Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Oh man, this is brilliant! Our dryer vents into the carport, 4 feet from the main entrance to our house. My doormat stays covered in lint. The super slippery condensation on the concrete every time the dryer runs is just the cherry on top. 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Will you DM me so we can chat shipping, etc? I'll start negotiating with the children f and see who they haven't fallen in love with yet. 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 07/07/2025And I found more flutter ponies - one is missing her wings though. 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Looks like it! Took her outside for a better photo. 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 06/07/2025@seananmcguire.bsky.social Hi! I picked up some nice ponies at a friend's sale - do you have a list of who you're still looking for? 230
Reposted by Jean AycockKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/07/2025I regret to inform you all that I have been allowed inside an art museum. 382065111
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/07/2025@tkingfisher.com sometimes I'm in the store and just think, "Dang, I miss KUEC." 020
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I just read an absolutely delightful book by a firefly researcher - Silent Sparks by Sarah Lewis. Great writing, and absolutely chock full of everything you never knew you needed to know about firefly sex. 000
Reposted by Jean AycockCraig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own. 107100002889
Reposted by Jean AycockMicah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2025there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves 1254933830
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I once ran a nature center field trip for a 1st grade class - their teacher had all 25 of them clicker trained to stop, go silent, and look at her instantly when they heard the click. I've never seen anything like it before or since. 131
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 26/05/2025With extra sharp cheddar cheese and crushed Lays potato chips on top. 030
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 10/05/2025We just got back from a trip to Arizona, so I'm introducing our new petrified wood to the homegrown Mississippi stuff. (Not from the National Park! From one of the totally not shady dig your own places just outside the National Park.) 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/05/2025When you visit the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and all you can think of is @tkingfisher.com 's LJ posts from decades ago! The agave! The cacti! We've been trying to figure out if there's any possibly of keeping a Palo Verde alive in MS - perhaps a bonsai with its own dehumidifier? 020
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Hattiesburg, MS has one like this - there's a sign by the highway that just says "BONSAI." When you get to the door you call a number and maybe the old guy who owns the place will mosey over from his house and let you buy some tiny trees. It's incredible. 010
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Oh, I'm a member! Felder is an amazing resource. I've just been busy trying to get the rest of the property into shape before I dive into peony land. We have 7 acres that we're working to bring back from about 15 years of neglect. 000
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Oh, lovely! I miss the peonies we inherited at our Kansas house. I haven't tried to find what will grow in Mississippi for our current place yet. 140
Reposted by Jean Aycockderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comWhy So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe RoganThe slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades. 249112472031
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 23/04/2025My kids love our house jumping spiders - I gave them names and now they're friends. "Oh look, it's Phil!" "Oh look, Phil caught a fly! Thanks, Phil!" Phil is great. 010
Reposted by Jean AycockBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now 147341406460
Reposted by Jean AycockJ Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in.. 6663033243
Reposted by Jean AycockSarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 11/04/2025TIMELINE CLEANSE: please enjoy this video of a 15-week-old puppy playing with a ball for the first time in her life. 321537
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/04/2025It's been the year of Charlotte's Web for us - read the novel to the kids, took them to a performance of the Joseph Robinette play adaptation, and now they've been binging the 1973 movie. 000
Reposted by Jean AycockKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”nytimes.comHow to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets PlungeIf you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility. 179105632968
Reposted by Jean AycockChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/04/2025Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating 8974572859
Reposted by Jean AycockJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold 546286457006
Reposted by Jean AycockShane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 772165066438
Reposted by Jean AycockGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The same folks telling me to stop fighting against AI because it’s here to stay and humans are obsolete also told me ebooks were gonna be the end of physical books, the MiniDisc was the future of sound, I should invest all my money on NFTs, and crypto would quickly replace money. 1239596
Reposted by Jean AycockKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025Just apply that to other small victories. Let people celebrate a goddamn butterfly without announcing that Trump will kill it. If we are not allowed to feel any joy, what are we even fighting so hard for? 745526
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Try getting in touch with MDWFP - Nick Winstead does a lot of the birds monitoring in the state. His contact info is here. www.mdwfp.com/birds-researchmdwfp.comBirds Research 110
Reposted by Jean AycockMorgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The real story of Cassandra wasn't that she had magic powers it was that the bad guys test their strategies on those with the least power first and then execute them on a broad scale. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...salon.comWhat Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrumCulture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex 216052
Reposted by Jean AycockHipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year. 20396371638
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Admin won't let them fail students. My science teacher MIL just retired and had horror story after horror story of being forced to pass students with grades under 50% or being forbidden from giving zeroes to students who did no work. 000
Reposted by Jean AycockMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings! 8534641080
Reposted by Jean AycockVictoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 10/02/2025The headline of this story says it all. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...pcgamer.comCourt documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel rig...I wouldn't put that sort of thing in writing but I'm built different. 312279
Reposted by Jean AycockKat Flandermeyer @katflandermeyer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread 242140624342
Reposted by Jean AycockBluesky @bsky.app · 06/02/2025happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people. 344315233413742
Reposted by Jean AycockAmanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Saving the world before bedtime 334909800
