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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1h

Started watching Alias. One fascinating piece is the way they keep trying to introduce love interest characters for Jennifer Garner and there is zero chemistry with every single one. Still only in season one, but it’s definitely a thing.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3h

DragonDiaries: Met a new cousin, Nathan Drake. Seems even more obsessed with treasure than the average dragon. Got to talking about how sparkly jewels are. Soooo sparkly. SPARKLY! SPARKLY! SPARKLY!

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3h

Proof of cat

A tuxedo cat with a goofy mustache upside down on a lap outside on the deck. He appears to be quite happy.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3h

Not my belles, not my balls.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3h

Evening fell like thirty-five sloths climbing a ball-bearing tree on the day the lubricating sap starts running. Schloop, eeek, slow motion falling montage, sloth hats for everyone! #BadNoir

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

They will also cheerfully eat each other given half a chance. Pigs are an equal opportunity devourer of anything that’s stopped moving long enough.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Jeeves break.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, excellent use of finite reporting resources! Do they give Ig Nobles for journalism?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Germans have been gathering to engage in the latest social media-driven activity now sweeping around the world: eating pudding, in public, with forks.

“I think it’s very German humor,” a Berlin resident said.

Germans meet up to eat pudding with forks — and the trend goes global

The trend, called “Pudding mit Gabel,” has taken off on German social media, and now has crossed the Atlantic.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Okay Anthropic claim filed. We’ll see what comes of it.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not good.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

This class should have been a test bank is totally a thing.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

DragonDiaries: Got a big bucket of dwarves in the shell, like oysters, but with plate mail and anger management issues. Not sure it’s worth it honestly. Those little axe cuts sting when you get hot sauce in ‘em.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Morning arrived like an invasion of piranha moths—one second you’re gazing wistfully out to sea from the widow’s walk atop your home, swathed in casual but elegant layers of dark wool. The next, you hear the sounds of thousands of tiny wings…then hey, presto, a chill wind on your nethers. #BadNoir

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Proof of cat.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Not my nostrum, not my mouth harp.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

I did this. One two hour basic seminar, one advanced course in my degree area that overlapped one of those hours. Aced both. The seminar graded on tests and papers mostly covering material I learned in high school. I could have tested out easily if that were an option, but it was a required course.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

This sentence was a bit of a record scratch moment for me. “Harvard may be partly to blame for encouraging student absences, with a policy that allows students to enroll in two classes that meet at the same time.”

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

I wish there was a simpler way to sort the people on my side who are committed to democracy and the rule of law from those on “my side” who would cheerfully throw those things overboard if only the people doing it shared their goals. Because, only one of those groups is really on my side.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

NEWS: U.S. manufacturing contracted in September for the seventh straight month, as factories felt the devastating impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Proof of cat. Also, I think he might be melting.

An orange tabby who appears to slowly oozing out of his cat bed.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

DragonDiaries: Monday? Does anyone know where Sunday went? Or why it’s midafternoon and I woke up next to a giant mirror with an “I ❤️ me!” engraving? Or why there’s a big tub of something labeled mane and tail enhancer for mythologically horse adjacent?

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Not my lamb, not my bow.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Evening snuck up on afternoon like an evil hippopotamus in sourdough loaf slippers—do you smell fresh bread because, I-aieeeeeee! Toasted! #BadNoir #BreadNoir

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2d

More infighting, I think. It’s been wearying to watch.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Holland America isn’t terrible. Again, wouldn’t pick a cruise on our own, but a good solution to the aging parents issue.