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Mother, cat-lover, scientist Crafting www.instagram.com/benzene_hexes/
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whenever my cat complains about me not feeding him more than three times a day I have developed a habit of showing him great works of art that depict suffering (The Pieta, The Rape of Lucretia, The Fall of Nineveh) and explain in detail how his own pain greatly exceeds that depicted

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Shout out to the dude who parks at the not-quite dead end next to my house to smoke weed and who I continue to alarm by crouching and examining tiny aspects of nature while on walks.

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Update to this- I went with her to the hospital milk bank to make a withdrawal (for home storage and donation) and I couldn't stop thinking of parallels to robbing a (regular) bank

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Looking forward to watching RFK jr throw out the first pitch at "HHS night at the ballpark" this summer 🙄

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New dream unlocked 🤐

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My daughter is about to turn 2 and I forgot about the thing where you go for a walk and then you end up on an epic hours long journey that does not exist in space or time, wandering, trying to get home but unable to get anywhere. I really think The Odyssey was written about taking a walk with a 2yo.

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

Pretty proud of my quick fix dollhouse idea that lends itself to being covered in stickers! Also this little bookcase where I added a washer/magnet combo to keep it from falling over.

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This isn't just an attack on scientific research. It's an attack on *scientists.* Central to Trump's "Revolution of Common Sense" is the idea that scientists impede progress in pursuit of political goals. This move -- Telegraphed in Project 2025 -- upends life for those who depend on NIH funding.

submitted 40 days ago • 26 comments

My kids don't understand that I need 6-22 uninterrupted hours to decompress alone after work

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Girlfriend experience? No, I want the "how it's made experience"

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Ok but also the description has so many weird grammatical errors. For $25 M, can't you run it past a copy editor?

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Found out a friend died. Our kids were similar ages. We had stayed connected through Twitter until this fall. Profoundly sad.

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Homestar Runner should be preserved in the Library of Congress.

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

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Certainly feels like a weird time to be reading "The Fifth Season", what with the LA fires

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Update: it's working!

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There are literally dozens of us

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Just keep layering. Just keep layering...

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ME: Is he going to make it? DOCTOR: No. I’m afraid he’s down with the sickness ME: *crying* oohwahahahah DOCTOR: *holds hand* oohwahahahah

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Planning to mix these with gradually increasing ratio towards the protein version so my kids don't notice, à la cat food transition. The game is afoot.

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Just remembered that when I was a kid (in Massachusetts), I absolutely thought the term was "apricot"- not "uppercut". And no one suspected a thing.

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Whyyy have my children co-opted the cat scratching post for their own use

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bill nye’s full name is william new years eve

submitted 68 days ago • 66 comments

The 3 spirits of Christmas

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/hollering to be heard over the deafeningly loud sound of sleigh bells "Folks," defector.com/the-2024-hat...

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My father: I first encountered non Newtonian fluids when I was working at Nyanza...

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Sunday French electronica - "Courants et Couleurs", 1974 a short film of pretty experiments at the ONERA (Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales/National office for aerospace studies and research) hydrodynamic tunnel in Châtillon (www.dailymotion.com/video/x16dpof)

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

Me, to husband (thinking only of my dry winter skin and completely forgetting we lived in DC for a decade): do you know what slugging is?

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