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I thought I might share one of my new tattoos. A couple years ago, a dear friend and I coined the term “fish bag moment”

A fish bag moment might be sitting all alone in an empty new apartment after coming out and upending your life, or starting a new job in a brand new line of work because it’s closer to your dreams

It’s what happens when you take a leap of faith or make a hard decision for yourself, when the future is so hard to visualize and everything feels scary. You’re just a fish in a bag and you can’t see where you’re going

She said “I don’t like this feeling why would you get that tattooed on you”

And I said “because it means you’re on your way to a bigger aquarium 😌”

Actual pictures of molecules taken by IBM. 

This is the model of what pentacene looks like, and this is what it looked like in reality. 

These images were made using atomic force microscopy (source)

so in a way, they aren’t really pictures at all. They are graphs showing the electrical pull on a needle as it was passed over the molecule

a really thin fucking needle

wow

looking at bonds. wow. feeling them with thin machine finger.