Dr. SkySkull

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Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything*

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Just now getting word that Jacob Rees-Mogg has been sealed back inside the ceremonial grandfather clock and dropped in the sea

Here's my final figure showing the scattering efficiency of a sphere in Mie scattering, with the different multipole contributions illustrated. I ended up citing Wikipedia because I could not find a better choice of parameters than theirs!

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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

Hooray for Conservatives being absolutely crushed

Breaking news: The United Kingdom’s center-left Labour Party appears to have defeated the center-right Conservative Party in a historic landslide, according to exit polls. Keir Starmer is expected to become the nation’s next prime minister.

Live updates: U.K. election exit poll projects big win for Labour, end to 14 years of Conservative rulewww.washingtonpost.com Rishi Sunak and his center-right Conservative Party may be on the way out, replaced by Keir Starmer and the left-leaning Labour Party.

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It's always important to take a little mie time...

Doing a little bit of Mie scattering calculations (scattering of electromagnetic wave by a sphere) for a book figure. And for fun.

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Just poured gasoline around the entire perimeter of their home and driveway. Enjoy lighting those fireworks off tonight, Johnson family.

I haven’t been drinking but then again I don’t intend to resist

fellow canadians: two more hours until the yanks are sufficiently soused and the strike begins

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Reporting for duty 🇨🇦 🫡

fellow canadians: two more hours until the yanks are sufficiently soused and the strike begins

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Would a statement from the “White House physician” that Biden is perhaps the healthiest president in history, and that he’s built like a linebacker do the trick? And would you not then elect that physician to Congress? No? I don’t get it.

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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Lest we forget, Tammy Duckworth is one of the greatest politicians we have right now. She uses a wheelchair.

Offensive as fuck, and The Economist should google “FDR.”

Lots of people are being extra stupid today

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This but unironically.

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Happy fourth

Up to 351 scientific citations of my work for the year. If anyone cares. Which you probably shouldn’t

The NYT is now officially dead to me.

The NYT is repeating its successful coverage of Hitler in the run up to WWII

Here’s the New York Times website, still obsessing about Biden’s debate performance. The Supreme Court’s ruling granting Trump immunity from criminal prosecution is no longer anywhere on the front page.

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The only fireworks I like are the ones in the bedroom oh shit fuck help

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I guess I’m just learning now that there are lots of libertarians who think voting is “irrational” because your individual vote is unlikely to affect the outcome? Yes, it is a *collective* act, which is why libertarians don’t understand it I guess

In light of recent shocking revelations, I would like to reassure people that I will never do anything inappropriate around other people simply because I am never around other people

Offensive as fuck, and The Economist should google “FDR.”

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

robble robble

Celebrating the Fourth of July by dressing up like the Hamburglar and throwing crypto mining rigs into Boston Harbor.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

Thinking also of the 1948 Donora smog that killed 20 people outright and made thousands sick. One of the reasons the clean air movement started. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Do...

Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

1948 Donora smog - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

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Opinion | Why I No Longer Subscribe to the New York Times

ah what a helpful op-ed to toss into the mix new york times www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Why I Don’t Votewww.nytimes.com If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

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Happy anniversary to the right-wing meltdown over the Declaration of Independence. Gift link: wapo.st/4bB8s0q

Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence.wapo.st Some Twitter users reacted angrily to the thread, accusing NPR of spamming them or pushing an agenda.