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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 1h

A very happy birthday to Pidgey!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 1h

Adopted pidgey two years ago!!! Everybody say happy birthday to pidgey!!!

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1h

That is one big floofy fella, i love him

The Bellingham Herald
Feb 23, 1940

photo of a young woman and a large dog with a very floofy head, fur like a cloud poofed on his head, tongue lolling
T U N N E Y'S D O C—Rare entry in recent Westminster Ken•
nel club show. New York, was this Komondorock, Pannonia
Pandur, who won best-of-breed. Girl is Margaret Dorrlamm. The.
dog's owned by Gene Tunney and Tibor de Cholnoky

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 2h

WHOOPS, a portal to hell just opened up in the floor

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 2h

TWIST: it's actually a vote on "best sandwich"

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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EmZeeGee @emzeegee.bsky.social · 3h

Perhaps if we had our society organized in a more just and humane way, we wouldn’t be reliant on the care of spouses (mostly women) or adult children (mostly daughters or daughters in law) to care for and manage the logistics of care for the elderly.

Maybe *that’s* the problem.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all.

Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 4h

Tomorrow is TOMATO MADNESS when I make sauce out of the billion tomatoes from my garden (and also a few extra bags' worth that my dad dropped off) 🥫🥫🥫🥫

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 5h

Could this be more incompetent?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5h

Update from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error. Gift link: nyti.ms/48JjSSf

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 4h

Curséd

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 4h

I don’t mind cleaning the kitchen but I can’t accept that I have to do it every day forever

Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 5h

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan.
Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

My tees are on sale this weekend! Grab yourself a “Be Queer, Do Space Crimes” for 35% off… and help keep this writer writing. ☺️🫶🏾🖖🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#queerwriters #lgbtq

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Be Queer, Do Space Crimes by distant-worlds-inc

The rallying cry for LGBTQ+ science fiction fans, a play on the old gay liberation slogan, “Be Gay, Do Crime.”

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 6h

POTATO MADNESS: I finally assembled all of my odds and ends of bags of potatoes, and I'm roasting three baking sheets' worth of diced potatoes (with different seasonings on each)

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 9h

Ahhhhhh!! That's a good idea, I have lots of those

I waged a war against pantry moths years ago and it was one of the worst times of my life 😭

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 9h

In the ads, it shows people putting garlic cloves and star anise in the little compartment and it says it's for "pest control" or something

If you put anything like that in your rice bins (or oxygen absorbers, etc.), please let me know if it works!

A person putting star anise and garlic cloves into a small compartment in a plastic rice bin

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 9h

UPDATE: I did it without making a gigantic mess everywhere!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you all for your helpful tips, which I put to good use!

Two big 25-pound containers full of jasmine and basmati rice, which I amazingly did NOT spill all over my basement!!!!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 11h

If I hadn't had a great special education teacher, I would not be a writer today. I might not be anywhere, doing anything. Special education changes and saves lives.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 12h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 11h

Surrealist painter Georges Malkine and His Meezer, photographed by Man Ray. Used by André Breton to illustrate the article “Surrealism in 1929,” published in the review Variétés.

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 10h

What have they ever done for ME???

The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 10h

Those are basically like colonoscopy prep, from what I hear 😱

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 10h

They're just so good!! I may or may not be browsing the internet for a giant bag right now 😄

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 11h

My worst trait is that I see articles like this (or about, say, food recalls) and immediately think "Man, I could really go for some of those right now"

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 11h

3 kg of Haribo cola bottles = 6.6 pounds, by the way (if you're a Non-Metric like me)

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The Late Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no, this could definitely be me someday! Especially this part

Even though Mr Rimmington started to feel unwell after day one, he continued to feast on the chewy treats.

He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

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