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50 something. Genetics PhD. Native plant nerd. Wife. Mom. DMV. she/her
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
What’s the best Xmas cookie and why is it snowballs? #CookieParty
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What’s the best Xmas cookie and why is it snowballs? #CookieParty
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bro we are being conquered by neo-confederate pedophile christian fascists dawg they are turning the cities into internal colonies for extraction
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
bro we are being conquered by neo-confederate pedophile christian fascists dawg they are turning the cities into internal colonies for extraction
Got some snow! ❄️
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Got some snow! ❄️
These took me all gahdamn day. Please clap.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
These took me all gahdamn day. Please clap.
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. Hope everybody has a pigeon day today. 🕊️
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. Hope everybody has a pigeon day today. 🕊️
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Reminder that *every* day is a good day to vote with your dollars.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder that *every* day is a good day to vote with your dollars.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
TWO! Count them, Two turkeys!
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
TWO! Count them, Two turkeys!
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
/1
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
/1
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
/1
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
It is the season of heated mattresses, heated chairs, wool beanies, wool socks, hot tea, and anything else that can keep me thawed out until March.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It is the season of heated mattresses, heated chairs, wool beanies, wool socks, hot tea, and anything else that can keep me thawed out until March.
I’m beginning to feel like Snow White. Today a red tailed hawk and yesterday a fox.
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I’m beginning to feel like Snow White. Today a red tailed hawk and yesterday a fox.
We meet again, Neighborhood Fox. Carry on and good hunting. 🦊
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
We meet again, Neighborhood Fox. Carry on and good hunting. 🦊
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
Car charging overnight; self watered, fed, washed, pajamaed, dosed, and in bed! 8:30 pm
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Car charging overnight; self watered, fed, washed, pajamaed, dosed, and in bed! 8:30 pm
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Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age
This is some weapons-grade nonsense
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age
Ran into the neighbors on my walk.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ran into the neighbors on my walk.
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A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
New (for me) garden vegetable unlocked! Parsnips. Planted in early spring, harvested mid November zone 7. 🌱
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New (for me) garden vegetable unlocked! Parsnips. Planted in early spring, harvested mid November zone 7. 🌱
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If you're wondering why they'd run a cover up that looked so much like a clumsy cover up when there were so many better ways to elide the facts, remember that these are the stupidest people in America
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
If you're wondering why they'd run a cover up that looked so much like a clumsy cover up when there were so many better ways to elide the facts, remember that these are the stupidest people in America
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A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?