Polly Shulman
@pollys.bsky.social
Author of Enthusiasm and The Grimm Legacy series
Frequent baker of popovers
Admirer of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, rococo tongs, meteors, meteorites, proboscideans, and novels with frontispieces
Frequent baker of popovers
Admirer of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, rococo tongs, meteors, meteorites, proboscideans, and novels with frontispieces
Friends came over to help eat the cake, and one is allergic to walnuts, so I made half with walnuts and half with pecans. (You can't tell from the photo, but the cake layers have chopped nuts in them--one half-cake has pecans and the other has walnuts.)
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Friends came over to help eat the cake, and one is allergic to walnuts, so I made half with walnuts and half with pecans. (You can't tell from the photo, but the cake layers have chopped nuts in them--one half-cake has pecans and the other has walnuts.)
Reposted by Polly Shulman
And now for Smokey Robinson in what I have identified as the high point of American culture: his U Really Got A Hold of Me on Sesame Street.
I cannot overstate: this is our finest 3 minutes.
I cannot overstate: this is our finest 3 minutes.
Sesame Street: U Really Got A Hold On Me
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April 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And now for Smokey Robinson in what I have identified as the high point of American culture: his U Really Got A Hold of Me on Sesame Street.
I cannot overstate: this is our finest 3 minutes.
I cannot overstate: this is our finest 3 minutes.
This seems somehow symbolic.
April 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This seems somehow symbolic.
I'm not complaining. I'm explaining that the pups are not dire wolves. Their DNA is almost entirely gray wolf DNA, with 14 to 20 dire wolf genes stuck in. That does not produce dire wolves. If you took an orangutan and stuck in 20 human genes, you would not have a human.
April 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I'm not complaining. I'm explaining that the pups are not dire wolves. Their DNA is almost entirely gray wolf DNA, with 14 to 20 dire wolf genes stuck in. That does not produce dire wolves. If you took an orangutan and stuck in 20 human genes, you would not have a human.
No, that's not what they're claiming they did. They're claiming they took gray wolf DNA and edited in 15 dire wolf genes and 5 genes that are shared by gray wolves and dire wolves. The overwhelming majority of the pups' DNA is from gray wolves.
April 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
No, that's not what they're claiming they did. They're claiming they took gray wolf DNA and edited in 15 dire wolf genes and 5 genes that are shared by gray wolves and dire wolves. The overwhelming majority of the pups' DNA is from gray wolves.
No we haven't. We've got gray wolves with a few dire-wolf genes stuck in.
April 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
No we haven't. We've got gray wolves with a few dire-wolf genes stuck in.
Decades ago, @lowdudgeon.bsky.social & I were looking for something that had vanished in the clutter under the kitchen sink. One of us said, "It's under the chicken." Since then we refer to that area or any clutter situation as "under the chicken"
April 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Decades ago, @lowdudgeon.bsky.social & I were looking for something that had vanished in the clutter under the kitchen sink. One of us said, "It's under the chicken." Since then we refer to that area or any clutter situation as "under the chicken"
I miss the Village Voice.
April 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I miss the Village Voice.
Do you find Jamaica Kincaid's An Autobiography of My Mother too depressing? It fits your criteria otherwise.
April 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Do you find Jamaica Kincaid's An Autobiography of My Mother too depressing? It fits your criteria otherwise.