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CJ Merry ChristMoose 🫎
@cjmoose.bsky.social
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Rock lover, beer drinker, birdwatcher, weather nerd.
Former NPS, Former #SciEd teacher, Former #VetMed.
#GoAvsGo fan.
@1LukeAF.bsky.social’s official taste-tester🍴.
Parent of Rainy Pi, Stormy, & P-SwAG.
#Lymphedema, #ADHD, #SciCom
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CJ Merry ChristMoose 🫎 @cjmoose.bsky.social · Nov 5
Moose are great swimmers, can fully submerge for 30+ sec, & dive up to 5m deep! When a moose submerges its head, the difference btwn water pressure & air pressure causes specialized structures w/in moose nostrils to seal the nose! The deeper they dive, the greater the pressure, the tighter the seal!
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · Nov 5
Quote this skeet with a random fact you love, that brings you joy, I'll start:

Otters have pockets. The skin under their armpits makes a natural fold that they keep things in.
an otter standing on its hind legs in front of a rock wall with imgflip.com written on the bottom
Alt: A sea otter being handed a ball, then storing it in a strange pocket under one arm.
media.tenor.com
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jeffasher.bsky.social
Somebody sent this to me and it's completely false. Murder is falling because shootings are plunging not because emergency medical technology suddenly improved in 2023.
December 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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petersterne.com
Is it that difficult to conceive of someone with actual ideological commitments, who supports unions not for transactional reasons but because they genuinely believe in workers' power? nymag.com/intelligence...
Yet Mamdani is not acting like a mayor without debts. Even though he wasn’t supported by labor unions and many other left-leaning civic organizations in the primary, he had been their champion regardless. He didn’t get the teachers-union endorsement, but he still favored getting rid of mayoral control of schools, something mayors dating back to Bloomberg have fought vigorously for, since its alternative was an era of community school boards that was rife with dysfunction and graft and left a mayor powerless in the face of, for example, a bus-drivers strike. He wasn’t the first choice of the municipal-workers union but still pledged to oppose a proposal to switch city workers to a health plan that budget experts say is necessary to save the city $1 billion. He has called for 200,000 units of affordable housing to be built in the city, but despite not being endorsed by the building trades, he has said they should be built with union labor, which would drive up the cost of construction. (“He says he wants to build 200,000 units of affordable housing, all with union labor,” said one prominent developer. “I think he is going to be lucky to get 50.”) “It’s one of the strangest things I have seen,” said David Schleicher, a professor at Yale Law School and an expert on municipal policy. “He has no particular reason to follow the line of the teachers union or the building trades or any other union, but he seems to be doing it anyway.” It’s hard to shake the sense that Mamdani has come into office treating perceived ideological allies — including unions — as sacred, whether or not they’ve thrown their full support behind him.
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
A wonderful writer and person who used her dying days to speak out against her cousin RFK Jr.’s plan to kill everyone with vaccine misinformation and cuts to cancer research.

May her memory be a blessing.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.
Photo of Tatiana Schlossberg for the New Yorker
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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mattlanza.bsky.social
No one:

Store managers on Monday:
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Evacuation Warnings across Los Angeles for possible burn scar debris flows, flooding (New Year's Eve/New Year's Day)

#cawx #losangelescounty #palisadesfire #eatonfire #evacuation #wildfires
Map showing evacuation alerts in LA
December 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
A Colorado forensic scientist faked hundreds of DNA tests over decades.

Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match.

3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.
December 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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avalanche.bsky.social
We LOVE a Chu Chu hug
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
cjmoose.bsky.social
No #AvsBingo, but I’m okay with that.
Avs Bingo card with 12 things marked.
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
cjmoose.bsky.social
Fudge.
#GoAvsGo
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social
This NYT story is almost malpractice. It is as bad a report of facts as one can do. Does not even mention that DeSantis’s own mini-DOGE issued a scathing financial report on the place just 6 weeks ago.

Here is a more accurate story from Washington Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/13/n...
December 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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jerald.bsky.social
My family had to sue the New College Foundation to get them to issue a DEI scholarship we endowed there shortly before the takeover. Unsurprisingly, the Times hasn’t called us about this at any point.
December 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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bwjones.bsky.social
WAT?

Seriously?!?!?

Plant genetics and botany is soooo cool.
cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 1d
The modern-day potato came to be from the natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and a potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-p...

@cp-cell.bsky.social
Title: The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago
December 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
an orange cat
a drawing of an orange (the fruit) with cat ears an orange sits on a wooden table, while just behind it a cat’s ears peek up
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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abbij1961.bsky.social
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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denverpost.com
LATEST: Telluride Ski Resort remained closed today, as its ski patrollers spent their third day on strike.
Telluride remains closed to skiing with patrollers on strike
Telluride Ski Resort remained closed on Monday, as its ski patrollers spent their third day on strike.
trib.al
December 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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phaneritic.bsky.social
Surprise! I’ve just listed several of my 3D-printed volcano tissue box covers in my Etsy store. The volcanoes are scaled models derived from open source lidar, radar and photogrammetry. On the menu this week is Olympus Mons, Erebus, Etna, Lawetlat’la and more!

phaneritic.etsy.com
Sparkly brick red 3-D printed tissue box cover that looks like a Olympus mons with a tissue erupting out of the top A silky aqua 3-D printed tissue cover box that looks like Mount Erebus erupting a tissue at the top A large Lawetlat’la tissue box cover in in inside colors that alternate very quickly between blue red, yellow, and green with a tissue shooting at the top Mount Aetna tissue box cover that has been 3-D printed and silver filament
December 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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brendering.bsky.social
That Christmas and Robin Robin were both super cute.
December 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
cjmoose.bsky.social
Love this movie. I’ve seen it at least three times this season alone. The song makes me cry every damn time.
comicfoil.bsky.social Comicfoil @comicfoil.bsky.social · 2d
30 minutes in to Klaus and really enjoying it. How did I not hear about this film til now, yet it came out back in 2019!
two slanted buildings full of angry townfolk yelling at one another across the street dividing them and the four individuals standing there Klaus (2019) starring Jason Schwartman, JK Simmons, Rashida Jones, and Norm MacDonald. Directed by Sergio Pablos & Carlos Martinez López
December 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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nws.noaa.gov
During a snow squall, the last place you want to be is on the road.
Delay travel if a snow squall warning is issued. If you’re caught on the road when a snow squall occurs, slow down, turn on your low-beams & hazards, and pull over safely to the side of the road
weather.gov/safety/winter-snow-squall
Protect yourself from snow squalls. If a Snow Squall Warning is issued, delay travel. If you’re already driving, safely exit the road at the next opportunity. If you cannot exit the road in time: Slow down, but avoid slamming the brakes. Turn on your low-beam headlights and hazard lights. Pull over safely to the side of the road, and when safe, quickly exit your vehicle and move as far away from the road as possible.
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM

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A black-and-white photograph from an early 20th-century field expedition showing Annie Montague Alexander (center) standing outdoors in a rugged, rocky landscape with sparse vegetation. She has short white hair, wears a light-colored jacket, scarf, and practical outdoor attire, and smiles gently at the camera. To her left is another woman in a dark outfit and wide-brimmed hat holding papers; to her right, a third woman in a light hat and coat. The scene captures a moment of camaraderie during fieldwork, likely related to fossil collecting or natural history exploration. A black-and-white studio portrait of Annie Montague Alexander, an early 20th-century American philanthropist, explorer, and paleontologist. She is depicted in a three-quarter view facing slightly to the left, with short white hair, wearing round wire-framed glasses, a dark high-collared blouse or dress with a light collar, and a brooch pinned at the neck. Her expression is serious and composed against a plain, softly textured gradient background.
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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catbus.phd
please do not teach the goats italian
hand proffering something to a goat with a red line through it
October 24, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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dptbirder.bsky.social
This is the time of year budding birders start to ditch using eBird because of review season

I totally understand the reviews for accuracy, but so many folks get intimidated by getting an email from a county reviewer who (while likely is a good birder) you dont know

Can we make this in app? @ebird
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
cjmoose.bsky.social
ruin two bands by combining them

Widespread Panic at the Disco
izzos.us Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d
Van Halen Morrison
coreyryung.bsky.social Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d
ruing two bands by combining them

Boyz II Men Without Hats
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
ruin two bands by combining them:

B-52 Live Crews
mdaware.org Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 1d
ruin two bands by combining them:

electric light orchestral maneuvers in the dark
douglasmack.bsky.social Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d
tv on the radiohead
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM