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Patrick Frawley
@geisty.bsky.social
Assistant professor of math, University of Bridgeport. Manhattanite boulevardier. Life partner, dad, fond of evolved civilization, knows entirely too much about old sports cars. Contemnit procellas.
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Lapsed/recovering Catholic here, will vouch for this up and down. Mass is a time to make mental grocery lists and weigh trading in the Mazda. The closest you get to ecumenical concerns is half-listening to the occasional windy sermon when you wonder in just which century the celebrant lives.

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The Instagram ad algorithm has discovered #weirdcarbs

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Danny Ric's done. Raise a shoe. Seriously, gonna miss him. www.instagram.com/p/DAYtY1FtSFP/

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Possibly the only good thing that Eric Adams ever did was force me to get my equivocating ass off the “I’m a left-leaning independent” fence and register as a Democrat specifically because I regret not being able to vote against him in the primary. We’re better off with him out of office asap.

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Newest Road & Track email: - hyperpower Lexus coupe! - hyperpower Toyota hatchback! - hyperpower Jeep restomod! - Porsche Cayenne launched off parking structure into tree Irony is not dead.

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36 spokes at 268mm spoke length - symmetrical, slightly unusual for a rear wheel - with 2.6mm hub holes. Would love to get DT Swiss again but need to see if I can get fewer than 100 and not pay like $90. A good full afternoon project.

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Imminent project: rebuilding the rear wheel on the Linus. Having forty-plus pounds of toddler who loves riding with me directly over the axle for much of the summer has taken its toll. One broken spoke already, everything deeply slack, just unsafe for anything right now.

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Have you ever gotten up to go do something, walk into the next room, and totally forget what you were there to do? That's DOORWAY EFFECT, a well-studied phenomenon where crossing a boundary subconsciously shifts our focus from short-term memory to a state of alerted awareness.

A four-panel comic colored in red with a cartoony human rushing through a door, then saying "Wait, what was I doing?", then "Ha, doorway effect" and finally "you walk into a room and forget important tasks".  Meanwhile in panel 4, it's revealed that a murderer with a knife is just out of frame in the other room.
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Patrick Frawley
@geisty.bsky.social
Assistant professor of math, University of Bridgeport. Manhattanite boulevardier. Life partner, dad, fond of evolved civilization, knows entirely too much about old sports cars. Contemnit procellas.
191 followers190 following2.4k posts