Mary Aileen
@patchworkmouse.bsky.social
Retired librarian, crafter, glass-wearing reading geek.
She/her, mostly ace.
She/her, mostly ace.
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The first time I noticed this sign I asked if there was a reason they’d put it up or if was just preemptive.
“Oh, there’s ALWAYS a reason for the signs.”
“Oh, there’s ALWAYS a reason for the signs.”
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The first time I noticed this sign I asked if there was a reason they’d put it up or if was just preemptive.
“Oh, there’s ALWAYS a reason for the signs.”
“Oh, there’s ALWAYS a reason for the signs.”
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I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
Where To Get Vaccinated | Vaccine Information
Our curated list of links to help you locate vaccine centers by state, plus other tools to help you locate a vaccine resource near you.
www.vaccineinformation.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
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Before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
be sure to ask
what you can bring
as you would not want
to show up carrying nothing.
And
before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
before to test
for Covid and influenza
as you would not want
to show up carrying plagues.
tomorrow
be sure to ask
what you can bring
as you would not want
to show up carrying nothing.
And
before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
before to test
for Covid and influenza
as you would not want
to show up carrying plagues.
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
be sure to ask
what you can bring
as you would not want
to show up carrying nothing.
And
before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
before to test
for Covid and influenza
as you would not want
to show up carrying plagues.
tomorrow
be sure to ask
what you can bring
as you would not want
to show up carrying nothing.
And
before you attend a gathering
tomorrow
before to test
for Covid and influenza
as you would not want
to show up carrying plagues.
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
I had not heard this. Yikes.
By now
you have probably seen the news
about how bird flu
has “wiped out
nearly half of the females
in the world’s largest
elephant seal population,”
which is a tragic reminder
that we are in an era of plagues,
and that “we”
does not only refer to humans.
you have probably seen the news
about how bird flu
has “wiped out
nearly half of the females
in the world’s largest
elephant seal population,”
which is a tragic reminder
that we are in an era of plagues,
and that “we”
does not only refer to humans.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I had not heard this. Yikes.
::sniffle::
(20 years, here)
(20 years, here)
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
::sniffle::
(20 years, here)
(20 years, here)
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The email I just got from my CPAP supplies place should be an exhibit in a trial for crimes against humanity. "Hey, if you've met your out of pocket maximum, now is the perfect time to order all the things before your benefits reset!"
For a device that literally saves lives. Hague.
For a device that literally saves lives. Hague.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The email I just got from my CPAP supplies place should be an exhibit in a trial for crimes against humanity. "Hey, if you've met your out of pocket maximum, now is the perfect time to order all the things before your benefits reset!"
For a device that literally saves lives. Hague.
For a device that literally saves lives. Hague.
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Okay, I'm a technospeak geek: I admit it. But I am now in (almost certainly unrequited) LUURRRRVE with the phrase "heteromultivalent nanogel".
The study has been published in Angewandte Chemie. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🧵⬇️
• onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🧵⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Okay, I'm a technospeak geek: I admit it. But I am now in (almost certainly unrequited) LUURRRRVE with the phrase "heteromultivalent nanogel".
I once used four times too much cloves in a pumpkin pie, because I measured it thinking it was the cinnamon. SPICY!
I've never done that again.
No, but I just put twice too much in the one, because I thought I was measuring the ginger, not the cloves.
I've never done that again.
No, but I just put twice too much in the one, because I thought I was measuring the ginger, not the cloves.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I once used four times too much cloves in a pumpkin pie, because I measured it thinking it was the cinnamon. SPICY!
I've never done that again.
No, but I just put twice too much in the one, because I thought I was measuring the ginger, not the cloves.
I've never done that again.
No, but I just put twice too much in the one, because I thought I was measuring the ginger, not the cloves.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, too!
Just finished The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
I'm something of a sucker for books about the trials and tribulations of parents in a school community (being a veteran of same).
Delightful. Both funny and serious.
I'm something of a sucker for books about the trials and tribulations of parents in a school community (being a veteran of same).
Delightful. Both funny and serious.
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, too!
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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There are currently TWENTY THREE Great Pyr mixes at the Oregon Humane Society available for adoption, rescued from a huge neglect case out in Polk County. If you’ve ever wanted a LORG fren for your family, you can’t do much better than Pyrs.
Animal Details
Details about each animal available at the Oregon Humane Society.
www.oregonhumane.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There are currently TWENTY THREE Great Pyr mixes at the Oregon Humane Society available for adoption, rescued from a huge neglect case out in Polk County. If you’ve ever wanted a LORG fren for your family, you can’t do much better than Pyrs.
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From the Larchives. I guess it's time to post this cartoon for my American friends again :)
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
From the Larchives. I guess it's time to post this cartoon for my American friends again :)
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Happy Whale-iversary to all who celebrate! 🖖
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happy Whale-iversary to all who celebrate! 🖖
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This will only matter to like 4 of you but I've coordinated about 20 Disney trips in my life of big groups of friends and as such get asked for tips a lot. So a thread, apply none or all.
1) a backpack
2) in it, bring a spare pair of underwear in case you sweat through pair one
1) a backpack
2) in it, bring a spare pair of underwear in case you sweat through pair one
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This will only matter to like 4 of you but I've coordinated about 20 Disney trips in my life of big groups of friends and as such get asked for tips a lot. So a thread, apply none or all.
1) a backpack
2) in it, bring a spare pair of underwear in case you sweat through pair one
1) a backpack
2) in it, bring a spare pair of underwear in case you sweat through pair one
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Cooking the turkey? This is your reminder to check if the turkey fits in the roasting pan.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Cooking the turkey? This is your reminder to check if the turkey fits in the roasting pan.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
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When I see people saying "oh I don't want to do what TOURISTS do I need to do what the LOCALS do" I want to ask: go to work? go to the grocery store? watch Netflix after a long week?
I mean sure, get advice from locals on what to eat and where but sheesh
I mean sure, get advice from locals on what to eat and where but sheesh
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
When I see people saying "oh I don't want to do what TOURISTS do I need to do what the LOCALS do" I want to ask: go to work? go to the grocery store? watch Netflix after a long week?
I mean sure, get advice from locals on what to eat and where but sheesh
I mean sure, get advice from locals on what to eat and where but sheesh
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I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
Covid test negative, but this fever is going to keep my from spending Thanksgiving with my sister. (I should be on the road now!)
Emergency grocery delivery scheduled for later today, so that I will have something semi-festive to eat tomorrow. (Also milk, which I am almost out of.)
Emergency grocery delivery scheduled for later today, so that I will have something semi-festive to eat tomorrow. (Also milk, which I am almost out of.)
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Covid test negative, but this fever is going to keep my from spending Thanksgiving with my sister. (I should be on the road now!)
Emergency grocery delivery scheduled for later today, so that I will have something semi-festive to eat tomorrow. (Also milk, which I am almost out of.)
Emergency grocery delivery scheduled for later today, so that I will have something semi-festive to eat tomorrow. (Also milk, which I am almost out of.)
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I saw a video this morning that was like “if you get something handmade from me this Christmas please understand that it was not ethically made” and I have been laughing about it for like 6 hours 😂
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I saw a video this morning that was like “if you get something handmade from me this Christmas please understand that it was not ethically made” and I have been laughing about it for like 6 hours 😂
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Cartoon: Santa Cthulhu :)
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Cartoon: Santa Cthulhu :)