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kareila.bsky.social
Not childless, not currently a cat owner, not quite a lady, and 100% not here for your bullshit. Code whisperer at dreamwidth.org. Minion of @rahaeli.bsky.social. (It's pronounced kuh-RAY-luh.) She/her.
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The tapestry of our colorful planet from 250 miles above is beautiful because of its diversity.

Do yourself a favour and open up this photo. Indulge in the absurd beauty of comets. This is Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard, photographed by Michael Jäger in 2021. The tail, millions of km long, shows a region of greater density from when part of the comet nucleus disintegrated about 10 days before.

The madness of this moment is pretty hard to capture with words. But @johnarchibald.bsky.social did it today. www.al.com/news/2025/01...

omg

Hey OKGO dropped this new video! youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?...

Folks, a huge number of people at JPL have been affected by the LA wildfires, with many losing their homes. If you can, consider contributing to a fund that's been set up to help them: (Link looks sketch but site is legit) caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

✨For a limited time only, ASUNDER is on sale across ALL retailers!✨ It’s an absolute bargain — so if you’ve been curious, now is a wonderful time to pick up a copy. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

ADHD tips from people who don’t have it: get a day planner! ADHD tips from people who do: your only hope of feeling like a functional person in this life is to get a job that consists mostly of sprinting between a dozen simultaneous emergencies at 10 o’clock at night

You know you’re a choir nerd when you realize that you’ve developed strong opinions about the proper harmonization of Adeste Fideles

At the doc for checkups, walked past a small kid watching Rudolph and earnestly claiming “that’s not a snowman, that’s a Yeti” - made my day ⛄️

Okay I’m used to playing yarn chicken but only having 95% of the polyfil I needed to finish this project was a problem I didn’t see coming 🤦‍♀️

Alright folks, I apologize in advance if I'm going to be annoying about this, but TODAY is the LAST DAY to get us over the Kickstarter threshold for our game, & people last night were telling me how they only just heard of our amazing One Billion Users card game. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Go Navy!

It seems that I am giving the commencement at MIT in May 😳 news.mit.edu/2024/hank-gr...

maybe the next sequel to “The Wrong Trousers” can be “The Wrong Scissors” in which Wallace incurs the wrath of the local seamstress ✂️

This is one of the most obscure jokes Randall has ever come up with and I am here for it 🤣

Me yesterday: I’ll just count stitches on this row by fives, no way my stitch count will be off by exactly 5 Me today: welp

I've finally gotten around to backing "One Billion Users", a card game by @mmasnick.bsky.social and the @techdirt.bsky.social crew to simulate the process of starting up a social media platform with all its attendant challenges! If that sounds up your alley: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Looks like the blower just died on our furnace and that's going to be nearly $1k for the inspection/fix, so any shares/purchases really REALLY help right now. Jondi just started his job but the paychecks haven't started quite yet. We have wood + fireplaces but that isn't going to work forever.

Here is a link to our 2024 album Ooh La La which we really love. The @nytimes.com did not review it but they did criticize bands who put on "nostalgia concerts" yesterday. Promote our new work and maybe Guster can add some more of these tunes into the setlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrNn...

I wanna rock and roll 2 hours tops and party maybe every 14 days

Got my first reply spammer this morning and by the time I opened the app, the reply had already been hidden by the moderation team. And now that the space journalists and sports reporters are showing up, this is starting to feel more like home. Can’t wait to subscribe and help the good vibes last.

I love that I just got a Discord message from my local library’s YA librarian asking for opinions on keeping versus replacing their copies of the 5e Player’s Handbook for D&D.

I just backed @mmasnick.bsky.social’s One Billion Users: The Social Media Card Game on @kickstarter.com https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmasnick/one-billion-users-the-social-media-card-game?ref=thanks-tweet

I am so mad that Costco got rid of their huge jars of store brand chocolate covered raisins. They were way better than the brand name Raisinets.

I picked a horrible month to try to alter my brain chemistry, no idea whether my climb-the-walls screaming anxiety is the meds or [gestures broadly at everything]

RSD and a customer facing role are a hell of a combo.

To expand on this—a good chunk of my childhood was very conservative. I genuinely internalized that gay people existed from reading Mercedes Lackey novels. The book that most radicalized me was ALWAYS COMING HOME. And Pratchett crystallized more of my thinking about life than any class I ever took.

I have a new polling place this year, so I don’t know if this is normal, but all morning the parking lot of the church where I am supposed to vote has been so full that people are parking at the school across the street and walking across a busy highway.

I really need to stop checking out library books if I’m not gonna make the time to actually read them 📚