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Jessi
@peculiarpetunia.bsky.social
Delightfully quirky human fueled on books, crochet, and an ever-growingist of hobbies. I attempt to teach teenage humans to be smart, curious, and kind— one caffeinated day at a time.
So it's 2025, and the world is on fire, but I put in an offer on a house as a first-time buyer yesterday. I got the dream job on the coast. The dissonance between "hey you're financially secure enough to be a homeowner" and "hey civilization collapse is happening realtime" is an absolute mind fuck.
a woman in a car with the words a little bit crazy on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a car with the words a little bit crazy on the bottom
media.tenor.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Congress? You awake?
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Adventures in FB Marketplace after too many messages haggling:

What I said: I'm firm on 250.
What I wanted to say: My dude, if $25 is going to make or break your day, perhaps you shouldn't be spending $225 on an inflatable hot tub on Facebook.

#fbmarketplace #whydoidothistomyself
June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Today's #baking adventure is cricket flour cookies for my AP Enviro kids because why not it's May and we made it through AP testing!
May 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Okay, so follow up 12 hours later: cheddar pickle sourdough is DELISH. Check out that crumb. #sourdough
May 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Me every damn Saturday: Time to feed Edgar Allan Dough and maybe make some sourdough discard pancakes. Let's keep it simple.

Me later that same Saturday: I've got two loaves bulk proofing (cheddar pickle this week), discard granola in the oven, and crackers prepped to go in next.

#sourdough
May 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A lot of stress means a lot of journaling time. Need some mindless relaxation that feels productive? Draw circles. For hours. No thoughts, just circle vibes. 😂 #artjournal #junkjournal
April 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Happy #Easter
April 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This. No notes. No addenums. THIS.
Autistic people aren’t broken. They’re not tragedies. They don’t need to be pitied, feared, or fixed. They deserve understanding, respect, and support.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Me on a Saturday as a teacher in April: door dashing my hair color from Sallys so I can keep making banana bread and avoid putting on real clothes. Maximum efficiency or maximum ridiculousness?
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Alt: a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "
media.tenor.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Update: I have ordered a giant bag of tiny glow in the dark dinos to retaliate the joy.
I don't remember my ed courses in college covering what to do when one's classroom suddenly has an ever-growing army of plastic babies. #teacherlife
#edusky #dailylifeofahighschoolteacher
April 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I don't remember my ed courses in college covering what to do when one's classroom suddenly has an ever-growing army of plastic babies. #teacherlife
#edusky #dailylifeofahighschoolteacher
April 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I just want to share the last quote I gave in this article widely. It sums up my feelings pretty nicely.

“It is sad that those species are gone, but we have a beautiful natural world here and now that is in desperate need of action.” 🧪

www.insideottawavalley.com/news/did-we-...
Did we really bring back the long-extinct dire wolves made popular in HBO’s Game of Thrones? Not exactly, says Ontario expert
Experts, including Canadian evolutionary biologist Ashley Reynolds, believes these pups produced by Colossal Biosciences cannot be called a “true” dire wolves.
www.insideottawavalley.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Teaching the French Revolution at this point in time is real, real weird. I'm wearing my guillotine earrings to talk about the Terror today, and it felt surreal when a student said they saw one of those things on a protest sign. #teachingin2025 #historyteacher #thesigns
April 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy Rex Manning Day to those who celebrate. #damntheman
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media.tenor.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Epic lucky fish shoes for test prep. Solid strategy. #studentsbewildin
#Luckyshoes #fishouttawater
April 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Here in a landscape of FIRE & ICE, the very land is being RIPPED APART along the MidAtlantic Ridge

as the North American plate & the Eurasian plate move apart in continental drift.

By 2 centimenters a year, ICELAND IS TORN ASUNDER!!!

#GeologicalCarnage

#2025MMM
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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No more occupational health research.
No more HIV research. Or tuberculosis. Or sexually transmitted infections.
No environmental health & science research.
No chronic disease research & prevention.

The CRUELTY is the point.
This won’t make anyone healthier.
It will do the exact opposite.
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We need to start sending Cory Booker cans of Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
April 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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#2025MMM: Come for the Biology, Stay for the Geology!
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Farewell Team Ginkgo, we fought a solid battle. #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social I've just finished the book Everything is Tuberculosis. Hauntingly beautiful book. This book connects disease to colonialism, fashion, genetics, race, and the horrorific decay into illness. Stunning look at how disease ripples through big and small places of history.
April 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
My most important relationships are my coffee, my family, my books. We pretend that order changes, but I know the truth. #muglife
Some people romanticize coffee but I just want to take it to pound town.
March 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#APenviro teachers check this out. Using this article to review. My students have to case study and provide me a list of units the article connects to with rationale and possible impacts.

Sidenote, potentially millions more people on the planet?! Malthus could never.

#apes #environmentalscience
Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth
We’ve gotta start counting from 1 again...
www.popularmechanics.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#2025MMM RND 2
tOO + Roots & Relicts
EMOJI BATTLE RESULTS!
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March 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM