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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · 12h

This game might be my new favorite thing.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · 19d

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Fat Bear Week is starting early this year!
www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful

The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.

www.npr.org

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · 22d

We just watched Sneakers a couple of weeks ago! It holds up really well, and even the snarky middle-schooler liked it.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23d

Skype a Scientist executive director Sarah McAnulty had told her cats that people without an eel facts advent calendar may one day be at a “deleterious deficit of eel information” compared to those who do not participate in eelvent in 2025.

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CNN @cnn.com · 23d

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · 26d

A while back I saw a post here that referred to their phone as "the anxiety machine that lives in my pocket" and I think about that daily ... and yet somehow don't take the hint.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Sep 4

The cat has informed me that I cannot go to work today, I must stay home and pet him.

Tuxedo cat, rolling over and asking for a belly rub

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Sep 3

433.

Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Aug 22

I wish there was a way to summon a Mister Softee to your block.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Aug 9

We saw that here, last week! It's so adorable.

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · Aug 7

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Aug 7

Labibi!

Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 28

Again, you make me wish I lived in Philadelphia.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 25

That book was so good!

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 22

Following @sarahmackattack.bsky.social is making me wish I lived in Philadelphia, a feeling I have never had before in my life.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's the best movie.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 11

He's still going.

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Susan @sugarpop.bsky.social · Jul 11

My kid has gotten obsessed with a gaming podcast and just spent nearly an hour explaining to me, in depth, the lore and controversies of a game franchise neither of us has played or will ever play. Please send help.