Polly
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Just learned that Mike Flanagan (the writer/director) grew up in Bowie and went to Towson. I am so psyched to know this. #PGcountyRocks #MarylandRocks
August 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Just learned that Mike Flanagan (the writer/director) grew up in Bowie and went to Towson. I am so psyched to know this. #PGcountyRocks #MarylandRocks
Awesome crop this year. Enough for a cake or some jam. #Johannisbeeren
June 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Awesome crop this year. Enough for a cake or some jam. #Johannisbeeren
More new to me terms. First encountered this in the show "The Fall of the House of Usher." Thought they made it up (should have known better), and just came across it reading "The Sea, the Sea," by Iris Murdoch. Looked it up www.britannica.com/topic/ultima...
Ultima Thule | literature and geography | Britannica
Ultima Thule, in literature, the furthest possible place in the world. Thule was the northernmost part of the habitable ancient world. (See Thule culture.) References to ultima Thule in modern literat...
www.britannica.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
More new to me terms. First encountered this in the show "The Fall of the House of Usher." Thought they made it up (should have known better), and just came across it reading "The Sea, the Sea," by Iris Murdoch. Looked it up www.britannica.com/topic/ultima...
I will be chuckling over this for weeks.
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I will be chuckling over this for weeks.
The big flowery birthday cake that are the Azaleas.
April 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The big flowery birthday cake that are the Azaleas.
Just saw this on opening night. It was amazing. Don't miss it!!! Tickets are $10.
It's Opening Night for Guess Who's Coming To Dinner! April 25, 26, May 2 at 7:30 pm and April 27, May 3 and May 4 at 2 pm! Ticket: $10. At the door or at www.upstageartists.com
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
April 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Just saw this on opening night. It was amazing. Don't miss it!!! Tickets are $10.
Reposted by Polly
It's Opening Night for Guess Who's Coming To Dinner! April 25, 26, May 2 at 7:30 pm and April 27, May 3 and May 4 at 2 pm! Ticket: $10. At the door or at www.upstageartists.com
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
April 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's Opening Night for Guess Who's Coming To Dinner! April 25, 26, May 2 at 7:30 pm and April 27, May 3 and May 4 at 2 pm! Ticket: $10. At the door or at www.upstageartists.com
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
Performances are at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD 20705
Bluesky keeps filling my feed with a certain type of content that I'm really not into. I'm sure if I name it the algorithm will just show me more. Sigh.
April 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Bluesky keeps filling my feed with a certain type of content that I'm really not into. I'm sure if I name it the algorithm will just show me more. Sigh.
The life of a crepe myrtle
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The life of a crepe myrtle
Current mood at Joann Fabrics
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Current mood at Joann Fabrics
Learned another new word: syzygy (which if it had just one more letter would be the mother of all scrabble words)
Syz·y·gy
-a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy"
-a pair of connected or corresponding things.
#bloodwormmoon
Syz·y·gy
-a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy"
-a pair of connected or corresponding things.
#bloodwormmoon
March 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Learned another new word: syzygy (which if it had just one more letter would be the mother of all scrabble words)
Syz·y·gy
-a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy"
-a pair of connected or corresponding things.
#bloodwormmoon
Syz·y·gy
-a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy"
-a pair of connected or corresponding things.
#bloodwormmoon
I'm not cool but I'm occasionally cool adjacent. Damn good cupcakes. IYKYK
March 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I'm not cool but I'm occasionally cool adjacent. Damn good cupcakes. IYKYK
@upstageartists.bsky.social What do you think?
ROPE (Hitchcock, 1948) When the most annoying bro in your philosophy class goes way too far in trying to prove his point.
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@upstageartists.bsky.social What do you think?
Reposted by Polly
Night # 2 of Rope was fantastic! 4 more chances to see this amazing cast! Get your tickets at www.upstageartists.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Night # 2 of Rope was fantastic! 4 more chances to see this amazing cast! Get your tickets at www.upstageartists.com
Reposted by Polly
We had an awesome opening night, but don't worry if you missed it there are 5 more chances to see this amazing show! Tonight at 7:30, tomorrow at 2 and 3 more next weekend! TICKETS AT www.upstageartists.com or or just walk in and buy at the desk!
Emmanuel UMC 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD 20705
Emmanuel UMC 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD 20705
February 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We had an awesome opening night, but don't worry if you missed it there are 5 more chances to see this amazing show! Tonight at 7:30, tomorrow at 2 and 3 more next weekend! TICKETS AT www.upstageartists.com or or just walk in and buy at the desk!
Emmanuel UMC 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD 20705
Emmanuel UMC 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD 20705
"Are you growing, or dying?" is an unsettling and overly bold subject line for what turned out to be a marketing email.
February 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Are you growing, or dying?" is an unsettling and overly bold subject line for what turned out to be a marketing email.
The ever fascinating gut-brain axis. And its rock star, the vagus.
Select microbial metabolites in the small intestinal lumen regulates vagal activity via receptor-mediated signaling
Neuroscience; Microbiome
www.cell.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The ever fascinating gut-brain axis. And its rock star, the vagus.
Reposted by Polly
🧪 “We believe this work is important because it suggests exercise may work to improve cognition and memory by improving the abilities of insulin to act on the brain,”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Two weeks of exercise alters neuronal extracellular vesicle insulin signaling proteins and pro‐BDNF in older adults with prediabetes
Short-term exercise training lowered fasting pro-BDNF and increased glucose-stimulated total Akt derived from neuronal extracellular vesicles (nEVs) in relation to peripheral insulin sensitivity amon...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🧪 “We believe this work is important because it suggests exercise may work to improve cognition and memory by improving the abilities of insulin to act on the brain,”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...