Jamie Boo!!stein
@uajamie.bsky.social
chicago, data scientist, public policy girlie, recovering blogger
host of the EnterpriseSplaining podcast, a comedy podcast about Star Trek Enterprise (she/her)
host of the EnterpriseSplaining podcast, a comedy podcast about Star Trek Enterprise (she/her)
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Jamie Boo!!stein
@uajamie.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Hi new followers! Did you know I host a very silly comedy podcast about #StarTrek Enterprise called EnterpriseSplaining? Each week only 1 of us watches the episode and then tells the others what happened in it. That means you don’t have to watch or remember the show yourself to listen and enjoy it!
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
I’ve done a lot of Epstein File searches today and my favorite find is this pitch from Lawrence Krauss for a tv show called Strange Bedfellows where he puts two people together for a conversation each episode. His first season proposal is a litany of canceled or deeply annoying people.
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’ve done a lot of Epstein File searches today and my favorite find is this pitch from Lawrence Krauss for a tv show called Strange Bedfellows where he puts two people together for a conversation each episode. His first season proposal is a litany of canceled or deeply annoying people.
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In our new episode out today, Bill tells us about the #StarTrekENT episode Canamar, a ConAir ripoff (ConAirMar?) where Archer confesses he's a smuggler (GUILTY OF BEING SMUG), Trip gets stuck next to That Guy on a long flight, and while T'Pol is in charge, everyone does their jobs competently.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In our new episode out today, Bill tells us about the #StarTrekENT episode Canamar, a ConAir ripoff (ConAirMar?) where Archer confesses he's a smuggler (GUILTY OF BEING SMUG), Trip gets stuck next to That Guy on a long flight, and while T'Pol is in charge, everyone does their jobs competently.
I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men from the skeptic community circa 2012 in the Epstein files. I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men from the skeptic community circa 2012 in the Epstein files. I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men fro
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men from the skeptic community circa 2012 in the Epstein files. I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men from the skeptic community circa 2012 in the Epstein files. I will not spend all day looking up names of notorious men fro
Me waking up this morning to find someone asking for Diane Warren trivia. I was made for this moment. I knew the many, many hours I spend doing research on useless Diane Warren facts for the @enterprisesplain.bsky.social Diane Warren segment would one day pay off!
How many theme songs has Diane Warren written for stories about spaceships? Is it just two or are there more?
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Me waking up this morning to find someone asking for Diane Warren trivia. I was made for this moment. I knew the many, many hours I spend doing research on useless Diane Warren facts for the @enterprisesplain.bsky.social Diane Warren segment would one day pay off!
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Woodpeckers put their WHOLE BODIES into the peck.
Every time. Super fast! They exhale like they're doing HIIT, their neck muscles tense. They basically become tiny feathered hammers.
www.sciencenews.org/article/wood...
Every time. Super fast! They exhale like they're doing HIIT, their neck muscles tense. They basically become tiny feathered hammers.
www.sciencenews.org/article/wood...
Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair
The birds grunt like tennis pros when generating their rat-a-tat, a performance strategy that may help stabilize core muscles.
www.sciencenews.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Woodpeckers put their WHOLE BODIES into the peck.
Every time. Super fast! They exhale like they're doing HIIT, their neck muscles tense. They basically become tiny feathered hammers.
www.sciencenews.org/article/wood...
Every time. Super fast! They exhale like they're doing HIIT, their neck muscles tense. They basically become tiny feathered hammers.
www.sciencenews.org/article/wood...
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No disrespect to Tate McRae, but I just can’t listen to her music because I only have room for three niche pop girlies named Rae in my life and the spots are already filled by Addison Rae, Jenson McRae, and Carly Rae Jepson.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
No disrespect to Tate McRae, but I just can’t listen to her music because I only have room for three niche pop girlies named Rae in my life and the spots are already filled by Addison Rae, Jenson McRae, and Carly Rae Jepson.
No disrespect to Tate McRae, but I just can’t listen to her music because I only have room for three niche pop girlies named Rae in my life and the spots are already filled by Addison Rae, Jenson McRae, and Carly Rae Jepson.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
No disrespect to Tate McRae, but I just can’t listen to her music because I only have room for three niche pop girlies named Rae in my life and the spots are already filled by Addison Rae, Jenson McRae, and Carly Rae Jepson.
Little Village is the neighborhood where ICE tear gassed a bunch of children before a Halloween parade last week.
It’s a joke to them.
It’s a joke to them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Little Village is the neighborhood where ICE tear gassed a bunch of children before a Halloween parade last week.
It’s a joke to them.
It’s a joke to them.
The AP was able to identify four of the 60 men killed in extrajudicial executions by the Trump Admin. They were smuggling cocaine (not opioids) and smuggling seemed to be an occasional side gig because they lived in extreme poverty. These were not gang big wigs as the Trump Admin has claimed.
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The AP was able to identify four of the 60 men killed in extrajudicial executions by the Trump Admin. They were smuggling cocaine (not opioids) and smuggling seemed to be an occasional side gig because they lived in extreme poverty. These were not gang big wigs as the Trump Admin has claimed.
There were posts from friends of mine about Cheney that were hidden from me this week because of these automatic moderation filters. Here is how to change them!
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
There were posts from friends of mine about Cheney that were hidden from me this week because of these automatic moderation filters. Here is how to change them!
We learn that a federal judge has to order the Trump Admin not to let its poorest citizens starve at basically the exact same time that news breaks about Elon maybe getting $1 trillion.
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We learn that a federal judge has to order the Trump Admin not to let its poorest citizens starve at basically the exact same time that news breaks about Elon maybe getting $1 trillion.
Men are too emotional to be Supreme Court justices
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Men are too emotional to be Supreme Court justices
ICE kidnapped a severely mentally ill man. After realizing he was in the country legally, they seemingly just dropped him off at a street corner even though he didn’t have the capacity to figure out how to get home on his own. He was living on the streets for 2 weeks before his family found him.
Filming ICE Detention Of Man With Schizophrenia Left Bystander 'Trembling'
Edgar Manzo's quick decision to record immigration agents detaining the 54-year-old helped the man’s family learn that he was taken.
blockclubchicago.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
ICE kidnapped a severely mentally ill man. After realizing he was in the country legally, they seemingly just dropped him off at a street corner even though he didn’t have the capacity to figure out how to get home on his own. He was living on the streets for 2 weeks before his family found him.
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Ok, it *is* true that the idea of Daylight savings was invented by an entomologist that wanted more time to catch bugs, but I assure you few modern entomologists support it. nautil.us/the-19th-cen...
The 19th-Century Entomologist Who Dreamed Up Daylight Savings
The 19th-Century Entomologist Who Dreamed Up Daylight Savings: Hungry for more light to find insects, this scientist championed changing time
nautil.us
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Ok, it *is* true that the idea of Daylight savings was invented by an entomologist that wanted more time to catch bugs, but I assure you few modern entomologists support it. nautil.us/the-19th-cen...
Happy Halloween from one Pokemon trainer to another!
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Happy Halloween from one Pokemon trainer to another!
No need to be rude to art deco
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
No need to be rude to art deco
I had so much fun explaining this episode to my co-hosts, particularly when I successfully confused/tricked them during the first time loop scene! #startrek
New episode out today! @uajamie.bsky.social tells us about the #StarTrek ENT episode Future Tense where the Enterprise discovers a ship that can travel through time and is bigger on the inside, and yet is somehow not a Doctor Who crossover.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had so much fun explaining this episode to my co-hosts, particularly when I successfully confused/tricked them during the first time loop scene! #startrek
I cannot tell you all how great this series is. The final book comes out in a couple days and I am SO EXCITED.
Stealing from Wizards Volume 4 is coming November 4th.
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I cannot tell you all how great this series is. The final book comes out in a couple days and I am SO EXCITED.
Yah yah yah, we all know that Frankenstein is not the monster, he’s the doctor. But, that statement isn’t technically true because, get this, Victor Frankenstein was not even a Doctor! Dude dropped out of school because he felt so guilty for creating a monster. He never got his degree!
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yah yah yah, we all know that Frankenstein is not the monster, he’s the doctor. But, that statement isn’t technically true because, get this, Victor Frankenstein was not even a Doctor! Dude dropped out of school because he felt so guilty for creating a monster. He never got his degree!
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New episode out today! @uajamie.bsky.social tells us about the #StarTrek ENT episode Future Tense where the Enterprise discovers a ship that can travel through time and is bigger on the inside, and yet is somehow not a Doctor Who crossover.
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New episode out today! @uajamie.bsky.social tells us about the #StarTrek ENT episode Future Tense where the Enterprise discovers a ship that can travel through time and is bigger on the inside, and yet is somehow not a Doctor Who crossover.
Guess who was the only person in her office today who decided to dress up for Halloween!
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Guess who was the only person in her office today who decided to dress up for Halloween!
Utah is planning to have squads of police deployed in rounding up homeless people in Salt Lake City in order to involuntarily commit them into what appears to be a giant internment camp or detention center.
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Utah is planning to have squads of police deployed in rounding up homeless people in Salt Lake City in order to involuntarily commit them into what appears to be a giant internment camp or detention center.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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And guess what if a cell is there and it divides you can get cancer in it.
Breast cancer in men is rare but it is exceptionally deadly.
And of course there's loads of shame around it.
And now? Because of the government. There's MORE shame. On our veterans.
Nice. Nice.
Breast cancer in men is rare but it is exceptionally deadly.
And of course there's loads of shame around it.
And now? Because of the government. There's MORE shame. On our veterans.
Nice. Nice.
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
And guess what if a cell is there and it divides you can get cancer in it.
Breast cancer in men is rare but it is exceptionally deadly.
And of course there's loads of shame around it.
And now? Because of the government. There's MORE shame. On our veterans.
Nice. Nice.
Breast cancer in men is rare but it is exceptionally deadly.
And of course there's loads of shame around it.
And now? Because of the government. There's MORE shame. On our veterans.
Nice. Nice.