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Hey there wouppy dog

I can act a little silly

but also serious. if the situation calls for it.

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i nee d to draw

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"good night" <- guy who is about to reblog 3-11 more posts

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What the hell. One of my coworkers worked on an antimatter stellarator. Matter/antimatter plasma. That's so cool!??? wtf,,,!

You spend a day generating positrons (antielectrons) and storing them in magnetic bottles. Then when you have enough, you inject them into a stellarator with an equal number of electrons, and heat them up. Antimatter-matter plasma. Hot damn.

It's a perfectly mass-balanced "pair plasma." Instead of heavy positive ions and light electrons, your positive and negative species have exactly equal mass. No length-scale separation, no time-scale separation, zero flow, zero turbulence, zero instabilities. Primordial universe stuff. In a stellarator!!! Fuck!!!!

If you keep the plasma thin and electron temperature low – or would it be lepton temperature??? What the fuck??? – the pair plasma can last for hours. That's so cool. That's the coolest thing I've ever heard of. Hot damn.

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male entitlement in academic spaces is so boring. can’t tell you how many times i’ve been in a class and a girl gives a short, insightful analysis, and then a dude raises his hand and says “jumping off of that…” then says literally the same thing she said but longer and worse.

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Service dogs are one of those things that you don't spend a lot of time thinking about until you need one. Unfortunately, Big Dog doesn't believe that "really messy house" is a sufficient reason to pry one of their Labrador retrievers loose from their puppy grasp and train one up for me. I don't even need the dog to carry anything heavy, like axles. Just find where the hell I put the socket wrench I just had in my hand five seconds ago. Could even train a chihuahua to do it.

Hey. I could train a chihuahua to do it. Dogs aren't all that complicated, I thought. I've seen Homeward Bound like, thirty times. All they want is love, attention, and a job to do. Finding a couple dogs and getting them all juiced up to go locate whatever awful things in my filthy warren of a house my whims demand sounded like a great way to spend a weekend.

When I went outside, you wouldn't believe the luck I had. There were some dogs in my trash! That means that nobody owns them, according to my attorney friend, who currently can't be named because he tried out this wacky new legal theory and ended up accidentally deleting his identity from existence. He's physically fine, don't worry about him, but his driver's license doesn't have a name on it anymore and you wouldn't believe how angry that makes the cops. The point I'm trying to get at is: hey, free dogs.

These dogs didn't even really need to be trained, except to direct their enthusiasm. Yelling, pointing, a little spray bottle action, and I had this training thing down pat. Imagine my surprise when I came home from work and found that all my shiny things had been piled together in a corner of the garage. Makes it way easier to figure out what still needs to go in the parts cleaner!

We had a great time, me and my dogs, until someone from Animal Control came by and started hassling me about hiding "raccoons" in my "condemned house." I sicced them on him, of course, because that's what you do with dogs. You can't get between a regular old working class joe like me, and his oddly-striped collection of constantly hissing dogs that keep trying to clean up the kitchen in the hope that some discarded food is lying underneath the pile of moped parts and old magazines. Food-motivated is good, according to the disembodied voice that speaks to me whenever I go on the Google these days. Makes 'em a lot easier to train.

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Thinking a lot about how Massachusetts politics is basically socialist libertarianism. We believe strongly in each person’s right to be left the fuck alone and to their own fucking business. But that doesn’t just magically happen. Sometimes we all need to pitch in to ensure that Stevie over here can be left the fuck alone and to his own fucking business.

Maybe that’s shoveling out his driveway. Maybe that’s subsidizing his health care. Maybe that’s paying for good schools so he can figure out what he wants his own fucking business to fucking look like. Maybe that’s regulating guns or getting vaccinated so he doesn’t die in a mass shooting or from a preventable disease - you know what stops you real fast from doing whatever it is that’s your own fucking business? Dying.

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We go forward.

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"What came first, the chicken or the egg?" Asked the sphinx. To which you answer: "The egg. It's the egg." You need to spend an hour explaining descent with modification before it begrudgingly acquiesces.

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blorbo art should take zero effort and time to make. It should just manifest straight out of your mind whenever you want it to

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Bluebird Garden Party.

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Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica

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what the fuck