laurasita
@laurasita.bsky.social
"Quirky", dog lady, former Antarctican, lover of yarn.
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.
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Oh to be a previously unknown
carnivorous sponge in the depths of the southern oceans
carnivorous sponge in the depths of the southern oceans
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitat
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Oh to be a previously unknown
carnivorous sponge in the depths of the southern oceans
carnivorous sponge in the depths of the southern oceans
Look how wee
This may be the smallest trilobite in my collection. A tiny 3 mm Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Beecher's Bed (Ordovician Lorraine shale of New York).
#TrilobiteTuesday
#TrilobiteTuesday
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Look how wee
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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
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For Colorado, the pet food bank is coloradopetpantry.org. Lots of places accept donations, lots of distribution sites around the state.
It’s not shameful to need help. It’s shameful to harm someone, including yourself, including your four-footed people, because you won’t ask for help.
It’s not shameful to need help. It’s shameful to harm someone, including yourself, including your four-footed people, because you won’t ask for help.
October 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
For Colorado, the pet food bank is coloradopetpantry.org. Lots of places accept donations, lots of distribution sites around the state.
It’s not shameful to need help. It’s shameful to harm someone, including yourself, including your four-footed people, because you won’t ask for help.
It’s not shameful to need help. It’s shameful to harm someone, including yourself, including your four-footed people, because you won’t ask for help.
Aaa these are so cute!
Had the pleasure of meeting Yi Xu, a Shanghai-based children's educational book illustrator. She's working on some exceptional palaeontology-themed books. Starting with Paleozoic. I love the highlight on the lesser known animals 🐌🧵
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Aaa these are so cute!
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I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.
Dying over the ni howdy
October 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Dying over the ni howdy
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
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The Chonk Ness Monster
Mysterious 'predator' stalking villagers around Dartmoor unmasked as a fat cat
A MYSTERIOUS beast which has been stalking villagers on the moor made famous by Sherlock Holmes – is actually just a fat cat. Locals around Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles was s…
www.thesun.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Chonk Ness Monster
Oh I need the whole collection
I bought my wife this keychain for her bag for similar reasons. She wears it proudly. maobabie.com/products/tum...
Tummy Hurts Medicine Embroidered Keychain
These cute embroidered keychains attach with a colorful ring clasp and are perfect for attaching to your keys or bag to bring with you on all of your adventures! Includes one keychain only in the Tumm...
maobabie.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Oh I need the whole collection
I always enjoy zoo critters enjoying pumpkins this time of year, but this guy is especially fun. Smash away, Hudson!
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I always enjoy zoo critters enjoying pumpkins this time of year, but this guy is especially fun. Smash away, Hudson!
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I finished my PhD during a time of uncertainty with waning opportunities in American academia. So I went to Germany. The Humboldt program laid foundations for my career at a time when my own country wouldn't.
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
When curiosity meets opportunity: Molly Taylor-Polesky, a US scholar of early modern history, shares how her research stay in Germany gave her new perspectives and the freedom to explore through the Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Interested? Find out more about the programme 👉 bit.ly/3JgH2oo
Interested? Find out more about the programme 👉 bit.ly/3JgH2oo
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I finished my PhD during a time of uncertainty with waning opportunities in American academia. So I went to Germany. The Humboldt program laid foundations for my career at a time when my own country wouldn't.
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
If I was going to bed with someone and they took off their shirt and I saw a fucking SS Totenkopf on their chest, I would be outta there so fucking fast. It just shows a massive lack of judgment AT BEST. So of course I wouldn't want that person representing my state!
one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years.
the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.
the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.
Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
If I was going to bed with someone and they took off their shirt and I saw a fucking SS Totenkopf on their chest, I would be outta there so fucking fast. It just shows a massive lack of judgment AT BEST. So of course I wouldn't want that person representing my state!
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
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Block block block
Do not dunk
Do not respond
Do not quote
Do not @ them
Do not screenshot
Do not even type their name
Do not type anything adjacent to it
Do not feed the trolls
Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post
Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours
Do not dunk
Do not respond
Do not quote
Do not @ them
Do not screenshot
Do not even type their name
Do not type anything adjacent to it
Do not feed the trolls
Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post
Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours
October 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Block block block
Do not dunk
Do not respond
Do not quote
Do not @ them
Do not screenshot
Do not even type their name
Do not type anything adjacent to it
Do not feed the trolls
Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post
Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours
Do not dunk
Do not respond
Do not quote
Do not @ them
Do not screenshot
Do not even type their name
Do not type anything adjacent to it
Do not feed the trolls
Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post
Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours
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Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.
Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.
This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.
This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?
Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
www.theatlantic.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.
Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.
This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.
This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
GOOD MORNING
Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
GOOD MORNING
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Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
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sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
sherman, for the love of god!