August Fresnel

An expert in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

Hey, what's up? I'm effectively abandoning the bird app. Here's where I might be:
@[email protected]
https://t.co/aYX41HXBCY
5 metres above Lake Erie on a homemade GEV with several litres of bootleg Canadian maple syrup

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@CarriePoppyYES @drewspurs So I found a website of the most consistently broadcasting weird shortwave transmission people. I think they're Seventh Day Adventists that hit the Jehovah's Witness branch falling out of the Adventism tree? https://t.co/uIopuviNMH

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

I got a shortwave radio receiver and learned that shortwave broadcasts I can pick up in Ohio are all podcasts by people who have never heard of a podcast and think they're the messiah and now I want a four hour @CarriePoppyYES breakdown of them.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

Granted, one of the broadcasters is Melissa Scott so I kinda already have

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

Dreamt I was wrestling @bryandanielson and I placed a jello mold in the center of the ring to set up my signature move. He dumps water on it from the same bottle I used in my ring entrance to counter and I'm so shocked I just get pinned and take the three count.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

Hi, I only logged on to share a link, tag @JackOfQuills, and make a cryptic reference to fish glue. https://t.co/2eDkhzaLWn

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

I'm sitting on like 5 BlueSky invites if anyone wants one and can bug me on a platform that isn't this one? Discord works...

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

I have absolutely zero reach on any social media platform, but I'd like to issue the Literally One Single Person From the Cult Survivor Media Sphere Make a Meaningful Stand for Trans Rights Challenge and hope it just magically takes off?

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@edsbs @destroyed4com4t I still want one of those terrible Soviet guitars covered in appliance laminate.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@ErinInTheMorn I named myself after the 19th century French engineer who invented the practical lighthouse and even outside of trans-ness I think self-naming is an avenue for positive change.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@philgaimon @StateBicycleCo I want (but absolutely do not need) a new gravel bike.

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@alaskastardust @destroyed4com4t I can free associate literally anything into power metal. https://t.co/7CVLXmSo2V

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@jessiegender Do you play Magic: the Gathering? You and @TolarianCollege need to have a professorial airs off or something.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

IT IS MY TIME!

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New video contains the best joke I ever wrote, if you speak German but not enough German to recognise it's incorrect

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@DrMatthewSweet @scottlong1980 I want to start writing a blog where do nothing but calculate different transfer orbits and declare myself an astro-economist for the currency of propellant.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@BadMedicalTakes I thought wind turbines causing cancer was a weird take, but now I guess photovoltaic cells just give bad juju or something?

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

@AnalysisFact Stellar magnitude's is like the fifth root of 100 or something, which for some reason I find inexplicably deeply annoying.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

So I'm looking for trans affirming cult recovery podcasts or YouTube channels. If anyone has any can you dump them in the replies? RTs appreciated.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

Long story short: was raised a Jehovah's Witness, get positive experiences listening to shows created by survivors that are careful to not re-traumatize guests or listeners, sometimes trans existence gets treated like a cult with at best "let's not get political" push-back.

[August Fresnel @AugustFresnel]

So I'm looking for trans affirming cult recovery podcasts or YouTube channels. If anyone has any can you dump them in the replies? RTs appreciated.