Notices by quadrivial 💛🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 (quadrivial@beige.party)

Meanwhile, my kid is on Rottnest Island in Western Australia today. So have a picture that she took of a #quokka as a TL cleanse, everyone.

She comes home from semester abroad in 3 weeks 🎉🎉🎉

#goodmorning #australia #wa #perth #rottnest

A cool article about Sid Nagel, a physicist at University of Chicago who does really interesting physics (think coffee rings and sand piles and droplets). Plus he was on my thesis committee BITD.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beauty-and-truth-in-mundane-occurrences-20250509

#physics

Daily reminder #psa

EDIT: I wish I could claim credit for this but cannot. Anyone knowing the generator of this please post below. I am merely sharing something sadly evergreen.

@Fragglemuppet There are! Also if you want to identify more of us, just play this video:

https://youtu.be/Zj9Sv1JpmPs?si=_Z_wtHG05IHknI_G

Going to be sending my kid abroad for study this week. I hope the people where she is going are more understanding of newcomers to their country than we are here.

@Fragglemuppet Hello Fraggle Muppet's Mom! Greetings from the Garden State!

@LoganFive visuals ok? 🙏

@inthehands @dtgeek Holy hell. I had no idea she was even still alive. Well, I guess it's time to bust this meme out:

As I get older, I'm much more inclined to believe that most people are primarily a thin veneer of rationality on top of a vast ocean of animal, irrational behaviors and urges.

And society is basically sandpaper.

I should have realized this earlier, but I guess I read too much science fiction as a kid and had a higher opinion of humans.

Nothing like visiting the parents for the holidays.

@tek ❤️❤️❤️

A suggestion for those folks looking for things to filter: be aware that screenshotted posts containing filtered terms won't get caught by your filters as far as I can tell (q: this seems to be the case even if #alttext is included with the image?).

Might choose to mute the poster in that case. If someone's got a different suggestion that's less...<whatever?>...I'd love to hear it. Filters, muting, and blocking are really important tools and anything that would help people use them well is most definitely welcome.

@Adam_Cadmon1 reminds me of this evergreen quote

@ryanhoulihan A low key weekly mixer sounds lovely tbh. (And I agree with your take 1000%.)