karen
@geekaren.bsky.social
Was a Pacific Northwest geek, now a New England geek
⛈️ skywarn weather spotter
🏡 heat pumps
🐶 foster mom
🚫 DMs or lists
⛈️ skywarn weather spotter
🏡 heat pumps
🐶 foster mom
🚫 DMs or lists
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karen
@geekaren.bsky.social
· Nov 10
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: GIFT of a cartoon girl (Peanuts' Lucy) in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a football. Charlie Brown makes a run for the football and Lucy pulls it back at the last minute.
media.tenor.com
I'm no expert but this seems like an odd pairing.
Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, agreed to merge with a nuclear fusion company in a deal worth $6 billion.
Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal
Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company in which President Trump holds a large stake, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.”
nyti.ms
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I'm no expert but this seems like an odd pairing.
Where the riskiest highway off-ramps in Connecticut are located, based on DOT study www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
Where the riskiest highway off-ramps in Connecticut are located, based on DOT study
A DOT study looked at risk factors including lighting, nearby liquor stores, on- and off-ramps located on the same side, among others.
www.nhregister.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Where the riskiest highway off-ramps in Connecticut are located, based on DOT study www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
Beautiful Melia is at Hempstead NY shelter awaiting her forever family ❤️🐶
💗 Her person is out there! I will not give up until they're found. Please read and repost MELIA's bio ⬇️ any questions feel free to ask. I will contact the shelter for answers. Anything negative will be blocked!!
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Beautiful Melia is at Hempstead NY shelter awaiting her forever family ❤️🐶
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Ah, the perennial "Apple wants to buy a mega-media company."
Alex Sherman’s “Anonymous Media Executive 2026 Predictions” are in:
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/2...
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/2...
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ah, the perennial "Apple wants to buy a mega-media company."
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Peter Arnett was a huge inspiration to me as a journalist. His coverage of the Gulf War was as iconic a role as we’ve ever had in US journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Peter Arnett was a huge inspiration to me as a journalist. His coverage of the Gulf War was as iconic a role as we’ve ever had in US journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
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Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
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Ok out of the blue, a photographer who I really admire & am in awe of rang me up out of the blue this evening to say how much he loves my calendar.
Holly shit, he what? I have a couple of his books.
Blown away by(& rather proud which is odd for an imposter syndrome addict)
Holly shit, he what? I have a couple of his books.
Blown away by(& rather proud which is odd for an imposter syndrome addict)
Ok it's finally happening.
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
December 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ok out of the blue, a photographer who I really admire & am in awe of rang me up out of the blue this evening to say how much he loves my calendar.
Holly shit, he what? I have a couple of his books.
Blown away by(& rather proud which is odd for an imposter syndrome addict)
Holly shit, he what? I have a couple of his books.
Blown away by(& rather proud which is odd for an imposter syndrome addict)
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“You shouldn't get disillusioned when you get knocked back. All you've discovered is that the search is difficult, and you still have a duty to keep on searching.” — Kazuo Ishiguro
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“You shouldn't get disillusioned when you get knocked back. All you've discovered is that the search is difficult, and you still have a duty to keep on searching.” — Kazuo Ishiguro
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This Spanish Netflix thriller based on Gaudi buildings is quite good… Finland needs to launch an Alvar Aalto themed serial killer series featuring Laura Birn as an emotionally damaged profiler and Jorma Tommila as a boozing detective with a grieving heart.
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This Spanish Netflix thriller based on Gaudi buildings is quite good… Finland needs to launch an Alvar Aalto themed serial killer series featuring Laura Birn as an emotionally damaged profiler and Jorma Tommila as a boozing detective with a grieving heart.
Not just boomers... really concerning how impressionable peope can be.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Not just boomers... really concerning how impressionable peope can be.
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ok so the thing is that tiny experimental fusion reactors that sustainably produce power don't exist, so uh I have some questions
"Next year, the combined company would begin construction on a 50-megawatt utility-scale fusion power plant, the companies said. The companies plan to build additional fusion power plants to supply 350 to 500 megawatts, they said."
Trump Media to Merge With TAE Tech in $6 Billion Deal
President Trump’s media company Trump Media & Technology Group agreed to merge with fusion power company TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal worth more than $6 billion.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
ok so the thing is that tiny experimental fusion reactors that sustainably produce power don't exist, so uh I have some questions
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REMINDER TO PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS:
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was amended by the GOP under Trump 45. Eliminating the individual mandate was like drilling a hole in your car’s gas tank. They own this.
Omitting this fact when reporting/interviewing is malpractice, IMO.
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was amended by the GOP under Trump 45. Eliminating the individual mandate was like drilling a hole in your car’s gas tank. They own this.
