Ian Paul Freeley

An astronomer who likes to snark. He/him

[Ian Paul Freeley @IanPaulFreeley]

I got tired of trying to come up with pub trivia team names, so I took all the wikipedia article titles and ran them through a python pun generator.

So, if anyone needs a 70Gb text file of puns, I got you covered. #TacoTimeCop #GoldenGirlsGoneWild

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@soychotic I think red, unless both have a stop sign, then it’s whoever got there first

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@jradavenport @SaveStandard There we go. Year round standard time and the work day ends at 4.

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@TerribleMaps Let's see article length per capita.

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@InternetHippo Crypto bros manipulating the polymarket clock spread so they can go home early

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@marknorm I read this, scrolled three times, then got it and had to scroll back up to like it.

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@spacekaila @Jesstella Sounds like instead of a qual exam there's a defense. Then we have the same problem that defense performance doesn't predict future success.

(I suspect the root problem is that grad admissions are so selective, everyone who makes it in has a high chance of success)

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@xriskology As far as jobs go, it looks more fun than driving for Uber and comes with free healthcare.

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@datepsych Kinda wild that 24% of men have. And with 7% not remembering.

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@Money__Doug Someone had a bit about how Barbie gives little boys unrealistic expectations for how easy it will be to rip a woman's head off.

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Vindicating my long held belief that anyone trying to manage "the messaging" has no idea what they're doing and probably just wasting time.

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New at @PNASNews with @dbroockman, @chriscaballero_ & @easton_matty: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public." As we head into the last week of the campaign, a good reminder that political practitioners have poor intuitions as to what persuades

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@QualiaSeeker25 @LindorffLarsen The FFT of a Gaussian is a Gaussian!

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@Athenian48 @LindorffLarsen While auto tune was released in 1997, and Cher did her song in 1998, it was T-Pain who got famous for using it in 2003. I'm guessing that's why there was a broader interest in the early 2000s.

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@kat_volk @adsabs Oh yeah, at one point they gave me a dev key so I could hammer ads with a python script for a fun project. So you could email and ask for that. Or just try to swap browsers and fire up a vpn.

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@emilykmay Mr Rodgers
Bob Ross
Alex Trebek

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@baddestmamajama I feel like medicine is extra special in the fits they throw. The first guy to tell doctors they need to wash their hands got fired and thrown in an asylum where he was beaten to death in 1865.

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@neocosmology @baddestmamajama Same. I only remember because I did the Kuhn reading and only skimmed Popper.

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@neocosmology @baddestmamajama Kuhn was the paradigm shift guy, Popper didn’t support the idea.

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@ratlimit "Takes one to know one". Fine, I will own the title of giant asshole if that means I get to take you down with me.