Nathan Roach

@natproach.bsky.social

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Bad opinion haver, leftist, scientist, bioinformatics PhD, Rust lang enthusiast, Python begrudging-acceptor, in that order.

Screenshot from the article. “Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios. “What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said,
The view from a sand dune in great sand dunes national park. A long sand stretch in the foreground, and a mountain and the sky in the background.
Gif from futurama. Slurms Mackenzie (a slug man) says ‘I’m so tired of events, so very tired’ while taking off his sunglasses, revealing yellow eyes covered in burst blood vessels.
Factory worker meme saying “guess we’re doing consent now” where the visual of consent is taken from the cover of Noam Chomskys manufacturing consent
A statue of a lamb, holding a flag and with its hoof while standing.
Me in front of the finish line of the bolder Boulder, a local 10k
Excerpt from “Blood in the Machine” Relevant section: The disturbances convinced the Nottingham hosiers to call a meeting two weeks later, on March 26, where the first order of business was to condemn “the illegal measures which have been resorted to by some of the framework knitters.” The second order was to issue a proclamation that resolved to “recommend to the Trade in general to give for all full fashioned work the old prices”
A white dog with brown fur sections looking over their shoulder while lying down.
6 Warhammer: age of sigmar Croxigore models. They have teal and blue scales and yellow bellies. They are on brown terrain with plant detritus on the bases.
The deserter from Disco Elysium, on top of a poorly drawn lines comic saying panel 1 “I can’t be mad forever” panel 2 “but I can be mad until I die”
Onion headline. Reads “‘seek funding’ step added to scientific method”
The factory “guess we’re doing x now” meme format with the factory worker saying “I guess we’re doing consent now”, with the word “consent” copied from Noam Chomskys “manufacturing consent”
Protest sign, reads “My colleagues deserved better This is not efficiency This is sabotage by the billionaire posers who would own you”
Warhammer Age of Sigmar croxigore model with teal green scales, and a yellow belly. A buff crocodile with a large club. A small frog rests on a rock at his feet.
A graph in the Times wherein opinion columnists rank the relative importance and badness of horrors unthinkable as little as 2 years ago.
Scissors cutting dna
English essay by Phil Jameson text of the essay reads Phil Jamesson Philosophy 101 02/18/22 Midterm I Mario, the Idea vs. Mario, the Man Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck. But who knows what he's thinking? Who knows why he crushes turtles? And why do we think about him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent?) Or Pepper? Perchance. I believe it was Kant who said "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts all day, but he exhibits theory by stating "Lets-a go!" Keep it up, baby!- When Mario leaves his place of safety to stomp a turty, he knows that he may Die. And OK! yet, for a man who can purchase lives with money, a life becomes a mere store of value. A tax that can be paid for, much as rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. We think of Mario an saying this a hero, but he is simply a one percenter of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. Perchance. The essay is heavily marked up in red ink, showing the grader getting increasing frustrated with comments like horrible opening also gross You can't just say "perchance" STOP
ABSALOM I first discovered what was killing these men. I had three sons who worked with their father in the tunnel: Cecil, aged 23, Owen, aged 21, Shirley, aged 17. They used to work in a coal mine, not steady work for the mines were not going much of the time. A power Co. foreman learned that we made home brew, he formed a habit of dropping in evenings to drink, persuading the boys and my husband— give up their jobs and take this other work. It would pay them better. Shirley was my youngest son; the boy. He went into the tunnel. My heart my mother my heart my mother My heart my coming into being. My husband is not able to work. He has it, according to the doctor. We have been having a very hard time making a living since this trouble came to us. I saw the dust in the bottom of the tub. The boy worked there about eighteen months, came home one evening with a shortness of breath. He said, "Mother, I cannot get my breath."
Cartoon meme template of woman being approached in office by two figures. Photoshopped over the attractive man is Karl Marx saying “The traditions of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. The woman replies “awe you’re so sweet” Photoshopped over the homely man is Kamala Harris saying “you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”. The woman is distraught on the phone saying “hello Human Resources?”
Steve Buscemi with reversed cap and skateboard, (how do you do fellow kids meme format). Bottom text reads “How do you do fellow social democrats”
Fred from scooby doo unmasking a villain. Villain is labeled “private equity and shareholder profit incentives”, Fred is labeled “any journalist who bothers to look”
Question dog (the dog from the “This is Fine” meme) in all his glory, as a diorama.
Image of a man on fire with a pixelated and grainy filter. Text reads “I’m at the old world dying” “Im at the new world struggling to be born” “I’m at the combination old world dying new world struggling to be born”
Photo of me, a bearded white guy with glasses and white shirt with grid of small pink dots, smiling
3 panels Panel 1 - Dinosaur to chicken “and yet a trace of the true self” Panel 2 - Chicken to chicken meat Panel 3 - Chicken meat to chicken nuggets “exists in the false self”
Tweets. First tweet reads “keep laughing at this imagining that Buffalo is some sort of secret utopia that no one has ever heard of” with a picture of a Buffalo mural of block lettering reading “keep Buffalo a secret”. Quote tweet reading me texting my roommate after bringing a new pet home from my Yellowstone trip”
Picture of a necron monolith with other necron minis in the foreground
The scene from deep space 9 where Jadzia tells Kor she goes by Jadzia now. “Curzon my beloved old friend” “I’m Jadzia now” “Jadzia my beloved old friend”
Ribbon diagram of a ribozyme.
The back of a covered truck with lots of bumper stickers. One reads “reunininize America” another “anticommunism social club”. There is a wu tang clan symbol with a bills logo in it. There is a “home” with a buffalo for the O.