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21 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read

I’m too depressed for this shit, mom.

Being clinically depressed makes me very self-centered and it’s hard to break that. My mom has no such excuse. She knows I’ve been struggling and still she chose to make it worse.

And this is the mom who peddled antivax and election conspiracy theories unsolicited when she called me on *my* birthday, so I can sincerely say that she can go to hell.

Went ahead and blocked my fascist dad and sister, too, while I’ve got the momentum.

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Let's do a historical #OpticsLessonOfTheDay on the birthday of my favorite scientist ever, Michael Faraday (1791-1867)! Though he is relatively unknown to the public, he is inarguably one of the greatest scientists who ever lived... and an amazing person, as well.

By societal standards of the time, Faraday should have lived a mundane, uneventful life. He was born the son of a blacksmith in Surrey in the UK. He was raised with little formal education, and was apprenticed to a bookbinder at age 14.

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Doctor isn’t quite sure what to do for me.

Trying a second generation antidepressant.

I have a good, caring GP. I feel like I’m letting her down.

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Well, okay, that first tinder match up was a nice conversation, but ended in a spectacular disaster, I think.

Unless I want to get involved in an affair, I guess.

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Office hours.

Still in office hours.

Geez office hours today.

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Okay, let's to an #OpticsLessonOfTheDay: why is the sky blue? The answer is an interesting mix of several different aspect of physics as well as the working of the human eye.

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