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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Such a good course, everyone should take it! Taught me everything I know.

Absolute shit photo of the lunar eclipse.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Though gracious me, he deserves better than this unfortunate bobblehead.

Frightening display of three bobblehead dolls for sale, in order: a brunette Haaland, buddy Jesus, and F1 driver Marquez.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Father’s Day, my dad in Somalia teaching physics while Aden Adde, the country’s first democratically elected president looks on.

A group of Somali officials look on as a white man wearing Blues Brothers suit, tie, and shades, points to students in front of a blackboard with text about magnets.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This succulent pet bed may be the best $30 purchase I’ve made in years. I just look at it and laugh and laugh and laugh. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Tiny chihuahua curled up in a pod pet bed that looks like a succulent in a terra cotta pot.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That was my first cousin once removed.

Atlanta Braves baseball card of pitcher Bruce Dal Canton

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Also one of my absolute favorite Simpsons gags.

Billy Corgan meeting Homer Simpson:

“Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.”

“Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?

Lowly Worm driving his apple car, from Richard Scarry.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The Pacific Northwest delivered the goods <swoon>.

Fog and sweeping clouds over a country road next to a tree covered hill

The exact moment of sunset with complex clouds and a bright orange setting sun.

Insane post sunset orange and grey clouds reflecting off the water, which was filled with swans.

Final traces of sunset on the horizon, reflecting off the slough.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

(GenX relevant only) I was walking through LAX and saw a man in outrageously tight black leather pants and boots, just standing and waiting, but with his nose in the air and absurdly correct posture, one knee slightly bent. As I passed, mesmerized, I realized “Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance”.

Poster for the Irish step dancing group Riverdance’s “Lord of the Dance”, featuring a shirtless picture of Michael Flately in a dramatic pose that reflects the same energy he took to waiting for his plane at LAX.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I see you in extravagant feathered turbans and a wafty layered muumuu.

Mrs Hurst and Miss Bingley from the BBC Pride and Prejudice, wearing extravagant feather turbans

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is the acme and the omega. The purest form of American stuffing.

lurkey Stuffing:
By HELOISE
*I can of 10-count refrigerator biscuits (baked)
2 to 8 caps crumbled cooked cornbread
1(1-pound) toaf of bread, toasted
1% cups chopped onion
chopped celery
1 eup chopped celery tops
1 tablespoon sage
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
-2 cups water
I cup chicken bouillon or turkey drippings
Saltiaad pepper to taste
2 eggs
Crumble the biscuits, cornbread and bread
slices into a big pot and set aside.
Put all remaining ingredients, EXCEPT EGGS, into a saucepan. Let boil 10 minutes, or until the celery and onions are tender, then pour over the bread crumbs and toss. If it's not as moist as you like, add more liquid. Let cool Add the eggs, mixing thoroughly. Now, place the dressing in a greased baking dish and bake at
300 Fahrenheit for 30 minutes.
For a more moist dressing, use a smaller pan and pile the dressing thicker. For a drier, crustier dressing, use a larger pan and spread it out to about 2 inches thick (a cookie sheet works

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Trillionaires for Trump. “Whose yachts? Our yachts!” “Slow and expensive buses” “We paid for three terms”

Protesters dressed as stereotypical hyper rich (men in top hats with cigars, women in gowns) with signs from “Trillionaires for Trump”, including: “Whose yachts? Our yachts!”

“Slow and expensive buses”

“We paid for three terms”

“Raise the rent”

“Billionaires should exist. Change my mind.”

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

ARP! ARP! ARP! ☄️🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2509.09011

Interacting galaxies from the Arp-Madore catalog, viewed with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Seattle’s response to an anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist church event scheduled for later today. “240 kazoos provided.”

Poster on a flagpole with a picture of Chappell Roan, announcing a mass kazoo performance: “DO YOU LOVE
Chappell Roan?
JOIN US
Aug. 30 5PM at Gas Works Park For the WORLD'S LARGEST
Kazoo Performance of
PINK PONY CLUB
240 KAZOOS PROVIDED”

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Agencies are permitted to use peer review, as a treat, as long as agency personnel routinely ignore its recommendations?

Executive order text: Nothing in this order shall be construed to discourage or prevent the use of peer review methods to evaluate proposals for discretionary awards or otherwise inform agency decision making, provided that peer review recommendations remain advisory and are not ministerially ratified, routinely deferred to, or otherwise treated as de facto binding by senior appointees or their designees.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I submitted an atlas paper that has been weighing on me for years, and I thought I was perhaps being a big ole baby, but it literally had over 1,100 unique figures in it.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I don’t think it’s made it over here from the Other Place yet, but @1goodtern.bsky.social, who has consistently monitored the on-the-ground impacts of COVID in the UK, made some jaw-dropping charts of correlations among infection rates for different bugs, pre- and post-2020.

Pre-COVID correlations between infection rates of ~20 varieties, showing a wide mix of positive, negative, and no correlation.

Post-2020 correlations between infection rates of ~20 varieties, showing almost universal positive correlations (ie, rates of most everything now go up and down together), with 3 exception.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The combo of deciding to believe things that make people not like them while also being able to vote soon is a nasty puzzle.

Chart showing the time series of percentage of 8th and 10th grade boys who believe “A woman should have the same job opportunities as men” (only 45% agree completely) and “men and women should be paid the same for doing the same work” (only 57% agree completely).

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If it helps, NYC has street capybara sellers at the moment.

Tableful of stuffed capybaras, in great abundance and variety.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In addition to @adamcsharp.bsky.social ‘s bao genre, do not sleep on the cannabis stores. Behold “Fweedom”.

Sign awning with script lettering of the store name, which is “Fweedom Cannabis”

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Focusing on things that spark joy, which includes Fruit Bat. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Poster for adoptable dog Fruit Bat, currently being fostered by Best Friends NY. Fruit Bat is black and white and looks exactly like a fruit bat, except for being tubby and not at all aerodynamic.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I really hit the wall today, and maybe you did too, so perhaps you need to meet Zipper.

Tiniest blonde dog on an orange rug. Perfect bat ears.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The bright spot of the week is discovering that the iPhone photo app filed all of my screenshots of the Atriedes pug under “wedding”.

Duke Leto holding the family pug, from the David Lynch version.

Paul holding the family pug, from the David Lynch version.

Duke Leto holding the family pug, from the David Lynch version. Now with fur coats.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“Paint me like one of your French girls”

Chicken, prior to roasting on a bed of carrots and onions, propped on its side to let the thigh juices soak down into the breast. The bottom leg is extended and the upper one is bent demurely, with its little wing tucked up to show its breast, perfectly mimicking Rose in Titanic. I swear I did not pose this and the chicken just wanted to be in this pose #SluttyChicken. Billy Zane is going to be furious.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I have asked google scholar and not yet found a napping Tyrannosaurus article. However, I did find a relevant academic publication that looks riveting. Any scholarly work that includes the phrase “The modern analogy for this hunting strategy is "cow tipping"” is all right by me.

Google scholar summary from the book “Tyrannosaurid paleobiology”, of a 2013 article titled “The biomechanics of a plausible hunting strategy for Tyrannosaurus rex” by authors
D Krauss, J Robinson. The article snippet shown says: “We present here a biomechanical analysis of a hunting strategy that Tyrannosaurus rex could have employed effectively. The modern analogy for this hunting strategy is
"cow tipping,"

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

All I can find plausible is “very large chicken”.

Painting or CG of a tyrannosaurus walking on its hind legs.

Sleeping brown feathered chicken with a red comb.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I don’t think it has the physiology to curl up like a sleeping dog, and it’s far too ridiculous to imagine it flopped on its side.

Light brown Labrador curled up on a grey dog bed.

Brown Labrador mix lying on its side on grey flagstones.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I find the choice to spend several hundreds of dollars to custom frame the Constitution fascinating.

A collection of newly framed pictures, leaning against the wall awaiting pickup, including a very large reproduction of the constitution.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Recycled week-old, dried-out pizza into tasty breakfast strata.

Two small round white casserole dishes with nicely puffed strata.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

My only regrets are: (1) devouring them requires destroying those saucy panda sweeties; and (2) I may be forced to try the next (and more unnerving to me) Unusual Oreos. (Fin)

Box of very thin Oreos with Japanese text. The Oreos have green filling and seeds, and the box has an image of a fig and a matcha leaf.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Second, and most important fact: They are freaking delicious. The best Oreos one could imagine. No cheesiness. No turmeric. No lawn. Just delicious. (3/N)

Thumbs up in front of a partially eaten Unusual Oreo.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

First fact, they are freaking adorable. (2/N)

Small inner Oreo packet with a small Oreo with an adorable quizzical panda thinking a question mark.

Two more adorable panda-embossed Unusual Oreos. One is waving “Hi” and the other is making sweet little heart hands.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Let’s gooooooooo! Enter the lawn!!!!!! (Was this translation useful? Frankly Google, not so much.) (1/N)

Close up of Unusual Oreos with the Japanese text processed by Google Translate. Text reads: High iron, protein content
Add >12% imported turmeric powder
100% importable powder
O anti-fat

Close up of Unusual Oreos with the Japanese text processed by Google Translate. Text reads:
Additive >12%
Enter the lawn
High protein content

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I have once again succumbed to Unusual Oreos.

Long rectangular blue box of Oreos with Japanese text and English text saying “cheese flavor”. For mysterious reason he filling has a wooden handle like a popsicle stick.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I spent four years bookmarking these on Instagram as a form of self care.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Mom — who had been out of school for a decade with a young child — went to law school in 1972 to fight for women’s rights, and voting for Kamala Harris would have made her so so happy. I miss her every day. (Fin)

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Good thing someone stopped at four, then.

Online news article with text “A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane's wing.
British traveler Phil Hardy, 41, was onboard Flight VS127 at Manchester Airport in the UK on Jan. 15 when he noticed the four missing fasteners during a safety briefing for passengers and decided to alert the cabin crew.”

The article advertised below is titled “You can take these 5 items from an airplane — without getting in trouble”.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

New goodwill find by my frequently-overwhelmed teen.

White mug with typewriter text saying “Sometimes I stay inside because it’s just too peopley out there”

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