Derek

@crashandcern.bsky.social

449 Followers 341 Following

Machine learning engineer, former particle physics post-doc, member of Philly DSA. Retweets are endorsements unless I'm being ironic.

Good news. The American empire is falling. Bad news. I'm an American.
I kept this up for three years before the CEO (my dad) finally recognized my results and promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts. To get ahead, create value. (Let's see how many people read long enough to get to the punchline. Happy Friday!)
Bernie Sanders in his normal looking living room including a chair covered in clothes.
An opossum in the bottom left of the first image
Highlighted section of an excerpt from a report on police attempts to infiltrate anarchist groups. Relevant portion: Infiltration is made more difficult by the communal nature of the lifestyle (under constant observation and scrutiny) and the extensive knowledge held by many anarchists, which require a considerable amount of study and time to acquire.
Octopus on a boat that drives around little track.
Performative Male Bingo with lots of stupid boxes. I marked “you own a record player”, “you identify as a feminist”, “you wear a tote bag in public”, “you don’t drink regular milk”, and “you wear wired headphones”.
Cartoon of a person with their eyes bulging out this is supposed to represent the Chinese character 头 which means “head”
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey computer game
Stellan Skarsgård (who plays Baron Harkonnen) in Mama Mia.
Bilbo and Frodo family tree
Demiboy pride flag
Comic from https://pbfcomics.com/comics/billiards-in-heaven/ Person is in heaven talking to god: Man: UM, EXCUSE ME, GOD? God: MY SON? Man: IS THERE A BILLIARDS TABLE HERE? God: DO YOU REALLY NEED A BILLIARDS TABLE? Man: WELL... I GUESS NOT. Man (thought bubble): THIS SUCKS.
Toddler with huge muscles
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Brain with lasers coming out of it meme
Wolverine looking at picture meme with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
Sign reading “Arbeit macht frei” (Work makes one free in German) outside Auschwitz concentration camp
Kara from Ninth Jedi reflecting blaster bolts, flipping off a speeder and slicing a bad guy.
In 2020, PBS show Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall aimed presenting children with a one-sided narrative to "address racism" amid the Black Lives Matter riots.
Screenshot of video of Elon Musk streaming Path of Exile 2 with messages telling him he has no friends and will die alone.
Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein and Glassine Maxwell
Screenshot of google news search for “sanders AOC rally” with 4 different news outlets
Meme saying “DSA mentioned” showing an anime girl and lots of DSA stuff such as our mascot Bud holding a knife
iPhone widgets for HelloChinese and Duolingo showing 21 and 44 day streaks respectively.
Duolingo showing a long phrase in Chinese characters and asking what the pinyin is with 3 options, two short, one long.
Simpsons meme of Lionel Hutz imagining a world with no lawyers and it’s people around the world holding hands by a rainbow
Reddit r/atheism post reading: I came up with this quote just a few minutes ago. I thought r/atheism would appreciate Just to be clear, I'm not a professional "quote maker". I'm just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism. "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence." - Aalewis Eh?
Steering wheel and pedals video game controller
Search result saying: Awaji Island onions are sweet and tender onions from Japan that are known for their lack of astringency. The onions are grown in the south of the island, especially in Minami-Awaji, Sumoto, and Goshiki.
See link. Excerpt from link summarizing theories on virus origins.
Interviewer guy nodding along
Mike Pence touching thing with sign reading “Critical Space Flight Hardware ‘DO NOT TOUCH’”
Nullification is not an official part of criminal procedure, but is the logical consequence of two rules governing the systems in which it exists: 1. Jurors cannot be punished for passing an incorrect verdict. 2. In many jurisdictions, a defendant who is acquitted cannot be tried a second time for the same offense.
THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court