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Leah

@leah.myatproto.social
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Science writer, mostly puttering about the garden. Kansas girl stuck in Missouri. Fine, I'll fix it. she/her

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 5h
#BirdSky 🎶
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 9h
Unfortunately many of those same friends and family had "mean and stupid" built into their factory settings. And that is a fact I've only recently been able to come to grips with. And HOW does one fix the factory settings of "mean and stupid?" Asking for a country.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12h
Return to my adulting chores and responsibilities or run screaming onto the Katy Trail and hide down by the river? 🤔
A trail leading down to the Missouri River
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12h
An important story that must be shared. Print it out, paper the country with this story, we must all be like this trucker and confront our demons straight in the eye. Or else we will be doomed to repeat this hell.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12h
(Catholic side intensifies, pirouettes into Jewish side right in the middle of the soul for a high five)
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 13h
Because it's his hole
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 13h
I'm mostly anxious for these tech companies to go tits up so we can mine their blast zone for spare parts, and reclaim money for rebuilding almost every other industry crumbling to bits. Buff up the useful work (green energy, infrastructure job corp, rebuilding housing, the web, the whole shebang).
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
#Sunset
Sunset lakesideA red sucker in foreground, fire orange skyPond grass in foreground, fire orange sunsetOrange sunset sky over water
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
My husband as a cutie patootie teen. Also, wow, local news. St. Charles is about 60,000 people now and subsists on a monthly newsletter made by the city.
Cooper, my husband made the local paper with a photo from his high school guidance counselor's office. Wow, he had hair. St. Charles Journal was the local news for City of St. Charles in the 90s. Other headlines, The Game is Afoot for local group" And an ad for EPC a computer repair business that has been around forever and I regularly visit them for laptop repair
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Ain't over til we emerge blinking on a Wednesday in November that doesn't feel like a hangover from hell. Still ain't over after that but you can give yourself a cookie and a nap that day before getting back to work putting balls to the fire. Make it a fresh out of the oven cookie, if all goes well.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Help Jewel and Cat! We got a real chance to make a dent in the local races this year in purple St. Charles. #MOpolitics #Missouri
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Never entered a frat but have partied at frat-adjacent apts. So I have had the privilege of cussing out a frat boy or two in my day and hustling the girls out much like in this story. I considered it my job to watch out for this shit. (and WAS looking for a fight b/c I am that kind of drunk).
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
As promised, paw parade photos, for morale.
Pomeranian has a minion costume, it is a small and perfect Pomeranian Corgi dressed like Sherlock Homes, as you do. This group had a whole "crime scene" set up with different dogs in costume Hound dog with a shark costume, perfect
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Ed Sheeran the coward: We must defer to the oligarchs, simply no choice. It's out of my hands. Zach Bryan the hero: Naw, you can just say fuck it and fuck them.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
How cats picture themselves
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
I got a 10 a.m. Homecoming parade and a 10 a.m. Paw Parade to photograph, all within a few blocks of eachother. I can do both, dogs and marching band. I can have it all.
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Liz Lemon's 'I Can Have It All' Moment (30 Rock)
Alt: Liz Lemon's 'I Can Have It All' Moment (30 Rock)
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
I'm just mad at myself for not thinking of this joke first.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
#AcademicSky #EduSky if you do an interview with reporters for Gannett, there's a good chance your quotes will get handed over to an AI agent to produce more "stories" with those quotes without further input. Here's a quick list of places that do not use AI. go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Very few know that #Kansas was an epicenter of fiery American journalism. I'm a very proud graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism as is my buddy, @claywires.bsky.social Order his book! kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700643059/ #NewsieSky
A new book arrives! The cover shows a typical Main Street Newspaper office 
Book title: Opinionated: Kansas Journalists Who Proved Why Commentary Matters
By Clay Wirestone
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
That's our money they stole, #ScienceSky 🧪 We have to reclaim it.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
PSA: I don't want to hear about the wonders or doom that this tech will bring. If it's so great, the best revenge will be your success. But the facts are, this whole thing is going to end in spectacular mess. It WILL get interesting once we start picking the dead carcass of Silicon Valley for parts.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Shaggy's little boys look just like Shaggy And Michael's little boy looks just like daddy Miracles each and everywhere you look
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
it gets absurd. "You will save money so let's get you signed up." Me: "No, I don't wanna save money" "All you need is to give us your email" Me: "No, I can't remember, I have many inboxes and many emails" "...just need your phone number" Me: "No gonna throw it into the sea"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
got my covid and flu vax. ouchy arm with flu shot, covid does not cause as much ouchy. #Medsky 🩺 Why does flu shot pack a punch?
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
If I was governor, I would make a law renaming AI, "artificial productivity." Calling it AP as a constant reminder this tech can get you dangerously high off your own farts. Other possibilities: SET or "solution extraction tools." Or PET, "pattern extraction tools"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
whew
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Sooo, the people with all the money and power are absolutely losing their minds to generative AI. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
oooh econ nerds, fun tool alert #FederalReserve #AcademicSky
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt is (deep breath) the worrrrrrst
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The Wooorst! Meme Scene
Alt: The Wooorst! Meme Scene with jean ralfio
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
His birth father is Michael McDonald! Wild.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Cameron's sale! I love it when I get to buy bags of coffee the size of my head.
Bag of Cameron's coffee in front of my face, you can see my kitchen posters in background including illustration of citrus and chickens
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, you suggesting we hold hands and forgive? Naw. Can't escape cleansing fire season, Spencer. It's called a force of nature for a reason. Your own party kicked off the season of "burn it all down," you lit the match. The fire stops when there is nothing and nobody left to burn.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
The Jellys shall inherit the earth, we're just temporarily trashing the joint.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
What if the real "Defund the Police" was the incredible level of rage building after decades of local pds running amok with surveillance tech that ruins even a white person's day? What if? I think we're about to find out. 🤔
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Futureworld sucks
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
It's not attention, it's all about motivation. The drugs enable people to be MOTIVATED to do routine tasks. It's all going down in that mysterious reward center of the brain. #Medsky 🩺
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
"eventually, all our graves go unattended" is ultimately, freeing.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
JCO be like, "I once ate a weird little guy like that"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
#ScienceSky 🧪 #MedSky 🩺 Come on in, the Atmosphere is expanding and evolving. You get to make your own tools and your research community hosts the tools, not Silicon Valley weirdos.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
Today in, the data centers are really not going to make it.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
Universities could implement one simple rule. Yes, we allow the Greek system. No, the Frats can't throw parties.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
The leopards are free, biting everyone and this apparently IS the only way voters "learn." So be it.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
Cspan should just run a loop of the curb music
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, I agree
Tortoise shell cat wedged in a shoebox, is sleepy
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Bluesky has the juice.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...
source.washu.edu
Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties
A plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Believe women. Most of us have a story, atleast one unpleasant story to tell. If you are a lucky one like myself, catcalling was the worst of it. It still is miserable, those close calls, that moment when you realize you can't wander free in world because you are a girl and you are being hunted.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
More like Roko's Beanie Baby, am I right? ha ha (weeps)
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Wherever you go, there you are.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Could it pop sooner rather than later? Asking for a global economy.
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