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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I’m actually envious over the decor of the imaginary bean @hankgreen.bsky.social put on my phone. I would trade my whole apartment if I could have one room that was actually this cute and peaceful. (Also I didn’t want to post this photo because yes I did pay for premium and yes I am embarrassed.)

Screenshot of a fully decorated room in the app Focus Friend

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Not the point of @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's most recent newsletter, but I noticed that the company OUP is using for their AI EA is called Hum, which is also the name of the unsettling close-to-human robots in @helencphillips.bsky.social's dystopian sci fi novel from last year. Life mirrors art.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Last night I finished my latest 5⭐ read, When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @scalzi.com. I was hesitant to try it because I thought the premise was just too silly, but dang it if it didn't make me cry and feel genuine hope for the future a few times. And also laugh out loud, of course. Still very silly.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 04/05/2025

A few folks sent me messages about some unusual pigeons that appeared on the show Andor. Thank you! They are real pigeons and not CGI. They belong to the group of breeds called Pouters or Croppers. Here’s an illustration of an English Pouter from my book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching.

An illustration of an English Pouter standing tall, with its huge crop.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I was inspired by this week's @ologies.bsky.social episode to make my own little chart this morning so if I'm feeling really down and can't figure out what might make me feel better, I have an idea of where to start. Really helpful episode, can't wait for part 2!

A white dry-erase board with a handwritten list titled "Lori's Self-Prescription Survey" followed by the first half of a question "When did you last spend 25 minutes..." and then the ends of questions listed are: Moving, Outside, Creating, Helping, With Friends?

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This sale and suggestion made me spring for this book, because I've been meaning to give @nicolaz.bsky.social's fantasy a try but nothing shoots to the top of my TBR like a sci fi novella, and DANG I've only just started and I'm hooked SO HARD #scifi #booksky #currentlyreading

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

me during busy work weeks: I can't take a sick day, the team needs me there! me during slow work weeks: I can't take a sick day, it's so slow at work anyway it would be a waste

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This movie fucking rules. If you haven't seen it, do so ASAP.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18-year-old Jude on laws banning gender-affirming care: "On the more extreme end, for a lot of kids it's the possibility of severe mental-health struggles and suicidal ideation - but I also think on a smaller scale, kids, because they cannot be themselves, would rather choose to not be anyone."

I think a lot of people don't quite
understand the impact of these bills on
queer kids. On the more extreme end,
for a lot of kids it's the possibility of
severe mental-health struggles and
suicidal ideation - but I also think
something could happen on a smaller
scale where kids, because they cannot be
themselves, would rather choose to not
be anyone. If I hadn`t been able to
change my name, I don't know ifI
would choose to go onstage for the
school play, if I would choose to be in my
poetry club. There's a whole bunch of
kids who don't get to thrive because
they're stuck in this place where they're
suffering and there's not really a way out
of that" -Jude, 18, he/they, Louisiana

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?

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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

before you even enter the building, you'll already be stepping out on the wrong floor

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Wow this is a beautiful poem. I feel like this poem should have been used in school to teach me about line breaks. Also emotionally gutting—thinking about ways to not just tell my trans friends and acquaintances they're not alone these days, but how to actively do things to make them less alone.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I don't think I've ever cried at a video game before but @thatpetrie.bsky.social and I just finished Chants of Sennaar and the ending did really choke me up 🥲 I enjoy a puzzle video game, I delight in a wholesome video game, but I live for a wholesome linguistics puzzle video game ❤️

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Talking w/ @thatpetrie.bsky.social about high school writing teachers we didn't deserve who taught us (or tried to teach us) the most about how to write, which it turns out is how to think through stuff. S/O to the English teachers; even if your kids didn't become pro writers, you made a difference.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I count, this first day of another year, what remains. —Jane Hirshfield

$Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. Can admire with two eyes the mountain, actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles. Can make black-eyed peas and collards. Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding. Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light. For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, then to the question. The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised. I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something. Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. Today, I woke without answer. The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend don’t despair of this falling world, not yet didn’t it give you the asking$

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 01/01/2025

2025 facts? I call these 2025 SIGNS! This is going to be a very good year. I love odd-numbered years anyway (I turn an odd-numbered age). …what are you looking at?