Omitting this fact when reporting/interviewing is malpractice, IMO.
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
REMINDER TO PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS:
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was amended by the GOP under Trump 45. Eliminating the individual mandate was like drilling a hole in your car’s gas tank. They own this.
Omitting this fact when reporting/interviewing is malpractice, IMO.
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was amended by the GOP under Trump 45. Eliminating the individual mandate was like drilling a hole in your car’s gas tank. They own this.
Omitting this fact when reporting/interviewing is malpractice, IMO.
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“.. The average U.S. household is projected to spend nearly $1,000 this winter to heat its home.”
@nytimes.com $XLU
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
@nytimes.com $XLU
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“.. The average U.S. household is projected to spend nearly $1,000 this winter to heat its home.”
@nytimes.com $XLU
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
@nytimes.com $XLU
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
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'RUMORS AND FEAR': Brookline select board chair, police chief, school superintendent issue statements seeking to quell "rumors and fear" after an MIT professor was shot and killed in his home earlier this week. on.nbcboston.com/IYgLnJZ
‘Rumors and fear' as search intensifies for suspect in deadly shooting of MIT professor
Police intensified their search for a suspect in the fatally shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office says Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor of nuclear science and engineering, was shot Monday night in Brookline and died Tuesday at a local hospital. Officials say no suspects are in custody. Loureiro, who is from Portugal, joined MIT in 2016 and had been named last year to lead its Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
on.nbcboston.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
'RUMORS AND FEAR': Brookline select board chair, police chief, school superintendent issue statements seeking to quell "rumors and fear" after an MIT professor was shot and killed in his home earlier this week. on.nbcboston.com/IYgLnJZ
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New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker stressed that the city he leads “[does] more than any other city in the state” for those experiencing homelessness.
One advocate balked.
“Doing more than nothing doesn't mean that it's enough. If someone is still at risk of dying on the street, then it's not enough.”
One advocate balked.
“Doing more than nothing doesn't mean that it's enough. If someone is still at risk of dying on the street, then it's not enough.”
After man dies on New Haven Green, homeless advocates push for better cold-weather services
The death of the 65-year-old is still under investigation, city officials said.
www.ctpublic.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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We were promised no new wars.
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We were promised no new wars.
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“I have lived in Providence for nearly a decade—first as a Brown student, and then when I returned to make it my home—and I have never seen it like this, the energy sucked out of it by fear.”
Read this moving piece by @h-lev.bsky.social on the shooting aftermath www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read this moving piece by @h-lev.bsky.social on the shooting aftermath www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“I have lived in Providence for nearly a decade—first as a Brown student, and then when I returned to make it my home—and I have never seen it like this, the energy sucked out of it by fear.”
Read this moving piece by @h-lev.bsky.social on the shooting aftermath www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read this moving piece by @h-lev.bsky.social on the shooting aftermath www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New filing: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPLE INC. (Department of Justice sues Apple for antitrust violations.)"
Doc #353: Letter
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL68362334
Doc #353: Letter
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL68362334
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
New filing: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPLE INC. (Department of Justice sues Apple for antitrust violations.)"
Doc #353: Letter
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL68362334
Doc #353: Letter
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL68362334
A CT lawyer is using an unusual way to remind people of their rights. How he's doing it and why. www.courant.com/2025/12/17/a...
A CT lawyer is using an unusual way to remind people of their rights. How he’s doing it and why.
“I see a lot of people that get themselves arrested by not knowing their rights,” he said.
www.courant.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A CT lawyer is using an unusual way to remind people of their rights. How he's doing it and why. www.courant.com/2025/12/17/a...
If you're ever in a full arm cast or splint, be sure to elevate your arm. I didn't know and I so wish someone had told me. 😬
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you're ever in a full arm cast or splint, be sure to elevate your arm. I didn't know and I so wish someone had told me. 😬
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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DAMODARAN: “.. I’m thinking maybe I should hold something that is not going to be affected if inflation goes to 10% or if there’s a market and economic crisis .. The chance of that happening is perhaps greater than it’s been anytime in the last 20 years.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
DAMODARAN: “.. I’m thinking maybe I should hold something that is not going to be affected if inflation goes to 10% or if there’s a market and economic crisis .. The chance of that happening is perhaps greater than it’s been anytime in the last 20 years.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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From the new issue: Meet the scientists (and a very good dog named Eba) rushing to save southern resident killer whales off the coast of Washington State
These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them
Inside the desperate rush to save the southern resident killer whales
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
From the new issue: Meet the scientists (and a very good dog named Eba) rushing to save southern resident killer whales off the coast of Washington State