't have the time and -->
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I loved every single scene of the show in which the doctor or Seven were singing.
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
These folks, whom I've been binge listening to recently, would like to have a word.

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October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
--> but to unite in protest against whoever is responsible for the negligence towards a crucial public service.
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
They were motivated by the 52nd rule of acquisition: why ask, if you can take. The rest just followed.
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Is this Portland in the same America with the rest of us?
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm reading this while eating a carrot and am excited to hear about the worms. 😂
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
- Housing, food, health care, and education are human rights and should be accessible to everyone.
October 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM