Taming the Electron Spiral

Photographer, mega-nerd, and artistically inclined Russian kid, working in CryoEm. They/them

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You have not known true despair until you've had to grind your mind against the relentless hysteresis of an electron beam

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Me: "why don't I read books anymore? I read so many books as a kid and a poor grad student! Why aren't I reading books? I wish I read more books!"

Also me, on a long trip away from all my crafts: *reads 7 books in 2 weeks*

".........oooooooooooh"

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"Urh, I wanna read a book but I have nothing to reeead"

1200+ books pointedly staring at me from my library shelves

"but I don't wanna *learn* anything"

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I try not to judge people. I don't know your life, your circumstamces, it's not my place.
But. If I see you at a red light roll down your car window, deliberately toss a snickers wrapper onto the street, and shamelessly roll your window up and drive away, I WILL despise you

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@joe_hill The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan!

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It's a telling sign of the brain cell end times when new hobby #8772773 is fabricating tools for hobby #35775

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As Halloween approaches, ghosts in the machine are growing restless and are making their presence known. I present to the Committee a Spook Crystal, or Spookrystal, in gold, captured on a Glacios at the stroke of midnight

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Conclusion of the day: if you think you might need a pickaxe, buy the damn pickaxe

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Today at Lowe's when to my seemingly anodine "do you sell scythes" I got a blank state and upon showing a picture a baffling "is that what they're called" I momentarily hallucinanted Ellen Degeneres handing me a rotary phone

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What's all this and why can't I just buy a scythe

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There's something about doing your last deadlift set to the cannons of the 1812 Overture

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Are earworms a type of intrusive thought that someone could prescribe something for because as much as I unironically love Despacito it's been six days and this can't go on

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@firepile @GR_comics 😱😱😱That looks amazing, it makes me so happy!!

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I know that California drivers never had any shame to begin with but it's the second time this week I've seen a car carefully and very intentionally run a red light in broad daylight and I'm starting to feel like I've missed a memo

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@quantumbeans You can DO THAT?! *grabs keys* I need to go I have to push some buttons on my titans

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@ama3thyst The bear!! You have the fabled ikea bear 😱🐻🤍

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@marysuewriter Obviously too many to recount but if I had to pick the cutest one, it's the noises? We've basically evolved our own echolocation

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@marysuewriter Honestly it feels natural to me. I think adding nuance and caveats is always a good practice, it's a good thing and I appreciate that you do this in your videos!
....which I watch on 2x speed just like all my media, so no real worry of "bogging down"

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Why yes, I do have a style. It's called "Billie Eilish shops at Target"

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Morning by #ADHD

Wake up need to go to post office then go work don't forget Ouliana brush teeth new message scroll NO OULIANA POST OFFICE grab packages put on table drink coffee look for sock oh look pills RIGHT MY MEDS take meds phone wallet keys what's this OH RIGHT PACKAGES