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🦃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD
@drwambsgans.bsky.social
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Community psychologist cosplaying as a financial risk analyst. Leslie Knope coded. Love, in no particular order: Pokémon, DBZ, Pride & Prejudice, ATLA, USPS & the Census, the Columbia River, & Star Trek. She/her

Jerry said he was proud of me on 2025-01-09
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You and me both, friend.

Also, I had a dream last night that I needed to replace my bookshelves with bigger shelves because I have too many books.
A still from the Indigo League series of Pokémon. Before I describe the scene, you must know that Squirtle is a blue turtle Pokémon who stands on its hind legs. Back to business… There is a line of four Squirtles (the Squirtle Squad) in black and white robes, they all look very happy and excited. The Squirtle Squad is greeting Squirtle, who left the squad to go with Ash. Squirtle also looks very happy and excited. The text overlaying the image has every member of the Squirtle Squad labeled “Unread book” and Squirtle is labeled “Another new book.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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PikaProgress Update: 93% complete!

I wouldn’t normally update so soon but those five tiny stitches in the bottom left corner represent THE BOTTOM of this project! I’m so close to being done.
A cross stitch project of the Shocked Pikachu meme. It is 93% complete, so we can see Brock’s legs, Pikachu’s head down to the bottom of his mouth, so we can see his eyes, nose, both of his red little cheeks, his mouth, and a lot of out of focus bushes in the background. This is done on 28ct fabric, so it’s made of very small stitches, over 34k in total (once it’s done).
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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New knitting project 🧶
A blueish-gray knitted triangle that will one day grow up to be a shawl.
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This also raises questions about her statements re: Trump.

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Email from Alan Dershowitz to David Boies on 2015-12-09 Subject: Re: Possible Statement We should be aiming at a short simple statement such as: "The events at issue occurred approximately 15 years ago when I was a teenager. Although I believed then and continued to believe that AD was the person with whom I had sex, recent developments raise the possibility that this may be a case of mistaken identification." Alternative: "that it may have been someone else". "That someone mistakenly told me it was him." We should be able to come up with a mutually acceptable statement. It would be acceptable if the statement came from you rather than her, if she prefers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This is important context from Julie K. Brown.

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julie k. brown @jkbjournalist Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his lawyers made sure they chose the oldest one so that it didn't look so bad. But the girl who came forward first to police was 14 -- and the list of other victims attached to that deal included many young girls.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This needs alt texts so everyone can see this mess!
^ Other juvenile Godzillas • Godzooky, Godzilla's nephew from the 1978-81 animated television series Godzilla. • Godzilla Junior (also referred to as Little Godzilla and Baby Godzilla), Godzilla's son from Heisei era, introduced in the 1993 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II. • Baby Godzillas and Godzilla, from the 1998 film Godzilla and the 1998-2000 animated television series Godzilla: The Series. • Chibi Godzilla, colossal Godzilla's son from Chibi Godzilla Raids Again.
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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This guy is about to mess the fuck up this tissue box.
The cutest cartoon cat you’ve ever seen, from the game Neko Atsume2. He is a little white cat with brown and black spots. He is staring at a cartoon tissue box, ready to tear it apart.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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PikaProgress Update: 92% complete.

All I can see are all the spots I want to fix. But I’m so close, I just need to keep going and fix them when I’m done.
A cross stitch project of the Shocked Pikachu meme. It is 92% complete, so we can see Brock’s legs, Pikachu’s head down to the bottom of his mouth, so we can see his eyes, nose, both of his red little cheeks, his mouth, and a lot of out of focus bushes in the background. This is done on 28ct fabric, so it’s made of very small stitches, over 34k in total (once it’s done).
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Living the dream!
Two flights of different hot chocolates. Two long white skinny plates with four little white sipping cups, some more full than others because omg some of these are spicy.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The fruits of today’s labor.
A white porcelain bowl with handles on the side, full of a soup with beef, onions, celery, carrots, and potatoes.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Y’all, I have made three soups in three days. My freezers are full of soups already and this is a shit ton of soup. I must be stopped.
A very large metal pot filled about half way with a tomato based broth soup with beef, carrots, onions, celery, and potatoes.
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The fruits of today’s labor.
A bowl of creamy potato and leek soup.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I made this beauty last night, just didn’t post.
A pot full of carrot soup. It’s a beautiful orange color, you can see shredded carrots and rice.
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Someone made too much soup.
I think this is a 12qt (maybe more, maybe less) bright red enameled cast iron pot that is about as full as it can possibly be with potato and leek soup.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Boooo! Tom said the same thing. They are *wrong*

I set an alarm for tomorrow morning so I wouldn’t forget.
My Butternaise alarm that is set for 9:15am. The song Everything is Awesome by Garfunkel and Oates is the alarm sound.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I think these are the prettiest damn chicken fingers I’ve ever made. Hat tip to @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social and his amazing cookbook.
About a dozen golden brown chicken strips, fried to perfection.
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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This is some bargain basement “Live, Laugh, Love” bullshit on THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE.

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An outside wall of the Oval Office has three pieces of paper stuck to it that read “The Oval Office” in frilly gold cursive.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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He says it’s going to get bigger.
A whole bunch of the larger flat/platform Lego bricks, all stacked and connected to make a much larger platform.
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A chubby white middle-to-elderly aged white man, very likely a tele-evangelist. He’s sitting on a tv set in a navy suit jacket and blue tie with white polka dots. He is looking down with his eyes closed very tightly, trying to look like he’s deep in prayer. The closed captioning says “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Guess what my dad *actually* said.
An 8 second voicemail from my dad. The transcription says “Tyler is dead give me a call thanks bye…”
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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But I do think by color would be difficult given the sheer number of bricks we have. This isn’t a brag, I bought the kid sooo many sets over the years because it was the one thing that could keep him busy. This isn’t even all of them.

Sorry for the bad lighting!
Multiple stacks of clear plastic bins, one stack is over 5ft tall, filled with LEGO bricks sorted by shape/function.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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This is just one of many times I have regretted organizing and binning our bricks by size.

This is one of his smaller creations.
A whole bunch of flat Lego bricks that are stacked at least 4 high, and made into basically a 4x6 inch plate. The banana is for scale.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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He’s playing with his Lego bricks. And breaking one of them. He stacks all these thin bricks on top of each other and then struggles to get them apart.
An 11yr old kid, sitting cross-legged on the floor. He is surrounded by Lego bricks in bins, on the floor, and weird things he’s put together. A flat 2x8 light blue Lego brick that has the edge broke off.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I guess this is happening. I’d rather be cross stitching, but I’m a good sister.
A picture of the most massive board game box I’ve ever seen. It’s Smash Up, the Bigger Geekier Box.
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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This is the clock my brother wanted me to let die.
A Nepoleon clock with scroll accents, made out of a dark wood. The door on the round face is trimmed with gold.
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM