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Examined the photo before reading the post and read the label as Doctor Basil (pronounced the British way, like the name of Swiss city)🙂 #tinyjoys
July 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a chipmunk outside of zoo grounds!
January 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Did you also caveat that the wisemen were not there to visit that year’s baby Jesus, but rather the now-toddler Jesus of two years prior? 🙂
January 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Do you know who this is and what it’s from? That dress is my new favorite thing!
December 23, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Tweet from @plantjoys Catholic school be like “no long hair for boys” meanwhile there is a picture of a boy with long hair for boys in every classroom. And he’s like the main boy Tweet by @moutheaters, Nov 9, 2017 Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos? Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it’s transient, shifting like water. Tweet by @dustinkcouch, Oct 29, 2018 NASA employee: oh hey u guys are back early Astronaut: moon’s haunted NASA employee: what? Astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s haunted Tweet from @MrRAnderson78: Above a photo of a clock featuring a painting of Jesus looking towards the small clock face in the upper left-hand corner: Christ would you look at the time
October 12, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Skeet from @portdrift.bsky.social: Let my body do the chores Let my body do the chores Let my body do the choooooooo and response from @grinny.bsky.social: ONE see the laun-der-y TWO see the laun-der-y THREE need some pants to live FOUR NEED SOME PANTS TO LIVE Lil Wayne tightly presses the last piece of scotch tape on a gift. “Best wrapper alive,” he whispers to himself, then sips his hot cocoa. Photo of a tweet with no screen name included. Text: My favourite kid I ever taught when I was a swim teacher was this little 4-year-old Italian boy. One time he sneezed and nobody said anything so he just went “what? No bless yous for Giacomo?” A tweet from @FredTaming, Jan 15, 2019: “Leave the peach cobbler in the kitchen alone,” mother would say, going upstairs. But I couldn’t help myself. I sneaked in and watched him. Watched him make his stupid little peach shoes, taunting. “Nobody’s going to wear those,” I’d say. “They’re stupid.” But on he worked.
October 12, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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[COVID zine 7/14]

Updated boosters try to match currently circulating COVID variants, so they're very worth getting! They don't make you invincible, though. In the driving metaphor, getting a booster is like getting your breaks checked, or something??
COVID zine page 7 [Bold, handwritten text] Vaccines and "hybrid immunity" are not enough. COVID vaccines create antibodies that fight infection. They've greatly reduced hospitalization and death from acute infection. But antibody levels quickly decline over the following months. Vaccines aren't stopping people from getting infected, spreading COVID, and long-term damage [diagram of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The virus is covered in spike proteins, and there are circulating antibodies, some of which bind to the spike proteins. There's a human cell covered in ACE2 receptors. When a spike protein binds to an ACE2 receptor, that's cell infection. When an antibody binds to the spike protein, it can't infect!] COVID keeps mutating, with new shapes in the spike protein that evade old antibodies. You can get reinfected with a different variant, even in weeks. [Bold, handwritten text] COVID vaccines are like an airbag. Avoiding exposure is like keeping your hands on the steering wheel.
April 8, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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[COVID zine 5/14]

See pandemicpatients.org/home/covid-1... for more info about LONG Covid and a disturbingly extensive list of documented post-COVID conditions.
COVID zine p5 [Bold, handwritten text] COVID is really dangerous. [Cartoon of a person's circulatory system] COVID isn't just a respiratory illness. It injurs the blood vessels and can damage nearly any organ, all over your body. Even mild infections cause brain shrinkage equivalent to aging 1 to 10 years. Each infection has a ~1 in 10 chance of causing new, lasting symptoms, aka Long COVID. This is true for kids AND adults. Long COVID can present in all kinds of ways. Even cases that start mild can become debilitating. [Cartoon of a person lying down and wearing an eyemask, surrounded by handwritten descriptions of potential Long COVID outcomes] Can't read, watch TV, look at phone, listen to music. Brain fog, hard to even think. In pain, feel like you have the flu for months on end. Have to lay in the dark and quiet.
April 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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[COVID zine 2/14]

its-airborne.org has a roundup of aerosol transmission evidence and a timeline of the CDC's waffling.
COVID zine p2 Here's the real tea: [handwritten, bold text] COVID is airborne & movies like smoke. Because the virus is transmitted by respiratory aerosols--the fog that you can see exhaled on a cold day. Could you smell if someone was smoking? Then you could inhale their COVID virus. [Cartoon of a person standing near 2 cigarette smokers, surrounded by smoke.] This is why airflow, filtration, and limiting contacts are key to stopping infections. [handwritten, bold text] Six feet apart /= safe That's old news, from when scientists *hoped* COVID was mainly spread by large droplets. Turns out, it can hang out in the air for hours.
April 8, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Great thing about the Beethoven joke is it works in multiple languages. Multicultural corniness!
August 24, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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Making sure @pbump.com sees this!
April 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM