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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 · 23h
Why make cyborg insects? Why not? Look at em! But also, they could be incredibly useful in search-and-rescue operations, or war zones, quickly identifying particular chemicals based on neural response signatures in the organism and pinpointing their locations before responders enter the scene. 🪳🧪
grasshopper with two wads of gum on its antenna and wing, the gum is a nanosensor that detects trace chemical signatures and enhances the locust olfactory senses,
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026
come on, kiddos, you're close to getting your shit together but so far...
College kids making crawfish fight, throwing down cash, shouting "fight!"
every person and crawfish is labeled "leftists"
we do be like that
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026
Did I dump my iced chai into the remnants of my morning coffee? I did.
My yeti coffee mug complete with sticker that reads: On my way to lick all the crystals at the crystal store
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026
As you see in this chart, levels of cussedness, and "fuck this" are very high compared to historical norms, especially in North America. Not feasible growing conditions for technological hegemony. Might result in "burning the whole fucker down" shifts in consumer confidence.
We don't want this!
Fuck you

signs held at a data center protest
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026
Good morning, mighty Missourah
Noon sun beam on a riverbank
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026
Taking their sweet ass(ter)time!
More asters finally blooming
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026
Tortoise shell cats nestled together on a chair, good dragons, better than us
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026
No. No. Stop. Thief. Absolutely not, do not pass go, this is fraud, this is theft. Not allowed, dump the whole company in lava, no!
atm machine asks: Would you like to
only option is blue arrow that says NO
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026
famous mural of John Brown in Topeka Statehouse
under it is: 
How I defeated Slavery with the Power of Love by John Brown
Chapter 1: The power of love: The first step in my journey was realizing it is impossible to defeat slavery with the power of love
chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026
TortieBorg: resistance is futile and second breakfast WILL be served.
Two tortoise shell cats are matching piles of fur and are borg level powerful. Must squeeze
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026
World on fire but atleast I have my TortieBerg. You know, like an iceberg but torties.
Two tortoise shell cats nestled together on a chair like a big old soft fat iceberg of fur and spite
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026
October showers bring kale. All I can grow is kale. I once grew a carrot but it was kale in disguise. In summation, put kale in your ramen so you don't get scurvy. #Gardensky 🌱🥬 #KaleSky
Little green plants popping out of wet ground. It's kale!
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026
September showers bring October flowers (fucking climate change)
Purple aster flowers, in fucking October!Star tick seed flowers blooming again because sure, why not? What's winter?
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026
What's on the outlook calendar
My schedule 
9:30 to 10 : news meeting 
10: class chat 
11 to 2:  flee
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026
Volunteer kale in a sidewalk crack. Atleast kale will grow itself. #GardenSky 🌱
Dark leafy kale stems emerge near concrete 
Volunteer dwarf y
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026
Continuing the longitudinal clinical trial of tuna subs and their ability to fix me and solve my problems. Have not been fixed yet over the course of experiment but pretty pretty sure this one will do the trick.
A tuna sub at my office desk, this one will fix me
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026
k back to baking fresh science donuts
Women in STEM illustration showing a woman wearing a witchy gauzy outfit
stem stands for: sorcery, thaumaturgy, enchantment, magic)
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026
Entering the season of epic crashouts. Hold onto your butts, touch as much grass as you can, wrap yourself in weighted blankets.
pic of chickens all wrapped up on plane seats
Roosters evacuating Key West in paper burritos so they don't fight eachother.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026
Evening walk
Lily pond at Golden hour
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026
Someone should move the dumpster off the sidewalk, hard for trash trucks to fit this narrow street.
Cybertruck parked on the sidewalk next to dumpster. Two dumpsters.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026
Good afternoon mighty Missourah
It's the wide brown Missouri River
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026
Get up, feed us meat crumbs.
My cat is peeking her head through window curtains in a dark bedroom where I sleep, please let me sleep more, ok fine I will feed you
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
A salute to femme fatales!
A marching band with nyc props, flags with girls in red dresses, pin stripe suit uniforms.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
Small town Missouri doing marching band show themed with Radiohead song. Recession indicator?
Marching band on a football field playing  Everything in its Right Place.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
tentative commute schedule: 6 am: awaken and bike down to dock 6:30 acquire tube, grab burrito from breakfast boat. Launch onto mighty Missourah 7 enter the series of locks, dams, canals, creeks and tributaries that make up the river valley grid (tbd) 2 pm arrive at shores of office
Sunlit bench near Missouri River
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
When I become a high speed rail tycoon, I will also use my filthy lucre to establish an entirely new form of transit in America. No, not autonomous vehicles, I am talking about The Tube. Inner tube. Us river rats have the right, nay, the mission! to tube to work. I want fastfood breakfast rafts.
Sunset over a lake connected to our ridiculously moist river valley, just take the water tonwork
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
Mulder in the back seat of a car:
Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
Japanese girl with cat ears and a polka dot dress, she is on a game show
she says: apart from sleeping, I'm always on the internet
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
Well, according to the law, it's friggin friday dumb meme o clock.
Tracey Jordan describes his over the top ghetto childhood:
"A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy's!"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
tumblr screenshot
person a: remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together and then leave
person b: How fucking old are you people
person a: normal amount
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
Meanwhile, on Bluesky
Chidi has a breakdown on the Good Place because he now knows everything about the life and the after life and that is too much information.
photo 1: Chidi sings, "you put the peeps in the chili pot and eat them both up"
2 "you put the peeps in the chili pot and add the m&ms
3. "you put the peeps in the chili pot and makes it taste...bad"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026
If you make it very obvious we are in hell. Even Jason will figure it out.
Three screenshots from The Good Place
1. Jason figures it out: "I think we're in the bad place!"
2 michael is shocked, "Jason figured it out? Jason?"
3 michael is frustrated "This is a reael low point. yeah this one hurts"
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026
weird dread vibes, best to stay clear of the skies today
crab with a knife, seems sensible
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
one more detective corgi, for morale.
Corgi in a Sherlock Holmes costume, yes brown tweed, and a cap, little guy was at the paw parade solving a crime!
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
two  photos of Dolly singing "Jolene" except the word was replaced with caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, CAFFEEEEEINE
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
Leads to this guy
A Halloween yard decoration showing a skeleton on the toilet reading a magazine (Missouri Conservation) a skeleton of a dog is lifting a leg to pee on the toilet.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
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 · 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
This New Years baby is now 30, perhaps reading this right now on our notorious millennial website blue sky dot com. Hi Taylor, you are the baby millennial just as I am the oldest of the Eldritch old balls millennial. Welcome.
New Year baby photo for the newspaper. A young white couple holds a newborn. It's Taylor! He is now 30. Maybe you are here on Bluesky, as officially the last year a millennial generation is 96. I'm an 81 baby, so I am old as balls millennial
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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
In conclusion, I also made it to the homecoming parade held at the same time.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
What even more dogs in costume in THIS economy? Gotta love hot sauce retrievers.
Two golden retrievers dressed as Taco Bell fire sauce and mild sauce. Of course the owners dressed as tacosMixed pit bull wearing fairy wings, what a doll
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Dog parades and our hate of data centers is the only thing holding America together, please clap.
Little dog atop his own pirate ship, avast! Ship has a "no squirrels" sign and a little dog with a pirate hat. Little white dog in a rocket ship costume, perfect Group costume, two humans dressed as Dorothy and the Tin man and a golden retriever as cowardly lion.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
More, for morale.
This black dog is dressed like Wednesday Adams and would prefer not to be here, like Wednesday AdamsAhoy matee, two dachshunds dressed as sailors and a boat captain hatTerrier has a little orange skirt, God loves a terrier
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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 · 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
Sucrose bakery treats for me, as is my divine right for being a GOOD citizen
Sourdough cheddar loaf with flower illustrations in the flour dust, underneath are pastries for the kiddos and cherry tart for me
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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 · 29/09/2026
Yes, I agree
Tortoise shell cat wedged in a shoebox, is sleepy
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Fine Guy Ritchie, I will watch your movie because Alan Richardson.
Alan Richardson holding up a dead Nazi while Henry Cavill looks through a spyglass. This seems like a fun movie about how to fuck with Nazis
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