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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Working out different ways to make yogurt, but you can't beat the price of making your own, and no additives.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What concerns me most is that this article was clearly AI written. Which I ordinarily wouldn’t link to, but for this particular story it’s notable. You can’t un-cut-down trees so everything needs to stop until a human figures out what’s going on

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw Hadestown a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic!

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is crazy. I know someone that was having pain (probably from eating too much popcorn and soda at the movies) and they freaking gave him morphine. Even after 7 hours in ER, they never determined the problem. And they are telling you Tylenol? What is wrong with people?

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I still have a very tattered copy of one of his fairy book's from... the 70s? I must have reread some stories dozens of times.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wishing you blue skies. My husband and I have marveled about our travels this summer. Missed heatwaves in England, Ireland and California. Very little rain in England. Montauk last week. Whew.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The most valuable part now is actually asking the question,” says Ajay Agrawal, Given it took an hour of back and forth, maybe the most valuable part now is asking the right question?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Shock gloves in schools? What are we doing? (P.S. Follow the money)

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

4 decades in LA. Never been a Dodger fan, won't be one now.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yes, absolutely, let them read anything they want. If that means comic books or anime or zines whatever it takes to get them to love reading!

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Did our kids have the same teacher? Meh grade on science fair project because, after teaching the kids in the class all the major parts inside the computer, and replacing the battery, "the computer didn't boot up".

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is a Pom-pom crab. No, really 😄 🦀 (Also Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab) The pink structures are actually living sea anemones that the crab holds in its claws for defense and to help mop up food particles. If one anemone is lost, the crab clones another by tearing it in half to regenerate.

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Raffy @rafanelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thank you for continuing in the face of science deniers! I just donated. Everyone should too. givebutter.com/climate-for-...

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Climate.us Launches New Independent Website for Trusted Climate Information

Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We stayed at a nice one in Canada that the breakfast offerings were sufficient to feed us for the entire day. Beautiful bay windows to scenic valley views. 12/10, would stay again if ever in that area.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Android should trigger to install an app here, which is native but doesn’t have the same screen control benefits I’m afraid. The web app is essentially equivalent

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Colorblindness Test

A real one: free, with citations. Based on Ishihara and HRR plate methods, validated with the Viénot-Brettel-Mollon dichromacy model.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I was the child when our parents lined us up to get a little sugar cube with a polio vaccine. I saw people with polio. I don't want to go back there again. And you better believe that I will get whatever the next one is that is recommended for me.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Vaccines are safe and effective. I’m going to keep saying it, but some people just choose to be ignorant.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Explain your @ Former science teacher, tides were in the curriculum. Needed a name for a yahoo account, then twitter, now here. Even if you make the smallest difference, you're still making a difference.

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Books for Reception children aged 4-5 - 40 exciting texts by Leo Timmers, Nadia Shireen, Steve Weatherill, Katja Gehrmann, Charlotte Mei, Jon Agee & more. *New* - a free wallpaper to download for your classroom PC! #teachertwitter schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...

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Books for Reception children aged 4-5 in EYFS

Reception books for children aged 4-5 in primary school with selection of vibrant texts picked by expert teachers and librarians.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it: youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg

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The Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 06/06/2026

Recommended read: An interactive piece from BBC News described how the forecasted “super” El Niño could impact global climate and weather in the coming months.

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Prepare for El Niño, UN warns - it could be the strongest in decades - BBC News

Scientists fear the combined effects of El Niño and human-caused climate change could reshape weather around the world

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

YES! To quote my daughter, 'effortlessly charming.' I teach HS Sci, but no expert. I drive my family crazy with a running commentary of the bad science in the film/TV we are watching. I loved the movie. ALL the feels.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Before personal computers, heck, even before word processors.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

A handsome blonde man in Jeffrey Dahmer glasses and absolutely covered in tattoos looks moody with a black T-shirt on, it says plant native plants with a stained glass window with a woman inside surrounded by plants

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today my little plant stand sold: 8 blue lobelia 10 NY Asters 15 NY ironweed 23 swamp milkweed That’s 56 more native plants going into the neighborhood to feed the bugs LFG.

Sarah sits among her chaotic backyard with lots of
Plants

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My first to rebloom. I can't get over how big they are this year. And there is a second stem.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I support Public Land Order 7923 and urge the BLM to select the No Action Alternative, keeping the 10-mile mineral withdrawal around Chaco Culture National Historical Park fully intact. This sacred landscape holds irreplaceable cultural and archaeological significance.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As soon as I saw this I geeked out thinking it must look like this bc of the flatness of the galaxy. So cool!!

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Not a redhead, almost always need a 2nd from dentist. Most other pain is managed by 1 naprosyn. Well, except when I had a 2nd degree ankle sprain, and nothing seemed to help. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you are a PhD, PhD candidate, PI, science or math teacher/ instructor/ professor in Los Angeles County, please consider judging at the 76th annual Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair, March 9, 2026 at the Shrine Expo Hall. More info on our website, lascifair.org

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LACSEF | Los Angeles County Science & Engineering Fair 2026

Official LA County Science & Engineering Fair - The 76th LA County Science & Engineering Fair, March 8-9, 2026 at the Shrine Expo Hall in LA

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at the package.

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Or contact Alamelu at judging@lascifair.org

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Paula Ruth @neaptidez.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I grew up in the south. You might recall the saying, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity"? Well, we always framed it, "it's not the heat, it's not the humidity, it's the stupidity." 43 years gone, and it's still the stupidity.

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