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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

psyched it's gonna cool down 1 degree tomorrow

screenshot of weather.com forecast shows pasadena, ca, was 102 degrees today and will be 101 tomorrow.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His legacy of grift goin' down like Saddam Hussein's.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lukoil: Just your typical, everyday Russian oil company that wanted to know how to target American voters. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/u...

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LA Times, which was taken over by a billionaire who at least 3x has interfered in editorial decision-making for personal/friends' interests, doing a big negative story about a leader in the tax-the-billionaires movement.

Screenshot of a Los Angeles Times email promoting the story billed as: "
Architect of billionaire tax tried to ‘extort’ support for the measure and targeted women, union reports find
A union leader who helped create California’s proposed billionaire tax tried to force support for the measure, according to union reports that accuse him of targeting women who opposed it.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Periodic reminder that overconfident tech bros are shite at predicting the effects of technology.

screenshot of ai conversation regarding the segway says: Steve Jobs stated it would be as significant a deal as the personal computer.Jeff Bezos publicly backed the invention and predicted it would revolutionize personal transport.John Doerr, a prominent venture capitalist, suggested that cities would be built around it and that it could be bigger than the internet.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is wrong. In the latter, "control" is not functioning as a noun. It's an attributive noun, which is a noun functioning as an adjective, like "shoe" in "shoe store."

screenshot of a google search, answered in ai mode, about the terms "randomized controlled trials" and "randomized control trials," says: Randomized Controlled Trials (Correct): This is the official medical and scientific standard. The word "controlled" modifies the trials, meaning they are trials that utilize a control group for comparison.Randomized Control Trials (Common Misnomer): While frequently used in casual conversation and even by some researchers, it is technically grammatically incorrect because "control" functions as a noun rather than the descriptive adjective "controlled."

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Post your favorite Muppet. Wrong answers only.

Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Let's just say lunch didn't live up to the hype.

A table in a cafe with a cold tea and the order number 69

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nah, he'd interject "bro" and "dude" every other sentence. I want to work with this guy.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Stay the hell out of my underwear drawer.

Granny panties with Estelle Getty's picture on them.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

That's crazy that people doubted it. Here's the single best thing, no foolin', that I ever read about writing. From Nora Ephron's "I Feel Bad About My Neck" (Sorry if tl;dr and blurry)

Screenshot of a story about a journalism teacher assigning students write a lead about a school event.

The end of the story says students failed the writing assignment because the lead should have been "there will be no school on thursday)

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Was talking with a friend, who's also from Fla, about how everything's a rip-off today, and we wondered how much the dream Disney resort our families couldn't afford when we were kids costs now.

Chart comparing per night rates for disney world's contemporary resort in 1976 vs now says: 1976 (actual dollars)

Low Average High
$45 ───► $50 ───► $60

│ Inflation adjustment
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Equivalent buying power today

Low Average High
$265 ───► $294 ───► $353

│ Actual Disney pricing today
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Today's typical rates

Low Average Peak
$600 ───► $750 ───► $900–$1,500+

Approximate standard room rates. The inflation-adjusted values use U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data to convert 1976 dollars into 2026 purchasing power.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Share one of your all-time favorite actors

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Pasadena Humane is having 7/4 weekend doggie sleepovers. Monica is relaxing in our quiet house till Monday. She's a world-class angel (so sweet she's giving us cavities) and available for adoption. pasadenahumane.org/adopt/view-p...

Black and white pitbull mix sleeping on a recliner

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

Movie poster for the 1967 Mars Needs Women

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

He's doing to our capital what Putin did to Sochi for the Olympics: massive corruption, massive mismanagement, massive disappearing of taxpayer $

Screenshot of Google AI answer says: President Vladimir Putin corrupted and exploited the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics by turning his $55 billion "pet project" into an unprecedented mechanism for state-sponsored embezzlement, cronyism, and labor abuse. Russian opposition leaders and independent investigators estimated that up to $30 billion (nearly half the budget) was stolen or misspent through inflated contracts and kickbacks.Putin engineered this exploitation through several highly coordinated networks:Monopolies and No-Bid Contracts for CroniesPutin bypassed standard competitive bidding to award lucrative infrastructure projects to his close personal friends and childhood associates, allowing them to amass massive fortunes at the taxpayers' expense:Arkady Rotenberg: Putin’s childhood friend and judo partner was awarded nearly $7 billion in Olympic contracts. His company, Mostotrest, gained a virtual monopoly over local highway, tunnel, and bridge construction through engineered tenders where competitors suddenly dropped out.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And how did that golden toilet work out for Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine?

Golden toilet from Yanukovych's abandoned estate. Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-golden-toilet-bowl-yanukovych/25069164.html

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Also called landscape staples, garden stakes. They're used to pin stuff down, like fabric that goes under mulch (I think). I got 12-inch ones and pushed them halfway down into ground next to fence in areas where animals had dug under before. Created a little barrier so they couldn't squeeze under.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

One doesn't, exactly. But deterring them is possible. I topped wood fences w/18-inch wire garden fences. (A coyote can jump a 6 foot fence, but *only* if they can get a foothold to propel off top. These aren't stable enough.) Also, pressed garden staples into ground to deter digging under fence.

Picture of a short wire fence attached to the top of a wood fence.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Word. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198856...

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Flynn took $55k from Russian state TV. He was a paid, unregistered agent for Turkey. He was "friends" with the head of Russia's military intelligence. He called the Russian ambassador to promise to undermine America's policy (sanctions). Flynn's one of the biggest traitors in American history.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fun celebrity sighting last night. Saw Betsy Sodaro at a restaurant called Betsy (no relation).

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Patrick Byrne with Russian spy he was sleeping with.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Spell check in Google Sheets thinks I should change "potato" to "potatoe."

screenshot of the spell check suggestion in google sheets.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We've seen this playbook before, multiple times. When are people going to wake up and realize Russia is waging war on Western democracy? www.kqed.org/news/1121718...

Screenshot of a 2016 KQED headline: From His Home in Russia, #Calexit Leader Plots California Secession

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

600 goats deployed to #Pasadena for fire prevention, denying me the chance to say, "Only ewe can prevent forest fires."

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Big day! The revised edition of The Best Punctuation Book, Period is out, with up-to-date rules for all the major editing styles including AP and CMoS. “Ridiculously useful. The best book on punctuation I’ve ever seen.” — @grammargirl.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/book/?isbn=9...

Cover image of The Best Punctuation Book, Period by June Casagrande

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Didn't see the comma at first and was like, "Oh, shit! Colorado Boulvard?!?" #PunctuationMatters #PunctuationCounts

Screenshot of AP news alert says, "Beirut strikes [comma] Route 66 and more"

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager.

Quarters: Players each hold a quarter, preparing to bounce it off the table into a glass of beer.

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