Feral BOO!macker 🦇
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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. 🧵
Excellent alternatives to ULINE for your holiday shipping needs:
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
The problem has been, there hasn’t been an elsewhere (which is why uline is so rich). Has this changed recently? Bc every article I’ve ever read in 30 years about how bad Uline is has not been able to suggest a worthwhile alternative
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Excellent alternatives to ULINE for your holiday shipping needs:
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Just watched a dog find and proceed to drag home a ten-foot-long stick(!) on his evening walk. Went across the crosswalk and down the street and everything.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just watched a dog find and proceed to drag home a ten-foot-long stick(!) on his evening walk. Went across the crosswalk and down the street and everything.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
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The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
Everyone please look upon and admire Darcie's dog.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Everyone please look upon and admire Darcie's dog.
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
This is some real-life You've Got Mail awfulness.
Volumes Bookcafe will close in January www.instagram.com/p/DRDALTFEYn...
Volumes Bookcafe on Instagram: "A message from Kimberly and Rebecca. Not the best news, but we plan on having a kick-ass last holiday season with you all, and we hope you get a chance to come say good...
262 likes, 36 comments - volumesbooks on November 14, 2025: "A message from Kimberly and Rebecca. Not the best news, but we plan on having a kick-ass last holiday season with you all, and we hope you ...
www.instagram.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is some real-life You've Got Mail awfulness.
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If you live in the Chicago area and get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, we would really love to hear from you about your premiums. The data will help inform follow-up reporting at @chicago.suntimes.com/@wbez.org
SURVEY: airtable.com/appeodIS71ul...
SURVEY: airtable.com/appeodIS71ul...
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you live in the Chicago area and get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, we would really love to hear from you about your premiums. The data will help inform follow-up reporting at @chicago.suntimes.com/@wbez.org
SURVEY: airtable.com/appeodIS71ul...
SURVEY: airtable.com/appeodIS71ul...
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In June, I created a trans pride sticker based on the @dropout.tv show 'Game Changer', which I gave away without profit.
Thanks to an amazing community response and the blessing of @samreich.bsky.social himself, I was later able to sell them profitably and to invest in a few more designs...
Thanks to an amazing community response and the blessing of @samreich.bsky.social himself, I was later able to sell them profitably and to invest in a few more designs...
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In June, I created a trans pride sticker based on the @dropout.tv show 'Game Changer', which I gave away without profit.
Thanks to an amazing community response and the blessing of @samreich.bsky.social himself, I was later able to sell them profitably and to invest in a few more designs...
Thanks to an amazing community response and the blessing of @samreich.bsky.social himself, I was later able to sell them profitably and to invest in a few more designs...
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It was great committing [specific crimes] with you! Attached is the selfie we took while committing the crime. Remember how [witnesses] were there and observed it? Good times. Hope to commit many more premeditated crimes with you soon.
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was great committing [specific crimes] with you! Attached is the selfie we took while committing the crime. Remember how [witnesses] were there and observed it? Good times. Hope to commit many more premeditated crimes with you soon.
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Very excited to read the book version of one of my favorite, incredibly niche memes.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Very excited to read the book version of one of my favorite, incredibly niche memes.
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TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
We are living in dangerous times and the US is using surveillance to conduct atrocities effectively unchecked by the courts or Congress. Forbidding law enforcement and LE-adjacent users--who have ignored the ToS in the past--from accessing Ancestry protects user privacy with actual teeth. #genealogy
For all of my #genealogy and #ancestryhour peeps - you should know that recently Ancestry has changed its ToS to prevent searching of public records hosted on the Ancestry site to keep investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) practitioners and forensic genealogists (FGs) OUT. (Please read the whole 🧵)
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We are living in dangerous times and the US is using surveillance to conduct atrocities effectively unchecked by the courts or Congress. Forbidding law enforcement and LE-adjacent users--who have ignored the ToS in the past--from accessing Ancestry protects user privacy with actual teeth. #genealogy
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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This is not a drill. Call your senators NOW. (Email only if you can't get through.)
Democrats just had an incredible election night and a protest attended by millions. There is no reason to cave on something as popular and essential as healthcare.
No shutdown vote without ACA funding!
Democrats just had an incredible election night and a protest attended by millions. There is no reason to cave on something as popular and essential as healthcare.
No shutdown vote without ACA funding!
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
yep
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is not a drill. Call your senators NOW. (Email only if you can't get through.)
Democrats just had an incredible election night and a protest attended by millions. There is no reason to cave on something as popular and essential as healthcare.
No shutdown vote without ACA funding!
Democrats just had an incredible election night and a protest attended by millions. There is no reason to cave on something as popular and essential as healthcare.
No shutdown vote without ACA funding!
Normally I try to keep Negative Book Takes to a minimum, but if anyone wants to wallow in disappointment over The Rose Field (aka the last book in the Book of Dust/His Dark Materials series) I am all ears. Rants welcome.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Normally I try to keep Negative Book Takes to a minimum, but if anyone wants to wallow in disappointment over The Rose Field (aka the last book in the Book of Dust/His Dark Materials series) I am all ears. Rants welcome.
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my Japanese maple woke up this morning and decided to flex
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
my Japanese maple woke up this morning and decided to flex
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The thing about all of these sociopaths, narcissists and abusive personality types and powerful millionaires and billionaires etc, they are frequently the thinnest skinned, most deluded, tiresome people in the world, & nobody owes them a single iota of their time or energy! They hate this! Too bad!!
a man in a plaid jacket and tie is talking to another man in an elevator .
ALT: a man in a plaid jacket and tie is talking to another man in an elevator .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The thing about all of these sociopaths, narcissists and abusive personality types and powerful millionaires and billionaires etc, they are frequently the thinnest skinned, most deluded, tiresome people in the world, & nobody owes them a single iota of their time or energy! They hate this! Too bad!!
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Today and tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-sale-...
Book Sale at the Municipal Archives and Library
On November 7th and 8th, the Municipal Archives and Library will hold a book sale of unique items removed from the collections.
www.eventbrite.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today and tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-sale-...
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Wife: What’s Shiv Roy’s poor husband’s name?
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wife: What’s Shiv Roy’s poor husband’s name?
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.