Meghan Lafferty
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Meghan Lafferty
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Libraries, STEM (chemistry!), higher ed, MPLS. Pronouns: she/her/hers. 🐦: laffertylib; 🐘: livelaffertylove@mspsocial.net
In intro biology in college, we had to dissect pigs in lab. When my group got ours, we saw that, just like in the 3 Little Pigs, they *do* have hair on their chinny-chin-chins
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Oh, yes, very much
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In the early 90s when I was 17 and a very inexperienced cook, I made a lentil loaf stuffed with mashed potatoes for a family Thanksgiving. My family still brings it up periodically
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
That made think of this story (I discovered this version on YouTube a couple years ago): youtu.be/RUKoXXhvnyg?...
Truman Capote Reading His "A Christmas Memory" - Original 1959 Album - Spoken Word
YouTube video by Scott Johnson
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November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A friend who speaks German told me that Germans call immersion blenders "magic wands". It's true both in how they magically ensmoothen and in their resemblance to the Hitachi variety of magic wand
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The first time I saw that, I went because I thought the movie was *about* Brazil, and I was studying Portuguese at the time. I was very confused
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It happens sometimes!
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Oh no! I've exploded a glass dish with too cool water before (in the lab)
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Meghan Lafferty
One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The ads always made me a little nervous. I didn't even watch it
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Omg yes! Lady Elaine scared me so much!
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is so confusing to read about as U staff outside the health sciences area!
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I find different perspectives on situation helpful so definitely do not worry about it
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I hadn't thought of it that way until you said it like that!
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That was a very stressful day in 2nd grade for me. It was probably the first time I had a hard time understanding something I was being taught in school. I haven't really needed it since then.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM