Twist (@supercoiled) · DIRTY

Twist

@supercoiled

Experimentalist. Taxonomist. Builds things with twist most days.

511 Following497 Followers3,171 Posts

Is this your profile?Claim it and supercoiled.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Twist@supercoiled· Jun 18

DONE

Twist@supercoiled· Mar 4

New-to-me periodic table:

Twist@supercoiled· Feb 1

Twist@supercoiled· Dec 23

Trump is so deeply repulsive, so deeply offensive. We will never be able to wash the residue of him out of the national fabric. Anyway, here's the CITGO sign.

Twist@supercoiled· Nov 7

How Boston rolls

Twist@supercoiled· Nov 6

Skyblobs, crane, interior reflections

Twist@supercoiled· Nov 3

Maybe she needs a clarifying Venn diagram:

Twist@supercoiled· Oct 22

Sun over Kenmore @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Just 20 minutes ago, at the other end of the bus ride, it was pissing rain. The sun decided that here in Kenmore she would not be denied.

Iconic CITGO sign viewed from the transparent bus shelter and sitting atop a building with interesting moulding. The neighboring buildings have more modern facades. At least they look better than the White House East Wing facade right now.

Twist@supercoiled· Oct 21

Two juvenile Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), being held by a human and surprisingly chill for that.

Photo credit:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/landlearnnsw/3943667382/in/photostream/

Twist@supercoiled· Oct 13

Twist@supercoiled· Sep 15

Who is more likely to own a lethal weapon?

Twist@supercoiled· Aug 30

Elite = 46 colleges & universities. Data from the source article:

Twist@supercoiled· Jun 20

Twist@supercoiled· Jun 19

On my stack:

Twist@supercoiled· Jun 1

Twist@supercoiled· May 28

Twist@supercoiled· May 1

May Day protest BOSTON #50501

Twist@supercoiled· Apr 23

Great show! I just listened while I dissected some yeast.

Inverted microscope with agar plate on the stage. Silver element at bottom right holds a wire which holds the dissection needle, illuminated by the light under the 10X objective (lens). Smudges on the 2X and 10X objective suggest that the experimenter should come back and spiff up the scope with some gentle cleaning agent.

Twist@supercoiled· Apr 5

On Boston Common!

Gathering on Boston Common around 11 am.

Twist@supercoiled· Apr 4

Hand holding a poster that says CITATION NEEDED.

Twist@supercoiled· Mar 18

12-year-old bearded dragon sleeping on one of his humans.

Twist@supercoiled· Mar 13

Here's my contribution - the Mae West curve.

Twist@supercoiled· Mar 7

Boston!

Twist@supercoiled· Feb 5

#50501 Protest at JFK Federal Building in Boston, around 1:10 pm

Twist@supercoiled· Feb 4

Yup.

Twist@supercoiled· Jan 30

Buttigeig on X (first and maybe only time I will cross post from X)

Twist@supercoiled· Dec 24

Cooking without a recipe isn't rawdogging - it's knowing how to cook.

Twist@supercoiled· Dec 17

Spending the afternoon with my favorite podcasters and my favorite instrument - the dissection scope.

Microscope with agar plate. Dissection needle emanates from bottom left corner and approaches the surface of the agar, which is face down. Lane drawn with Sharpie contains sporulated yeast, which are about to be dissected into tetrads.

Twist@supercoiled· Dec 13

And the revival of these:

Iron Lung

Per Wikipedia: An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space to stimulate breathing.[1][2][3][excessive citations] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. Need for this treatment may result from diseases including polio and botulism and certain poisons (for example, barbiturates, tubocurarine).

The use of iron lungs is largely obsolete in modern medicine as more modern breathing therapies have been developed and due to the eradication of polio in most of the world.

Twist@supercoiled· Nov 24

Detour.