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Collector of fine minerals. Gardener. Bike rider. Influencée: please try to influence me!
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One striking issue in the labor market is the loss of men and women with a bachelor’s degree or more and a child under 5. Incredible surge in daycare costs are disrupting work & prompting men and women to leave the workforce entirely.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Each year around this time the garden is a riot of color thanks to spuria iris. I post these photos because spuria deserve to be more widely known.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I heard it explained that it is in neither side's interest to make a quick deal (one factor is the election cycle).

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

@emilypeck.bsky.social Your Axios post on women in the labor market is particularly depressing (and accurate).

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we live in fraught times

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it's ugly and bloat-ish under the hood $ lsof | wc 87666 944349 13253272

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@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Perhaps a feud precedes feudalism. Or technofeudalism.

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Yeah but Dan Ives said FSD will be deployed this month. youtu.be/wvwKvveiQuc?...

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What counts more for Xi is that He, pronounced “Huh,” thinks just like his boss.

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It's big, it's beautiful, and it's a disgusting abomination.

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Unfortunately, a bowl has a chip. I repaired it using my amateur kintsugi method.

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If the government requires proof of citizenship for voting, then there should be no charge for passports, drivers license, copies of birth certificates, or whatever constitutes proof.

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Young saguaro cactus. They can bloom before they grow those charismatic arms.

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"The plaintiffs alleged that $533 million of the loan had been siphoned to a sham hedge fund once registered at the address of an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Miami." Truly international IHOP intrigue. restofworld.org/2025/byjus-o...

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Of all the adaptations of this common meme, this one is the most classical (with roots in antiquity). #medusa

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I asked Google about some USB power requirements. Here is the curious response.

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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. -- Charles Bukowski

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Looming banana shortage? Strikes, firings, layoffs in Panama - state of emergency declared. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Stories like this leave me wondering when the Chinese naming fashion will move from double repetition to triple. I asked an AI about this and got this answer: often referred to as reduplicated names or "dié zì" (叠字), are quite common in Chinese culture. apnews.com/article/hong...

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