Compton Scatterbrained

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Bad hearing, bad sight, scattered brain. Full of PFAS, but a true believer in radiation hormesis. Why isn't rutile rutilant? I like valence electrons (but K shell too) & deep time.

Painting of a young woman in black on a train while a bearded man in a hat leans over the back of her seat, trying to get her attention.
Igor from the animated Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is def a himbo
screenshot of a news article: Scott Yenor, a senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation, is calling for Title IX to be rewritten to remove requirements for equality between men and women’s sports programing at universities. “Equality under Title IX does not require identical outcomes or the erasure of sex differences,” Yenor writes in a July 8 Heritage Foundation report—entitled, “Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity”—while claiming that women would rather do yoga than play “competitive varsity sports.”
Side of a car with the text "Business Kataoke Solutions"
Box of "Jude's ice cream for dogs" in a supermarkt freezer.
distracted boyfriend meme where he's autocorrect, girlfriend is trying to type "fuck" and the distraction is a duck
Three major problems of grain size measurements: (1) grain, (2) size, and (3) measurement by György Varga et al
Yellow card with seratonin molecule and the text "happy birthday"
Two Bsky posts trying to say something, but their gifs are just Black Balls of Loading.
both layer separation and ink detectability, especially in the most compressed regions. More robust tracing networks and hybrid neural trac- ers that predict or refine sheet trajectories while enforcing local surface continuity and neighbouring-wrap consistency should reduce the manual burden of correction and neigh- bour transfer[8, 24]. The latter could be achieved by improving the accuracy of annotations used to train the machine learning models or relying on self-supervised methods. Additional fragment-to-scroll supervision, together with conservative pseudo-label expansion on intact rolls, should strengthen ink models across a wider range of ink recipes without sacrificing trustworthiness.
Simpsons meme with Homer telling Bart things will get worse
Leo the Lop (book about a lop rabbit)
Temperature graph showing 1976 on the left (earlier) and "You are here" on the far right for the current temps. Almost everything on the right is much, much higher than 1976.
Volgens Milieu Centraal werken een goede dak- en muurisolatie en zonwering buiten het beste tegen hitte in huis. "Die combinatie geeft 80 procent minder kans op oververhitting", zegt De Jongh. "Dan heb je geen airco meer nodig."
People sitting in a shelter against the heat.
Headline "ROAD FATALITIES HIGHEST IN TEN YEARS" accompanied by photo of laughing young white people driving a car.
Long bug. I only see 4 legs. Antlike head. Abdomen has cool ridges like an ankylosaur with lil pseudopods. Butt looks large and hard, with two pinchers or butt decorations at the end.
"...the students arriving in my classroom today are the first cohort to have experienced Common Core-influenced reading instruction across the entirety of their K–12 schooling. Whatever the standards’ original intent, the on-the-ground implementation in many districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding. The education scholar Natalie Wexler, among others, has documented this pivot in detail: Students drilled on “finding the main idea” in two-paragraph excerpts never build the stamina or background knowledge that longform reading requires..."
White-Rodgers thermostat showing 19°C
Brunel standing like Wolverine in a top hat on a rushing black engine saying "You look like you could use an engineer." From Padua's Lovelace and Babbage.
Farmers, for example, understand well the role of biodiversity. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s led to a million starvation deaths and more than million people displaced. This was due in large part to the monoculture crop at time, the Irish Lumper potato, and an ensuing mold, Phytophthora infestans, which devastated the crop. This harsh lesson about resilience, or lack thereof, taught future farmers the importance of genetic diversity and crop rotation.
Suuuper thick novel with airbrushed Young White Female face. Het Lied Van Het Leven (with Lifetime-Channel flourishes) bt Margreet & Reina Crispijn.
"You listened to RFK" instead of "You died of dysentery" from Oregon Trail.
End of a sentence with a string of superscripted numbers.
"This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." (youtube)
"This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds "
Randy Marsh of South Park wheelbarrowing his testicles past shocked residents.
Firefox's Unable To Connect message
Rawr sitting on a red bench with a pair of see-through sibling-cat-people on each side.
Screenshot of BlueSky's login modal (which, by the way, cannot be scrolled vertically and one must either be lucky enough to have a tall enough viewport OR decrease the font size until the focussed element is onscreen), with devtools open to show the button, its bad code and a click listener... which *should* be triggered by the Enter key.
Pontiac Vibe with a gazillion HONK stickers. None of them say *when* or *why* to honk.
