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Robin Kimball
@robinkimball.bsky.social
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Middle school science and health teacher in Southern NM; PG-13 vocabulary. Cooking, movies, dogs, eyebrows, and bodily autonomy. Make no machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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@keithpille.bsky.social *very Charli xcx voice* braaaat
A bumper sticker on the back window of a truckette reads BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW.
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We have a real "I HAVE a bottle of hoisin sauce" problem over here.
A screen grab of a text conversation. 1 has sent a picture of an insanely cute small black dog named Bruce, proposing that 2 ask a coworker to adopt him as a new friend for one of the household's existing dogs. 2 replies with a series of "oh no" vibes and a desire to block Petfinder to prevent future dog adoptions.
October 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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When I say I contain multitudes, these are the multitudes I am talking about.
The covers of two Blu-ray disks: on the left, the soft-focus Olivia Newton John invites you to XANADU, and on the right, the gloriously schlocky TERRIFYING GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL: WOMEN'S VIOLENT CLASSROOM waits with knives (among other things) out.
October 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Women like the vehicle.
A red Subaru Brat is parked, queerly, on the side of a desert two-lane highway.
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I feel this.
A small black-going-gray and tan Chihuahua is curled up very close to the camera on a dark blue couch. His tail tucks around his nose and his back leg is tucked behind that same nose, I don't know how he does it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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ND, SD, NE, IA, IN, OH, AR, WI.
A USDA map of US soybean production by county. Counties with many bushels produced are concentrated in North and South Dakota, southern MN and WI, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, and along the Mississippi River corridor of Arkansas and Alabama. I wonder if these counties will feel great again soon.
September 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I wish dogs could say what's wrong. My sweetest bestest Kirby had made every available mess in the house today between my departure and the mid-day check, and then again before I got home. Currently at the emergency animal hospital in ELP. Good vibes appreciated. 💛🌻
A small black and tan Chihuahua mix in a snazzy red sweater with an Akira patch on it looks up at you like, "what?"
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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So the new Steam Boy is on the left; Steam Boy I on the right. Both are great, but Steam Boy II is superb.
Two zojiirushi rice cookers. The left one is larger and newer than the one on the right.
September 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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MAY I SHARE WITH YOU how we ended the week in my (8th grade science) class? We've been working on increasing comfort and facility with informational texts, including reading aloud, and they have been super game, so the reward was "pick a read-aloud, with snacks." They were enraptured!
A selection of children's picture books, mostly from a mid-to-late-70s collection, are on a long table, showing off their covers. Vote tally papers are in front of each one.
August 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Happy birthday, Jack Kirby (person).
Happy birthday, King Kirby. (dog)
A comissioned b&w drawing by Adam Koford featuring Jack Kirby (man) petting King Kirby (dog). Kirby Krackle emanates from the smiling, perfect puppy.
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Anymore, I only get my news from @sayswhopodcast.com, Seth Meyers' "Closer Look" segments, and @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com . Case in point:
A piece of news describing President Trump's comments about wanting to get into heaven as his motivation for doing a diplomacy with the whole Russia-Ukraine thing. His blonde wig of a press secretary chimes in that she thinks he is serious. I don't fucking know, man, I just don't know.
August 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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LAS CRUCES school district will lose $14,390,007 in federal funding thanks to the proposed cuts.
Screenshot of data on the Las Cruces New Mexico School District calculated loss under the proposed federal K12 budget cuts in 2026, totalling about 14.4 million dollars. Which is a lot of dollars.
August 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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LAS CRUCES school district will lose $14,390,007 in federal funding thanks to the proposed cuts.
Screenshot of data on the Las Cruces New Mexico School District calculated loss under the proposed federal K12 budget cuts in 2026, totalling about 14.4 million dollars. Which is a lot of dollars.
August 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Me: *placing the last shirt on the line to dry*

The laundry line: I BREAK NOW, MY CLEAT GIVES WAY, YOUR LAUNDRY IS RETURNED TO DIRTY FROM WHENCE IT CAME. CHAOS REIGNS.
Rocko the wallaby from Rocko's Modern Life, declaring in gif form that "Laundry day is a very dangerous day."
August 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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BAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
An excerpt from a daily news update email that says, as its final item of the day, "...and a Florida man who sued Gawker into bankruptcy over a sex tape and got dropped by WWE after racist comments is dead at 71."
July 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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My Fantastic Four.
The group Atarashii Gakko poses in their iconic uniforms.
July 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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On my 40th birthday.
A selfie of a woman riding an escalator up against a tiled subway background. She is wearing a flower crown made of pipe cleaners, large quartz earlobe plugs, a silver metal collar necklace, and a pink "Feminist Killjoy" pendant. There are sunflowers in her backpack.
July 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Best part? Big Ditko energy.
Krypto lies completely atop Superman as he wakes up in his childhood room.
July 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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DOOOOOOMMME! (this has screechy noises you might want to turn down) #MROI
July 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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TELESCOPE! #MROI
July 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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OBSERVATORY! #MROI
The silvery dome of an observatory housing a 2.7m interferometer against an outstanding blue sky with white clouds. In the foreground, a geologist holds up a rock as science teachers listen.
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The number of stairs and ladders to get to the top is also Very Large. #NRAO #VLA
The last part of the ascent: a ladder up into the bowl of the radio telescope dish. The sky is impossibly blue. The inside of the dish, showing various sizes for various wavelengths of radio waves. A shadow of me against the stark white reflective interior of a dish.
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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So like, the dishes are Very Large, *and also* their array (in its various settings/distances) is Very Large! #VLA #NRAO
In the foreground, a sign that reads "NOTICE: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY" in English and Spanish. In the background, the radio telescopes of the Very Large Array. A row of radio telescopes in "birdbath" configuration on a non-measurement day. The rail "car" that moves them is in frame. Looking up from below at one of the radio telescopes, against a very blue sky. A view shot from underneath a dish as we were about halfway up, looking away at about 7 other dishes in the distance.
July 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Little trip up for some workshops, a great day to take some back roads and drive a sensible, 1982-approved 55 mph.
A burgundy Subaru Brat is parked on the side of a two lane highway. The tall grass is barely visible across the land behind it, but the sky is very blue and the clouds are very white.
July 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM