julie
@jkru.bsky.social
KAD. stationery collector. open source scientific computing superfan. views are, of course, my own.
Teen: what is technetium, a metal?
Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal
Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE
Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal
Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Teen: what is technetium, a metal?
Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal
Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE
Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal
Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE
Y’all having a teenager is fucking wild. The craft room shares a wall with the teen’s bedroom and I’ve been listening in on her conversation and the brain rot is real.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Y’all having a teenager is fucking wild. The craft room shares a wall with the teen’s bedroom and I’ve been listening in on her conversation and the brain rot is real.
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
Princeton didn’t allow women to get a PhD in astronomy until 1975.
a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know "
Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words "the more you know "
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Princeton didn’t allow women to get a PhD in astronomy until 1975.
The teen learned about quick sort, bubble sort, and selection sort in her CS class today. THEY GROW UP SO FAST 😭😭😭
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The teen learned about quick sort, bubble sort, and selection sort in her CS class today. THEY GROW UP SO FAST 😭😭😭
new art idea: create a tarot deck filled with things that sound plausibly tarot to me, a former astronomer, who knows nothing about tarot. current list of cards:
sword of strokes
throne of anaphylaxis
what next?
sword of strokes
throne of anaphylaxis
what next?
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
new art idea: create a tarot deck filled with things that sound plausibly tarot to me, a former astronomer, who knows nothing about tarot. current list of cards:
sword of strokes
throne of anaphylaxis
what next?
sword of strokes
throne of anaphylaxis
what next?
All I want to do is linocut, but instead it's a little too late stage capitalism outside for that.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
All I want to do is linocut, but instead it's a little too late stage capitalism outside for that.
BRING BACK CRAIGSLIST I BEG 😭😭😭
Meta is testing collaborative buying to let users invite a friend to join their chat with a seller.
Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations | TechCrunch
Meta is testing collaborative buying to let users invite a friend to join their chat with a seller.
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
BRING BACK CRAIGSLIST I BEG 😭😭😭
one of the IEP goals for the toddler was for her to be able to sing 2 songs and I'm not saying that it's ruining my life, but if I never hear the tune of the ABCs again, i will not complain.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
one of the IEP goals for the toddler was for her to be able to sing 2 songs and I'm not saying that it's ruining my life, but if I never hear the tune of the ABCs again, i will not complain.
I understand that avoiding Target can be hard (we still do), especially in some areas. Like for whatever reason* no one has cheaper ground pork and eggs around here. THAT BEING SAID, I DO NOT understand if you cannot avoid Starbucks. Like y'all, just don't cross that picket line.
*bizdev
*bizdev
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I understand that avoiding Target can be hard (we still do), especially in some areas. Like for whatever reason* no one has cheaper ground pork and eggs around here. THAT BEING SAID, I DO NOT understand if you cannot avoid Starbucks. Like y'all, just don't cross that picket line.
*bizdev
*bizdev
setting up a race condition between evicting AWS pods and pre-k dismissal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
setting up a race condition between evicting AWS pods and pre-k dismissal.
I really dislike a lot of things about this coffee shop (e.g., the coffee, the food, etc.), but all of a sudden The Get Up Kids started playing, which almost makes up for all the other issues.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I really dislike a lot of things about this coffee shop (e.g., the coffee, the food, etc.), but all of a sudden The Get Up Kids started playing, which almost makes up for all the other issues.
Have these boots been inside the state of Texas? No.
Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions.
P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.
Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions.
P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Have these boots been inside the state of Texas? No.
Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions.
P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.
Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions.
P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.
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now that is a harbinger of doom
Even the Dem centrists at Third Way are mad about the deal moderate Senate Dems cut with Republicans to end the shutdown:
"We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."
"We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
now that is a harbinger of doom
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
It’s snowing and the toddler is currently wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and her sneakers and she’s trying to run outside bc it’s “raining” and she “loves rain”
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
It’s snowing and the toddler is currently wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and her sneakers and she’s trying to run outside bc it’s “raining” and she “loves rain”
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today was the second time in the past thirty days that ICE / CBP used chemical weapons ON AN INFANT and i feel like i’m going to lose mind just typing this sentence
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
today was the second time in the past thirty days that ICE / CBP used chemical weapons ON AN INFANT and i feel like i’m going to lose mind just typing this sentence
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"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
To torture Nora Robert’s glass ball analogy, the plastic balls are the ones that make the glass balls easier to keep in the air but also it means that I don’t sleep anymore.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
To torture Nora Robert’s glass ball analogy, the plastic balls are the ones that make the glass balls easier to keep in the air but also it means that I don’t sleep anymore.
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About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
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Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
The toddler decided that she wanted popcorn and that while my husband was putting away the Halloween inflatable was the best time to microwave a bag for about 30 minutes.
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The toddler decided that she wanted popcorn and that while my husband was putting away the Halloween inflatable was the best time to microwave a bag for about 30 minutes.