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Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. Living the Suburban Dream with my husband near Washington, DC.
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Data! Interesting AND practical, to choose just the right one for a particular use. I'm seeing lots of potential for "lib-nozzle".

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Fear me! I am so far left I am PROGRESSIVE!! AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): "Now look at these crowds [at Sanders+AOC "Fighting Oligarchy" rallies]. This is where our country is going, and it is very, very scary. They are socialist. They are so far to the left. They are progressive." #CommonplaceBook

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Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation. Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday

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For my part, I've long been perplexed how it is we refer to "sea food" but never "air food" or "land food" or "dirt food".

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A reminder:

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Disturbing misinformation about weather phenomena.

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Why not. There are no rules.

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This piece, which gives us the judge's reasoning for rejecting an appeal by the Trump Administration, interspersed with a few glosses by Ms. Gill, is worth reading, particularly considering its laudable concision.

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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It is mind blowing to me that Donald Trump is kidnapping people and sending them to torture gulags and Very Serious People are saying that me asking for my marriage and gender identity to be respected is what's authoritarian.

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In this analysis, Allison Gill enumerates many ways the SCOTUS is responsible for getting our government and politics to today's precipice, which she summarizes this way: "[SCOTUS[ allowed dark money to fund elections to achieve minority rule, made it harder for the majority party to vote, ...

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I'm thinking it's time for a T-shirt that says: "Time To Get Yippy" #Yippy

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#TIL some global sense.

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"Neatness isn't everything." -- Julia Child, "The French Chef: Ham Transformation" episode #CommonplaceBook

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This is indeed new information for me! #TIL

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This is a photo I took of Isaac, pretending to look melancholy, in the rose garden at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, in NE Washington DC. 23 May 2021

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Hey. Yeah you. Wanna be on a committee? It’s called Congress. Meets in DC every couple of years and makes the nations laws. Buncha clowns running it now, but there’s new members every couple of years. We, well you young folks, should take it over Yeah, you can. I said so. There

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This took me years to understand on my own, even though the system of nomenclature is pretty straightforward, albeit clumsy.

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