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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.
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Good morning! 🪶
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This shot of a Winter Wren is similar to one I posted last week, but it looks even more jaunty with its tail cocked way up in this one #birds #birding #wren #winterwren #BirdOfTheDay
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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About 1/3 of the population rents. 20% of the population lives in rural areas, and somehow we have to have discourse about people in rural areas constantly.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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The rent is too damn high.
Any version of housing policy where people who pay rent don't count is just asinine. The rent is too damn high.
So before I mute this guy allow me to point out this is completely dumb shit.

I have been to 44 states. People are worried about rent all over the country. This is happening in cities big and small.

Those trying to buy are also worried about costs.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Behaviores Report: 100% goode 100% sad
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Bubbles would like to show you her chin. She is very proud of how clean it is.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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#Aortearoa street furniture. Spot the #Monarch
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Timeline cleanse: Yesterday I was introduced to the teporingo (volcano rabbit) — it’s like a rabbit crossed with a pika and is only found on Popocatépetl and three of the other volcanoes near Mexico City: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano...
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I thought the idea of a sex abuse ring at the highest levels of government was overheated and ridiculous.

I thought Captain America: The Winter Soldier having secret Nazi senators was over the top.

My life has become a single ongoing revelation that I have not been cynical enough
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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“This meeting could have been an email.”
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Rich New Yorkers won't leave New York for the same reason they won't give up any other expensive, luxurious thing they own. Because living here is in and of itself an expensive status symbol.
And expensive status symbols are how they define themselves.
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Make taxes expensive status symbols again
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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This is getting worse every day.

10 targeted by AI-generated nude images at Louisiana school, officials say The school’s handling of the matter has prompted threats and harassment against public officials. www.wwltv.com/mobile/artic...
10 targeted by AI-generated nude images at Louisiana school, officials say
The school’s handling of the matter has prompted threats and harassment against public officials.
www.wwltv.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Breaking a little news tonight: Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov, speaking tonight at Progressive Maryland's annual gala, just announced he will be sponsoring Medicare for All legislation in the US Senate. This is his first time sponsoring 👀👀👀
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Look, maybe you give a little dog a small pancake
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Fun fact: archaeologists often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘down’ and the future is ‘up’. 🤣🤣🤣
💫 Fun fact: Mandarin speakers often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘up’ and the future is ‘down’, while English speakers think of it horizontally (the past is ‘behind’, and the future ‘ahead’).

#linguistics #funfact #language #mandarin
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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🧵Spotted While Roaming In Aotearoa New Zealand:

A young human (8?) is crouched in front of a white picket fence, clutching a super soaker to his chest.
He tenses, then...
JUMPS UP
and sprays his little brother who's sleeping on the porch.
GOTCHA!
Little Brother roaring vengeance.
It. Is. On. (1)
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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to me the takeaway from that scene with Deep Throat is not “follow the money” it’s “the truth is these are not very bright guys and things go out of hand”
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.

I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It’s funny (derogatory) how Bluesky specifically says in their TOS that they don’t mark art for adult content and then a breast exists and it’s automatically marked adult content.
Circe post
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Hi President Welsh,
It me again. I just want to check with you to find out if this photo is acceptable to show to my class.

Thanks!
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM