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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 10h

Formula is expensive, but it saves lives.

Reach out if you need help paying for formula.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

btw if wic gets cut and you’re short on formula, do not water down your baby’s formula.

ask for help and trust people will show up to make sure your baby stays fed.

let me know and i’ll make sure of it.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 6d

With inputs like this, what could go wrong?

Male writers writing female characters:
"Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards."

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 8d

Exactly. It's the perception, not the reality. Nelson passing right before the highest-visibility event of the year led people to pay closer attention during the interregnum, which makes it seem longer.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 8d

Based on reviewing the timelines for previous transitions, I think we're right on track for Dallin Oaks to be ordained Prophet of the LDS/Mormon church today.

Thanks to @maclements.bsky.social @jblainefoster.bsky.social and others for helpful info!

From the mormon community on Reddit: Reorganizing the First Presidency

Explore this post and more from the mormon community

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 8d

Thank you! This makes sense for their regular meetings. It would also be convenient logistically for ordaining Oaks, but I suspect they would want to use a "full" temple for that purpose.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 9d

Curious to see if anyone spots and reports Q15 going into another temple in SL valley tomorrow.

Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 9d

@benjaminepark.bsky.social Q: my understanding is that the new LDS president is ordained in the SL Temple, either in the Q15 meeting room or Holy of Holies. Where might Oaks be ordained? Is another temple similarly equipped? I'm guessing this will occur tomorrow, if tradition holds.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 14d

I hope Jason Mendoza saw that one, wherever he is on the Jeremy Bearimy.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 16d

Do you have a preferred name for the universe of your books connected to -14-? I've seen "Koturoverse" on some sites, but not sure if that's the official/preferred name.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 21d

Educated is such a good book. A few years ago I was driving down from Rexburg area to Cache Valley, and Google took me right past the drive up to the Westovers' mountain homestead/essential oils business. Unsurprisingly, they had put up an "Ammon Bundy for governor" sign.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 22d

Rieger still using the DOD seal on his memo while calling it "Department of War".

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 22d

I was in Nauvoo recently, and everything and everyone there (only slightly exaggerated) still venerates Hinckley for rebuilding the Nauvoo temple. I think Nelson was trying for the same thing with SL Temple, but didn't get it done before he passed. He still got the headstone, though.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 23d

This won't convince anyone that believes in cryptids like the chupacabra and meritocracy, but come on. These people are attacking the arc of the moral universe with sledgehammers to bend it away from justice.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23d

Trust the evidence of your eyes and ears

Corporate boards hire white men at fastest rate in years amid Trump's DEI purge www.axios.com/2025/09/26/t...

Corporate boards hire white men at fastest rate in years amid Trump's DEI purge

At S&P 500 companies this year, white men made up a majority of new directors for the first time since 2017.

www.axios.com

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 26d

I have never watched Jimmy Kimmel, but you can bet I watched tonight.

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 27d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

youtu.be

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 27d

Are we sure Liz didn't get raptured? I heard that was coming today 😂

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 29d

So good.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 18

Got that Black Friday deal? I know I did. Will not be getting it this year.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 16

Since I'm no longer doing the scientific research I did in grad school, can I refer to myself as a quondam physicist? 😆

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 16

I think my confusion was based on analyzing like this:
"erst" - don't know, ignore
"while" - continuing

Now, I use "erstwhile"="erste Weile" (German: first time period) [one that is no longer ongoing]

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 16

Another one, at least for me, is "erstwhile"

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 12

I believe 2050 was the first start year you could build fusion power plants in Sim City 2000, so this tracks :)

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 12

I am not a physician, and certainly not Trump's physician.

I had Bell's palsy for almost a week last year, and I am in my 30s. It went away with a short course of Prednisone.

I am also not a wannabe fascist dictator who is so insecure he can never admit to any human frailty.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 10

Yes, would be more accurate to say that a DNews *reporter* is reporting it.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Sep 6

Malin Åkerman is a treasure.

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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · Aug 25

For now, yes. Thanks to the supremacy clause of the Constitution, federal child labor laws apply in Utah. This despite our senator's weird interpretation of the Tenth Amendment.

U.S. Senator: Federal Child Labor Laws Are Unconstitutional

www.huffpost.com

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