Double Garlic*
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Management janitor parading up 🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇱
Cancer survivor thx public healthcare
Art, music, books, scifi by choice
Cats & dogs enthusiast
Nerdy & niche
Born 335ppm
she/her
#UBI
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Management janitor parading up 🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇱
Cancer survivor thx public healthcare
Art, music, books, scifi by choice
Cats & dogs enthusiast
Nerdy & niche
Born 335ppm
she/her
#UBI
🧄
Pinned
Hello #Europe 🇪🇺 before you start clutching your pearls how about paying attention to
🚩who you have been voting lately and where are their funds coming from
🚩who are controlling European media
🚩who have a leadership seat at the European Commission
🚩who you have been voting lately and where are their funds coming from
🚩who are controlling European media
🚩who have a leadership seat at the European Commission
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🧵A summary of new research on autism, w/ commentary by me:
The article notes that "advances in brain imaging, genetics and computational science are revealing discrete biological subtypes" of autism.
"Subtypes" is, itself, not a revolutionary concept:
1/15
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The article notes that "advances in brain imaging, genetics and computational science are revealing discrete biological subtypes" of autism.
"Subtypes" is, itself, not a revolutionary concept:
1/15
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
New science points to 4 distinct types of autism
Scientists are redefining autism as a complex condition with multiple forms, challenging traditional notions.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🧵A summary of new research on autism, w/ commentary by me:
The article notes that "advances in brain imaging, genetics and computational science are revealing discrete biological subtypes" of autism.
"Subtypes" is, itself, not a revolutionary concept:
1/15
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The article notes that "advances in brain imaging, genetics and computational science are revealing discrete biological subtypes" of autism.
"Subtypes" is, itself, not a revolutionary concept:
1/15
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Hot take: Apple should never have given its operating systems cutesy names. Just NUMBERS. I'm looking up a problem and websites say "well in Caracal it works like this" and I'm like wtf is Caracal my computer just gives me a number. I don't have time to memorize all the cats and trees.
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Hot take: Apple should never have given its operating systems cutesy names. Just NUMBERS. I'm looking up a problem and websites say "well in Caracal it works like this" and I'm like wtf is Caracal my computer just gives me a number. I don't have time to memorize all the cats and trees.
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"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?"
Now that's a Christmas movie.
From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
Now that's a Christmas movie.
From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?"
Now that's a Christmas movie.
From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
Now that's a Christmas movie.
From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
My three roles over Xmas days with family:
- Food affairs coordinator for 14 people (incl planning & cleaning)
- Listener for all the difficult conversations and topics that usually can only happen in the quiet intimacy of a kitchen at midnight
- Sofa for two small kids and two medium-size dogs
- Food affairs coordinator for 14 people (incl planning & cleaning)
- Listener for all the difficult conversations and topics that usually can only happen in the quiet intimacy of a kitchen at midnight
- Sofa for two small kids and two medium-size dogs
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My three roles over Xmas days with family:
- Food affairs coordinator for 14 people (incl planning & cleaning)
- Listener for all the difficult conversations and topics that usually can only happen in the quiet intimacy of a kitchen at midnight
- Sofa for two small kids and two medium-size dogs
- Food affairs coordinator for 14 people (incl planning & cleaning)
- Listener for all the difficult conversations and topics that usually can only happen in the quiet intimacy of a kitchen at midnight
- Sofa for two small kids and two medium-size dogs
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Because I ate it for lunch.
December 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Because I ate it for lunch.
Aunt’s kitchen was an Andalusian-family version of Crowed Cabin Scene (A Night at the Opera #iykyk) so I shouted EVERYBODY WHO IS NOT HELPING… GET OUT
I’m still shocked it worked… ish. They moved the crowed chaos to the dining room 😅
#MerryChristmas
I’m still shocked it worked… ish. They moved the crowed chaos to the dining room 😅
#MerryChristmas
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Aunt’s kitchen was an Andalusian-family version of Crowed Cabin Scene (A Night at the Opera #iykyk) so I shouted EVERYBODY WHO IS NOT HELPING… GET OUT
I’m still shocked it worked… ish. They moved the crowed chaos to the dining room 😅
#MerryChristmas
I’m still shocked it worked… ish. They moved the crowed chaos to the dining room 😅
#MerryChristmas
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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Convinced that one of the early signs of the decline of a modern civilisation is that the number of coffee shops per square mile outweighs everything else.
