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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My husband broke one of my toddler’s crayons five months ago and she has not missed an opportunity to remind him of it. The other day she found a broken crayon at the pediatrician’s office and asked me “did Papa breaked this crayon?”

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I held up my hand to try to cover toddler’s mouth while she was coughing and she high-fived me. Not sure if this is a parenting fail or a parenting win.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My almost-three-year-old was playing doctor by herself the other day and I overheard her saying “oh, I’m not the nurse, I’m just a doctor” (Shoutout to all the nurses at her pediatrician’s office 🥰)

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So, do Americans even need to file our taxes this year?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you live in NYC, TODAY is the last possible day to register as a Democrat so you can vote in the primary elections in June against Adams. You can NO LONGER update your registration online and MUST physically hand-deliver to your Board of Elections by close today. vote.nyc/page/party-a...

vote.nyc

Party Affiliation | NYC Board of Elections

Am I Registered? The voter registration form contains a section where you can indicate your choice for party affiliation. The following parties are recognized in New York State:

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My entire search history is now just variations on “how do I get my baby to poop less at night” 🙃

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today my toddler is having a full-on meltdown because her wipe won’t stay flat while she’s wiping her hands with it.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One thing they don’t tell you about having multiple miscarriages is that the anxiety in subsequent pregnancies doesn’t necessarily go away after the baby is born. My second daughter is 11 weeks old and I am still having nightmares about pregnancy complications.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Thank you Apple Health for the astonishing insight that I’ve been getting less sleep over the past nine weeks, which is almost the exact age of my newborn daughter

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thank you! Baby actually arrived safe and sound a week ago ❤️

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

If being 36 weeks pregnant and having your toddler tell you “I love you” unprompted for the first time doesn’t make you sob, you may not be human

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

I keep thinking Threads is as bad as Twitter, and then I check Twitter and realize that’s not possible

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Not me crying while reading The Lorax to my toddler

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Aw that’s so wonderful. Sometimes your body just needs some help figuring out what it’s supposed to do!

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Thank you! We are very excited. Yeah, it’s basically the one way in which she makes this pregnancy marginally easier than the first one instead of considerably more difficult 😂

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

The one advantage to having a 1.5-year-old when you’re five months pregnant is that they are delighted to pick things up off the floor for you

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

In case anyone who cares still happens to follow me despite my prolonged absence from this site, looks like we’re having another one of these

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I was going to say Harvey Fierstein, but I think that might be the right answer

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Raising a toddler is like playing the cutest game of charades ever

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

My 15-month-old’s obsession with “outside” has given me a new appreciation for getting out of the apartment

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I do this with my boss and he’s become remarkably amenable to it

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Which is why most math professors will tell students to not even attempt to rewrite a definition in their own words. If you’re presenting it as your own idea that’s one thing, but even just mentioning that something is a definition (or an axiom or a theorem or whatever) is sufficient citation

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Nevertheless that’s still very scary and I’m sorry you went through that 🫂

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Maybe in the Netherlands, but doctors in US states with similar abortion ban “exceptions” are facing costly legal action and possible jail time even for abortions that would qualify as medically necessary in Europe. And anti-choicers put plenty of moral judgment even on medically indicated abortions

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Yes, that was my understanding—that the abortion ban applies only to abortions that aren’t deemed medically necessary and that doctors are given considerable discretion to decide what counts as medically necessary

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Yeah, that’s my understanding of how the abortion bans work in at least a few euro countries—that they apply only to non “medically necessary” abortions and that doctors have a considerable amount of freedom to determine what situations qualify. But yeah, I wouldn’t call it a great model.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

And my understanding is that the exceptions that apply later in pregnancy also give a lot more leeway to doctors, so that people are actually able to access these later abortions when necessary instead of being denied care out of confusion and fear of prosecution

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

After having a baby, I am absolutely astounded that there are so many people who claim to be about family values while arguing against family bonding leave. Some countries give as much as 18 months to both parents. It’s so valuable to both the parents and the children!

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Yeah, it was so weird. He wasn’t a math professor but he was teaching math as part of a fundamentals course in one of the engineering departments. I think he was just mad they had clearly cheated on other problems, but he had the entire rest of the board convinced on this one until I pushed back.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Rewriting math definitions in your own words is how you make mistakes and get the definition wrong. It’s 100% the norm for professors to expect students to memorize definitions verbatim.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

They were responsible for cheating off each other on a different test problem, but the professor had just decided to flag every single possible thing on the exam. I was like “no one rewrites math definitions in their own words. It isn’t done.”

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I used to be on the conduct board at my grad school and I had to intervene on behalf of two students accused of plagiarism for memorizing and relaying on an exam the standard definition of the trapezoidal rule in calculus

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I honestly don’t understand why given a choice anyone would actually want to live in a country where one medical emergency could bankrupt you. I can’t help but feel like many of the people who try to emigrate here don’t realize just how bad it can be here.

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austin @aparker.io · 16/03/2024

is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

Screenshot of a headline in The Atlantic reading “Crows are taking over American cities”

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

That’s how I’ve been saying it since the beginning

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Can’t stop thinking about the people who claimed that masking kids was “child abuse” because some kids cried about it… as I sit here watching my toddler have a full blown meltdown because I wouldn’t let her have the toilet paper I was actively wiping with

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

She’s all over the place now! She even tried running today!

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I do! It’s “Amalfi” by Omega Cabinetry

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I have just discovered that you don’t have to wait for an appropriate occasion to dress your toddler up like a hot dog

A 13 month old baby is taking a wobbly step forward in a kitchen next to a refrigerator. She is wearing a costume intended to look like a hot dog with mustard.

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

I love Murakami but I’m convinced he does not know the first thing about how vaginas work

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Laika the Space Dog @mmendlow.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Losing my mind over this passage from 1Q84

"Oh, man," Aomame sighed, pressing her temples. "What the hell was that all about?"

"I'm sorry," Ayumi said.

"It's not your fault. I should never have let myself get so drunk."

"But really, Aomame, you were so sweet and clean down there. Like new."

"Well, of course, I really am almost new down there."

"You mean you don't use it all that often?"

Aomame nodded. "That's exactly what I mean. So, tell me: are you interested in women?"

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