Yet Another Emily
@anomily.bsky.social
I love to learn, ideally not the hard way but I’ll take what I can get. She/her/hers
Taxes are your civic duty. It is a privilege to be a part of a larger society, and they are your dues.
Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live!
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Taxes are your civic duty. It is a privilege to be a part of a larger society, and they are your dues.
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Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live!
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live!
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
For the love of all that is holy, get yourself a meat thermometer. It is essential and will save you from wiggling a turkey leg to see if it’s “wiggly enough.”
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
For the love of all that is holy, get yourself a meat thermometer. It is essential and will save you from wiggling a turkey leg to see if it’s “wiggly enough.”
Cassette: INXS
CD: Jane’s Addition “Ritual de lo Habitual”
CD: Jane’s Addition “Ritual de lo Habitual”
Don't remember my first CD. Never bought a lot of cassettes, but...
Cassette: Dead Milkmen, "Big Lizard in My Backyard"
Vinyl: Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" and Elvis Costello "Armed Forces," bought on the same trip to Appletree Records in Normal, IL.
Cassette: Dead Milkmen, "Big Lizard in My Backyard"
Vinyl: Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" and Elvis Costello "Armed Forces," bought on the same trip to Appletree Records in Normal, IL.
Okay, who remembers the first cassette tape/CD they ever purchased? For me:
CD: Pink Floyd's The Wall
cassette: Styx's Kilroy Was Here
CD: Pink Floyd's The Wall
cassette: Styx's Kilroy Was Here
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Cassette: INXS
CD: Jane’s Addition “Ritual de lo Habitual”
CD: Jane’s Addition “Ritual de lo Habitual”
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Also Christmas prime rib with Yorkshire pudding. I’ve started making a nice horseradish cream sauce that’s new, though.
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Also Christmas prime rib with Yorkshire pudding. I’ve started making a nice horseradish cream sauce that’s new, though.
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
This is correct.
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is correct.
2 years? LOL, no. I just upgraded from an iPhone XR because it got to slow to be usable.
There are whole campaigns designed to get people to hold onto their phones for just one year longer because it's so bad for the environment to toss them every two years, and now people are doing that and CNBC Is like "we were kidding"
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
2 years? LOL, no. I just upgraded from an iPhone XR because it got to slow to be usable.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Easily y favorite animal. They’re social, smart and adorable. What’s not to love?
Next up is the black-tailed prairie dogs, in both very fresh beans and full sized varieties.
www.animal-photo-references.com/black-tailed...
www.animal-photo-references.com/black-tailed...
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Easily y favorite animal. They’re social, smart and adorable. What’s not to love?
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if you pronounce Shoegaze to rhyme with Fugazi then buddy you are two fifths of the way to a limerick that will get your ass kicked by every kind of sadsack bald person
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
if you pronounce Shoegaze to rhyme with Fugazi then buddy you are two fifths of the way to a limerick that will get your ass kicked by every kind of sadsack bald person
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
I firmly believe that if the medieval Church had this tech, they would have applied it liberally.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I firmly believe that if the medieval Church had this tech, they would have applied it liberally.
Yet again, science is undermined and medicine treated with suspicion. It’s a travesty. FYI, I grew a baby too big to birth. We both would have died. That’s what happened far too often.
This is an amazing, gutting story. Grifters make bank by peddling misinformation about the harms of medical or midwife-assisted births, and moms and babies suffer and die. 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 2:21 PM
Yet again, science is undermined and medicine treated with suspicion. It’s a travesty. FYI, I grew a baby too big to birth. We both would have died. That’s what happened far too often.
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MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
Trump just wants NYC to love him so bad. It’s Curb levels of just embarrassing.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Trump just wants NYC to love him so bad. It’s Curb levels of just embarrassing.
These are very fun reads. Perfect for a long weekend when you might want to escape for a bit.
Today’s #FridayFling snippet is from HUNT THE STARS!
The prompt is “smash.”
A bounty hunter captain takes a risky job from a dangerous, telepathic former enemy, but she never expected him to be so honorable—or so attractive… at least when she’s not contemplating punching him. 😂
#Romancelandia
The prompt is “smash.”
A bounty hunter captain takes a risky job from a dangerous, telepathic former enemy, but she never expected him to be so honorable—or so attractive… at least when she’s not contemplating punching him. 😂
#Romancelandia
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These are very fun reads. Perfect for a long weekend when you might want to escape for a bit.
One of the professors at my college married one of his thesis students. We didn’t have a graduate program.
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
One of the professors at my college married one of his thesis students. We didn’t have a graduate program.
Listen. I’ve read every 398.2 book in every library that I had access to and yes, I’m as pragmatic as they come. But friends, our perception is so limited. Limited sound, limited light, can’t even feel water. Is there imperceptible life? I like to think so.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Listen. I’ve read every 398.2 book in every library that I had access to and yes, I’m as pragmatic as they come. But friends, our perception is so limited. Limited sound, limited light, can’t even feel water. Is there imperceptible life? I like to think so.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
Totally agree. I’ve seen this in my own kids (though I myself am terrible about drawing boundaries as I was taught that it is my role to be of service).
I’ve been working on a theory for years that helping young people practice setting boundaries with the adults they trust (including me) and the boundaries are respected, that muscle will be ready when they have to do it with their peers, even when it’s hard.
Here to tell you it works 🥹
Here to tell you it works 🥹
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Totally agree. I’ve seen this in my own kids (though I myself am terrible about drawing boundaries as I was taught that it is my role to be of service).