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Marcie
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Time waster. Waster of time.
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Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.

Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack

oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Great photo! That’s one of my favorite places in the park!
From today’s hike around Shenley Park #Pittsburgh, that’s Panther Hollow Lake and Bridge above. #photography #Fall
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I heard from my cat that she is willing to consider never throwing up on a rug again. So now we'll see if she's really gonna work with me.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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You can never be sorry enough for dropping the “h” at the end of Pittsburgh.

That h really classes up the name, you know, makes it sound like the home of a Scottish Laird n’at.

Cheers to Raleig for owning this treachery.
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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When elected president in 2028 I will be turning the Lincoln bathroom into a Pittsburgh toilet.
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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These are your words of the week

heist
brazen
facade
protest
hodiernal
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Oct. 24
Dictionary lookups from Paris, the White House, and our day and age
www.merriam-webster.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This is the largest ever recorded oak with a photographic history. The girth at 5 foot was 57 feet when this photo was taken with what appears to be the whole Austro-Hungarian Army in 1887

It is the Imperial Oak (Carski Hrast) - Rankovici, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Sadly no more
March 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yay me! My user name is a @susiedent.com word of the day!!
Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
March 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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If there's one thing we've lost over the years in fast food advertising, it's giant scoops of raw ground beef
March 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Fantastic thread!
VINTAGE LUNCHBOX MEGATHREAD!
There is something deeply, nostalgic about the artwork on old lunchboxes. They meet at the crossroads of childhood, food, pop culture, & school/friends. Every day, for as long as I feel like, I'll be adding a new lunchbox to this thread!

TMNT-1989 (My first lunchbox!)
February 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"Girl Scout Cookie Breakfast" is the name of my next album
February 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Begging for discourse about something low stakes. Khakis vs sweatpants, let's go
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Embracing new beginnings as the snowy owl takes flight, painting the dawn with whispers of magic and hope. ✨🦉🌅

Photography by jennils
February 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Saturn as seen from Titan, painted by Ron Miller, 1972.
February 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Up into the foyer of the Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, a former mine, now UNESCO World Heritage Site

#FebruArty #Orange
#photography #PhotographersUnited
#photographersofbluesky #thephotohour #EastCoastKin
February 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The classic Hull cream K6 phonebox at the top of Pickering Road. Underneath winter trees. See #alt-text #alttext for full description.

#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #blackandwhitephotography #trees #phonebox #telephone
February 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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If a tree falls in the woods, try not to be under it.

#dronephotography #winterphotogtaphy #landscape #colorado
February 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Such a cheerful looking bridge! Here in Pittsburgh we have many bright yellow bridges, but nothing like this!
February 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Last week I went to the northern coast in Spain for a few days to capture some big waves. This is the Isla de Mouro in Santander.
February 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Swimming Aspen trees in autumn. I just love the uniqueness of these trees here. Quite a special place for photography.
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM