Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
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Look at the smart baby who mastered the big stairs AND the cat stairs and found Momma on the bed!!!
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Look at the smart baby who mastered the big stairs AND the cat stairs and found Momma on the bed!!!
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“Who am I in this place?” is one of my favourite questions. I remember an employee telling me she didn’t like who she’d become “here” — “here” being the workplace (possibly her profession). “I like me here” is a goal worth reaching, no matter where “here” is.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“Who am I in this place?” is one of my favourite questions. I remember an employee telling me she didn’t like who she’d become “here” — “here” being the workplace (possibly her profession). “I like me here” is a goal worth reaching, no matter where “here” is.
Adding to Mount To Be Read
This might offer a partial answer & is a great & readable book by a wonderful writer!
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/elino...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/elino...
Unwell Women
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed ...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I would like to read something on why the medical profession is so bad at this stuff.
I had a point where walking left me in enormous pain. I went to one doctor whose main answer was "stop being fat" and just...didn't ask anyone else about it for a long time.
I tried so many things.
I tried so many things.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I would like to read something on why the medical profession is so bad at this stuff.
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It’s the Saturday before Thanksgiving, which means it’s the perfect time to share your best Thanksgiving recipes with me ⬇️ 👇
THANKSGIVING RECIPES THREAD 🧵🍁🦃
I’m Head Chef at this year’s Bower family Thanksgiving.
The soup season thread was a hit, so now I’m turning to Bluesky for your best Turkey Day recipes.
What’s the one dish you can’t live without?
Drop recipes and tips in the replies ⬇️
(Photo: my fave appetizer)
I’m Head Chef at this year’s Bower family Thanksgiving.
The soup season thread was a hit, so now I’m turning to Bluesky for your best Turkey Day recipes.
What’s the one dish you can’t live without?
Drop recipes and tips in the replies ⬇️
(Photo: my fave appetizer)
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s the Saturday before Thanksgiving, which means it’s the perfect time to share your best Thanksgiving recipes with me ⬇️ 👇
It's a minor plot point in one of Ilona Andrews' Innkeeper novellas that the main character gets Call of Duty to occupy a group of bored aliens who are used to combat.
The Ministry of Defence “unveiled the launch of the International Defence Esports Games (IDEG) on Friday.
The tournament will see Britain’s top ‘future cyber warriors’ battle it out against military teams from 40 other nations as they face off in a number of virtual shooting games.”
The tournament will see Britain’s top ‘future cyber warriors’ battle it out against military teams from 40 other nations as they face off in a number of virtual shooting games.”
British soldiers to be trained on Call of Duty to 'sharpen their combat skills' | LBC
General Sir Tom Copinger-Symes made the remarks as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) unveiled the launch of the International Defence Esports Games (IDEG).
www.lbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It's a minor plot point in one of Ilona Andrews' Innkeeper novellas that the main character gets Call of Duty to occupy a group of bored aliens who are used to combat.
If you felt a disturbance in the Force, it is probably every submissive I know shuddering and saying, "NOT LIKE THAT."
one underppreciated selling point of authoritarianism is “agency is hard and scary, don’t you want big daddy to take care of it?”
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you felt a disturbance in the Force, it is probably every submissive I know shuddering and saying, "NOT LIKE THAT."
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Since I am a fan of Peter Eisenmen, rowing, and dancing, the first paragraph in particular could have been written for me.
June 3, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Since I am a fan of Peter Eisenmen, rowing, and dancing, the first paragraph in particular could have been written for me.
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Tater honey, up is the other way…
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Tater honey, up is the other way…
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*sniffle* It’s so beautiful.
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
*sniffle* It’s so beautiful.
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Please boggle at this small selection of the titles of corporate "industrial musicals" from mid-C20th America, as recorded by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industr....
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Please boggle at this small selection of the titles of corporate "industrial musicals" from mid-C20th America, as recorded by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industr....
*silently raises eyebrows at tech*
I think this is what has been revealed of social order by Trumpism: we have long already existed in a takeover of every institution and business by a culture of authoritarian rule and make-believe, a culture which loathes the very systems it lords over, and folds at the slightest breath of foul wind
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
*silently raises eyebrows at tech*
Until this moment I hadn't thought of the focus on causal methods as part of the Wittengenstein's Vienna-ish impulse to retreat to fantasy rather than deal with facts, but now I do.
A funder asked me recently what I think of the education policy/higher education funding landscape and I said all of this plus an epistemology that causal research is the only research that matters when the biggest, most important questions likely cannot be answered by causal methods
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Until this moment I hadn't thought of the focus on causal methods as part of the Wittengenstein's Vienna-ish impulse to retreat to fantasy rather than deal with facts, but now I do.
Read both threads
I also think this thread covers another and incredibly important angle about why this phenomenon occurs, and I agree completely, and it’s one of the reasons I wanted a home birth so bad. This is what we need to address first and at large.
bsky.app/profile/gwen...
bsky.app/profile/gwen...
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Read both threads
Adding Light from Uncommon Starts to Mount To Be Read because it sounds amazing!
Light from Uncommon Stars: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250...
and
Automatic Noodle portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250...
and
Automatic Noodle portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250...
Constantly searching for things that feel like T Kingfisher's fantasy and Becky Chambers's ScFi. Any recs would be much appreciated!
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Adding Light from Uncommon Starts to Mount To Be Read because it sounds amazing!
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Me: "so when they say grapefruit has averse reactions to meds, does pomelo have the same effects?"
(A quick peek would appear to suggest "some averse effects for some drugs but we don't have enough data for the rest of the drugs")
(A quick peek would appear to suggest "some averse effects for some drugs but we don't have enough data for the rest of the drugs")
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Me: "so when they say grapefruit has averse reactions to meds, does pomelo have the same effects?"
(A quick peek would appear to suggest "some averse effects for some drugs but we don't have enough data for the rest of the drugs")
(A quick peek would appear to suggest "some averse effects for some drugs but we don't have enough data for the rest of the drugs")
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Josh is spending this rainy Saturday morning managing the stock in Sci Fi/Fantasy, so if you need a rec or an opinion from those genres, now's the time!
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Josh is spending this rainy Saturday morning managing the stock in Sci Fi/Fantasy, so if you need a rec or an opinion from those genres, now's the time!
Ooh, available open access! www.fulcrum.org/epubs/3x816q...
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ooh, available open access! www.fulcrum.org/epubs/3x816q...
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Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter
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the private school and landlord labeler has added 'epstein connection' as a label just fyi
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the private school and landlord labeler has added 'epstein connection' as a label just fyi
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I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
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I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.
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what if instead of reading That Thing we all just posted pictures of how our hobbies are going
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
what if instead of reading That Thing we all just posted pictures of how our hobbies are going
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very funny to read the responses here as someone who works in the data space in tech. tech people by and large have no theory of what data is or isn't, and mostly think of it as "objective recordings of the truth." it's rather horrifying! i hate it! (the responses here are great)
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
very funny to read the responses here as someone who works in the data space in tech. tech people by and large have no theory of what data is or isn't, and mostly think of it as "objective recordings of the truth." it's rather horrifying! i hate it! (the responses here are great)
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