just as a reminder as the New Boss continues to hand this site over to the far right, you can find me on a few other platforms: bowlerhatscience.org More likely to come, it just takes time to organize such things
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Matthew R Francis
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Science writer, physicist, queer, wearer of jaunty hats. Toss a coin to your freelancer. Profile portrait by , banner by . He/him.
bowlerhatscience.orgJoined September 2010
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all the same PR agencies that used to send NFT spam are now sending chatGPT spam to me.
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AI is definitely replacing NFTs as the next big dumb scam, at least. Nice to have some new terrible thing to make fun of as it destroys lives and industries.
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holy @#$%@#$^@#$^@
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This is the greatest Mass Effect video of all time. Maybe ever.
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Did you miss our free/discoutned shipping launch? Not to fret!
Day-one backers of Failure to Launch that reserve a physical copy of the anthology still get an EXCLUSIVE enamel pin!
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I have a comic in this; it is about Marxism & Coney Island & Fire
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Failure to Launch is LIVE on Backerkit!
Back in the first hour to get FREE SHIPPING in the US, and $20 OFF shipping internationally!
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pay special attention to the second comic in the montage...
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The promo video for Failure to Launch is such a banger! Have you seen it, yet?
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#KeanuWhoa we're almost at 50% backed ALREADY! And the more of you back this project, the better: it means perks and raises for the creators (e.g. me)! Keep pledging and thanks to everyone who's pledged so far!
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AND WE'RE LIVE! Pledge for the upcoming comics anthology "Failure to Launch", full of comics about technology that just didn't happen. Includes a comic from @sciencecomic and me about the first wind power revolution that got derailed by history backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-
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15 minutes, now!
I turn these backer levels off at NOON, y'all. Don't delay!
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20 MINUTES REMAIN to get FREE DOMESTIC and $20 OFF WORLDWIDE SHIPPING on Failure to Launch!
Hurry! The window's closing! Don't miss out!
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you can get extra copies for friends and family too, hint hint
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About 40 MINUTES remain to back Failure to Launch in its first hour on Backerkit, and get a sweet discount on shipping!
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The star-studded cast of Failure to Launch includes none other than Ryan North, of Dinosaur Comics!
About 45 minutes remain to back us in the first hour, and get a sweet discount on shipping!
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I contributed a story with @kellhound to FAILURE TO LAUNCH, which just successfully launched on Backerkit! Comics about inventions that didn't quite work out. Mine's about a man who wanted to save the world with flying windmills and tide-powered cities :0
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this anthology is brought to you by , one of THE premiere independent comics publishers, owned by comics genius !
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AND WE'RE LIVE! Pledge for the upcoming comics anthology "Failure to Launch", full of comics about technology that just didn't happen. Includes a comic from @sciencecomic and me about the first wind power revolution that got derailed by history backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-
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oh yeah, and this guy's in the book too I guessssss
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I contributed a story with @kellhound to FAILURE TO LAUNCH, which just successfully launched on Backerkit! Comics about inventions that didn't quite work out. Mine's about a man who wanted to save the world with flying windmills and tide-powered cities :0
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Among the many stories is a gem by @DrMRFrancis and I about the early innovations in wind power that were poised to span the world as early as the 1920s
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AND WE'RE LIVE! Pledge for the upcoming comics anthology "Failure to Launch", full of comics about technology that just didn't happen. Includes a comic from and me about the first wind power revolution that got derailed by history backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-
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Five minutes! FIVE MINUTES! GET EXCITED!
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just 8 minutes! 8 minutes!
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For the detail-oriented: Declaring you "don't care about politics" or are "apolitical" implies that, true or not, you feel whatever decisions are made by your governing bodies will NEVER negatively effect you.
Also, that you do openly not care who those decisions DO effect.
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🚀🚀🚀LAUNCHING IN JUST ONE HOUR!!!🚀🚀🚀
Y'know what YOUR problem is? You lack VISION. Unlike ME.
FAILURE TO LAUNCH. A tour of ill-fated futures.
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"Rowling has made it very clear that a trans girl would find no validation in her world. No love or support... That sanctuary is gone – it no longer exists for us."
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Hogwarts Legacy does not deserve to be reviewed on its own merits.
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Well, he's not paying any of his contractors, or his rent, why would he pay his joke writers
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Elon Musk stole at least four jokes on Twitter yesterday, so I wrote about how it's a pattern for the billionaire forbes.com/sites/mattnova
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I owe my knowledge of the existence of Grandpa's Knob to
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my comic with @sciencecomic is about WIND POWER in the 1930s! Featuring my great-grandfather, eccentric inventors, and a place called Grandpa's Knob. Pledge today! galileospendulum.org/2023/02/03/new
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SOOOOOOON!
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LAUNCHING IN ONE HOUR, 30 MINUTES:
To HECK with you ALL! I'm a GENIUS! You can tell by how often I get everything WRONG!
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damn i didn't even know this was a category now
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Some dude hitting golf balls on the Moon
Bathroom in his pants
And he thinks he's better than me
(to quote the poets TMBG)
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Alan Shepard: "I think I got more dirt than ball there."
Houston: "That looked like a slice to me, Al."
Astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon #OTD in 1971.
Footage: NASA
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Your fave is a trans ally? Have they recorded an entire children's album with Wendy Carlos?
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okay now that I'm thinking about Wendy Carlos and the Grammys, she was also nominated for this album w @alyankovic in 1989
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don't forget Tron, which is also an amazing soundtrack
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Love the appreciation for Kim Petras, but she's not the first trans woman ever to win a Grammy, that's Wendy Carlos!
Trans synth queen Carlos won 3 Grammys for "Switched-On-Bach" in 1969. She later went on to compose the soundtracks for The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
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Maki's art is always amazing, but he really outdid himself with the full-page designs on EACH PAGE of this comic.
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my comic with is about WIND POWER in the 1930s! Featuring my great-grandfather, eccentric inventors, and a place called Grandpa's Knob. Pledge today!
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you want this book (and I'm not just sayin' it because I have a comic in it) twitter.com/ironcircuscomi
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oh yeah listening to this album right now
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NEW: "Nice Chops - The Dutch Schultz Tapes 2004-2008" fanlink.to/NiceChops
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not a fair comparison, Bonnie can make you weep with three notes from her guitar alone. Nobody can match that.
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You don’t know who Bonnie Raitt is but you love Taylor Swift?? Learn your sad girl song history! Bonnie has been making us weep in the middle of a Nordstrom Rack for decades. DECADES!
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😜🤒😊🧵 I have questions
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We love seeing Native peoples in STEM! The Navajo Technical University is providing career opportunities in engineering and manufacturing, which has helped students study these topics right from their Navajo Nation homelands.
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Herkimer Chort of *Ripley*, not less
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Yeah, the record is funny and all, but did you see that this dude’s name is Herkimer Chort
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When I grow up I want to work as one of those people who stands next to the dinosaur in photos to show scale
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and so another week begins, but at what cost?
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yes Pascal participated in the phone call with my parents
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lotta people praising Spoutible, but I'm seeing too many red flags from its CEO, as well as lack of the kinds of rules that would prevent arbitrary bans like this
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I offered earnest feedback on twitter 2.0 but got blocked by its CEO, who also cut off my access to my own account. his supporters now claim that I wanted spoutible to be a porn platform. if any editors want to work w me on this, pls reach out via DM or oliviasnow[at]ucla[dot]edu twitter.com/mistresssnowph…
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