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Certified Genealogist, children's television writer, and owner of We Go Way Back®. Love the Cubs, native plants/gardening, and books.
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My top #genealogy gift-giving tip this holiday season:
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DNA TESTS AS PRESENTS.
Here's why. 🧵
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DNA TESTS AS PRESENTS.
Here's why. 🧵
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The single greatest quote from a juror ever:
February 18, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The single greatest quote from a juror ever:
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There’s a deli in Albany called “food near me” and I just think that’s beautiful.
February 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
There’s a deli in Albany called “food near me” and I just think that’s beautiful.
One of my friends' ancestors died because she got poked by the price tag pin on a piece of clothing and died from the ensuing infection.
DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.
DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
One of my friends' ancestors died because she got poked by the price tag pin on a piece of clothing and died from the ensuing infection.
DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.
DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.
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For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
thesicktimes.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
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This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.
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NDA clause 2.1 (a) (iii): I can reveal A Few secrets if it makes a conversation more interesting
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
NDA clause 2.1 (a) (iii): I can reveal A Few secrets if it makes a conversation more interesting
Brennan Lee Mulligan DID say if your ass touches the toilet water, it's a portal to Narnia.
What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
February 16, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Brennan Lee Mulligan DID say if your ass touches the toilet water, it's a portal to Narnia.
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and yes mo co park system correct
February 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM
and yes mo co park system correct
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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Roses are red
Vice is inherent
Vice is inherent
February 15, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Roses are red
Vice is inherent
Vice is inherent
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with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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Overheard while in Marshall's today
Guy 1: Well what does she like?
Guy 2: (clearly a little stressed) I don’t know, beef jerky
Guy 1: Well what does she like?
Guy 2: (clearly a little stressed) I don’t know, beef jerky
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Overheard while in Marshall's today
Guy 1: Well what does she like?
Guy 2: (clearly a little stressed) I don’t know, beef jerky
Guy 1: Well what does she like?
Guy 2: (clearly a little stressed) I don’t know, beef jerky
I've been to this building lots of times to pick up marriage licenses (just off to the side of the row of counters in the video). Always a treat seeing everyone dressed up and happy 🩷 #genealogy
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I've been to this building lots of times to pick up marriage licenses (just off to the side of the row of counters in the video). Always a treat seeing everyone dressed up and happy 🩷 #genealogy
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my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026
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I was just saying this in another thread. It feels like the level of difficulty has maybe reached a point of inefficiency:
The results remind me of the women's super G, where the course was so over-the-top difficult and dangerous, almost HALF the skiers wiped out and the only ones who finished had either skied the mountain dozens of times or skied extra carefully, and I feel like that's what we saw with men's skating.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I was just saying this in another thread. It feels like the level of difficulty has maybe reached a point of inefficiency:
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I loved Mikhail's program and was like, "I really hope the guy from Kazakhstan gets a medal" and MY WISH CAME TOO TRUE
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I loved Mikhail's program and was like, "I really hope the guy from Kazakhstan gets a medal" and MY WISH CAME TOO TRUE
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The History Channel loves to be like “did Hitler store 10 billion dollars Nazi gold in this Pennsylvania house?” and answer that question as demonstrably “no of course not” and then make 18 seasons of “Pennsylvania Hitler House”
February 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The History Channel loves to be like “did Hitler store 10 billion dollars Nazi gold in this Pennsylvania house?” and answer that question as demonstrably “no of course not” and then make 18 seasons of “Pennsylvania Hitler House”
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Roses are red
Kidman starred in The Others
Kidman starred in The Others
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
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February 12, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Roses are red
Kidman starred in The Others
Kidman starred in The Others
@nikhunder.com Could you walk me through how to access the local air quality numbers, specifically the pollen levels? I remember you said at one point it was possible to see all the levels by type (pine, birch, elm, etc) in the same table(?) as the AQI, and would love to take a look.
February 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
@nikhunder.com Could you walk me through how to access the local air quality numbers, specifically the pollen levels? I remember you said at one point it was possible to see all the levels by type (pine, birch, elm, etc) in the same table(?) as the AQI, and would love to take a look.
Zach Wheeler had a rib removed and kept it in his closet. Totally fine and normal spring training headline.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Zach Wheeler had a rib removed and kept it in his closet. Totally fine and normal spring training headline.
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Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
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I got given someone's old German Harry Potter book, and I'm enjoying turning each page into a print of a cat licking its own arse. Considering selling these and donating everything to trans healthcare ventures for poetic justice...
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I got given someone's old German Harry Potter book, and I'm enjoying turning each page into a print of a cat licking its own arse. Considering selling these and donating everything to trans healthcare ventures for poetic justice...
Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.
Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.