Kate
@snowfireflake.bsky.social
I browse way more than I post, but I love romance and art and science and traveling. I hope to use Bluesky to find more books to read and interesting things.
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Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
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this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this is how you lose the dish war
I agree emphatically
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I agree emphatically
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would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
September 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
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Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
June 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
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Now open in Paris www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/fr/artemisia #artemisiagentileschi #arthistory #baroque #earlymodern
March 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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Lest you get excited by sensationalist headlines about 🦣 🐭 , we have the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social, bringing cool science as a consolation prize.
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
March 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Lest you get excited by sensationalist headlines about 🦣 🐭 , we have the brilliant @toriherridge.bsky.social, bringing cool science as a consolation prize.
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Here’s an excellent old school video on how to establish a relationship with your elected officials & lobby them more effectively.* In my four decades in Washington, this is the best “how to” lobbying video I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to train activists across the country.
* Your results may vary.
* Your results may vary.
Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.
How to lobby your elected representatives
YouTube video by SKT DCA
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here’s an excellent old school video on how to establish a relationship with your elected officials & lobby them more effectively.* In my four decades in Washington, this is the best “how to” lobbying video I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to train activists across the country.
* Your results may vary.
* Your results may vary.
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Prime Minister Trudeau, the people of occupied Lower British Columbia cry out for liberation. We cannot even afford egg for our families. Please send your elite mountie shock troops and free us from the yankee oppressors. (1/2)
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Prime Minister Trudeau, the people of occupied Lower British Columbia cry out for liberation. We cannot even afford egg for our families. Please send your elite mountie shock troops and free us from the yankee oppressors. (1/2)
Look at how pleased she is to be where she shouldn't be.
January 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Look at how pleased she is to be where she shouldn't be.
Ppsting things that make me happy: My sweetheart cats.
January 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Ppsting things that make me happy: My sweetheart cats.
Posting things that make me happy: Got our newest ukiyo-e prints framed.
January 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Posting things that make me happy: Got our newest ukiyo-e prints framed.
So begins the seasonal baking!
December 8, 2024 at 6:38 AM
So begins the seasonal baking!
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Museum insect collections are like a Tardis: you can travel in space and time, and a lot more stuff is in there than you expect. The magic of seeing the work of past scientists never gets old. What stories are locked in these carefully folded envelopes? 🧪🪲
I often have to search for #Odonata specimens in the Univ. of Michigan Mus. Zoology insect collection in these folded paper triangles. I sort of dread finding super-tidy boxes of them like this, because I know I'm unable rearrange them so precisely! #entomology #curator #invertebrates #dragonfly
December 7, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Museum insect collections are like a Tardis: you can travel in space and time, and a lot more stuff is in there than you expect. The magic of seeing the work of past scientists never gets old. What stories are locked in these carefully folded envelopes? 🧪🪲
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God i love @propublica.org so much
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:36 AM
God i love @propublica.org so much
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Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
November 29, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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It's time to hydrate, stretch and fill up your Black Friday shopping list with this month's crop of Unusual Historicals. Ten books on tap this month, including a couple of anthology reprints wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/11/givi... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
November 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM
It's time to hydrate, stretch and fill up your Black Friday shopping list with this month's crop of Unusual Historicals. Ten books on tap this month, including a couple of anthology reprints wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/11/givi... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia