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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Also because it is Ashland of course we must have Shakespeare-themed protest signs. #Ashland #RogueValley #NoKings

A hand-lettered protest sign that reads:
"It is a tale
told by an Idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying Nothing."
Wm Shakespeare, MacBeth Act 5, Scene 5

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Small but Mighty Ashland, OR No Kings protest ✊🏻 #Ashland #RogueValley #NoKings

A view down the main drag of Ashland, Oregon, with people lining the street for the No Kings protest. There is a prominent shadow of me standing in the street to take this photo.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I was going to fold and put away the laundry, but, as you know, cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

Piles of unfolded laundry on the laundry folding table, as well as one tabby cat turned upside down and being in the way.

Cato, a tabby cat, inside the clothes dyer and rubbing his nose against the opening

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Potataco: Really excellent fried potatoes, wrapped in a pancake, with bacon on top. 😋 FUND MY FOOD TRUCK

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The lack of good breakfast potatoes in the Rogue is so disturbing to me I have a completely bonkers idea of opening up a home fries food truck; you get a big bowl of really excellent fried potatoes with a choice of toppings eggs or waffle or gravy or hatch chile sauce 😋

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Mostly what we do when we travel to California is eat things we can't seem to easily find in the rogue valley: great Mexican food, great breakfasts (especially good home fried potatoes), and any sort of banh mi. I have not yet had to make a huge 99 Ranch/H Mart raid but that is probably on the […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Spent the last week-ish in the Bay Area and in southern California, hopefully our last road trip of the year. Here is your obligatory freeway photo of The Big Mountain.

A photo taken out the car window of a freeway rail, some scrubby brush on a tan hillside, a very blue sky with a few clouds, and a very large mountain (Mount Shasta) in the distance.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Some generalizations I've come to while eating all these sandwiches: - Sandwich shops in government civic center areas: fast, average price, sometimes crappy - Sandwich shops in financial districts: fast, expensive, usually very good - Sandwich shops near high schools: average price, pretty good […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@b0rk Isn't it backus-naur? Also does even the phrase backus-naur mean anything to anyone? 😂

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

tl;dr I made it home 😪 Transcript: So here I am on the mountain, on the trail, and I've kind of made a mistake. This is an eight mile loop all the way around which I can do pretty easily if I feel good...but I'm not feeling all that good. And I got to 3 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@jef Are you sure you are not just being given your choice of battlefields?

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Here is Cato, a tabby cat, in his favorite spot on the top shelf of the closet. He picked that spot and it is his spot; we put a towel down to make him more comfortable. I bought an actual cat bed that would fit up there, but then Minna stole it for the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cato, a tabby cat, sitting on a dark grey towel on a high shelf. There are clothes hangers on a rail just below him. He is looking adorable as usual, with one paw hanging over the edge.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

3/ Anyhow I sucessfuly got vaxxed and had a bit of a feverish night but I mostly feel OK now. Hooray vaccines! (But also: Ketchup? Ketchup??? what on earth? Yeah that's me I am battling ketchup. I got The Big K. Gonna get myself a red ribbon to wear for Ketchup Awareness. 🙄 🙄)

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

2/ Then I was sitting in the vax waiting area which was busy. An elderly man with a cane came up and there were no seats left, and because I was the youngest person there of course I hopped up and offered mine. Oh, no, no he insisted. Keep your seat. You are the one with cancer. 🙄

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

🧵1/ Got my covid and flu vax yesterday at CVS. Clicked the button for "weakened immune system" when they asked me for a medical condition (because I am under 65). This is not a lie! Chemo mucked up my white blood cells. But this is the first time I got called up to the counter and quizzed on it […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Today in Master Gardener: this herb demonstration garden in front of the extension office has been essentially abandoned for years now. They put out a call for a new head gardener to take it over. Say hi to the new head gardener. 🤗 #Garden #Gardening #Herbs

An area in between a parking lot and a building with a sign that says "herb garden." It is full of plants and planters and mostly very overgrown weeds.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Putting advanced cannabis technology to work for a winter tomato experiment this year. 😏 #Garden #Gardening #Tomatoes (really, it's tomatoes)

A very large black and silver grow tent for cannabis set up in the basement.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I have read that in the new climate future apocalypse we will have a lot fewer insects overall but more of the angry stingy kind, and they will be much angrier and stingier. yay 😬 🐝 Anyhow I was thinking of this because I got stung by a yellowjacket in town on Thursday for no reason at all and […]

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Your 50s is a special time where, one at a time, you learn that you cannot eat any of your favorite foods ever again.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

You'll never guess who has been sitting in this window by the front door and getting really slobberingly excited about the arrival of delivery drivers.

