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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD

@drwambsgans.bsky.social

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Community psychologist cosplaying as a financial risk analyst. Leslie Knope coded. Love, in no particular order: Pokémon, DBZ, Pride & Prejudice, ATLA, USPS & the Census, the Columbia River, & Star Trek. She/her Jerry said he was proud of me on 2025-01-09

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is maaaaybe 10% done. I don’t know what I was thinking, making this pattern 36k stitches.

A cross stitch project that is about 1/10 done of the Shocked Pikachu meme.

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 1h

A haunted house but it’s just someone saying “Let’s go around the room and share one fun fact about ourselves.”

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 1h

“Paulina” and “Devon”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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athenamaggie.bsky.social @athenamaggie.bsky.social · 2h

“But at oral argument today, Justice Sam Alito brought up an important, additional way that he thought Bost could be harmed by Illinois’s law, which Bost carelessly left out of his complaint: People could vote for Democrats.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

every so often Justice Alito says something during Supreme Court oral argument that makes me perk up and go uhh lol this man's brain is pickled in conservative crank juice fr fr

today was one such day

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Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 2h

One of the many things I hate about Word is how it wants to put an extra line/space when you hit enter. If I wanted extra space there I would do it myself!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2h

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 3h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 3h

Agreed. Some of those falls looked rough.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 3h

I hope that costume broke the falls.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 3h

That last one was super great.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 5h

I like Chicago Pope on this point.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 15h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

Very true. My work is switching to Teams and I haven’t used it since 2022… I feel like it’s gotten way more complicated* since then.

*one or more of the raccoons has contracted rabies.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

I just saw someone refer to Microsoft Teams as three raccoons in a trench coat and it’s truly the best way to describe that mess.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

They are my emotional support tabs and I can’t live without them!

🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

The best of both worlds.

🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

Right? Social desirability is suppressing these numbers.

🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 6h

I’m in the 3%.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 7h

It really doesn’t make any sense unless you mean to get people to stop vaccinating their children. I hate them so much.

🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 7h

I fight with Microsoft every day I work.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 7h

My kid is 11. Up until a year ago, every vaccination was a traumatic event for both of us. They are still awful but he’s learned to tolerate them.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

www.independent.co.uk

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Dril Eulenspiegel @texaninnyc.bsky.social · 8h

Damn I haven't seen people this mad about the imaginary Bad Bunny they created in their own minds since Donnie Darko.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 8h

My dude, she said trans people only. Please respect that.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 8h

This really sucks.

Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 8h

“Skeet like Trump” probably shouldn’t be a job.