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I’m a professional fire/sideshow performer and certified freak. I know a lot about things that are weird, morbid, or dangerous. I also have a split tongue and love to show it off. I’m fun at parties :)

Ask me anything I guess?

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I also have a split tongue and love to show it off. I’m fun at parties :)

Is this your way of flirting?

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I have a partner so not really? If anything it made dating harder because people are scared of it and I was always upfront about it. Other freaks love it however, as do dentists lol

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Other freaks love it however

Useful dating advice

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Why do dentists love it?

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How dangerous are these fire shows for the performers?

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Incredibly, but good fire performers are insured professionals for a reason. In addition to the obvious dangers of burns and fire spreading, fire eaters and breathers risk chemical pneumonia. Sword swallowers risk permeated stomachs.

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I’ve always wanted a split tongue. Does it make a difference when it comes to eating ass/lickin clits/penii?

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Hard to say since I’ve had it since 2017. It still functions the same as a regular tongue but has additional features so make of that what you will. Fwiw I’m a gay woman.

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Name checks out

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Who certifies freaks and what does the certificate entitle you to?

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That was a joke, there’s no certification. But I’m part of the longest running permanent sideshow in the US and have a forked tongue

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Acoustic propagation. I design large format PA systems and as a result need to know both how to make sound and stop sound at a large scale. It is entirely possible and actually relatively easy to be super precise with where sound goes or doesn’t go. The problem is cost.

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Noticed you haven’t been getting any feedback on this. That’s probably a good thing right? ;)

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How do I subscribe to acoustic propagation facts?

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Just say it out loud. He’ll find you.

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Confirmed they are a bat.

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Just message me, you’ll get some!

So a lot of people are aware of active noise cancellation that you find in headphones nowadays, that works in large scale as well. The first time that type of technology was used was in the greatful dead’s wall of sound. The problem is it’s expensive to do large scale.

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A really painful type of coordinate transformation I once had to develop to try and shed some insight on Hawking radiation near black holes.

Unfortunately the results were fucking ugly and I gave up trying to understand them, largely due to the fact that except under very specific circumstances they’re basically impossible to calculate (you get something similar to divide by zero errors).

Nice case:

Not nice case:

There was a ton more related stuff I could have spent a PhD working on, but life didn’t really allow it (and frankly I’m okay with that, I’m actually doing enjoyable stuff for the first time in my life instead of fighting my brain).

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Are you a post-doc now? If so, congrats! If you dont mind me asking, what exactly was your research about (not a physics/mathy person so ELI5 would be appreciated)

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Nah, I never even started a PhD mostly due to financial circumstances. But I’ve since realised I kinda hated academia because of untreated ADHD lol. I may go back to it one day after I’ve got treatment sorted but I really doubt it, I found my passion in music instead.

I’ll try and ELI5 haha. Think of a black hole like a battery, stuff falls in to charge it and then it discharges by tickling empty space into creating particles. The problem is that the particles it creates seem to be random, which means it acts like a big delete button for the stuff that fell inside. Due to quantum stuff, this shouldn’t be possible, so some process could exist to encode the information about the original stuff onto the particles that leave the black hole. Importantly this doesn’t actually mean the particles that leave have to be the same as what fell in, you just need to able to look at them and then reconstruct it. Kinda like if you scrambled a book in a way which makes it look random, but is actually a secret code that still has the whole story contained inside.

My research was to look for that information being written on the particles leaving the black hole, basically by comparing how space and time outside the black hole changes over time and seeing what it does to the tickling.

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Holy shit that’s insanely cool actually. But yea academia does get kinda ridiculous sometimes, I’m glad you found your passion for music instead!

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Assuming you meant ticking , but that is a great insight and perspective to research from!

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Compared to people around me I seem to know a lot about fashion history, textiles and clothing in general.

Hot tip, like literally a hot tip, if you’re having trouble being miserable in the hot weather this summer, try wearing 100% cotton, loose fitting clothes that cover your skin. 100% Linen or a linen/rayon blend is even better but pricey. Wear a hat. Polyester, acrylic, spandex, microfiber, they’re all plastics that not only insulate you but don’t absorb your sweat. That “moisture wicking technology” athletic clothing is always going on about is total bullshit. Wear a linen shirt in the sun with a breeze and marvel at the magic of evaporative cooling. Covering your skin with a hat and sleeves not only helps prevent sunburn, but is also your own portable shade. You know how much cooler it is in the shade, right?

You might look at pictures of old timey people all dressed in big dresses and long sleeve shirts and waistcoats in the old west and think “wow they must have been so uncomfortable!” but I bet you they were more comfortable than you in your polyester. Just ask a reenactor!

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Imagine a Venn Diagram with three circles:

Ships and their electronics
Linux servers
Industrial robotics

I’m in the middle where all of those intersect. Pays well.

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Have you read how to avoid huge ships?

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Kind of hard in my line of work.

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Found the guy who blocked the Suez canal

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Its a sea-men-al work in the business

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I want that book! But gods, I’m not paying that.

For those not in the know, read the reviews.

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Each one of these recommendations raises more questions that previous one.

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A ship, a Linux server, and an industrial robot enter a bar.

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…and the bartender asks: “Is my geophysical survey data ready yet?”

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And the industrial robot asks: “Why does a bartender need geophysical survey data?”

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Sounds like this man is about to hack a Gibson

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