The view of a black front door and a black entry mat through a glass window, which is very nearly obscured with cat slobber.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@leeolds Yeah I have not had great experiences with that line, although it is everywhere so it's convenient. Even with good germination they often don't grow true to the type. I think it's poor-quality seed, cheaply produced and packaged. #Gardening

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Come for the cat photos, stay for the tech industry criticism 😎

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@nelson Yeah it was like that at Amazon, with the wrinkle that went were pressured to do lots of interviews, but it was considered extra glue work and we got no credit for it at review or promotion time. ☹️

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

3/ I have also been on all-women interview panels where the candidate acted openly insulted or behaved like we were wasting his time, mansplained basic computing to us, or gave dismissive answers like "you probably don't know this but..." This is not a test you can unconsciously fail if you […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

2/ In this particular interview test, which absolutely works as stated, the problem candidates (always men, always "techbro"-coded) are very confident, always make eye contact and always answer questions directly. But then when a woman asks a question, there is a *genuinely weird* moment where […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@benroyce/117307005… 🧵 1/ I see there are many people in the replies to this post getting upset and claiming this is an unspoken social requirement in interviews and that it's unfair to the neurodiverse. I did hundreds of interviews during my time in tech […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I was going to put the flour away onto the shelf in the pantry where it belongs but, as you know, cat #Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastoton

Cato, a tabby cat, up on the shelf on the pantry and looking like he's going to jump onto an even higher shelf. There are bins of flour and grains all around him. He is blocking the one empty space a bin of flour would go.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Finally made it to Grant's Pass, a 45 minute drive, for the only banh mi shop in the entirety of the rogue valley. We have been absolutely dying for a banh mi since we moved. It was not exactly an authentic banh mi, but close enough. 😋 #RogueValley #Food #Banhmi

A fat banh mi sandwich in a paper bowl. It is short and squat and piled high with cilantro and jalaneos. (Inside it is pork.)

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

And surely if you've been here a while you are going to ask: did a Tesla try to run us over at an intersection while we were in the bay area? Yes, twice in two days. 🙄

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

We spent a few days back in the Bay Area earlier this week. The good: excellent Mexican food, excellent breakfasts, long visit with former neighbors, boba, views of the big mountain The bad: traffic, expensive gasoline, tech bros, traffic

Mount Shasta, the big mountain, from the freeway. There are fluffy clouds and a blue sky above it. It could use more snow.

The bar at Andalé Taqueria in Los Gatos.

A cup of roasted barley milk boba tea from Tea Era in Mountain View.

The prices at the Chevron station in Santa Cruz. Regular is $6.25 a gallon cash price. Diesel is $8.49.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Huuuuuge storm rainbow a bit ago (no sound)

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Kyle @kyle-pegasus.scalie.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

what if we kissed in the abandoned sun microsystems van

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lemay/117248175020… Update: this cat stole a jalapeño right out of a bowl on the counter yesterday. No produce is safe here. #Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

(yes, this thing with Cato and the plums did actually happen and when Eric came into the bedroom to tell me about it I was all "well, I totally know what obvious thing I'm posting about this morning")

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat): I have stolen the plums that were on the counter and which you probably would have preferred I did not I'm not sorry they were so rolly so fun I put them under the couch #Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cags #CatsOfMastodon

A container of small purple plums on the counter. Some of them have tooth marks.

Cato, a tabby cat, looking innocent. (He is not)

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@crow I have had this happen with sweet corn when it let it get too ripe on the stalk (I have trouble telling when it's ready to pick and I tend to leave it too long)

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

So, one beam that holds up the porch is about six inches lower than all the other beams. I found this out because I walked into it at high speed. 😵‍💫 Smashed my head so hard it flipped me over backwards and I landed on my shoulder. My bad shoulder, the one I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A terrible photo of my legs in sweat pants stretched out on the couch. Cato, a tabby cat, is wedged up against my leg with his head tucked under his paw on top of my knee. He looks adorable.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I was going to get up on this step stool to put stuff away on a shelf but, as you know, cat (I did not put the step stool on top of the cat. The cat crawls into it through the holes in the side because he thinks it is fun) #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

This is a black plastic folding step stool with white polka dots all over the top of it. Underneath the stool and inside the open space for a handle there is a tabby cat paw sticking out, and a little pink nose and whiskers next to it.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

every dyson sphere I've ever seen has been full of cat hair how is that the future?

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The only good thing about going in for dental work is that the generic dentist office playlist nearly always has Pat Benatar on it and that woman was an absolute queen. 👸

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Working on designing quadrant 2 of the new fenced garden. It's triangular because there's a steep hillside on the right. The only settled part of this triangle is the circular herb bed in the middle (10' diameter) and I'm still trying to figure out paths and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Vector drawing of a triangular-shaped garden. There are various brown and black stripes indicating fences and walls, and one circular shape in the middle for an herb garden. A diagonal green stripe along the right side indicates a long narrow bed.

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