Kate Gregory
@gregcons.bsky.social
I advise, develop, mentor, write, and speak. C++ mostly. One of the Carbon leads. Limited availability; you can ask. Want me to speak? http://gregcons.com/SpeakerKit.aspx She/her.
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LeGuin wire this in 1992 but we are still governed by pathetic worms that don't even notice that they are only talking to and about themselves. I always think about this piece when folks like this use the phrase 'your wife' languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Introduc...
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
LeGuin wire this in 1992 but we are still governed by pathetic worms that don't even notice that they are only talking to and about themselves. I always think about this piece when folks like this use the phrase 'your wife' languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Introduc...
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NEW tracks in the field: Frédéric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
NEW tracks in the field: Frédéric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Re-upping this because I undersold it and I'm practicing representing myself better. I really like my blog. Some of my favourite thoughts are there. Yes, I need to tidy it, but if you like me & what I post here, you'll like the 6 posts of this thread & you'll know me better for reading them.
Today for #Sarahs60 I'm moving to sharing some things I've done. Specifically my Blog heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/thoughts-spa... Its a bit dormant, quite eclectic, but heritage focused. Posts aren't properly cited, which I sometimes regret, but they do have links. So, 6 blog posts
Heritage for Transformation
News on the best uses of Heritage for social and organisational change
heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Re-upping this because I undersold it and I'm practicing representing myself better. I really like my blog. Some of my favourite thoughts are there. Yes, I need to tidy it, but if you like me & what I post here, you'll like the 6 posts of this thread & you'll know me better for reading them.
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big fan of whichever city hall staff came up with using .cityof. for handles
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
big fan of whichever city hall staff came up with using .cityof. for handles
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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a surprisingly cogent case that the trump administration is significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel and especially their cryptocurrency fueled money laundering operation
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
a surprisingly cogent case that the trump administration is significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel and especially their cryptocurrency fueled money laundering operation
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Asking for help finding a quote - I'm sure I've read someone saying 'your best ideas will either be ignored or misinterpreted, you don't get to choose which' - anyone know who said this? Link to the correct quote?
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Asking for help finding a quote - I'm sure I've read someone saying 'your best ideas will either be ignored or misinterpreted, you don't get to choose which' - anyone know who said this? Link to the correct quote?
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To make up for this, I have just spent 10 minutes failing to figure out how to turn these notifications off
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
To make up for this, I have just spent 10 minutes failing to figure out how to turn these notifications off
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Does this... need explanation?
NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and heartache.
Opinion: My kind of holiday song
NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and heartache.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Does this... need explanation?
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6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
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First Friday Holiday Night Market returns to downtown #Ptbo on December 5. Outdoor market in the Bankers Commons Courtyard features 24 local artists and makers, four local musicians, and food and drink from five downtown restaurants. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/30/f...
First Friday Holiday Night Market returns to downtown Peterborough on December 5 | kawarthaNOW
By Megan Gallant. Outdoor market in the Bankers Commons Courtyard features 24 local artists and makers, four local musicians, and food and drink from five downtown restaurants.
kawarthanow.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
First Friday Holiday Night Market returns to downtown #Ptbo on December 5. Outdoor market in the Bankers Commons Courtyard features 24 local artists and makers, four local musicians, and food and drink from five downtown restaurants. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/30/f...
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Not mentioned, but another sensible option is to just rent a truck for the few hours a year you may actually need one. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not mentioned, but another sensible option is to just rent a truck for the few hours a year you may actually need one. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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And he made Janet run all that defence for a while, before the horrors of ICE cranked way up. When the belligerence to Canada was on going. Now he still does this.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
Trump went golfing with Wayne Gretzky today. That's FOX host Brett Baier on the right. Trump posted this on his Truth Social account.
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And he made Janet run all that defence for a while, before the horrors of ICE cranked way up. When the belligerence to Canada was on going. Now he still does this.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
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I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
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Happy St. Andrew’s Day!
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Happy St. Andrew’s Day!
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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til as recently as 1990 people would routinely fall out from british trains and _die_ and the explanation for this was "well... this is probably their fault... must've been drunk" with _no specific evidence for such_?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuu...
A Five Body Problem: The Mystery Of the Tamworth Triangle
YouTube video by Plainly Difficult
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
til as recently as 1990 people would routinely fall out from british trains and _die_ and the explanation for this was "well... this is probably their fault... must've been drunk" with _no specific evidence for such_?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuu...
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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Today's #Sarahs60 is 6 authors. I love Bluesky for authors, find lots of new favourites. I also follow @runalongwomble.bsky.social who asks 'what are you reading?' every Sunday. Great way to hear what other people enjoy. 6 is a tiny # so think of it as a snapshot & apologies all those I leave out
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today's #Sarahs60 is 6 authors. I love Bluesky for authors, find lots of new favourites. I also follow @runalongwomble.bsky.social who asks 'what are you reading?' every Sunday. Great way to hear what other people enjoy. 6 is a tiny # so think of it as a snapshot & apologies all those I leave out
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Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
![The arrangement was difficult for Meitner at first. Women were not yet admitted to universities in the German state of the Kingdom of Prussia, which included Berlin. Meitner was allowed to work in the wood shop, which had its own external entrance, but she could not enter the rest of the institute, including Hahn's laboratory space upstairs. If she wanted to go to the toilet, she had to use one at the restaurant down the street. The following year, women were admitted to Prussian universities, and Fischer lifted the restrictions, and had women's toilets installed in the building. Not all the chemists were happy about this.[27] The Institute of Physics was more accepting, and she became friends with the physicists there,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d33ov6qj5n2yhs27nyvpkpt2/bafkreid7qqgtnz4icdy5gotc6xac4z6cy734fpp6lcw2c7dxqewt6g4p2q@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