Kim I
@planet-kimi.bsky.social
Kim (she/her) is curious. 😸
Accidental IT professional.
Aspiring science writer.
Natural burial advocate.
Plant nerd.
Multi-crafter.
Low-key equestrian.
Ally. 🏳️🌈
Accidental IT professional.
Aspiring science writer.
Natural burial advocate.
Plant nerd.
Multi-crafter.
Low-key equestrian.
Ally. 🏳️🌈
Well this does sound like an auspicious year: "The 2025 Snake Year is expected to be a year of reflection, strategy, and growth. It encourages individuals to take a step back, assess their lives, and take measured steps toward achieving their goals." Sounds great! 🐍
sinocultural.com/blogs/all-bl...
sinocultural.com/blogs/all-bl...
Welcoming the Year of the Snake 2025: Symbols and Traditions
2025 Chinese New Year approaches, we prepare to celebrate the Year of the Snake, symbolizing grace, wisdom, and mystique in Chinese culture. Let's explore its significance.
sinocultural.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Well this does sound like an auspicious year: "The 2025 Snake Year is expected to be a year of reflection, strategy, and growth. It encourages individuals to take a step back, assess their lives, and take measured steps toward achieving their goals." Sounds great! 🐍
sinocultural.com/blogs/all-bl...
sinocultural.com/blogs/all-bl...
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Here's where to find your electeds. Maybe put those numbers in your speed dial. Call, email, write. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Here's where to find your electeds. Maybe put those numbers in your speed dial. Call, email, write. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
FYI: In Windows 11 you can prevent the blue light in your display from ruining your sleep. ^_^
January 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
FYI: In Windows 11 you can prevent the blue light in your display from ruining your sleep. ^_^
Reposted by Kim I
Why winter makes you more vulnerable to colds – a public health nurse explains the science behind the season
Why winter makes you more vulnerable to colds – a public health nurse explains the science behind the season
Cold and flu viruses often circulate more in the fall and winter, but there are some time-tested strategies for avoiding them, such as vaccines, handwashing and staying active.
theconversation.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Why winter makes you more vulnerable to colds – a public health nurse explains the science behind the season
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt
For children's books about girls & women who refused to be silenced, visit out blog post "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Girls & Women Who Fought for Change" at www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364
For children's books about girls & women who refused to be silenced, visit out blog post "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Girls & Women Who Fought for Change" at www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364
January 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt
For children's books about girls & women who refused to be silenced, visit out blog post "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Girls & Women Who Fought for Change" at www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364
For children's books about girls & women who refused to be silenced, visit out blog post "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Girls & Women Who Fought for Change" at www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364
What a cool lady! 🥰
“Incredibly enough, my career seems to be going better now that I’m older and wrinkled and fatter. So go figure it out.” Isabella Rossellini talks to Michael Schulman about aging, feminism, and why she never got plastic surgery.
For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words
The actress is touring a one-woman show about how animals express themselves. She’s also getting Oscar buzz for “Conclave,” a film in which she hardly speaks.
nyer.cm
January 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
What a cool lady! 🥰
Reposted by Kim I
FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history
FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history
Over 35 years after the first study linking Red 3 to thyroid cancer in rats was published, the US is beginning to wean it out of foods and drugs.
buff.ly
January 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history
Wow. 🥰
"I would encourage us to try our best to develop courage. It's the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently..." - Maya Angelou
For children's books about standing up for others, visit www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13481
For children's books about standing up for others, visit www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13481
January 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wow. 🥰
This article notably omits harm to LGBTQ+ folks, but it nonetheless has some good advice.
Political distress is a bipartisan #mentalhealth issue, fueled by fear that bad leaders will lead to disastrous outcomes. A psychologist offers coping strategies for managing this #anxiety:
Feeling political distress? Here are coping strategies a psychologist shares with his clients
Politics in America have become more upsetting than ever for big chunks of the population, but there are ways to cope.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This article notably omits harm to LGBTQ+ folks, but it nonetheless has some good advice.
This is surprisingly charming.
Cat pictures foster inter-cultural communication. 😊
And folks from China and the West actually talk to each other to get misinformation sorted. 👍
Cat pictures foster inter-cultural communication. 😊
And folks from China and the West actually talk to each other to get misinformation sorted. 👍
What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the Chinese app TikTok users were fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there:
What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there
A digital media scholar and longtime RedNote user gives a firsthand account of US and Chinese social media users interacting on the app.
theconversation.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is surprisingly charming.
Cat pictures foster inter-cultural communication. 😊
And folks from China and the West actually talk to each other to get misinformation sorted. 👍
Cat pictures foster inter-cultural communication. 😊
And folks from China and the West actually talk to each other to get misinformation sorted. 👍
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
It me. I know enough about how AI works to be skeptical. I think it’s brilliant for pattern recognition tasks, and I’m excited about its potential in medical diagnostic tech. But it damn sure isn’t magic. 🙄
Also - Garbage In, Garbage Out 🤷♀️
Also - Garbage In, Garbage Out 🤷♀️
People with less knowledge about #AI are actually more open to using it, challenging the assumption that tech-savvy individuals are the most eager adopters. Business professors explain the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link – when people think it’s ‘magic’:
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It me. I know enough about how AI works to be skeptical. I think it’s brilliant for pattern recognition tasks, and I’m excited about its potential in medical diagnostic tech. But it damn sure isn’t magic. 🙄
Also - Garbage In, Garbage Out 🤷♀️
Also - Garbage In, Garbage Out 🤷♀️
“Middle-class leisure, unlike the aristocratic kind that greeted one at birth, required shifting gears, from a full-steam-ahead search for one’s place in the world to the relative stagnancy that came with having found it.”
For myself, I’m looking forward to Part 2: Life After an IT Career 👍
For myself, I’m looking forward to Part 2: Life After an IT Career 👍
Some clichés are like planets, their gravitational pull too strong for all but the most propulsive acts of creativity. Middle age is one of these.
How midlife became a crisis
The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“Middle-class leisure, unlike the aristocratic kind that greeted one at birth, required shifting gears, from a full-steam-ahead search for one’s place in the world to the relative stagnancy that came with having found it.”
For myself, I’m looking forward to Part 2: Life After an IT Career 👍
For myself, I’m looking forward to Part 2: Life After an IT Career 👍
I wanted to wear my new t-shirt today, but it would be buried under multiple layers of sweaters. 🫤
January 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I wanted to wear my new t-shirt today, but it would be buried under multiple layers of sweaters. 🫤
Super helpful! Also, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a white paper about comprehensive privacy legislation. www.eff.org/wp/privacy-f...
January 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Super helpful! Also, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a white paper about comprehensive privacy legislation. www.eff.org/wp/privacy-f...
It is amazing how watching TV too close to bedtime messes up my sleep. 😵💫 And I keep doing it! 😖 I need to treat myself like a little kid - No TV after 8:00 on a school (work) night. 🙄
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January 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It is amazing how watching TV too close to bedtime messes up my sleep. 😵💫 And I keep doing it! 😖 I need to treat myself like a little kid - No TV after 8:00 on a school (work) night. 🙄
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Well this is interesting! And complicated. My concern is that people will find a way to get their fix, and we have plenty of illegal drugs inspiring violence already. And there are unanswered concerns about alternate nicotine delivery methods.
(I’m a former smoker, btw.)
(I’m a former smoker, btw.)
A new rule by the FDA would strip cigarettes of most of their nicotine. Without the chemical, “a cigarette is just smoldering leaves wrapped in some fancy paper,” writes Nicholas Florko:
America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigarettes
A new rule by the FDA could change smoking as we know it.
www.theatlantic.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Well this is interesting! And complicated. My concern is that people will find a way to get their fix, and we have plenty of illegal drugs inspiring violence already. And there are unanswered concerns about alternate nicotine delivery methods.
(I’m a former smoker, btw.)
(I’m a former smoker, btw.)
I’ve never read Don Quixote, and since I’m learning Spanish, I’m giving it a go in Prismatext. (It’s mostly English with some words replaced with Spanish ones. You tap the Spanish word to see the definition - and hear it pronounced.)
Anyway - the Author’s Note is a doozy. 😵💫
Anyway - the Author’s Note is a doozy. 😵💫
January 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I’ve never read Don Quixote, and since I’m learning Spanish, I’m giving it a go in Prismatext. (It’s mostly English with some words replaced with Spanish ones. You tap the Spanish word to see the definition - and hear it pronounced.)
Anyway - the Author’s Note is a doozy. 😵💫
Anyway - the Author’s Note is a doozy. 😵💫
🤔 It had not occurred to me that there are childless-by-choice movements elsewhere in the world.
Selfish or selfless? Anti-natalists argue not having children is ethical, protecting the unborn from life's inevitable suffering. An anthropologist explores the view that birth is a lottery—parents gamble, children face the consequences: https://buff.ly/40u7Bw7 #parenting
Selfish or selfless? Anti-natalists say they’re going child-free to protect the kids they won’t have
Life is a gamble, anti-natalists say, and it’s unethical to force someone else to take the risk.
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🤔 It had not occurred to me that there are childless-by-choice movements elsewhere in the world.
After being horrified by things people did with radium in the early 20th century, I sometimes wonder what substances will cause future people to exclaim “OMG, they did what with what?!” Maybe alcohol? 🤔😮
A century ago, the temperance movement fought to transform the soul of the country. Today, sobriety is all about the transformation of self, Shayla Love writes:
Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate
How sobriety went from a radical social movement to a tool of self-optimization
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
After being horrified by things people did with radium in the early 20th century, I sometimes wonder what substances will cause future people to exclaim “OMG, they did what with what?!” Maybe alcohol? 🤔😮
A few of this morning’s breakfast guests. I counted 7 squirrels at one time! 😱
January 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A few of this morning’s breakfast guests. I counted 7 squirrels at one time! 😱
Every time I see the BlueSky icon on my phone, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” starts playing in my head. 😵💫
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blu...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blu...
Mr. Blue Sky - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every time I see the BlueSky icon on my phone, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” starts playing in my head. 😵💫
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blu...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blu...
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(I have a raging case of GAD - generalized anxiety disorder)
(I have a raging case of GAD - generalized anxiety disorder)
Fewer patients in states with legal marijuana are filling prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, particularly benzodiazepines, highlighting the potential of #cannabis as an alternative treatment for anxiety. A public policy professor explains: https://buff.ly/4fW1aXp 🩺 #mentalhealth
With more Americans able to access legalized marijuana, fewer are picking up prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications – new research
The study offers insight into how marijuana access may alter treatment patterns for patients with anxiety.
buff.ly
January 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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(I have a raging case of GAD - generalized anxiety disorder)
(I have a raging case of GAD - generalized anxiety disorder)