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Convinced that one of the early signs of the decline of a modern civilisation is that the number of coffee shops per square mile outweighs everything else.
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“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
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guess tanks and support classes just have to hold it
same as always
same as always
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
guess tanks and support classes just have to hold it
same as always
same as always
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Wow
I'm now never taking a Waymo
I make automated trains for a living and lemme tell you there is a backup for "the network is down"
I'm now never taking a Waymo
I make automated trains for a living and lemme tell you there is a backup for "the network is down"
a power outage is unusual, but not so unusual it can be waved away as an "edge case"... these vehicles should be pulling over and parking if they can't operate safely, not piling up in intersections and clogging roads
“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wow
I'm now never taking a Waymo
I make automated trains for a living and lemme tell you there is a backup for "the network is down"
I'm now never taking a Waymo
I make automated trains for a living and lemme tell you there is a backup for "the network is down"
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First responders love this kind of thing
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
First responders love this kind of thing
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Are we here yet?
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Are we here yet?
My favourite hometown sport is noticing when I am seen as a foreigner (because of how I dress) and then opening my mouth to throw the thickest local speaking I can manage
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My favourite hometown sport is noticing when I am seen as a foreigner (because of how I dress) and then opening my mouth to throw the thickest local speaking I can manage
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We Are Punks — Yoshitomo Nara, 2011
colored pencil on paper
colored pencil on paper
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We Are Punks — Yoshitomo Nara, 2011
colored pencil on paper
colored pencil on paper
Schiphol airport seems created by the same sociopathic shopping-mall mind that built the Frankfurt one, only in Schiphol they are trying to make it work but you cannot fix something which design is intentionally dysfunctional to its basic purpose.
December 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Schiphol airport seems created by the same sociopathic shopping-mall mind that built the Frankfurt one, only in Schiphol they are trying to make it work but you cannot fix something which design is intentionally dysfunctional to its basic purpose.
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🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
December 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
I would appreciate if US companies doing business with companies elsewhere would consider the *waves at their current state of affairs* before encouraging representatives of such non-US business partner to enter the US to visit their premises.
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I would appreciate if US companies doing business with companies elsewhere would consider the *waves at their current state of affairs* before encouraging representatives of such non-US business partner to enter the US to visit their premises.
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This is a beautiful thread, well explained. It curdles my stomach to tell my European friends that this is the fundamental basis of US Healthcare. Welcome to our world.
It's a bad world. The EU does and most do better - and apparently, especially Norway.
It's a bad world. The EU does and most do better - and apparently, especially Norway.
1/ I had a medical epiphany.
Context: I have a back issue, which seems to be an interdisciplinary problem: bone, nerve and muscle.
This means I have many different medical professionals I have to deal with.
And, no offense, they are ridiculously dysfunctional.
Context: I have a back issue, which seems to be an interdisciplinary problem: bone, nerve and muscle.
This means I have many different medical professionals I have to deal with.
And, no offense, they are ridiculously dysfunctional.
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is a beautiful thread, well explained. It curdles my stomach to tell my European friends that this is the fundamental basis of US Healthcare. Welcome to our world.
It's a bad world. The EU does and most do better - and apparently, especially Norway.
It's a bad world. The EU does and most do better - and apparently, especially Norway.
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"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
My body this morning, after the company’s xmas party last night:
“Well
well
we-ell…
Look at who had the audacity to forget that she is almost 50 and has not been inside a gym since January.”
“Well
well
we-ell…
Look at who had the audacity to forget that she is almost 50 and has not been inside a gym since January.”
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My body this morning, after the company’s xmas party last night:
“Well
well
we-ell…
Look at who had the audacity to forget that she is almost 50 and has not been inside a gym since January.”
“Well
well
we-ell…
Look at who had the audacity to forget that she is almost 50 and has not been inside a gym since January.”
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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 5 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 5 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!