Lacci
I studied physics in undergrad at Notre Dame and did some physics grad school. I do wildlife and landscape photography. I have OCD and hereditary hemochromatosis.
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- Reposted by Lacci@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
- Reposted by LacciWriter's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.
- Reposted by LacciEvery time! Every time it’s “early stages” and there are no specifics about anything!
- I'm considering seeing if I can use our instant pot to dissolve polyvinyl alcohol.
- I won't be able to agitate it though so I'm guessing it won't work
- Reposted by LacciOne of my favorite things in history is when you find a person who was clearly just on the spectrum, like buddy, nobody's that into major infrastructure projects and Etruscan literature without a hyperfixation
- Reposted by Lacci“With Amazon’s role in ICE ops under greater scrutiny and Bezos’ dismantling of the organ that once proudly declared itself on being a defender of democracy, it’s worth examining how close Amazon and Trump are—& how closely aligned their projects are” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-jeff-b...
- This is slightly misleading. The wildcat subspecies that became domesticated cats, Felis lybica lybica, is native in Egypt and the near east. That makes it fairly difficult to show that a specific cat found there was definitely associating with humans.
- But Felis lybica lybica arriving in Poland 8000 years ago suggests a commensal or domestic relationship with humans. But if you find the remains of a cat in Egypt at the same time, which you do, you need really unambiguous evidence to argue its presence there was explicitly associated with humans.
- It's sort of like if a biologist in 10,000 years found evidence of kangaroos living now in the US. It's much much easier to argue that those US kangaroos are domesticated than when you find the remains of a kangaroo from now in Australia, even if that kangaroo is also domesticated.
- In fact even if they find evidence of a wild population of feral kangaroos in the US that still very strongly suggests kangaroos were domesticated because that's in fact the only reason kangaroos live in North America.
- The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to be replaced. At this point they're giving Trump at least as much cover as resistance.
- Like on what planet are body cams supposed to change DHS behavior? The agents who committed one of the murders in Minneapolis filmed it on their body cameras and the ICE agent who committed the other murder filmed it on his phone.
- And they already had promised to all have body cameras last September and just decided they weren't going to do it.
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View full threadI really didn't think we'd be begging Chuck Schumer to show half as much awareness, conviction, and backbone as a George W Bush appointed circuit judge.
- Reposted by LacciI mean, dude literally wrote the book
- Reposted by LacciTo everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
- Reposted by LacciSure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
- Reposted by LacciThis happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
- I think this is a really important thing for people to hear and think about. pca.st/episode/b5c8...
- I think a ton of people are to some degree already, but unfortunately not the people who most need to be.
- Reposted by Laccino shit. the air force figured this out years ago
- @rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 5 Independent: Landmark meta-analysis of 50 studies (2943 trans women, 2309 trans men, 568 cis women 665 cis men ages 14-41 ) finds that following 1-3 yrs of hormone therapy, trans women have similar fitness levels to cis women.
- Reposted by Lacciat the protest on Saturday i saw someone with a faded "Read Noam Chomsky" t-shirt and that day i, in fact, had
- Reposted by Laccianyways i need democrats to realize that trump is trying to fuck with the midterms ***specifically because he is afraid that he, donald trump, will be impeached and then end up back in court and then die in prison*** and then i need to them to literally never shut up about impeaching his bitch ass
- Reposted by Laccithis is simultaneously much more than i expected and not nearly enough. IF the Reps abided by this it would make things LESS awful but i just don't see why we'd expect them to abide by any agreement they make once they have cash in hand
- Reposted by Lacci말랑동물들은 이모티콘으로 쓸 수도 있답니다🐾 e.kakao.com/creator/4B8M...
- #말랑동물들 1.매애 말랑말랑한 하얀 양. 매애 하는 울음소리를 낸다. 상당히 부드럽고 말랑거린다. 양지바른 곳에서 자란 연한 풀과 베리를 좋아한다. 2.레몬강아지 레몬 빛깔의 강아지. 사실 얼굴 모양도 레몬의 형태와 비슷하다. 의젓한 양치기 강아지이다. 레모네이드를 좋아한다. 3.코코아토끼 코코아 색의 토끼. 커다랗고 길쭉한 귀의 각도를 보면 감정 상태를 알기 쉽다. 달콤한 마시맬로우를 올린 코코아를 즐겨 마신다.
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- Reposted by Lacci4.꿀떡햄스터 구운 꿀떡을 닮은 햄스터. 조그맣고 동그래서 흡사 공같다. 릴랙스하면 떡처럼 늘어진다. 제일 조아하는건~까만 해바라기씨~ 5.귤여우(&삐) 꼬리와 귀가 귤조각을 닮은 귤색 여우. 어쩌다보니 삐 라는 병아리를 만나서 같이 다니고 있다. 삐가 자꾸 따라다녀서 어쩔 수 없네 에 가까운 것 같지만 은근히 다정하게 챙겨준다. 귤을 무한으로 먹을 수 있다.
- Reposted by Lacci#말랑동물들 1.매애 말랑말랑한 하얀 양. 매애 하는 울음소리를 낸다. 상당히 부드럽고 말랑거린다. 양지바른 곳에서 자란 연한 풀과 베리를 좋아한다. 2.레몬강아지 레몬 빛깔의 강아지. 사실 얼굴 모양도 레몬의 형태와 비슷하다. 의젓한 양치기 강아지이다. 레모네이드를 좋아한다. 3.코코아토끼 코코아 색의 토끼. 커다랗고 길쭉한 귀의 각도를 보면 감정 상태를 알기 쉽다. 달콤한 마시맬로우를 올린 코코아를 즐겨 마신다.
- I guess to be fair I really wish I had more friends here generally. I'm a bit of a hermit and that's not my natural preference.
- Like anyone who's into working with textiles I have a pretty sizable stash of material. What's I guess slightly less normal about me is a lot of it is rope, though I have a fair amount of yarn that's suitable for macrame/knotting too, and some stuff that you could pass off as either yarn or cord.
- I wish I had some friends here who did knotting, it would be fun to see what they could come up with to do with some of it. I have a bunch of 1000 foot spools of quite nice 750lb nylon paracord I got super cheap a while back in some nice bright colors. It's wonderful for mats and leashes and stuff.
- And the fun thing about paracord is if you need it thinner you can just remove some of the cores and the outside stretches out a bit and that really effectively slims it down. So you can use it as anything from just the braided outer casing to like a 4mm pretty hardcore rope.
- Reposted by LacciI need a break from the relentless (bad!) news, so I'm poking through some recent photos, and I figured hey, maybe you want a momentary break as well. So here are four of those photos. All by me.
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3202 is walking and talking
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3205 has adapted to the cold
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3219 will unpack tomorrow
- Reposted by LacciA short time later, I noticed a bunny loaf in the same area 🥰 Cottontail rabbit
- Reposted by LacciA couple yard bunnies are nose to nose, then zooming around a little. I was hoping to catch some binking but not this time. Desert Cottontail rabbits #mammals
- It might be worth mentioning that cold temperatures substantially reduce the impact of most tear gasses. In fact the first time the Germans used a poisonous gas in combat on a large scale in WWI it was tear gas in winter on the Eastern front and the Russians barely noticed it.
- The Russians didn't even tell the other Entente members it had happened. The next time the Germans used poison gas they went with chlorine gas and used it in the West (near Ypres in Belgium) and their opponents were totally unprepared.
- For that matter even the Germans were pretty shocked at what happened. It was the only time in the war poison gas broke open enemy lines and they were unprepared to take advantage of it. Btw they had signed a treaty that they would never use poison gas or tear gas in war.
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View full threadAnd despite their persistent violations those combatants were actually generally noticeably better about following the legal rules than say Trump or Netanyahu have been. If Trump starts a substantial war it's going to be incredibly ugly.
- Reposted by LacciA funny-looking friend
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3218 is an appreciator of the arts
- Reposted by LacciCORYS!!!! 😻😻😻😻 @majima.club
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3216 should have kept closer watch
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3215 is feeling a bit under the weather
- Reposted by LacciDaily bunny no.3217 watches the flock come home
- Reposted by Laccitrundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿
- Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire is not a useful thing to read if you're interested in the history of the Roman or Byzantine Empires. It might be an interesting thing to read for literary reasons or if you're interested in the enlightenment or enlightenment philosophy.
- Gibbon didn't have access to the vast majority of the information he would have needed to say anything really useful about the Roman Empire. And Gibbon's analysis of the causes and factors that led to the fall of the Roman empire really wasn't in line with even the limited information he had.
- Gibbon's analysis was highly motivated by promoting enlightenment values, and making people (possibly including himself) think historical analysis strongly backed them over traditional values in Europe at the time. The pose style was also groundbreaking and very influential from what I understand.
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View full threadIf anything it looks like something other than that to people now because of how influential it was on a lot of things that came after it and eventually became something different with different rules and goals.
- Reposted by LacciAnyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero
- Reposted by LacciI mean, it's not true that NOTHING happened; a couple of the folks who were instrumental in releasing the papers ended up dead under suspicious circumstances!