Our findings reveal that during boreal summer, the Northern hemisphere (NH) experiences overall mean cooling, most pronounced in the North Atlantic region. Therefore, the extreme warm events in Europe identified by using a fixed threshold tend to be less frequent. However, the cooling pattern reduces the meridional gradient of near-surface air temperature at high latitudes of the NH. As a result, the speed of the summer jet stream decreases, while the frequency of Ural atmospheric blocking events increases. Atmospheric blocking in summer is closely linked to heatwaves, primarily through subsidence warming and enhanced downward shortwave radiation under clear sky conditions. Consequently, the weakening of the AMOC leads to an increased frequency of heatwaves in Eastern Europe, the only region that presents this opposite trend.
Chemical diagrams with lines along O and N atoms in molecules like nitrobenzene and benzoic acid
Cropped LinkedIn notification: Wish Ari Goldstein a happy birthday.
Ad from phys.org of a buff bearded middle-aged man squatting on the floor in workout clothes... with a small black cat perched on his shoulder.
An article on Buster Keaton polluted by a video of a woman's sleeping "Z-z-z-z"s driiping brown shit onto her face.
Oude kaart met de Verdronken Waard van Zuid Holland, ergens na de St Elizabeth vloed. Gorcum is te zien boven rechts; Oudeland Altena onder de rivier Merwede; west zit een hoop water waar nu de Biesbosch ligt.
Guy on a scooter on the left side of the highway shoulder. There's a break in the guard rail and man standing on the edge of the shoulder.
A gazillion drake mallards on the edge of a road quacking, then taking off en masse.
catalog of bathroom mirrors, sinks and cupboards. White, black, or wood, otherwise identical.
Wider shot of 2 pages from the book, showing the hond saying 'Kus m'n kont.'
'HA!' riep de NEEhoorn. 'Jij bent een KUS-m'n-KONT-hond.'
NEEhoorn book, translated to Dutch from German.
440ml can of Uiltje beer. Cover art by Gerben Valkema, showing multiple Agent Smiths (except as white owls). The name of the beer is "Mr Anderson, Welcome Back" triple IPA 9.5%
Lrr saying "oooh that hippie's starting to kick in."
A kids' black backpack with animated numbers including a 6 and 7, with eyes, and in pixellated text above "six seven."
From Opa Jan, an elephant and ape come riding a "vetfiets"
Valse Motten (cheating moths) game box showing a cool drawing of a sneaky moth holding playing cards.
Artistically laid out wooden board with fancy salt and pepper shakers, a bottle of oil and some kind of flowering branches on a countertop.
Fahlberg discovering saccharin by tasting everything in his lab; U of Ill chemist finds cyclamate because his cigarette tasted sweet; aspartame because them chemist licked his finger to pick up paper; sucralose when the chemist misheard "test" as "taste."
immature radioactive samurai slugs, standing under a ninja turtle style title
iowasrartingline.com showing a 403 Forbidden
He was intent on clarifying that he always felt Epstein’s intentions, even with the women, were benign. “This guy was actually not a bad guy,” Schank told me at the end of our conversation. “I mean, put the 14-year-olds out of the picture. Those even make me think he was a bad guy. But to my knowledge he was not a bad guy. He was a good guy.”
"We can't stop here. This is Rolluik Country!"
Bright yellow ducklings running on grass with bloody heads.
Bright yellow ducklings, showing many of their heads with wounds.
Ciocâlteu fell out of favor with the new political regime. Progressive intellectuals were not to be trusted, especially those who maintained an independent attitude and were "molded" abroad, and therefore "tainted" by western influence. Many paid with their lives and/or suffered savage years of internment as political detainees for such mistrust. Ciocâlteu was possibly headed for a similar fate when, in 1947 in the purest Stalinist style, he was summarily and without warning "purged" from chairing the biochemistry department – his very creation and gift to generations – in front of the professorial council. The shock and humiliation caused him to have a massive heart attack that killed him on the spot, in front of his dumbstruck and tacitly sympathetic peers. The events generated a wave of impotent revolt and frustration among the dean's real constituency – his students – that continued to hold him in their highest esteem.
Scene from Robot Chicken's Lil' Hitler skit, where he "needs" all the desks.
Sun rising through mist hovering over the river. The dock to the waterbus streches out, while sloepies rest against the edge.
Someone's AI-generated scene with a Neanderthal man sitting a cave with a bowl of red powder and a 6-fingered hand print on the wall.