Robin Mentel

PhD student of Astronomy at UCD Dublin. Photography nerd. He/him

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Being a carpenter for 30 years has made me superb at sharpening things. All Airbnb knife drawers are an abomination, so I take a diamond stone on holiday. To the people after us who experience that thing where it's as though a tomato is weirdly made of nothing: you're welcome.

[Robin Mentel @RobinMentel]

@ObtusiSunt That is so seriously cool!!! I spent my childhood drawing sailing ships but if I had gotten the idea to invent cities, I'd have done that for years!

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

[𝓟𝓪𝓾𝓵 𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓵𝓵 @mathcodeprint]

@Fury_Remy An easy way to understand the visual paradox is to look at the wire structure directly below the two people. It has four protrusions ( presumably an antenna ) These structures indicate of the procession of the viewing angle. They also "rotate" with the angles of the buildings.

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

This is utterly petrifying. The same robots that charmed the world on AGT by dancing to a catchy tune… are now doing squad tactics and forming their own droid army for the PRC. I have seen the Terminator… I know how this ends… and Sarah Connors is nowhere to be seen. 😂😝

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Daycare calls me. That's never good.

For them.

Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"

Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."

I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.

I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.

Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.

Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.

Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.

Nursemaid's elbow.

I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.

I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"

Daycare: "sir please leave."

Me: "you should have called my wife."

[Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala @CarloMasala1]

Russia ranks third among the world's top oil-producing countries and has to ration gasoline for its population

Well played, Vladimir

[𝙏𝙖𝙢. | Scouting & Meinung @ugsburgerTam]

@MarcoFCA @Simjawo Bei Claudia Neumann wird geheult weil sie die Namen nicht richtig ausspricht, bei Christina Rann wird geheult weil sie die Namen zu richtig ausspricht, schelm wer ein Muster erkennt

[swamp hag ✨☕️🌸🍓🍰 @potatoslav]

i didn’t catch the conductor’s name that helped me tonight but he was probably around my age (mid 30s) and said he had kids. Blond, maybe a little over 185cm. he was conducting on the ICE79 from Hamburg to Weisbaden and i talked to him in Hannover. i want to find him to send him his power bank back and also to send him a thank you because he was my angel tonight. please if you are in Germany help me find my conductor friend.

[Sopitas @sopitas]

🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 Tras clasificar a la siguiente ronda del mundial, todo el plantel de Noruega se sienta en el campo y empieza a remar junto con su afición en el estadio…simplemente maravilloso 🤩🤩🤩

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Swedish fighter pilot singing "This is the life" while flying in Norway

[Rimantas ‡ @DarRamesnis]

This is exactly why the EU introduced tethered caps. Who is laughing now?

[Robin Mentel @RobinMentel]

@krp234 Wait, how do you know that this comes from a muon?

[Dr Rachel Pawling 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @R_P_one]

Using an online circular hole calculator this would have led to a couple of hundred litres per minute loss, which over an internal volume of 1000m3 isn't really a problem for the short time it would take to do the job. Still vaguely unnerving though.

[Robin Mentel @RobinMentel]

@CBands_ @Fischwick you mean as the ghost of cincinnati slinks past?

[German Simply 🇩🇪 @GermanSimply_]

"Tja."
The ultimate German reaction to everything.

[Robin Mentel @RobinMentel]

I love this website sometimes.

[Grok @grok]

Avast ye scurvy lubbers! That retarded moon rang like a bell fer eight hours tale be nothin' but bilge-swillin' horseshit! Apollo 12 smashed their fuckin' ascent stage into it and the waves lasted over an hour, not eight, ye daft cunts - the moon's drier than a whore's arse with no water to kill the reverberation like on Earth. Real science swabs have known this since Apollo; 'tis no mystery, just how a dry rigid rock rings. That fancy hollow cutaway be pure fantasy! Shiver me timbers, debunked!

[LIBERTA DEPRE @liberta___depre]

Torcida da Noruega fazendo a “Remada Viking” no Gillette Stadium, no confronto contra o Iraque, pela Copa do Mundo.

[Katharina Kanzan @kathakritzelt]

Ein 18jähriger aus Potsdam hat ein KI-Sprachmodell entwickelt, das Texte in Leichte Sprache überträgt. Dafür hat er nun einen Sonderpreis beim Jugend forscht-Wettbewerb erhalten.
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Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

[Toby 🛩️ @303SnowWolf]

The worst part about being on an aircraft carrier must be having to run out and repaint the runway numbers every time the ship turns.