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yeskatydid
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Librarian, archivist, big fan of nature, and a would-be poet. This year, I’m channeling angst into learning to bake bread.

She/her/hers

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.
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Reading book that mentions early detection of COVID-19 in sewage that includes summary of early days of detection, outbreak. Brought me back to those days like a tide and I thought wow, I lived thru that.

And I had this sudden soothing thought:

Someday these days, too, will be in a history book
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is my orange cat every single morning. Just yelling at me for no reason. Goofball.
April 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This Hubble image shows massive stars in Gum 29, which are unleashing ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds that etch away the enveloping gas cloud.

The result? Pillars, ridges, and filaments of gas and dust!

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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We don’t condone violence. However, we’ll make an exception for Indy. Take some time to breathe this weekend and reset.
April 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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this is alt text as an art form
April 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I love how conservatives in my adult life have gone from “maybe if you eat nothing but rice and beans you can buy a house” to “maybe if you eat nothing but rice and beans you can survive Great Depression 2”
April 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It's my country and I'm not going to abandon it to fascists, and also all my stuff is there
I assume you can afford to live in any other country in the world, why do you choose to live in the US at this time?
April 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
PLEASE somebody in power read this
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.

They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
April 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025
April 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If the corrupt US government puts any public land up for sale, anybody wanna pool resources to buy it and make it public again? I’ll contribute to buy back our land. #resist #resistance #altgov @altnps.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info @altyellonatpark.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Look around!
April 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I feel like I’m living through the worst disaster movie script of all time.
Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.
April 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Ohh "America First" was a hit list
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Bingo 🎯
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs *isn't* justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third time’s the charm, I guess.
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM