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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Sometimes on campus, like this morning, I can hear the "go to class" chime for the nearby high school, and it always reminds me of Hilda encountering a school: "They live in fear of bells, Mum!"

Freeze frame from Hilda. She pets Twig and says "Mum, I'm telling you, those poor Trolberg kids live in fear of bells"

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm having my students make chemistry zines for their final projects this semester. Because it amused me, I gave them the zine project guidelines *as a hand-drawn zine*

A little stapleless folded zine booklet titled "We're making chemistry zines" with a sketch of a zine with a molecule on it. The lettering is a little bit crooked and off-center. This zine proclaims itself handmade by Dr. Haas, and in the photo it's held in Dr. Haas's hand

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This is an appreciation post for the best wedding favor My cousin got married to their longtime partner in 2019, and at the reception the drinks were served in mason jar mugs like this is one. Guests were encouraged to take their mug as a favor, and we […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A glass pint jar with squared-off sides and a handle

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

We got Chinese takeout and I got a double fortune. The other one was about appreciating family, which is lovely, but this one feels more timely

A strip of paper that says "Only the person who takes risks is truly free."

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

An amusing juxtaposition about the moon

A screenshot of my mastodon app showing two posts. The post at the top is from Gooder Living and says "The moon has been showing everyone the same face for billions of years and somehow still gets called mysterious. You don't have to reinvent yourself every week. Sometimes consistency is the interesting part."
The post beneath is from Samer Farha and shows a photo of the moon as seen through a telescope

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

[Food (baking & dessert)] I had some leftover egg whites to use, so a couple days ago I made them into a meringue for pavlova. I like to put fresh fruit on top, but all we had were a few raspberries & blackberries, and I don't like the seeds with the […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A simple pavlova on a plate. The meringue at the bottom is a pale brown, covered with a fluffy layer of whipped cream and topped with bright green flecks of lime zest

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

[Food] One of my goals for this summer was to get better at making macarons. These are looking pretty good! The shells are walnut, the filling is a quick fig jam, and they're delicious

About 2 dozen macarons set on their sides in a glass dish. The macaron shells are light brown and slightly speckled with crinkly looking "feet." Sandwiched between each pair of shells is a dollop of dark red-brown jam.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

[Food] Black raspberry jam in progress

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Did Mr. Monopoly write this headline? What the heck, NPR I suppose they discarded these other options: - Being Poor Is Your Own Damn Fault - Pay No Attention to the Billionaires Behind the Curtain - Wealth Inequality Is Fine Actually - Food Insecure? Sounds […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Screencap of an NPR headline: If your spending is eating your savings, you might be experiencing "lifestyle creep"

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

The textbook publisher (Norton) is putting AI in their ebook this fall

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

I added a knee patch to a favorite pair of jeans and decided to attach it with a rainbow border for some #VisibleMending The picture shows the patch sideways right after I finished sewing it. Purple is toward the waist and yellow is toward the foot. It's not […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A rounded rectangle of blue denim attached to the knee of jeans in a slightly different shade and orientation of denim. The edge of the patch is covered in close looped stitches of embroidery floss in six gem tones that make a clockwise rainbow, starting with a pinkish red in the five o'clock position, then a short stretch of vivid orange, golden yellow along the left edge, emerald green, slightly-greener-than-sapphire blue, and ending with lavender on the right

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

[food] Kid1 loves gyoza and asked if we could make them, so this weekend we gave it a try. My folding needs practice, and I haven't quite gotten the hang of the timing so the bottoms get crisp without getting entirely stuck to the pan, but I think they came […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A plate of gyoza-style dumplings with browned bottoms and steamed sides. This is not fancy plating, just a chaotic heap left the way the dumplings fell as they tumbled out of the pan. Flecks of green and orange filling can be seen through the somewhat translucent dumpling wrappers

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Last night's storm has left everything coated in ice. It reminds me of the ice storms we had in February 2011, back when we lived in Michigan. We had one storm that coated the trees in wide flakey crystals followed a couple weeks later by a storm that seemed […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

The end of a bare wintry tree branch encased in ice thicker than the branch itself. The tips of the branch are rounded by the ice, except for one long curling twig that appears to have frozen in the middle of whipping back. Its length curls back toward the tree's trunk and the ice forms a point at the tip like a scorpion's tail. The background is a blue gradient of cloudless sky, and glimmers of sunshine reflect off the curves in the ice, contrasting with the dark brown bark of the branch

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

[uspol, fashy guy running for Congress] Anthony Constantino, the CEO of #StickerMule, is running for Congress and my household received a mailer from his campaign. If I didn't already know that the company supports #fascism, the big fashy image on one side […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Mailer from Constantino for Congress. It's a stylized portrait of a white guy in a white shirt and blue suit jacket, without a tie, in front of a gritty looking American flag (but only 14 stars are visible over his shoulder). He looks like he's both smug and scowling at the same time, trying to be serious but mostly giving Nazi vibes. His hands are clasped in front of him, and he's wearing a heavy chain bracelet on one wrist. It might be AI generated because his head and hands look too big for his body, the neck of his shirt seems impossibly twisted, and his fingers look strange, but they're partially covered by the "paid for" disclaimer box, so it's hard to tell.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

I inherited some crocheted snowflake ornaments from my grandmothers, and I love the look of them. This year I decided to try making some of my own. I tried two different "beginner" patterns that I could not for the life of me figure out, so I decided to wing […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A crocheted snowflake ornament made of fine white yarn, resting on a wooden table. The center of the snowflake has two sets of six loops or flower petals. The outer edge is a rough hexagon shape with three points on each corner. The points are twisted a bit off-axis from the hexagon corners

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

I saw this at work and did a double-take. What is rink mix? A beverage so artificial it can't be called a drink anymore? It's a typo nobody caught before they printed thousands of boxes

Close-up view of the side of a small box of pods for a coffee maker. The text says "Single serve cup, Milk chocolate, Artificially flavored, Hot cocoad rink mix"

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Tonight we're expecting a frost, so I went out in the dark and made my last harvest for the season. The pepper plants put out lots of fruit this year, but not until late, so now I have a bunch of green peppers instead of fully ripe red ones. The tomatoes were […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Four punnets of vegetables: about a quart of green cherry tomatoes, part of a quart of small green peppers, a pint of red cherry tomatoes, and part of a pint of cherry tomatoes that are ripening from green to orange on their way to red

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

Wise words from Dr. Della Mosley. Her newsletter (The Healing Current) is often a highlight of my inbox www.academics4blacklives.com Caring is a radical act

Text reads: Many of us have been taught that exhaustion is excellence, that to care for ourselves is to betray the work. But what if healing is the work? What if rest is how we refuse to be consumed? What if softness is one of the most radical things we can practice in a system built on our burnout?

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

In the spring I made this cute little dumpster fire plushie for a work friend. Crocheting is still very new to me, and I found it very relaxing to do while sitting through frequently stressful meetings Later this week I'll be teaching colleagues to #crochet […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Emotional support dumpster fire crocheted plushie. The dumpster is green with a cheerful little face

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Opening my email right now is like "Package contained bobcat. Would not buy again." (from xkcd.com/325)

Person with injuries typing at a computer in a damaged room. Text says "Comments: Instead of office chair package contained bobcat. Would not buy again."

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

This star-shaped stress ball was in the bag of stuff the school gave us at Kid2's kindergarten orientation and boy do I have Opinions about it, not least being the quality of the kerning I'm pretty sure it says: Sit down Shut up Smile more

A blue star-shaped squeezy toy held between someone's thumb and index finger. The star also has white text with very little space between words that says: Be calm, Be quiet, Be kind

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

I'm thinking about the next couple weeks as the "pre-flight checklist" for the fall semester: all the things that have to happen for takeoff to be successful #profLife

A person standing on a sandy beach, facing away from the camera, toward an incoming wave twice as high as they are tall. It is captioned "academics on August 1st"

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Mr. Bimbo as AI Captain: Who made up these references?! [Everyone points to the Squire] [Squire points to his finger] Captain: Your *finger* made up these references? Squire: No, that's silly. The AI who *lives* in my finger made up these references: Mr […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

I love having black raspberries in the yard. I'm harvesting a pint or more daily right now for use in jam (seedless) and raspberry soda (soda water poured over residual sweetened seeds & pulp from making jam). The next harvest may go into ice cream or frozen […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A quart-sized green paper punnet half-filled with black raspberries. The raspberries are mostly deep purple to bluish, with a few less ripe red patches

Six small jars of blackberry raspberry jam on a counter. The jam is a deep purple almost black color

Fresh raspberry soda in a pint glass. The soda is deep red with a red flecked foam on top

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

[uspol, No Kings rally prep, Trump caricature] I am pretty happy with how my sign for tomorrow turned out #NoKings

A protest sign that says No Kings, No Crowns, No Racist Clowns, beside a caricature of Donald Trump as a joker or jester

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

[Food (cooked fish)] Sometime after 2010 I got my spouse Madhur Jaffrey's "At Home" cookbook, and while I can't claim our cooking from it has been authentic, it has definitely been delicious. Tonight I made her recipe for Pakistani Tandoori-Style Fish (with […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Crispy potato cubes beside a piece of fish covered in an orange-colored spice rub and topped with scallions

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

Some #bloomscrolling from yesterday in my yard. These peonies turn white when fully bloomed, but I really like this blush of pink they have as they begin to open

A partially opened peony blossom with pale pink petals cupping a frillier white center. The peony's leaves and buds and some raspberry canes can also be seen in the background

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