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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.
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Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.

www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neandertal recipe with lentils and grain
Looking at a fascinating new study that finds mixtures of different plants within ancient morsels of charred foods.
www.johnhawks.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Mr Fancy Paws
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This leads me to say something really controversial. Reconnecting Natives should reconnect with their relatives and their Native Nation BEFORE they use that reconnection as a platform, otherwise they are pouring from an empty cup.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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And let's just hit the glaring nail that nobody seems to focus on.

Whether he was Native or not he was writing about and selling his fantasy of our communities, when he openly admitted to not connecting with our communities.

People writing about us but not talking to us needs examined
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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so I have finally started digging the trench in the garden for the French drain

would you all like to guess what I found
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Did I buy books already? I did. 😅
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I believe this is what ICE is calling "a beard being ripped from an officer’s face" by a Chicago protestor x.com/ICEgov/statu...
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Clavija is a Neotropical genus of 56 spp, some of which, like this C. weberbaueri, are litter-trapping Schopfbaum treelets. They have strappy leaves in rosettes that capture litter. For more information on litter-trapping, see our paper: doi.org/10.1111/boj....
#Primulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This might be higher res (still a screenshot from the PDF of the book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Still a draft; the Yiddish got reversed by the design program and fixed later.
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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When it’s past your bedtime but you have told there will be meatloaf. 💕

She looks so adorably sad. Look at that lump of a dog. (She’s very well taken care of and much loved. Don’t worry about her.) Haha
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Semi-relatedly, I can vouch that I was in a room full of French publishers and booksellers and all of them were LOSING THEIR FULL MINDS over ARCs of this novel

The level of excitement and passion and delight and curiosity for it was like drinking a double espresso, it brought me back to LIFE
MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Cops killed about the same number of Black people in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020. 2019 was slightly more.

There was another jump in 2021, setting a new record.

2022 higher than 2021. New record.

2023 higher than 2022. New record.

2024 higher than 2023. All time high.

2025 is back down to 2016.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A Sun-Times analysis found the city is missing out on more than $1 billion in ambulance payments, utility bills, red-light camera tickets and other debts that have gone unpaid since December 2023.
Debts owed to City Hall rise $1 billion since early in Mayor Johnson's term, money his budget could sure use
chicago.suntimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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RELEASE ME.

AM NOT CRIMBINAL.

DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Kittens are pretty good though. Carolina is leading the way and squashing her brother into submission.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Gone, but not forgotten
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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While I'm at it, here's the intro.

The rest is--well, subscribe! The New Atlantis publishes a lot of good stuff about science/tech/society. Don't agree with all of it by any means, but every issue has something worthwhile.
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Shameless plug:

For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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We don’t let leaders who stand up to fascism do so alone.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM