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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We were going to put away the clean, plastic salad spinner bowl until...🤣

Our cat Alice Cooper who squished himself into a bowl he barely fits into.

Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is what always happens at our house when we don't immediately fold the sheets after taking them out of the dryer. 🤣

Nessie the cat sprawled out in a laundry basket of bed sheets that were fresh out of the dryer.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

T had an explody-shed. "Snake soup" fixed that right up. She was good to go and very hungry for a rat today. 🤗

A close up of the sweet ball python snake

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A raw and a cooked shrimp. 🤣

An orange cat representing an uncooked shrimp curled up next to a grey cat representing a cooked shrimp.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Chatting with Hubs while cooking made me want to reiterate how lucky I know that I am. I'm an adopted kid, I hit the jackpot with MY Mom, Dad & brothers - MY family, the ones who fought to kept me. I also hit the in-laws jackpot. Family doesn't need to be defined by genetics.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My coworker-friend gifted me a bunch of Panda isopods. I think they approve of their upgraded, larger tank. The smaller one dried out too quickly for them.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Bavmorda got an Easter outfit today! Anyone recognize the pattern on her skirt?

Plastic porch skeleton wearing pink bunny ears and a skirt with a pattern of the outline of the state of Nebraska.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

How can this "rationale" be anything other than a lie when caught with your pants down? How can the layoffs be BOTH a mistake AND part of "the plan". It's nonsensical.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Mr. Not Helpful while I was cleaning the kitchen floor. It's now clean...with several spots of watermarked cat prints, LOL.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Using an old language (esp. one that's good at its job) isn't inherently bad or "outdated". Updating older systems can be good/necessary, but it's not as simple as having AI or teenage techbros (who probably can't code in COBOL) just migrate "old code" to a new language. 1/2

One does not simply migrate a legacy code language to a shiny, new code language meme based on the Lord of the Rings "One does not simply walk into Mordor" quote

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This person who used to be a QA software tester for a major online testing company HARD AGREES. This is pretty terrifying, shit will break...fast and very badly. 😬

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Oh, the hypocrisy? This would be funny, if it wasn't so f*&^1ng stupid that this where we are in the the U.S. Dislike Biden's pardons - fine! But, come on. Trump can't own his own policies. "Little Marco", this is a big trial ballon to throw you under the bus. Good luck, I guess?

Donald Trump said he didn't sign the act to deport Venezualens. Marco Rubio said it needed to be done. Donald Trump said Joe Biden's pardons were illegal because he supposedly didn't sign them. Someone else in the was responsible.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Bavmorda fell over and sustained some skeletal injuries during the second winter storm (the blizzard-y one). A little duct tape and zip tie shoulder/clavicle "surgery" and the full skele-crew are finally back out! 😁 🤣

A plastic human skeleton wearing a green Irish Tam hat with a skeleton unicorn on her shoulder and a skeleton cat by her feet.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

@archeaids.bsky.social Question for ya - one of Hub's students picked up this piece of chert and brought it to him to "ask the geologist wife" if it's a tool. Looks like natural fracturing to me, but figured I should ask an actual expert. 😉

Top side of a two inch long piece of chert that is vaguely tool-looking

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hilarious. I wonder if the TVs were on an unsecured network and someone just cast their phone, which is why they had to turn them off to stop it? 🤔 🫡

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Trump is SO not used to anyone directly standing up to him, especially in public. He immediately turns into a peevish, petty child. This should happen way more often.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

n=2 (or 3?) on the list entitled "The Trump administration really has no idea what they're doing and how things work.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I find it absoflippinglutely ironically hilarious that the Elmo-stan trolls on the other site are posting parts of an OIG report to "justify" DOGE being really bad at both math and reading spreadsheets. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa... www.oversight.gov/reports/audi...

James Surowiecki tweeted, "Post chart showing that the claim that we're sending millions of Social Security checks to people aged 100+ is false. MAGA guy replying to tweet that includes the chart: You have no receipts!
A troll responded with a screenshot of text from a 2023 OIG report. Highlighted paragraph reads - Death information missing from the Numident and DMF hampers both SSA and Government-wide efforts to prevent and detect fraud and misuse.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm a geologist. We tend to be a weird lot because we can think in deep time. Humans are mere blip in Earth's history and future. But, instead of feeling like nothing we do would matter, for me it's everything I can do while I'm the the tiny blip of matter on this planet that I am.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Moby Dick is quite serious about putting the "bristle" in Bristlenose Pleco. 🤣

An albino Bristlenose Plecostemus fish with lots of wirey bristle growths on its head.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Alice Cooper jumped on the counter (surprise, surprise) to "help" me clean it off. The cloth has Seventh Generation disinfectant spray on it....big weirdo doesn't gaf. It's moving...it's a TOY!! 🙄 😂

A cat batting a cleaning cloth while it is being swept around a kitchen counter.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Bluesky has now caught up with Twit-X on the follow-bots who have big following numbers and no posts with profile pictures of young women. This is n=7 today. Sigh. Sad.

A bot-follow account with 3.7K followers and no posts.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Obligatory big pot of chili on the stove in December in the U.S. Midwest. 🤣

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Washer and dryer unhooked for sunroom reconstruction and hubs (who worked pest control) asked me to find the steel wool to plug the hole to deter mice from coming in overnight. He said, "We should stick a cat pee ball in there". I said, "Done, I'll go scoop boxes". 😂🤣

A paper bag containing a clumping litter cat pee ball with a cartoon mouse face drawn on it and some steel wool.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 10/12/2024

If you have a Samsung Galaxy, the latest update will add a ton of AI "services" to your phone, most of which will be turned on automatically. It also includes this deceptive toggle, which turns off the online collection of your data when you turn it ON.

Screenshot of a toggle switch in the new "Advanced Intelligence" Samsung Galaxy settings. It is labelled "Process data only on device"; addition text below the caption reads: "For added privacy, you can prevent collection and processing of your data for Galaxy AI's advanced intelligence features. Online processing provides the best results and is required for some advanced intelligence features."

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Bavmorda got a programable LED strip upgrade for X-mas that includes a lights reaction to sounds and music setting. It's super obnoxious, but also HILARIOUS.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

All three expertly written examples are my ADHD brain. I'll add my (and Hub's) description - I can be a ferret on amphetamines in full ADHD brain mode. 😂

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The four cat pile-up, snuggle-puddle today! Todd (16 year old lady calico), Nessie (9 year old flecked blondie) and the "youngin" 5 year old boys (Alice Cooper the grey tabby and Iggy Pop the red tabby).

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Novel Protein #2...T had an explody shed and needed a soak this evening in her food service bath pan. 🤣

A ball python having a bath in a metal food service pan.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My folks are coming to Larryville for Turkey Day. I pulled the roasting pan out for dry brining a turkey in the fridge. I walked out of the kitchen and back in 2 min later. I guess we're having a novel protein instead? 🤣

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New Sharpie Friends Rock Adventures for this sote! I'm a geologist, the fake hide-a-key rocks ALWAYS look like fake. I found a little company (Funky Rock Designs) that drills holes for a key in actual, naturally varying in appearance rocks. Our rock is censored for social media because....duh. 😉 🤣

A hide-a-key rock that is edited so you can't see the details of the rock.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I've archived Sharpie Friend Rock Adventures from the other site to move here. Start w/ the latest - a custodian at Hub's building found this insanely cool rock in KS & sent it home w/ Hubs to ask the geologist what the heck it is. I have an answer. What do you think? How did this form?

The top and bottom of a cone shaped rock that has wormy-looking features running around it.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pie crust for pecan pie is chilling in the fridge. My fluting always looks like inconsistent trash, but as Hub's says - this way you know it's all homemade. 🤣

A pie crust with very inconsistency shaped curved fluting on the top rim of the crust.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Same here, it's the community of geology/paleo/archaeo/bio scientists and science-y "normies" I missed. Great to see Sophie many of those people here! 🤗

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Tim Miller's (The Bulwark) rundown of the Sarah McBride bathroom "issue". 1.Women's bathrooms usually have stalls w/doors. 2.The rhetoric is REALLY reminiscent of segregation rhetoric/propaganda from the 20's-50's. 3.The point is simply to be MEAN. youtu.be/83l4AUc9qDQ?...

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DESPERATE Nancy Mace Seeks Attention by Bullying Her Future Trans Co-Worker | Bulwark Takes

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ok...so it was a scientist starter pack! I'll take it. 🤣

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Um...this number is batshitcrazypants. I'm not an automatic re-follow person, I like to curate my digital environments. Peeps that I know on other sites, please send me a note to make sure I know who you are and re-follow you.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

You know you're a nerd when: 1. Reorganizing the print cookbooks you actually use on the kitchen cart includes two non-cookbooks that you also frequently refer t. 2. There are several lovely rock samples on the cart shelf.🤣

A series of cookbooks on a kitchen shelf plus paperbacks of Strunk and White Elements of Style and The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Life is but a day at most.” Roasted red potatoes are roasted. Traditional mashed neeps and tatties are mashed. Meatloaf mock-up haggis is in the oven. Happy Burn's Night a'bidy.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Hubs pulled out his kilt to wear tomorrow at WashU for Burn's Day (Night). I'll be making a meatloaf version of haggis plus neeps and tatties. 😉

Hubs doning his kilt and an Irish knitted sweater.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

My self-appointed job after being laid off is house org/purging. Found this photo I put in a cheap frame to have on my desk during my last year of undergrad. