Monoid Mary
@argumatronic.bsky.social
solarpunk hillbilly, anti-authoritarian, homeschooling mother, vaccination proponent
sometimes philosophy (ethics), linguistics, math, and computers
i get my glory in the desert rain
sometimes philosophy (ethics), linguistics, math, and computers
i get my glory in the desert rain
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Monoid Mary
@argumatronic.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Mothers
she knows the shape you're in
thestore.substack.com
for those of you who know me from elsewhere, i haven't been doing social media a lot, but i have been trying to write more on substack. i wrote this on mother's day, and ... it's kinda still where i'm at. trying to figure out how to enter a new phase of my life.
thestore.substack.com/p/mothers
thestore.substack.com/p/mothers
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Major brands, including Perdue, Butterball, and Costco, have been in violation of salmonella standards for years, according to a new report. Industry reps say contaminated chicken is not a public health threat, since properly cooking poultry kills the bacteria.
Poultry Plants Consistently Violate Salmonella Standards, Report Finds
Perdue, Butterball, and Costco are among the companies that break food safety rules. Industry reps say contaminated chicken is not a danger.
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Major brands, including Perdue, Butterball, and Costco, have been in violation of salmonella standards for years, according to a new report. Industry reps say contaminated chicken is not a public health threat, since properly cooking poultry kills the bacteria.
this year is going to be the first halloween IN 20 YEARS that i haven't had a pumpkin carved by my elder son on my front porch and i'm having an unexpectedly hard time with this seemingly insignificant rite of passage, a milestone no one tells you about
October 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
this year is going to be the first halloween IN 20 YEARS that i haven't had a pumpkin carved by my elder son on my front porch and i'm having an unexpectedly hard time with this seemingly insignificant rite of passage, a milestone no one tells you about
this is praxis
I think it is good to support people who don't want to get a "straight job"
October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
this is praxis
i think things got a little broken around the pandemic, and then humans bifurcated into extremely online people who never recovered socially from the pandemic and the rest of us who gradually returned to regular life. it hasn't always been easy to rebuild, but it's happening, slowly.
Someone should start a nostalgia-bait account that's just pictures of the present day, college kids playing volley ball on the beach in Santa Cruz, leafy New England villages, cub scouts roasting marshmallows around a campfire. It's all still happening, you just aren't doing it.
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i think things got a little broken around the pandemic, and then humans bifurcated into extremely online people who never recovered socially from the pandemic and the rest of us who gradually returned to regular life. it hasn't always been easy to rebuild, but it's happening, slowly.
my favorite thing is when i do something to a computer and it doesn't work, and then chris comes over and does the exact same thing and it does work. it has happened enough times that i'm going to embroider "bring your dick over here, honey, the computer isn't working" on a throw pillow.
"it doesn't feel like working today" is a phrase I've been hearing about computers since they first put a couple into the classrooms in elementary school. It has ALWAYS just been a flaky and unreliable way of working
October 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
my favorite thing is when i do something to a computer and it doesn't work, and then chris comes over and does the exact same thing and it does work. it has happened enough times that i'm going to embroider "bring your dick over here, honey, the computer isn't working" on a throw pillow.
yeah, this is the dream!
Love community canning spaces so much for connecting with neighbors, learning how to preserve food, building culture, and addressing food insecurity.
Op-ed: Let’s Preserve Our Communities Through Canning Food
Community canneries can bring people together, encourage food sovereignty and healthy local food systems, and even mitigate climate change.
civileats.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
yeah, this is the dream!
once again: BEANS
October 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
once again: BEANS
there are a lot of humans who will kill you if the mood strikes them, but i am not sure that makes it ok to eat them
i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them
they would 100% eat us if given the chance
they would 100% eat us if given the chance
October 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
there are a lot of humans who will kill you if the mood strikes them, but i am not sure that makes it ok to eat them
it's still sort of crazy to me that you can come right out and tell people exactly what is happening and nothing will change. you don't need a grand secret conspiracy.
bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.
bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it's still sort of crazy to me that you can come right out and tell people exactly what is happening and nothing will change. you don't need a grand secret conspiracy.
bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.
bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.
it's true
as this year's gardening season comes to its rapid close in montana, I just want to make one observation: beans
October 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
it's true
i just brought in like ten pounds of vegetables from the garden, then realized i was very hungry and thought, huh i wonder if there's anything to eat
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i just brought in like ten pounds of vegetables from the garden, then realized i was very hungry and thought, huh i wonder if there's anything to eat
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The deficiency of traditional software is failing to ever take *any* cues from knowledge of what is statistically likely to be wanted.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The deficiency of traditional software is failing to ever take *any* cues from knowledge of what is statistically likely to be wanted.
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favo(u)rable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." -- Churchill
October 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favo(u)rable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." -- Churchill
"in 1929, the Presidential Committee on Recent Economic Changes published its gleeful conclusion:
'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"
'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"
September 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"in 1929, the Presidential Committee on Recent Economic Changes published its gleeful conclusion:
'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"
'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"
@gradguard.bsky.social hey we have been trying to get you to stop charging us for this ever since my son moved out of the dorm (end of May) and it never seems to stop. it's a hell of a scam you have going.
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@gradguard.bsky.social hey we have been trying to get you to stop charging us for this ever since my son moved out of the dorm (end of May) and it never seems to stop. it's a hell of a scam you have going.
the tribal health authority where we live is putting vending machines with things like emergency contraception, narcan, and lice treatment kits in them so people don't have to go to the store and can get these things more rapidly and with less stigma in emergencies
www.kpax.com/indiancountr...
www.kpax.com/indiancountr...
CSKT Tribal Health vending machines providing life-saving resources
A new type of vending machine stocked with life-saving resources is popping up across the Mission Valley.
www.kpax.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
the tribal health authority where we live is putting vending machines with things like emergency contraception, narcan, and lice treatment kits in them so people don't have to go to the store and can get these things more rapidly and with less stigma in emergencies
www.kpax.com/indiancountr...
www.kpax.com/indiancountr...
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actually "yank" is a pejorative, the correct term is "unwafflehoused"
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
actually "yank" is a pejorative, the correct term is "unwafflehoused"
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Programming language evolution was halted the minute a high-level language was shipped in browsers as a runtime
September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Programming language evolution was halted the minute a high-level language was shipped in browsers as a runtime
this is so cool
It's never occurred to me that it IS an assumption. This is the most astonishing start to a paper I've read in years:
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this is so cool
great little town. we go here almost every year on our anniversary .... which .... is tomorrow, i just realized. i guess we're not going this year lmao
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
great little town. we go here almost every year on our anniversary .... which .... is tomorrow, i just realized. i guess we're not going this year lmao
censorship is bad, and also jimmy kimmel is a misogynist fuck
sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story
sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
censorship is bad, and also jimmy kimmel is a misogynist fuck
sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story
sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story
i am becoming a galette truther. do not be fooled by the fancy french name.
galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit
just make pie and keep that juice in!
galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit
just make pie and keep that juice in!
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i am becoming a galette truther. do not be fooled by the fancy french name.
galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit
just make pie and keep that juice in!
galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit
just make pie and keep that juice in!
> To understand its function, they introduced the human version of the gene into mice. The result was a surprising change in the animals' vocalizations. Baby mice called to their mothers differently, and adult males altered their mating calls.
Genes reveal a secret history of language. New research shows that as populations mix, their languages borrow and change to surprisingly consistent extents, driven by social forces, not just cognitive limits. #Linguistics #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Genes
Beyond the Family Tree: How Genetic Admixture Rewrites the History of Language
Capturing language change through the genes
www.anthropology.net
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
> To understand its function, they introduced the human version of the gene into mice. The result was a surprising change in the animals' vocalizations. Baby mice called to their mothers differently, and adult males altered their mating calls.
it's decorative gourd season motherfuckers
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
it's decorative gourd season motherfuckers
my son's girlfriend found out i had never tasted a pawpaw (but really badly wanted to) so she made a trip back to Ohio (where she's from) just to get me some, so i am promoting her to future daughter-in-law. what an extraordinary fruit.
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
my son's girlfriend found out i had never tasted a pawpaw (but really badly wanted to) so she made a trip back to Ohio (where she's from) just to get me some, so i am promoting her to future daughter-in-law. what an extraordinary fruit.