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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I was sitting in my 3rd floor room just now, and realized the scrabbling noise I was hearing was not my cat (sleeping beside me). I got up and looked out my window and there was a RACCOON scratching fiercely at my flimsy window screen, trying to get in! It dashed off when I raised my phone, so […]

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I can't remember a previous time when I had not a song, but multiple songs (each one for 2-3 days) from the same album stuck in my head. 'This song goes out to the Beautiful Unwell'

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@chemjobber.bsky.social Also: Rutherford Falls Laid Poker Face Shelved Ponies Resident Alien Girls5Eva The Good Place The ‘Burbs Chewing Gum Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@starluna/117178735… @starluna tagging me here gives me an opportunity to provide an update about what Boston poll-workers have been told regarding Feds showing up at the polls. This is a long thread, so buckle up. #Boston #BostonMA #politics #MAPoli […]

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

‘Thippe had a little ‘nip yesterday morning.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I've successfully made Dark and Stormy popsicles (in that they've frozen; I was nervous about the rum:ginger beer ratio). Tonight we'll determine whether they'e successful in terms of being good.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Somebody got stuck in a moth trap early yesterday morning (I did not photodocument this indignity). She was surprisingly blasé about it.

A brown tabby Maine coon relaxed on several pillows. She does not have a moth trap stuck to her.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

This little cat asked me yesterday to feed her in my air-conditioned room rather than in the sweltering kitchen (this is her usual spot, acceptable again since the temperature has dropped nearly 20 degrees since her very reasonable request).

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

It's so good to have a coworker again!

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

I had my second bone density scan yesterday. 10% improvement over the first (three years ago)!

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

‘Thippe was stricken by excessive adorableness while napping.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Fly peeps: I can't attend #Dros26. Could someone grab a couple of this year's gorgeous Genesee Scientific Drosophila art postcards for me?

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

The face of a cat who just had a ferocious pitched battle with her own tail.

This brown tabby Maine coon cat is completely worn out.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

‘Thippe would like to know where I hid the nice sunny warm snow-free deck

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

What’s better than sitting in my lap? Lounging on a pile of clean laundry waiting to be folded.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat lies curled up on a pile of variously colored T-shirts.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

This poor baby shouted at me from across the apartment after midnight this morning to let me know she’d hurt a paw. There was much melodramatic limping. The paw is fine now.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat is laying on a burgundy fuzzy blanket.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

#JackSmith also said investigators had “powerful evidence” #Trump broke the #law by hoarding #ClassifiedDocuments at his #MarALago estate after his first term, & by #obstructing government efforts to recover the records. “I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President […]

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Remember when the Coast Guard said they were backing off declaring swastikas and nooses "potentially divisive"? They lied. #fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics #CoastGuard #USmilitary #military

The Washington Post

Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
A new workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of such symbols quietly went into effect this week.

Updated today [December 16th, 2025] at 7:50 p.m. EST

By Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein

The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service's top officer to direct that both would remain prohibited.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

This cat would like to know where I hid the warm and sunny catio.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat sits on a wooden floor, not touching the snow beside her. There is a sprinkling of snowflakes in her fur.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat sits on a wooden floor, not touching the snow beside her. There is a sprinkling of snowflakes in her fur. She is facing away from the camera

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

I’ve finally found out why there’s always a mousie toy in my laundry bag. This little laundry goblin fished one out from under the shelf beside her and dropped it in front of her, while sitting in the bag.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat glares at the camera from where she’s sitting in a blue IKEA bag. There are blue and aqua t-shirts crumpled in the bag, and a small brown mousie toy is in front of her, on a blue shirt.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

I successfully spatchcocked the turkey by myself! First time since getting the robot shoulder.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Ending #Piemageddon2025 with a pair of chocolate meringue pies. The filling came out lovely, but this are not among my better meringues; I couldn’t get it get it quite to proper stiff peaks. Even worse, the meringues of both pies pulled away from the crust as they cooled (not shown).

Chocolate meringue pie, cooling on a black wire rack.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 continues with…not actually a pie: behold the banana pudding! For those of you who didn’t grow up with this dessert, it’s kind of like a trifle, composed of layers of vanilla wafers, sliced bananas, and vanilla pudding, with a sprinkling of crushed vanilla wafers on top.

A perfectly composed banana pudding on a wood tabletop. There is a wooden rolling pin behind it that I used to crush the vanilla wafers topping.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

When journalists carry water for the Trump regime by calling its Ukraine-surrender-or-else order a peace plan they are committing pure malpractice. But they're all doing it. At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Continuing #Piemageddon2025 fruit pie day: cherry pies. Cherry was last year’s disaster pie (if you bake with frozen fruit, defrost it ALL the way before draining it). My shopping buddy found jarred sour cherries, so I’m hopeful.

A cherry pie, cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

Another cherry pie, cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 day 2: fruit pies. Two very spicy deep dish apple pies. One of my housemates has a hand-cranked apple peeler-slicer-corer, which really sped up the apple processing!

A very spicy deep-dish apple pie, viewed from the side to show off the deepness.

The pie is cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

A very spicy deep-dish apple pie, the sheen is from ‘pie wash’ (a 50:50 mix of heavy cream and milk). The pie is cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

End of day 1 of #Piemageddon2025: chocolate chess. I seem to have lost the recipe I’ve used before, so I improvised.

Chocolate chess pie cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 continues with chess pies. I’m hoping I successfully troubleshot the texture issue this time (I beat the eggs extra vigorously).

Chess pie cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 is begun! First up, a trio of pumpkin pies (because the One Pie recipe makes 1.5 pies). I got my disaster pie out of the way early by dropping one while sliding it into the oven (fortunately onto a baking sheet that caught the spilled […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The disaster pie cooling on a black wire rack with a green tablecloth underneath.

A beautiful pumpkin pie cooling on a black wire rack with a green tablecloth underneath.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before. Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.

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Misha @mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

"Fascist paramilitaries using excessive force on peaceful protestors in Portland. " From #Lemmy lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56882719 #ICE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Protests across TN Today

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

I have some personal good news...I can continue having my job for at least another year; our PI has achieved some fund-raising magic. Of the 8 of us facing a layoff, 3 are already gone, and 2 more have decided to go, leaving 3 of us at FlyBase-Harvard.

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