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Your irregular reminder to just mute it whenever there's a new terrible discourse.

The fact that palace coups work at all really hammers home how much government is just a Schelling point

Your annual reminder that deep frying turkeys is fun and cool
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RT @TheSun
Firefighters show the dangers of deep-frying turkey
twitter.com/TheSun/status/1460

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of physics until we figure out what's going on.
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RT @engineers_feed
LEGO tensegrity sculpture. Science is fun 🤩
twitter.com/engineers_feed/sta

"Noooo you can't just skip hard steps of the proof. You're making your field inaccesible! You need to gradually build the reader's intuition and explain your argument in an approachable way so that other people can verify and understand the prooferinos"

Thinking about Newcomen's problem (when there's too much water at the bottom of your coal mine and you can't get it out)

I want to ride the forbidden carousel
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RT @pee_zombie
bro and this is just a 1/3rd scale model

biggest fuckin carnival gravitron ride ever
twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/

In a dynamical system y' = f(y), you can sometimes tell if a fixpoint f(y)=0 is stable just by looking at first-order data, namely if the matrix (Df)(y) is negative definite, it's stable. Is there an established term for these "first-order stable" fixpoints?

Dudes rock
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RT @archaeologyart
This drawing was made 750 years ago by a 7-years-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod. (Novgorod birch-bank document No. 200) Self-portrait of Onfim as a threefingered horseman, striking the enemy.
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