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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But I'm sure the botox is completely natural. Heh.

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CNN @cnn.com · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died. She was 90. cnn.it/4jI4LxB

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026

Look at this precious baby 😭

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Ordinary Shena @originalshena2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tom Tenney is dying and has a very modest GoFundMe up to try to pay for oxygen and his medication and to try to keep his family housed when he's gone. He's comics people. Please donate, share, anything helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marve...?

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Donate to Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter, organized by Christina Durbin

Imagine spending more than 30 years bringing heroes to life on… Christina Durbin needs your support for Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have a scratchy allergy throat so I made a crockpot recipe for chicken and rice soup. Unfortunately my crock pot is too small so I didn't have the space to add heavy cream at the end. Still tastes good though. I'll try it again when I buy a larger crockpot. 🙂 (Soup tax)

White bowl full of chicken soup. Broth is barely visible around the outside of the bowl because the middle is piled full of shredded chicken, chopped celery, white and wild rice, and crinkle cut carrots.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday, Craig's mom!

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being a professional athlete means however good you are, there is always footage of embarrassing failures as well. This is a funny use of it.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing I've always wanted for music is for it to be... solved. Have these weirdos ever engaged with art from a human level?

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Same. I don't listen to country so had no idea the song or singer existed. 🤷‍♀️

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I saw an enormous neuron sculpture this week and it was one of my favorites in the sculpture park so I guess I'm in a brain cell state of mind lol. 😄

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That one is so gorgeous but dry clean only. ☹️☹️☹️ I don't suppose I could hand wash and hang to air dry??? I do that with my other silk scarves and they seem okay.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm glad you were able to make it. 🙂

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I see "the cube pube" and i think that's worse!

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And since it is a sculpture garden, a couple of my favorite works. "American Horse" based on Leonardo DaVinci's concept, and "Neuron." I'm glad it was a sunny day because it showed off the detail on the neuron especially, it sparkled like it was alive.

American Horse bronze sculpture, side view. Note the person standing next to its foreleg for an idea of scale.

American Horse from the front. This was extremely popular, basically the symbol of the gardens. Similar to how the lions are all over items at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Massive shining steel sculpture of a neuron in a field, with twisty dendrites extending in all directions.

Another view of the neuron sculpture showing it extending toward the bright blue cloudless sky.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pictures coming, I'm going to try to describe them in the alt text or at least give the title of the work.

Twisty glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the visitor center. It looks like a tangled of gold and white tentacles with a backdrop of a roof full of skylights showing a clear blue cloudless sky.

A rainbow of colorful glass flower forms scattered across the ceiling of the cafe in the visitor center. Mostly red and gold, but green and blue glass is visible farther into the room.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Took a trip to Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids this week to see the Dale Chihuly exhibit and the weather was perfect and the glass and outdoor sculptures were stunning. I'll have to visit again one day, but it's all the way on the other side of the state so I can't just pop over impulsively one day.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would have levitated and propelled myself out of that box with no visible movement of my limbs. 😬

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She's extremely organized. 🙂

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Along with everything else, whatever he touches looks like gilded shit.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That would be a six-pack of brains.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Poll “died on toilet” you cowards

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I actually got the big items on my to do list for this weekend done this weekend - which almost never happens. Painted a wall, assembled a garment rack, and ordered a new dresser. I think I'll be a lot happier with the layout and organization of my bedroom shortly. 🤞

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, I mean, Bugs does make an extremely attractive woman. 😄

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They were amazing and had shots for basically everything lol. If someone was traveling internationally they could tell them the country, and they'd figure out which vaccines they needed and schedule them. I could have gotten so many shots if I wanted. 😄😄😄

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah. Being sick is always miserable, but some types of sick are worse than others. Hope you feel better soon.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got a MMR booster through my county health department. I think i only got one dose (because of my birth year) and the nurse said that whatever my titers were, a booster wouldn't hurt. And it was free with my insurance while a titer check might not be. Getting a covid shot anyway so just got both!

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like it a lot better light! But because it's me I was never not going to choose some type of blue either way.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hahaha I'm good about spackling and sanding, but I'm horrible about taping off the trim. I just let the paint slop over onto the molding and doorframe because I don't care, whenever it comes time to sell the house I'll paint the trim neatly or just hire a pro to paint everything gray or beige. 😄

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A coworker asked me if I liked or hated painting because he'd noticed people didn't tend to be ambivalent. I told him I kind of enjoy it because i like seeing a wall a nice color after I'm done. I'm amending that to I like painting if I don't have to move tons of crap out of the way first!

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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I'm done. 2 coats of the breezy blue to cover the previous darker blue, now to wait until it's fully dry and see if I missed any spots. Still a lot of work to do, but the rest won't involve stepladders and drop cloths. 🙂

Blank featurless wall, but it is freshly painted light blue. A plastic dropcloth is taped to the base with blue painters tape and a tall stepladder is standing in the corner.

Corner of a room behind a door. On the left side is the new paint color, a light bright sky blue called "breezy blue." On the right side around the door is the old paint color, a much darker and deeper blue which was called something like "Montana sky." Nice but I was tired of it and ready for a new color.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Made up my to do list for the weekend. Lots to get done, but the biggest task is painting a wall. With luck i can do both coats in one day and then start rearranging everything before I need to go back to work.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But how will consultants get paid if there is no need to organize and interpret focus groups? (I'd pay them to wear clown suits and repeatedly jump in a lake, and I'm sure I'm not the only one lol)

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Having one of those "everything sucks and I hate every part of my life and myself" days/weeks. Maybe I need a vacation but I don't have anything scheduled until May (unless I cancel it.) Ugh ugh ugh.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social

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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave

Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You will probably get mauled. This will not stop you from going "pspspsps"

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think there may have been an X-Files episode, too (there is probably an X-Files episode for everything lol). It is an interesting premise, in some ways more than another mutant bacterium or virus because we kind of know how to deal with most of those by now.

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

About fungal infections as much because we are too hot an environment for them to thrive, but how as the climate warms they could adapt to higher temperatures and with less of a difference between their environment and humans they could start infecting us more often. If you needed more story ideas 🙂

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Catherine P @cath97.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There was something (maybe radio, maybe a podcast?) that was talking about how fungi would have gone crazy after the extinction of the dinosaurs with dead bodies everywhere, and how the temperature was colder from the asteroid dust. Which is why humans with their high body temp don't have to worry

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