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Axel Schmidt

@physics-axel

Physicist, nature lover

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I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s done that. 🤣

26.02.2026 07:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice cosplay, bro

07.02.2026 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?"
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 11 "Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears"

07.02.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...listener, and Toad, with no one to check his statements or criticise in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards....

07.02.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I read this delightful bit in The Wind and Willows and I wanted to share: "The mole drew his arm through Toad's, led him out into the open air, shoved him into a wicker chair, and made him tell him all his adventures from beginning to end, which Toad was only too willing to do. The mole was a good..

07.02.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’d support Robert Kraft getting inducted to the “Orchids of Asia” Hall-of-Fame.

04.02.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The priority of dissolving ICE is an absolute must for any federal politician that wants my support. This agency isn’t even old. Billie Eilish is older than ICE.

13.01.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Say what you want about the culture wars, but I haven’t seen too many drag queens shoot unarmed people in the head through their side window.

10.01.2026 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

09.01.2026 21:49 👍 19981 🔁 4776 💬 614 📌 240
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

08.01.2026 19:09 👍 20479 🔁 8555 💬 85 📌 805

Great. Pam Bondi managing the prosecution of Maduro. Just what I would hope for. 🙄

03.01.2026 16:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration of a snowy doorway, leading to a room with a fireplace, a Christmas tree, and presents. If you squint it looks like the Grateful Dead “stealie” logo.

An illustration of a snowy doorway, leading to a room with a fireplace, a Christmas tree, and presents. If you squint it looks like the Grateful Dead “stealie” logo.

Happy St. Stephen’s Day to all who celebrate!

27.12.2025 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Live long and prosper! I am so excited for you!

19.12.2025 18:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

About time!

14.12.2025 14:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

For anyone in Boston: we saw the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of A Christmas Carol today, and I thought it was superb, particularly the traditional carols used throughout. The cast was excellent, Marley was terrifying. Highly recommend!

commshakes.org/production/s...

08.12.2025 04:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure, doubles and triples are down, but this was one of the most exciting baseball seasons in my recent memory. I would rather MLB not punish innovation.
By analogy, take soccer. Could you imagine how stupid it would be if FIFA outlawed the 4-3-3? Or keepers playing out with their feet.

04.12.2025 21:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hah! I bet next he will say General Tso’s chicken should not be sweet! And he will argue it from first principles!

01.12.2025 17:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is genuinely hilarious! Go get ‘em, now-Ken!

01.12.2025 01:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Job interviewer: what would you say is your greatest weakness?
Me: whenever Run-Around by Blues Traveller comes on, I have to sing along at full volume, chorus, verses, even the harmonica part. I can’t stop it.

30.11.2025 00:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh man!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Stop! I gotta breathe!!! 😭😂

29.11.2025 03:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a night! Penguins top the Blue Jackets and Pitt gives Ohio State its first loss in men’s basketball. Take that, Columbus!

29.11.2025 03:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why does the NYTimes think I want to watch a video of the journalist reading their story? Like, dude, I have no idea who you are, just lemme read it myself.

26.11.2025 12:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

25.11.2025 01:57 👍 15498 🔁 3346 💬 292 📌 274

I admit I do like watching female coaches give a good yelling at male athletes, and watching them nod “yes, coach.” Wouldn’t wanna lose that.

25.11.2025 00:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for posting. That connection escaped me.

23.11.2025 04:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you need a quick pick-me-up, I saw a flyer today in DC that referred to the current administration as the “turd reich.”

17.11.2025 23:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of an email reading, "Dear Dr. Schmidt, I hope this message finds you well. Given your esteemed expertise and contributions to the field, we are honored to invite you to contribute an original research paper or a review paper to Surgical Technology International (STI)."

A screenshot of an email reading, "Dear Dr. Schmidt, I hope this message finds you well. Given your esteemed expertise and contributions to the field, we are honored to invite you to contribute an original research paper or a review paper to Surgical Technology International (STI)."

I bet "Surgery Technology International" would be excited to receive my latest paper on quasi-elastic electron scattering from light nuclei.

10.11.2025 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kahless tells us time is the one enemy no warrior can defeat. In the end, it is how you spent your that time matters most. Spend it being honorable, strong, and kind. Do this and time will not be your enemy, but your gift to those who will be glad to have known you.

07.11.2025 22:09 👍 418 🔁 120 💬 9 📌 2
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07.11.2025 12:44 👍 656 🔁 74 💬 42 📌 6
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this is objectively hilarious

05.11.2025 02:05 👍 7595 🔁 1219 💬 183 📌 283