YouTube recap! Never played Minecraft, but the videos help me sleep, because it's so very boring. Off grid living's an actual interest, I watch a ton of that. Historical food's all @tastinghistory.bsky.social & Townsends. "Home renovation" = can't scroll past a Dear Modern short. So, now you know! 😄
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
YouTube recap! Never played Minecraft, but the videos help me sleep, because it's so very boring. Off grid living's an actual interest, I watch a ton of that. Historical food's all @tastinghistory.bsky.social & Townsends. "Home renovation" = can't scroll past a Dear Modern short. So, now you know! 😄
The ever growing collection of pens and pencils I've broken because I can't stop fidgeting with the clippy part. Added another one today. 🫡
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The ever growing collection of pens and pencils I've broken because I can't stop fidgeting with the clippy part. Added another one today. 🫡
All bleeding and baseball games stop eventually... right? 😅
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
All bleeding and baseball games stop eventually... right? 😅
Planted the propagated Echeveria today. Unfortunately the planter is too wide for my office windowsill, and that side of the building doesn't get direct sun, so I brought them home to live with my outdoor plants.
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Planted the propagated Echeveria today. Unfortunately the planter is too wide for my office windowsill, and that side of the building doesn't get direct sun, so I brought them home to live with my outdoor plants.
Echeveria are getting ready to plant! This process has been fun to watch, and has been so much more successful than my past attempts at succulent propagation. I think the humidity and temperature ranges here are fairly similar to their native habitat, which probably helps a lot.
October 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Echeveria are getting ready to plant! This process has been fun to watch, and has been so much more successful than my past attempts at succulent propagation. I think the humidity and temperature ranges here are fairly similar to their native habitat, which probably helps a lot.
Today I learned that humans can get GDV, and it has a similar mortality rate as dogs, with 80% of human cases diagnosed at autopsy. So now I want to schedule myself a spay with a preventative stomach tack. 😅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric...
Gastric volvulus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Today I learned that humans can get GDV, and it has a similar mortality rate as dogs, with 80% of human cases diagnosed at autopsy. So now I want to schedule myself a spay with a preventative stomach tack. 😅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric...
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US documents dozens of new #avian flu cases in wild birds as PAHO notes human case
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
US documents dozens of new #avian flu cases in wild birds as PAHO notes human case
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Visitor at work today. 🖤 Must have heard that tarantulas are welcome here! Also I am very proud of myself for not tickling their velvety little toes even though I really really wanted to. 🥺 (Tarantulas, like most wild animals, generally do not appreciate that.)
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Visitor at work today. 🖤 Must have heard that tarantulas are welcome here! Also I am very proud of myself for not tickling their velvety little toes even though I really really wanted to. 🥺 (Tarantulas, like most wild animals, generally do not appreciate that.)
Can't stop, won't stop. 🪴 Newest addition to the office windowsill garden: Lemon verbena. Someone left some cuttings in the break room for people to take, so I'm attempting to root some of them. I historically have a tough time growing container herbs, so we'll see how this goes.
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Can't stop, won't stop. 🪴 Newest addition to the office windowsill garden: Lemon verbena. Someone left some cuttings in the break room for people to take, so I'm attempting to root some of them. I historically have a tough time growing container herbs, so we'll see how this goes.
Asking Squeaky every night if she would prefer to eat "the crunchy or the smooth?" As if I'm not just going to give the 19-year-old lady both anyway. 😸
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Asking Squeaky every night if she would prefer to eat "the crunchy or the smooth?" As if I'm not just going to give the 19-year-old lady both anyway. 😸
Sometimes people ask about the most memorable case I've had in wildlife med. There's so many, but the experience I think about most often was when I tried to give a great-horned owl a flavored medicine hidden inside a mouse chunk. Turns out owls do not, in fact, enjoy tutti-frutti flavored mice.
October 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Sometimes people ask about the most memorable case I've had in wildlife med. There's so many, but the experience I think about most often was when I tried to give a great-horned owl a flavored medicine hidden inside a mouse chunk. Turns out owls do not, in fact, enjoy tutti-frutti flavored mice.
Just took a book off the shelf I've been meaning to read for years, only to find in my library app that I did read it, all 407 pages, over the span of two days in 2018.
I guess I liked it. 🤷♀️
I guess I liked it. 🤷♀️
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Just took a book off the shelf I've been meaning to read for years, only to find in my library app that I did read it, all 407 pages, over the span of two days in 2018.
I guess I liked it. 🤷♀️
I guess I liked it. 🤷♀️
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Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
Martini: Shake, don't stir.
Paint: Stir, don't shake.
Good Times: Let them roll.
Paint: Stir, don't shake.
Good Times: Let them roll.
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Martini: Shake, don't stir.
Paint: Stir, don't shake.
Good Times: Let them roll.
Paint: Stir, don't shake.
Good Times: Let them roll.
You know that trope in time travel media where the time traveler meets someone from 1915 or so and says something like, "Oh wow, the first world war!" And a local goes, "Hey what do you mean, the FIRST world war??" [1/2]
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You know that trope in time travel media where the time traveler meets someone from 1915 or so and says something like, "Oh wow, the first world war!" And a local goes, "Hey what do you mean, the FIRST world war??" [1/2]
I'm very glad humans do not have parthenogenesis, because if the rest of human female biology is any indicator, we'd be popping out a clone of ourselves every month for roughly half of our lives.
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm very glad humans do not have parthenogenesis, because if the rest of human female biology is any indicator, we'd be popping out a clone of ourselves every month for roughly half of our lives.
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I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
If you look up anything, literally anything to do with veterinary medicine, include the word "veterinary" in your search, or you'll be bombarded with human medicine images. It's especially important for anything to do with reproductive organ surgery.
Sincerely,
Scarred for Life in Santa Barbara
Sincerely,
Scarred for Life in Santa Barbara
September 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If you look up anything, literally anything to do with veterinary medicine, include the word "veterinary" in your search, or you'll be bombarded with human medicine images. It's especially important for anything to do with reproductive organ surgery.
Sincerely,
Scarred for Life in Santa Barbara
Sincerely,
Scarred for Life in Santa Barbara
It is extra crispy along the beach bluffs, but the purple western morning glories are still blooming.
calscape.org/Calystegia-p...
calscape.org/Calystegia-p...
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It is extra crispy along the beach bluffs, but the purple western morning glories are still blooming.
calscape.org/Calystegia-p...
calscape.org/Calystegia-p...
Just opened a blog post by someone with the first name "Al". Almost closed it without reading because I interpreted that second letter as an upper case I instead of a lower case L. 🙃 Sorry, Al, I'll read your thoughtful, human writing now!
August 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just opened a blog post by someone with the first name "Al". Almost closed it without reading because I interpreted that second letter as an upper case I instead of a lower case L. 🙃 Sorry, Al, I'll read your thoughtful, human writing now!
Got my 2025-2026 seasonal flu vaccine today, the earliest I've ever had one! I usually drag myself in around December or January. 😅
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
Companies start flu vaccine shipments ahead of 2025-26 season
www.cidrap.umn.edu
August 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Got my 2025-2026 seasonal flu vaccine today, the earliest I've ever had one! I usually drag myself in around December or January. 😅
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
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I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
Learned that this exists today: CDC Train continuing education and training modules. Most of them are people-oriented, but there's also lots of animal health topics. And, my favorite, the two combined - zoonotic diseases! 🦠
www.train.org/cdctrain/wel...
www.train.org/cdctrain/wel...
www.train.org
August 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Learned that this exists today: CDC Train continuing education and training modules. Most of them are people-oriented, but there's also lots of animal health topics. And, my favorite, the two combined - zoonotic diseases! 🦠
www.train.org/cdctrain/wel...
www.train.org/cdctrain/wel...
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Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms
Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All
Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms
www.scientificamerican.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms
"Tomorrow night" is a very commonly used phrase in modern English. "Tomorrow day", however, sounds weird as hell unless you are the rock band Arctic Monkeys in your 2013 song, "Do I Wanna Know?"
August 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Tomorrow night" is a very commonly used phrase in modern English. "Tomorrow day", however, sounds weird as hell unless you are the rock band Arctic Monkeys in your 2013 song, "Do I Wanna Know?"