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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It isn't the choice of the centers. Musk and/or Trump ordered the NIH to pull funding.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

democrats-science.house.gov

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The loss of that context is one of the many heartbreaks of losing Making Light.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I've been finding the feeds here incredibly useful for minimizing doomscrolling. Skip Following and go for birds or astronomy or Star Trek. I can engage with stuff that brings joy without the unrelenting immersion in the disaster that is the world today

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Pratchett was deadly serious. Not about fantasy tropes, but about morality and being human. Did you read more than the first few books?

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Wow, that's a blast from the past!

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Parmigiano and you've got actual Alfredo rather than the American interpretation (would have said bastardization but that's unkind to bastards)

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Only unlikely if you don't know the history of chocolate!

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In the same boat and I find it hilarious when it's demonized. I was very sick before they figured out the problem was I wasn't making it anymore

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To say nothing of the time involved! Farming is HARD WORK. There's a reason society moved away from individual subsistence farming, and "let's go back to that!" is nonsensical.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My knees. This whole bipedalism thing just isn't ready yet

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Saying "here is why this win doesn't matter or won't last" seems a lot like a way to be bad at announcing wins. You don't say "just wait till next year" after you actually win for a change.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

There's residential real estate that isn't available as "homes", though, because it's viewed as investment instead of housing, and that's part of the problem. And where do we "just build more" that doesn't contribute to car culture? I'm a fan of density and infill but that's not popular either

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Glad he's okay. We had a close scrape with our previous male cat, but he did fine on special prescription food to reduce the possibility of urinary crystals for ten years after that.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The electric piano we have for our kid is infinitely better than the old wooden upright we had when I was his age, to say nothing of the shitty keyboards that were available then. The sounds are all sampled from a grand piano in a concert hall.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A pillowcase will hold a folded set of sheets and another couple of pillowcases (at least up to queen size, haven't tried larger). No more sets getting separated or mismatched, just grab the set.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Animal. (The Muppet). Totally unhinged, a terrible idea, and very funny.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I'm not sure about Granny Weatherwax. Nanny Ogg, though? She has zero interest in power.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The girls are pigs, and the boys are frogs. They're all one species with very pronounced sexual dimorphism

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Saw that version on the big screen today. According to the introduction, that version was the one Disney used for the remaster.

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Anarcho-syndicalist Appreciator @blueinkalchemist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy Hogswatch, my friends.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I was wondering about Susan myself, probably because I'm in the middle of my annual read of Hogfather.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Yeah, that's a really good point. I haven't reread Thud in too long, clearly

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

That's a good point. Maybe he could.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Not Vimes. He can defeat his own demons, barely, but not that. Carrot, maybe, because he'd be so utterly convinced that even Sauron could be redeemed

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

That looks suspiciously like a map of population density of English speakers.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

You clearly haven't watched the right movie.

A still from the Muppet Movie. Fozzie the Bear is driving, with Kermit the Frog in the passenger seat and Gonzo in the back. The caption reads "Bear left. Right, frog"

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Centipedes are evil fast bastards. Millipedes are slow gentle critters. They look like roly-polies that, like Nanny Ogg spelling "banana", didn't know how to stop.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I never bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, so that's where it ended for me, and it's perfect

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I read it around this time every year!

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I've never liked "false" color. The particular colors our eyes can see aren't any more real than others. If they're ordered correctly, I think they can be explained as IR (or whatever) without the perjorative

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It's not rational, at all. It's deep brain "this stuff made me sick, it is NOT SAFE". And yeah, if I really wanted I could overcome my aversion to a particular ice cream chain. But I don't really care enough to do so. There is absolutely no anxiety whatsoever, and only the tiniest of limitations.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Very much like the "π * 10^7 seconds in a year" approximation. (I actually use that one. Quicker than multiplying it out.)

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"It's easier to break something than to build it" is basically a restatement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. They're not carefully removing pieces while leaving the structure intact, they're coming in with a sledgehammer.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

They in fact nest in cholla cacti, because nothing is going to go in there to raid the nest.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The phrasing for this that I always think of is "pretending to be an asshole pretty much makes you an asshole". Bot or bit, it's blocked.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The geese are specifically described as laying, shouldn't they be kept for the eggs?

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That's easily weaponized by bigots.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is the nightmare version of the dream where there's a huge room in your house you never knew about.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/11/2024

Mine was opted in and I *definitely* wouldn’t have chosen this — chronology is what makes conversations comprehensible and I scorn whoever made this change

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As a GBBO fan originally from South Dakota I would watch the hell out of that. Last time my kid's school had International Night I brought tater tot hotdish

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This dude needs to look up the history of corn.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is (then do killall SystemUIServer)

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you are collecting Beowulves may I recommend the retelling "Bea Wolf" by Zach Weinersmith? I bought it for my 10 year old but it was so much fun. It's alliterative and wonderful.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If crows had pockets they would run the world

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

lots of new followers today so I’m bumping this petition! 6,607 right now, would love to get to 7500 by Monday. it’s fuck Nancy Mace o’clock this weekend

The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.

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A. Leistra @aleistra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Nah. They'll accept being blind, since it's physical, but for them since dyslexia is in the brain they'll keep being ableist about it

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