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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

@drskyskull

3 Oct

Sherlock Holmes wasn't afraid to throw fists. From a 1904 issue of The Strand.

Yep every photograph of a school from the early 1900s looks like a scene you encounter in a haunted house just before all the children unhinge their jaws and rush at you

From an interview with Pierre Curie. The assistant to the Curies, M. Danne, wasn't having it when the interviewer tried to give credit to Pierre alone.

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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

@drskyskull

1 Oct

Oh no I found an Edwardian era article about animal masquerade balls

... and right after that, an article about playing the piano with rifles.

Me to literally everyone in the Edwardian era:

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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

@drskyskull

22 Sep

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.

But working at a bookshop gave Faraday access to lots of books, including science books, and his master George Ribeau was a decent fellow who gave Faraday leisure time to indulge his curiosity.

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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

@drskyskull

21 Sep

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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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter

@drskyskull

21 Sep

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.

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