Norita Dobyns
@norita.bsky.social
Plays with graphs and numbers by day (Data Analyst), plays D&D by night. Grows and forages edible things. Makes beaded shinies. Is entirely too obsessed with the proper brewing temperature of loose leaf teas, but in a good way.
Apparently, what I needed was the hot mineral baths…
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Apparently, what I needed was the hot mineral baths…
I am completely in love with this huge tree growing from the side of a stone wall.
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am completely in love with this huge tree growing from the side of a stone wall.
Impulse bought living room accent chairs and I don’t know if this makes me more of an adult (because accent chairs) or less (because impulse buy)
July 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Impulse bought living room accent chairs and I don’t know if this makes me more of an adult (because accent chairs) or less (because impulse buy)
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Zeus posing as someone else to get laid? Ugh, another case of mythtaken identity.
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Zeus posing as someone else to get laid? Ugh, another case of mythtaken identity.
Look at the goslings in the park. Look at them!!!
May 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Look at the goslings in the park. Look at them!!!
“Put the noodles into water for minutes”.
Yes, thank you for those ever so helpful instructions, bag of Korean noodles…
Yes, thank you for those ever so helpful instructions, bag of Korean noodles…
May 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“Put the noodles into water for minutes”.
Yes, thank you for those ever so helpful instructions, bag of Korean noodles…
Yes, thank you for those ever so helpful instructions, bag of Korean noodles…
Well, that’s a new one - completely forgot that I planted Saskatoon Berry bushes in the yard. Past me even beautifully mulched both before the winter. Had no memory of this until I pulled out the plant id app and confirmed what those little plants were. Yay more berries!!
May 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Well, that’s a new one - completely forgot that I planted Saskatoon Berry bushes in the yard. Past me even beautifully mulched both before the winter. Had no memory of this until I pulled out the plant id app and confirmed what those little plants were. Yay more berries!!
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
The Rubber Duckie Museum in Point Roberts is true gem (and the owners are sweethearts). Sad that they have to put up with the ridiculous tariffs, but glad the magic will carry on in Canada.
Tariff troubles: A rubber duck museum is migrating to Canada to stay afloat — NPR
Upset by tariffs and President Trump's insistence on making them the 51st state, Canadians are boycotting the U.S. Without them, the Rubber Duck Museum can’t stay afloat. So, it's moving to Canada.
apple.news
May 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The Rubber Duckie Museum in Point Roberts is true gem (and the owners are sweethearts). Sad that they have to put up with the ridiculous tariffs, but glad the magic will carry on in Canada.
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please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Thank you, Carleton!
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you, Carleton!
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The thing is, it is extremely *easy* to be normal to trans people. It takes zero effort. Being normal is the easy, lazy option.
You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.
You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The thing is, it is extremely *easy* to be normal to trans people. It takes zero effort. Being normal is the easy, lazy option.
You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.
You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.
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The AI companies sell this myth that somehow if you get in NOW you'll be ahead of the curve and you, the cool and with-it person will surge ahead of the squares. It's nonsense even in a world where their product was actually good.
April 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The AI companies sell this myth that somehow if you get in NOW you'll be ahead of the curve and you, the cool and with-it person will surge ahead of the squares. It's nonsense even in a world where their product was actually good.
groan…
April 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
groan…
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I try to stay positive on main, but it cannot be overstated how badly JK Rowling needs to fuck off into the sun. Get fucked Joann.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I try to stay positive on main, but it cannot be overstated how badly JK Rowling needs to fuck off into the sun. Get fucked Joann.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
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I will say it again: I think we all ran out of "no-one-could-have-predicted" rejoinders during the second Bush administration.
April 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I will say it again: I think we all ran out of "no-one-could-have-predicted" rejoinders during the second Bush administration.
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"There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/192...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/192...
1925 or 2025?
1. There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot. 2. In large swaths of the country, a marginalized community i...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/192...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/192...
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Support trans rights or fix your heart. I don't really know what else to say, I know I'm not going to change minds on the internet, but I have zero tolerance for anything less.
April 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Support trans rights or fix your heart. I don't really know what else to say, I know I'm not going to change minds on the internet, but I have zero tolerance for anything less.
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But as long as we're talking about impossible systems we should implement, how about this one:
You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year.
I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.
You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year.
I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.
April 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
But as long as we're talking about impossible systems we should implement, how about this one:
You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year.
I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.
You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year.
I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.
Indian Poutine is the fast food I didn’t know I needed until today. So. Good.
April 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Indian Poutine is the fast food I didn’t know I needed until today. So. Good.
Happy Dance!!!!
WE DID IT! We SAVED the bus!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
April 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy Dance!!!!
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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.
April 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.