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INTJ HSP Techie (*nix, Mac, Android) Cat mom 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ Living in the Pacific Northwet, USA 1:12 miniatures, cross stitch 🪡 , reading 📚📖 (fantasy, light sci fi, cozy mysteries), going for walks 💙 🔵 🔷 🟦 🌀 she/they
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Cats are non-Newtonian fluids. Silly putty with fur.

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Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms. www.wired.com/story/google...

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We're on the back porch. There's a soft ruffling sound beyond the railing. It's a Spotted Towhee taking a bath. Birdbaths are a delight.

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💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

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I'm watching "The Chelsea Detective", Series 3, Ep 2. The pathologist has just scanned a 3D image of a skull and is using a program to build a face onto it. In 1981, I was in a grad school Forensic Science program at the University of New Haven, Connecticut. ... [1/3]

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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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More Sword-billed Hummingbird from Hacienda el Bosque #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds #nature

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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“The super-conservative perspective is to assume they are completely unhinged and that even the most benign reasons for travel are going to subject non-citizens to these device searches,”... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Sable is pretty. Naughty, sometimes, but so very pretty

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Interesting. I would like to hug a 7-ft-tall rabbit creature. Alien Harvey?

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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

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This is s weird and adorable and... one coin buys a hook. two buys a portable pond to fish in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvU_...

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On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant of the United States Army at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. But... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Highly recommended! www.imdb.com/title/tt2784...

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The problem with the story of The Emperor's News Clothes is that we're supposed to believe that the townspeople all opened their eyes when the child said "The emperor is nekkid!". In reality, a third of the townspeople already knew that.

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I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

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With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule, writes @daniel-hunter.bsky.social.

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I brought my sign; Spouse brought our flag.

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This is Sable. Sable is almost 9 month old. Sable is neat, sweet, petite... also part weasel and part monkey. We are working on the back porch today (adding cat-proofing to the gates). So, I put the cats into the house. But I did not close the glass door, only the screen door.

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pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

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@musargenteus.bsky.social Have you seen this? Petition EN7254 - Ban Trump from Australia Petition Status The petition is currently open for signatures www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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Recommended reading: www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors...

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Are there positive things?

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We got a flip in PA! Congrats James Malone! Republicans held this seat for 46 years!

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"They won't care" is a step on the road to despair. Despair will kill you and it will do nothing to save anyone else. If that's all you've got, at least go do it quietly in the corner out of the way and let the people who are doing the work get on with it. Try: "We will make them care."

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