Volkan Özçelik 🦄
True story.
Feb 3, 2023 at 7:45amWeb
Show threadAethylredFeb 3, 2023
@volkan the scientists at the bottom are discovering something much more interesting too
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 4, 2023
@aethylred yeah; that makes the pain and suffering bearable :)
Show threadepfiFeb 4, 2023
@aethylred @volkan Their physical and psychological limits?
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 4, 2023

@epfi @aethylred LOL :D

Sometimes I want to don an orange robe, move to Tibet, and become a monk.

Show threadOdradekFeb 4, 2023
@volkan I wouldn't say sir karl raimund p. was right, but as this story is so true, he a least was on to something the other neopositivists didn't understand until today. philosphie of science means some kind of hate-love for popper …
Show threadBen KimFeb 4, 2023
@volkan @holgi and even in an „eureka“ moment they’re more likely to say “huh?” or “that’s strange…”.
Show threademmatonkinFeb 4, 2023

@ben_kim @volkan @holgi

yeah.

"Hmm, that's interesting' == hold your hats, we're about to either discover a fundamental issue with our methodology or make a lot of other people say "hmm, that's interesting'.

Show threadPterryFeb 4, 2023
@volkan hey, thats my favourite by @twisteddoodles. (She has an account here, but she doesn't use it that often, I think. Yet.)
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 4, 2023
@Pterry @twisteddoodles great to know. Will follow! I live her content.
Show threadStoneface VimesFeb 4, 2023
@volkan and occasionally, if they're lucky, "ooh, that's interesting, why did it do that?"
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 4, 2023

@capnthommo oddly enough , that happens to me too :)

I end up figureouting things by sheer dumb luck.

And people are like “how did you do that?”

Well you try out enough random shit, it is statistically almost certain that you will bump into something useful :D

Show threadMarcusCSCFeb 4, 2023
@volkan like an episode of the Osbourne’s
Show threadUrsaFeb 4, 2023
@volkan then there are those wonderfully ambiguous ones like : 'That's wierd', 'huh', and 'why did it do that?'
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 5, 2023

@UrsaAshBear
It’s dualistic:
“I do not understand why it did that.”
(Next iteration: It doesn’t do that.)
“I do not understand why it did not do that.”

:D

Show threadDom BrastedFeb 4, 2023
@volkan
I so wish I could put this in my classroom. But I can't see a primary school accepting it.
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 5, 2023
@dombrasted
Lost of black sharpie censorship would help maybe :)
Show threadflywheelFeb 5, 2023

@volkan

Hmmrmm - that tastes funny!

Show threadChrist van WillegenFeb 5, 2023
@volkan also, "Eureka!" is Greek for "This bath is too hot!"
Show threadRachel GreenhamFeb 10, 2023
@volkan but just occasionally the “that’s odd” they live for…
Show threadPatrickleeFeb 23, 2023
@volkan “I just proved my Doctoral thesis completely false!”
Show threadVolkan Özçelik 🦄Feb 23, 2023
@patricklee :)
Show threadPatrickleeFeb 23, 2023

@volkan should I have said “crap, I just…”

Btw I know someone who did exactly that and still had to defend his thesis.

Show threadChertRidgeMar 15, 2025
@volkan "Hmmm that looks funny" or "it's not supposed to work like that"
Show threadAndreas NeustifterMar 15, 2025
@volkan @kobajo Same goes for software developers.
Show thread天 Oğuz Meteer 天Mar 15, 2025

@volkan Nooo, that can't be true. I've neeeeever said something like that... Nope, never...

:')