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today I looked up what a "spinet" is after years of not knowing, so: What is the weirdest Christmas carol that gets stuck in your head. Not your favorite, but the one you aren't sure where you learned it from and you don't know what half the words are or mean.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Sweet fancy Moses

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A guide for which versions of Batman are cops and which ones aren't. Golden Age Batman, pre-Robin: Not a cop, even though he shoots people. Has an antagonistic relationship with the Gotham PD.

Golden-Age Batman, pre-Robin, brandishing a gun.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hashtag dang, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (MP who ripped the bill) is my new aspirational role model, what a hero

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Woah, so glad I found this post several days after pub date, this story looks right up my alley! Translation/linguistics casuals unite #lingsky #scifi

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

“Harris lost because of ‘Latinx,’” I heard someone say. “She and Walz didn’t use or push that term” I said, “nor did their ads or surrogates.” He dismissed that. Biden said “fund the police, fund them.” Senate Dems voted unanimously against defunding the police. Didn’t matter. The public believes.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/11/2024

Did you know that @nytguildtech.bsky.social created a few strike-related games that you can play guilt-free while respecting the picket line? For example, you can play Strikle! Or you can help Scabby cross 8th Avenue to the picket line guild-build.netlify.app

Screenshot of Frogger-like game: Scabby the rat tries to dodge five lanes of cabs and buses to get to the New York Times building.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I made a profanity-laden Connections game this afternoon to celebrate this fucking terrible day connectionsplus.io/game/DG9KTB

connectionsplus.io

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

In truth, though, I'm glad I'm shocked. I'm glad that I thought we could do it, that we could have been so much better than this. I'm glad that I spent yesterday thinking that Kamala's presidency was possible, that I could hold my country in such high regard. For one day, I believed in us.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I know this is hard, but I recommend turning off your phone for an hour or two. The early results will be extremely stressful no matter what. The outcome will be the same in an hour whether you obsess over it now or not.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 31/10/2024

just discovered that there is an extinct bird called Ptaiochen pau which translates as the "stumble goose" because they kept finding its fossil remains in the bottom of holes 😭🦉🧪

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 19/10/2024

"What's happened's happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing." one of the more beautiful ideas in a movie in recent memory

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

People seem to enjoy this over on the other website so I thought I'd share it here: after learning about the weirdness of electric eel bodyplans I drew up this handy diagram

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2024

Strikes work.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

My spouse, watching the debate: "I just really don't think there's a way to engage with JD Vance that isn't punching him in the face."

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I read Calvin and Hobbes when I was a child and just thought the stuffed tiger bit was fun; now I hate cars and digital advertising and am realizing Calvin's dad was right all along and way ahead of his time

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

One of the most remarkable photos ever taken. And it is impossible to comprehend the scale of it. Taken by Hubble, it is a jet of gas being fired out of a supermassive black hole. The jet is 3,000 light years long (1 light year = 6 trillion miles!). Full amazing story👉 mashable.com/article/blac...

In the darkness of space a single shining star is emitting a jet of light blue gas

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Quick my partner is about to make me go see Megalopolis, can someone summarize ancient Rome for me so I'm not lost? #filmsky #moviesky

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

It's almost my BlueSky-iversary... thanks everyone, I'm now a year on the other side of the bird site and it feels nice

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

This episode was so interesting, and then when I looked for @ironicprofessor.bsky.social's book I saw it's on sale for 40% right now on Haymarket's website! Excellent timing to tell me about this book.

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Playing Wyrmspan for the first time (s/o @elizhargrave.bsky.social). These components are gorgeous and the theme and gameplay changes from Wingspan are fun! I highly recommend 🐉

Paint-splatter decorated purple dragon egg token and silver coin tokens for Wyrmspan board game

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I loved this guest post! Maybe my favorite sentence of criticism/analysis ever: "Chappell Roan's medievalism is an aesthetic feminenomenon."

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Maybe the real plans were the concepts we made along the way..,

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Lori Petrie @loripetrie.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Quick I need a transcript of the last thing Trump said including "I have concepts of a plan," for use when my husband asks me on a Saturday afternoon if I've done any of the chores on my to-do list

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.

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