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Wendy Fall
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PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
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Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.
Uncle Fergus Magic Whiskey Band is playing House of Guinness in Waukesha Wi Sept 27 at 8 pm. No cover charge! All are welcome.
September 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Wisconsin! Mark your calendars and help our fabulous Wisconsin Humane Society. Our band plays at 10, events begin at 8am. Learn more: secure.wihumane.org/site/TR?fr_i...
Uncle Fergus Magic Whiskey Band will play at the Pet Walk Milwaukee event to raise funds for the Wisconsin Humane Society. June 14, 2025, 10am, Veteran’s Park near the Kite Shop.
May 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Our final weekend with this sweet fellow. He’s 16 and we are pampering him and hoping to help him depart peacefully for his next adventure.
An elderly grey cat with majestic fluff dozes on a cushion.
May 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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NIOSH funds Wisconsin DHS to study and support worker health and safety. This is important and cost effective work.
April 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Stay in line, Wisconsin!!
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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My work-from-home office mate is helping me with my CDC report-out (which I doubt anyone will ever read). I am tempted to let her compose a section of it just for funsies.
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This hasn’t happened yet. Before it does, please order your household’s four free test kits! special.usps.com/testkits
Clip from the Washington Post reads: The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.
February 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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In case anyone was wondering why the government was so heavily invested in scientific research (pre-DOGE) here is a clear explanation from one of the workers on the chopping block:
A Reddit post by user Throwawayainteasy: I get exhausted trying to explain this stuff to people who fundamentally don't understand pure scientific research. It's mostly not profitable, at least in the short-term. Some of the most important scientific breakthroughs are things that we won't really understand the value of until 10-20 years from now or more. Possibly generations. That's just the nature of science. It can even be true for the seemingly mundane stuff. In the 60s someone gets curious how flies can get around so well with such tiny brains, that answer turns into new understandings, those understandings merge with new computing, and in the 2020s we have autonomous drones and self driving cars who's existence is rooted all the way back to someone's unheralded research that started because they thought bugs were neat. No for-profit company would fund the first 20 steps in that process, because there's no clear path to profitability until the end. That's why governments across the world are the primary funders of pure research.
February 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Details on the bizarre disappearance of random documents from OSHA’s web site. Seems as if no one is trying to read words in context before removing documents based solely on ideological keywords. So, if you were holding out hope that there might be an attempt at competence, that’s gone now.
Letter dated 2/13/2025 from House Subcommittee on Workforce Protection citing major problems with the way OSHA’s websites are being stripped of documents using the keywords ‘gender’ or ‘diversity’ without regard to the context in which they were used. For example, a document describing the ‘diverse conditions in which emergency responders could work’ has been removed.
February 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Milwaukee region folks:
Check out our band! A good time to be had by all.
Uncle Fergus Magic Whiskey Band is playing March 17 from 12-3 Central. We will be at Paulie’s Pub. 8031 W Greenfield Ave, West Allis, WI 53214 . A good time to be had by all!!
February 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Here is our freshly rescued terrified 1yo dog cuddling our elderly cat, who just wanted to calm the dog down. So sweet; they not only know love, but also compassion.
January 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Go Lions!!
Bitmoji of a woman in a Lions shirt and hat cheering.
December 30, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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In the Milwaukee area? Like a professional to read for you? You got it!! Title to be named soon…
December 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Merry Christmas to all the folx who celebrate!
December 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 20
December 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 19
Cover of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’
December 4, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 18
Cover of ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King
December 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 17
Cover of Connie Willis’ book ‘Blackout’
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 16
Cover of ‘Beloved’ by Toni Morrison
December 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 15
Cover of Stephen King’s ‘Joyland’
November 30, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 14
Cover of Jeanette Winterson’s book ‘Oranges are Not the Only Fruit’
November 29, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 13
Cover of ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf
November 28, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Into the Woods!
Cover of program
November 28, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (*with alt-text—in your settings, you can make the app remind you to include it)
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 12
Cover of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’
November 27, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Today! I needed a break so I took one.
November 26, 2024 at 10:55 PM