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Jess
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“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”
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We had three monarch butterflies emerge this morning 🥹
Three monarch butterflies in a brightly lit corner; two of them have alighted on a hand. Another chrysalis is visible in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Christmas came early thanks to @jonsamp.dev & @emilysamp.dev! ☕️✨
A box of two pink pouches of coffee from the roaster Prodigal. The box is sitting on a sunny table. A butterfly landed on one of the pouches.
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Excerpt from article highlighted in a screenshot: “The true exercise of imagination, in my view, is (a) to help us to understand other people and (b) to respond to, and, for some of us, to produce, art. But it has also a bad use: to provide for us, in shadowy form, a substitute for virtues, successes, distinctions, etc., which ought to be sought outside in the real world—e.g. picturing all I’d do if I were rich instead of earning and saving. “
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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My kid wrote this list for me one afternoon last week, as I was trying to eke out a little work while sick. I’m very lucky to be his mama. 🥹
A handwritten list of 13 ways to say I love you. 1. I love you. 2. I love you to the moon. 3. I love you so much. 4. I love you to the moon and back. 5. I love you across the galaxy. 6. I love you around the galaxy. 7. I love you across the universe. 8. I love you around the universe. 9. I love you to the moon and back and again and again. 10. I love you inside out. 11. I love you forever. 12. I don’t stop loveing you. 13. I love you for eternity.
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Cartoon by Henry J Garrett. Against an off-white backdrop are two identical red splatters, one of which is framed by a hand-drawn, wooden, ornate frame – as one might see in a museum. Handwritten text above these splatters reads, “Why does some violence demand action, while some does not?” Handwritten text below the splatters reads, “The difference is in the framing.”
September 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Amazing, sustained, excellent work by @alanhughes.bsky.social @notbrent.dev @kudochien.dev and team — not to mention an incredibly awesome list of beta testers and external contributors 💛✨
Screenshot of https://expo.dev/changelog/sdk-54#thanks-to-everyone-who-contributed-to-the-release thanking everyone who contributed to the Expo SDK54 release, including Alan Hughes, Aleksander Mikucki, Cedric van Putten, Christian Falch, Doug Lowder, Evan Bacon, Gabriel Donadel, Kudo Chien, Łukasz Kosmaty, Phil Pluckthun, Vojtech Novak, and Wojciech Dróżdż. Other contributors include Aman Mittal, Beto Moedano, Kadi Kraman, Keith Kurak, Quin Jung, Will Schurman, Nishan Bende, Hirbod Mirjavadi, Krystof Woldrich, Jakub Tkacz, Hassan Khan, and Wiktor Smaga.
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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📚🫖☺️
A cup of tea to go, resting on a paperback book in front of a bookshop sign.
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Screenshot of excerpt from article: “Blind review shifts the scrutiny away from the scientist to the science, says Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was involved in a similar effort at NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. “If the idea is original and brilliant, it shouldn’t matter who wrote it,” she says. “Everyone should have a fair shot.” The latest study suggests that reviewers can have a “prestige bias” towards experienced or well-known researchers, says John Carpenter, who studies protoplanetary disks at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Santiago. This can result in these researchers being offered equipment time at the expense of their less-experienced peers. The effect permeates across fields, says Carpenter,…”
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Bearing fruit: our children huddled together for long hours over things that aren’t screens
July 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Screenshot of article except that reads “When I hear Palestinians today speaking about the loss in their families, it is immediately familiar – the loss of homes, and the almost complete annihilation of individual families – that is the language I grew up hearing, and that is how I initially recognized, on a visceral level, before the academic scholarship, that we are witnessing a genocide. Today, it is the Palestinians who face the extermination we endured. Many American Jews, especially in younger generations, recognize this as well. By protesting Israel’s actions, they are defending my religion against a permanent stain.”
July 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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May 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Brought to you by the "Pro Life" party, folks.
Screenshot of a portion of the linked article, which reads: But the U.S. funds the WFP on a yearly basis. For 2025, the Trump administration so far hasn’t approved any money in either country, forcing the organization to drastically slash food programs. In Kenya, for example, the WFP will cut its rations in June down to 28% — or less than 600 calories a day per person — a low never seen before, the WFP’s Kenya country director Lauren Landis told ProPublica. The WFP’s standard minimum for adults is 2,100 calories per day. “We are living off the fumes of what was delivered in late 2024 or early 2025,” Landis said. On a recent visit to a facility treating malnourished children younger than 5, she said she saw kids who were “walking skeletons like I haven’t seen in a decade.”
May 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Milestone: kid made *me* an afternoon snack to eat while I was working 🥰
A small bowl of yogurt topped with diced strawberries, granola and chia seeds.
May 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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It’s beginning to look a lot like summer…
Four children playing in the waves at sunset.
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It'll be redirected to other research programs within the Tropical Medicine dept at the UH School of Medicine (manoa.hawaii.edu/tropicalmedi...), which incl. a lot of vaccine dev and basic research on existing and emerging infectious diseases. I wish it were as simple as GoFundMe (refunds!), but...
A screenshot of the research areas page of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology at the John A Burns School of Medicine. It says "Key research areas of faculty participating in this training program include immunology, pathogenesis, and vaccine and drug development for Ebola, dengue, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, and basic, genomic and epidemiological research on emerging infectious diseases caused by hantaviruses, West Nile virus, Nipah virus, and Burkholderia pseudomallei." It also states that the mission of the department is “to provide the future leaders of Tropical Medicine and Pharmacology a world-class transdisciplinary research, training and teaching program that focuses on basic, translational, and field research on microbial diseases of global public health importance and with special interests to Hawaii and the Asia-Pacific region” and that in keeping with this mission, "its faculty members have long-standing international collaborative research projects in Egypt, Cameroon, Peru, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Philippines, South Korea, China, India, and US-Affiliated Territories in the Pacific."
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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#HandsOff Hawai’i style 🤙🏽
A Hands Off protester in Honolulu on April 5 2025 holding a sign reading: HULI DAT FAKA and A’OLE Fascism
April 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Image credit to @commonsearth.bsky.social.
A photo of a redwood forest overlaid by text, quoting the Guardian: "This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry. What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite." from Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project. Credit to CommonsEarth
March 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Text "Trump has ordered over 100 million hectares of forest to be chopped down. That's nearly three times the size of California." overlaid on a photo of a redwood forest. Credit to CommonsEarth.
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Spent too much money … but it’s cash to a local small business! And they let us “help” 🥹
Shopkeeper and child trimming a final Irish poppy for a small bouquet
March 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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It's so easy, even I can do it! 💅

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A screenshot of a web app deployed to jess.expo.app. It just has text, reading: Hello! I am Jess. I'm trying out Expo's new EAS Hosting service... It's so easy, even I can do it (!!!) To try EAS Hosting yourself: 1. npx create-expo-app@latest 2. npx expo start (and make some first changes if you wish) 3. npx expo export --platform web 4. Install eas-cli if you need to 5. eas deploy --prod
January 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Released another 8 monarchs this morning 🫶, some of whom are still hanging out in our front garden.
Five monarch butterflies perched on some plants
January 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Two of our monarchs emerged this morning 🦋
Photo of a monarch held up in front of some bookshelves
December 21, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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All done! 🐵🍞🎄
December 19, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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🐵🍞 in the works for @expo.dev’s 2024 Breadapalooza 👩🏻‍🍳
December 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Day 14 of 20

💙📚 #bookchallenge
Photo of a tattered paperback cover of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
December 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM