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  1. 2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul

    #Beatles #Music

  2. 2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul

    #Beatles #Music

  3. 2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul

    #Beatles #Music

  4. 2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul

    #Beatles #Music

  5. 2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul

    #Beatles #Music

  6. Disclaimer: I'm using the words from those in charge from press conferences. Nobody knows the absolute facts.

    Over 400 police responded to this attack on #BrownU, an overwhelming number to out and detain a terrorist. The police have trained for this situation for years.

    So what happened?

    (2/6)

  7. Disclaimer: I'm using the words from those in charge from press conferences. Nobody knows the absolute facts.

    Over 400 police responded to this attack on #BrownU, an overwhelming number to out and detain a terrorist. The police have trained for this situation for years.

    So what happened?

    (2/6)

  8. Disclaimer: I'm using the words from those in charge from press conferences. Nobody knows the absolute facts.

    Over 400 police responded to this attack on #BrownU, an overwhelming number to out and detain a terrorist. The police have trained for this situation for years.

    So what happened?

    (2/6)

  9. Disclaimer: I'm using the words from those in charge from press conferences. Nobody knows the absolute facts.

    Over 400 police responded to this attack on #BrownU, an overwhelming number to out and detain a terrorist. The police have trained for this situation for years.

    So what happened?

    (2/6)

  10. Disclaimer: I'm using the words from those in charge from press conferences. Nobody knows the absolute facts.

    Over 400 police responded to this attack on #BrownU, an overwhelming number to out and detain a terrorist. The police have trained for this situation for years.

    So what happened?

    (2/6)

  11. There were two horrific #shootings this weekend. One in #Sydney where terrorists were killed/detained, and one at #BrownU, #Providence where a terrorist got away scot-free.

    Interestingly, Press focus on the one with effective police response, not the one where the killer is still At Large.

    We aren't talking about the overwhelming(ly inept) Police response that put #RhodeIsland in this situation.

    Ignore for a moment the #gun control debates and #mentalhealth concerns. Let's talk #cops.

    🧵 1/6

  12. There were two horrific #shootings this weekend. One in #Sydney where terrorists were killed/detained, and one at #BrownU, #Providence where a terrorist got away scot-free.

    Interestingly, Press focus on the one with effective police response, not the one where the killer is still At Large.

    We aren't talking about the overwhelming(ly inept) Police response that put #RhodeIsland in this situation.

    Ignore for a moment the #gun control debates and #mentalhealth concerns. Let's talk #cops.

    🧵 1/6

  13. USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

    Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

    #BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

    bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8

  14. USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

    Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

    #BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

    bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8

  15. USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

    Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

    #BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

    bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8

  16. USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

    Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

    #BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

    bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8

  17. USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

    Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

    #BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

    bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8

  18. CW: #USPol

    #BrownU #BrownUniveristy

    President Paxson, please listen to Ken Miller.

    "The bully who took your lunch money is back, and this time he wants your backpack, too."

    browndailyherald.com/article/2

  19. CW: #USPol

    #BrownU #BrownUniveristy

    President Paxson, please listen to Ken Miller.

    "The bully who took your lunch money is back, and this time he wants your backpack, too."

    browndailyherald.com/article/2

  20. CW: #USPol

    #BrownU #BrownUniveristy

    President Paxson, please listen to Ken Miller.

    "The bully who took your lunch money is back, and this time he wants your backpack, too."

    browndailyherald.com/article/2

  21. Mac Rutherford (Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Brown University) has passed away

    Excerpts from Julie Hammer’s announcement on the MSA listserv:

    Mac developed an experimental phase equilibrium approach to constrain magma conditions prior to eruption.

    He also studied the solubility and speciation of sulfur in magma, mineral barometry, & the kinetics of crystal nucleation & growth.
     
    Shared LinkedIn page:
    linkedin.com/posts/venezky_i-w?

  22. Mac Rutherford (Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Brown University) has passed away

    Excerpts from Julie Hammer’s announcement on the MSA listserv:

    Mac developed an experimental phase equilibrium approach to constrain magma conditions prior to eruption.

    He also studied the solubility and speciation of sulfur in magma, mineral barometry, & the kinetics of crystal nucleation & growth.
     
    Shared LinkedIn page:
    linkedin.com/posts/venezky_i-w?
    #minerals #geology #ExperimentalPetrology #BrownU

  23. Mac Rutherford (Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Brown University) has passed away

    Excerpts from Julie Hammer’s announcement on the MSA listserv:

    Mac developed an experimental phase equilibrium approach to constrain magma conditions prior to eruption.

    He also studied the solubility and speciation of sulfur in magma, mineral barometry, & the kinetics of crystal nucleation & growth.
     
    Shared LinkedIn page:
    linkedin.com/posts/venezky_i-w?
    #minerals #geology #ExperimentalPetrology #BrownU

  24. Mac Rutherford (Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Brown University) has passed away

    Excerpts from Julie Hammer’s announcement on the MSA listserv:

    Mac developed an experimental phase equilibrium approach to constrain magma conditions prior to eruption.

    He also studied the solubility and speciation of sulfur in magma, mineral barometry, & the kinetics of crystal nucleation & growth.
     
    Shared LinkedIn page:
    linkedin.com/posts/venezky_i-w?
    #minerals #geology #ExperimentalPetrology #BrownU

  25. Mac Rutherford (Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Brown University) has passed away

    Excerpts from Julie Hammer’s announcement on the MSA listserv:

    Mac developed an experimental phase equilibrium approach to constrain magma conditions prior to eruption.

    He also studied the solubility and speciation of sulfur in magma, mineral barometry, & the kinetics of crystal nucleation & growth.
     
    Shared LinkedIn page:
    linkedin.com/posts/venezky_i-w?
    #minerals #geology #ExperimentalPetrology #BrownU

  26. Extended Profile

    Synopsis:

    • a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
    • social media girlboss
    • actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
    • time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
    • Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

    Truisms:

    • Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
    • I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
    • That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

    Personal sites:

    I also run issuepedia.org and htyp.org but nobody knows why.

    Details

    My legal name is:
    Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
    (...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

    I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

    We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

    I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

    Things I sometimes do:

    • post original music
    • write about #JennyHypertwin
    • escalate the War on Bullshit
    • write lots of unfinished software
    • administer TootCat
    • complain about tech (mainly software)
    • feel inadequate
    • take photos of clouds

    (If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

    I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

    I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

    Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

    I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

    I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

    (I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

    My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

    (* exited from Windows)

  27. Extended Profile

    Synopsis:

    • a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
    • social media girlboss
    • actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
    • time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
    • Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

    Truisms:

    • Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
    • I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
    • That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

    Personal sites:

    I also run issuepedia.org and htyp.org but nobody knows why.

    Details

    My legal name is:
    Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
    (...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

    I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

    We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

    I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

    Things I sometimes do:

    • post original music
    • write about #JennyHypertwin
    • escalate the War on Bullshit
    • write lots of unfinished software
    • administer TootCat
    • complain about tech (mainly software)
    • feel inadequate
    • take photos of clouds

    (If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

    I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

    I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

    Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

    I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

    I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

    (I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

    My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

    (* exited from Windows)

  28. Extended Profile

    Synopsis:

    • a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
    • social media girlboss
    • actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
    • time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
    • Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

    Truisms:

    • Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
    • I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
    • That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

    Personal sites:

    I also run issuepedia.org and htyp.org but nobody knows why.

    Details

    My legal name is:
    Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
    (...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

    I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

    We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

    I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

    Things I sometimes do:

    • post original music
    • write about #JennyHypertwin
    • escalate the War on Bullshit
    • write lots of unfinished software
    • administer TootCat
    • complain about tech (mainly software)
    • feel inadequate
    • take photos of clouds

    (If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

    I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

    I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

    Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

    I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

    I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

    (I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

    My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

    (* exited from Windows)

  29. Extended Profile

    Synopsis:

    • a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
    • social media girlboss
    • actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
    • time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
    • Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

    Truisms:

    • Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
    • I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
    • That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

    Personal sites:

    I also run issuepedia.org and htyp.org but nobody knows why.

    Details

    My legal name is:
    Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
    (...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

    I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

    We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

    I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

    Things I sometimes do:

    • post original music
    • write about #JennyHypertwin
    • escalate the War on Bullshit
    • write lots of unfinished software
    • administer TootCat
    • complain about tech (mainly software)
    • feel inadequate
    • take photos of clouds

    (If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

    I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

    I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

    Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

    I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

    I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

    (I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

    My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

    (* exited from Windows)

  30. Extended Profile

    Synopsis:

    • a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
    • social media girlboss
    • actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
    • time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
    • Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

    Truisms:

    • Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
    • I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
    • That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

    Personal sites:

    I also run issuepedia.org and htyp.org but nobody knows why.

    Details

    My legal name is:
    Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
    (...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

    I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

    We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

    I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

    Things I sometimes do:

    • post original music
    • write about #JennyHypertwin
    • escalate the War on Bullshit
    • write lots of unfinished software
    • administer TootCat
    • complain about tech (mainly software)
    • feel inadequate
    • take photos of clouds

    (If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

    I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

    I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

    Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

    I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

    I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

    (I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

    My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

    (* exited from Windows)