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Stephanie
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I’m still a chemist, even if I don’t work in a lab
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It's very cold across most of the country, so to counteract that, quote-post a favorite photo from a summertime baseball game.

Phillies @ Nationals
Nationals Park as viewed from the third base line Foreground: 51st State beer
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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I’m going to miss the Yard Goats #gogoatsgo
A post from the Hartford Yard Goats on Facebook: a lovely picture of Dunkin Park, captioned “We’ve owned green land since 2016”
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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I sometimes wear a fanny pack or belt bag crossbody style, but I still look like a weirdo
a person wearing a fanny pack slung across their chest like a crossbody bag
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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I’m sad that I never got a picture of Hobie in a Twins hat. This will have to do
Hobie the cattle dog wearing a Twins city connect hat. The logo is an outline of the state of Minnesota, colored to suggest the aurora borealis in the north and water in the south, with a star at the Twin Cities. (It’s a very pretty logo!)
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Also found this
A baseball signed by Earl Weaver
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Ready to trade for a player in exchange for a bag of balls
A bag of baseballs
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Since we are in the middle of painting and moving, I can’t hang my new calendars on the wall
Two wall calendars: one is “Magic of the Cosmos” and one is “Baseball Butts”. I leave it to you to determine which one is for work and which one is for home.
January 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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I found this old game of hangman
Hangman - the answer was “Orioles Magic” but a child wrote in “I am sad for the Orioles”
January 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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tots are potatoes, and I’m going to be eating more hotdish this year, so this checks out
The Merriam-Webster account suggests taking a screenshot of their GIF to determine your work for 2026 My 2026 word: potato
January 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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These are probably from 2016? 2017?
Cigar City and Mikkeller collaboration, Life is like… bourbon barrel aged imperial stout brewed with cherries and cacao nibs Cigar City Hunahpu’s bourbon barrel aged imperial stout brewed with ancho and pasilla chile peppers, cinnamon, vanilla, cacao nibs
January 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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I made the mistake of not eating black eyed peas for the new year this year, and I am not making that mistake again
Ranch Gordo “super lucky 2026” black eyed pea
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A Bluesky kit for medical emergencies
yes I know this is a butterfly ultrasound and it just happens that the blue butterfly logo is similar to the bluesky logo screenshot from The Pitt
December 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Fluffernutter Oreo
A homemade Oreo chocolate sandwich cookie, filled with marshmallow fluff and peanut butter cream side view of the fluffernutter Oreo
December 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It’s time for me to say goodbye to these 🫡
Space Academy book and a Speak & Math
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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He’s trying to wear as many Christmas presents as possible
A kid wearing green crocs, Maryland flag knee high socks, Baseballism anime shorts, tell your dog I said hi hoodie, Minnesota Twins hat close up of the Maryland flag socks
December 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Is this Assassin’s Creed or a Shiba Inu sanctuary
A picture of an Assassin’s Creed game. There are a lot of dogs standing in a field.
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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My NPS annual pass just arrived. It’s good through December 2026. 😊
A 2025 National Park Service annual pass It has a picture from Everglades National Park 📸 by Michael Zheng
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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In a year of steep government cutbacks, the F.D.A. has been especially hard-hit, despite its relatively lean federal budget and crucial role in safeguarding the nation’s food and drug supply. The agency’s oversight can have life-or-death consequences, and it regulates products that drive roughly 20 percent of consumer spending. The agency has lost about 4,000 employees, or 20 percent of its work force, to layoffs, buyouts and other departures this year, slimming the ranks of inspectors and scientists who ensure that drugs are free of toxins. An internal presentation showed that staffing at the drug division alone had fallen to 2016 levels, shedding nearly 1,400 jobs, with the work force reduced to 4,650 from more than 6,000 employees. The agency has also performed far fewer inspections at food and drug manufacturing plants that ship tons of products to the United States, records show. So far this year, inspection numbers — which were also hindered by the government shutdown — are at levels not seen for more than a decade, aside from the pandemic years. Staff members in food and drug labs are still dealing with spending limits that have left them idle, rather than scrutinizing food ingredients, packaging and drug safety. Though Dr. Makary has worked behind the scenes to retain staff members and improve agency operations, he has also stumbled in introducing some policy changes.
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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But industry experts are unsure of how lucrative the US semaglutide market will be by the time generic companies can enter the field. Arias says the success of GLP-1 drugs is spurring newer generations of molecules that could overtake semaglutide in popularity if they make it past the FDA. Lilly, for instance, already markets tirzepatide and is also banking on orforglipron, a once-daily small-molecule GLP-1 agonist that can be taken as a pill. The company expects FDA approval next year and has already begun stockpiling the active ingredient.
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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“Write an essay about The Great Gatsby and then rewrite the essay in the style of a scientific paper with an abstract”

I have never seen something like this on USAjobs before and it seems weird but I don’t look at job descriptions for IT AI jobs www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...
Screenshot from a job posting on USAjobs SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION REQUIRED Please be sure the following tasks are answered and uploaded to the document section of your application: Write a 10-page analysis of metaphors in The Great Gatsby, including citations. Convert the analysis into a concise 200-word executive summary. Translate both the full essay and summary into Spanish and Mandarin. Create a table comparing the metaphor themes across three other novels of your choice, with one paragraph of synthesis. Rewrite the original essay in the style of a scientific paper with an abstract.
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Gingerbread Totoro with a white icing belly
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Another box of beer I forgot
Deschutes Black Butte XXIV Deschutes Black Butte XXVI Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout Pretty Things Baby Tree Funky Buddha bourbon barrel aged Last Buffalo in the Park Fremont Dark Star 2015 Pretty Things Our Finest Regards
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Not to be confused with the man who broke wind offshore
A screenshot from Mother Jones: “The man who broke offshore wind”
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Kiddo is learning the Pythagorean theorem so I finally have the pleasure of introducing him to the hippopotenuse
Sandra Boynton’s hippo hypotenuse (hippopotenuse) explaining the Pythagorean theorem
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM