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Nancy R. Curtis
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Rebuilding will be a slow process. Seasonal avatars for a while. she/her/Ms.

Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.
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Samples of MAGA delusion about the Epstein emails:
Christopher’s tweet: Democrats TELL you they want the Epstein Files, because they know they’re in them. It’s their psychological game to make you dismiss the possibility that it’s Democrats abusing children. Tim Cox tweet: Who had control of the Epstein files for the past 4 years?  The weaponized Biden DOJ would have used them to take out President Trump before he was re-elected.  No doubt the files have been doctored to incriminate President Trump. Spreadsheeticus tweet: Trump was the informant who brought Epstein down. nathan osborn tweet: just because your in a room with a underage girl never assumes sexual activity going on! president trump could had been trying to help the young girl figuring out who she is etc not every situation gotta be bad
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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“Soros Check”, green check emoji underneath
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Oh, they posted their grand alternative, part 1 w/ no follow-up: get your news elsewhere.
How to resist: part one. Divest from corporate news. Find out if your city has a locally owned newspaper and subscribe to it. Cancel subscriptions to corporately owned outlets. Get your national news from the AP (headlines) or Pro Publica (in depth). Always better to read than watch the news.
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Another one:
Yet another Kirk apologist, promoting an anti-First Amendment bill named after Dead Macrocephalic Hater Dude.
September 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I blocked this account before I could screenshot their more objectionable posts, but you can check their timeline before adding:
One of the few non-insulting, non-condescending, non-ignorant posts from a highly block worthy n00b to this platform.
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Fun surprise at the end of the work day!
View down corridor of protective blue plastic sheeting leading towards loading dock door. Unattended white plastic barrel of mystery substance visible near the closed doors. Barrel clearly labeled with a warning that the contents, bromide salts, are corrosive.
June 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A brief interlude enjoying both ice cream & experimental urban parklet life as the heat of the day subsided.
Cheerful bright yellow and green woven folding chair on the right (photographed while I sat in a second matching chair). On the left, a black fabric hanging garden houses a number of pink flowering plants, and a few that aren’t doing too well in the heat. Black panels hanging down from a green framework provide a sense of separation from the location in a parking lot. Brick building and cloudless blue sky in the background. Looking up at about a 60° angle to the ground at the green framework. Black roof panels provide shade. Folded blue half panel on the right , purpose unknown. Brick building with multiple windows and clear blue sky in the background.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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My favorite edible flowers, thanks to the Bloomfield Saturday Market.
3 very small zucchini, each fruit only twice the size of its still attached blossom, on a dormitory desk.
June 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Chilling w/ a morning snack before everything starts up. #sla2025
View from the front terrace of the University of Pittsburgh’s University Club on an overcast morning. Empty (and wet) tables and chairs in the foreground. White lunch and reception tent partially visible on the right. Buildings of the UPMC Presbyterian campus fill the background.
June 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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He doesn’t really care:
Tweet: Because even though tariffs hurt me personally, I gambled that ending the Department of Education, freeing Ross Ulbricht, and DOGE would be worthy of my own personal sacrifice. I like to think that may even be a little patriotic.
May 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Thanks to recent rain, I finally located some fungus for the #CityNatureChallenge!

(Tempered happiness, because—of course—nobody’s going to be able to ID this down to the species level 🤷‍♀️.)
Close-up of a clump of Coprinellus. These mushrooms are close to the ground with diameters ranging from U.S. dime- to slightly over quarter-size. Rounded conical caps are medium brown/dark tan with white streaks radiating inwards from the perimeter.
April 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Bad #HandsOff Graphics, 4/4:
Honestly, w/ the firehose of BS emanating from the White House, I don’t even know if Trump’s planning to take over the Panama Canal by force any more.

But just in case:
Universal “don’t” sign superimposed on pointing hand icon, left. Panama flag, right.
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Bad #HandsOff Graphics, 3/4:
They wonder if we even think about them, so show Greenland some love—from a respectful distance:
Universal “don’t” sign superimposed on pointing hand icon, left. Greenland flag, right.
April 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Bad #HandsOff Graphics, 2/4, in honor (honour) of our northern neighbor:
Universal “don’t” sign superimposed on pointing hand icon, left. Canada flag, right.
April 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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In an effort to test whether graphics are a universal language when someone w/ minimal skills gets hold of them I present:

Bad #HandsOff Graphics, 1/4: Hands Off My Data
Universal “don’t” sign superimposed on pointing hand icon, left. “Database” icon, right.
April 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A little #ScienceHumor/#ScienceHumour from Dead Bluebird
Tweet from Alexander Harris, @dr_alexharris: My brother tells me that one of his buddies from college left his wife for transgenic mouse he met in a lab. They all thought he was crazy, but he swore she was a knockout.
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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@standupforscience.bsky.social There will be jerks present at DC & potentially at other rallies ⬇️. Don’t get baited, they’d like to gin up harassment:
Scott Turner, macrotermiteman tweets: Fri is the #standupforscience2025 rally at the Nat'l Mall in DC. I'll be there, filming it for the @NASorg. There should be lots of hysteria of display, and we'll get the tapes! If you're there, come say hello! @CUFreeSpeech @mitfreespeech Tweet links to the Stand Up for Science 2025 website.
March 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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May her memory be a blessing.
Close-up of white lily set against stone face of building
March 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Sample idiots ⬇️, & alsovarious posts blocked for violent content.
Skeet: Bruh, gotta start pulling Jan. 6th back at these clowns. Luigi up these yokels. This is goofy shit. Skeet: It’s all going to come down to the ultimatum. Either the Nazis/racists/white supremacists, corrupt sociopaths, nihilistic authoritarian dictator-aspirators continue to murder/oppress/enslave innocent ppl. Or we 🌐🇺🇳 kill them to stop their delusional genocide. Skeet: Yeah. And this feels like more performative outrage when we really need people up in arms
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Posting a screenshot of @youarelobbylud.bsky.social from November Twitter for no reason at all:
In the ‘which Nazi character are you’ game, Musk is fast becoming Goering: intelligent, once-respected, getting very fat, and off his head on drugs.
February 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Or there’s this nonsense ⬇️.

They always shut up once informed that at best only 10% of the American workforce is unionized.
Excerpt from ignorant post: We need to have a general labor strike & retake our rights & sovereignty
February 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Apparently all the shock
& awe transformed Rand Paul into a broken clock:
Tweet from Rand Paul: Tariffs are simply taxes. Conservatives once united against new taxes. Taxing trade will mean less trade and higher prices.
February 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Already had a brush w/ a tinfoil hat on Dead Bluebird who figured there had to be strategically important people on the plane who were intentionally targeted 🙄.
Tweet with over 3300 views: I mean…. I don’t see enough people freaking out about this… Who was on the plane? The chopper? Both could be filled with seriously important people. Could have be sabotage. The chopper flew directly into the plane. seems really suspect.
January 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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In KSA, Westerners would probably live in areas frequented by other Westerners—once you’re in a private residence, life is more relaxed.

The UAE goes as far as permitting “modest” bikinis on its beaches.

Sample dress code from a UAE academic HR handbook:
Text: Female employees are expected to wear pants/trousers, dresses & skirts which are on or below the knee with formal shirts or tops with a formal jacket. Blouses, shirts, tops or jackets covering upper arm is considered to be appropriate. Photos: Three white women with long uncovered hair, wearing loosely tailored jackets and pants. Two white woman with, uncovered hair, one with a bob wearing a narrow buttoned jacket, and a narrow skirt ending just at the knee, one with long hair wearing a narrow cut dress. Both wear opaque dark tights. One Arab women wearing a patterned head scarf, a narrow floor-length skirt, close-fitting top, and a formal jacket. The curves of her figure are the most visible of all the women.
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I find this particular account on the musky site to be obnoxious, but like a broken clock, occasionally it seems to be correct.
Tweet by “KewGardens”. Financially, it has been a good couple of days for Trump. His new digital coin $Trump has added about $56 billion (not a typo!) to his net worth since the end of last week. Now the 25th richest man on Earth, Trump is likely aiming to pass Elon. 😂 Bar graph labeled “Components of Donald Trump‘s wealth” shows the value of the digital coin dwarfs $4.6 billion in stock and $2.6 billion in all other assets. But nah, he’s not going to reimburse any expenses of all the people he duped into buying tickets for the inauguration. Also, someone needs to figure out how many egg farms he could buy with that kind of excessive wealth.
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM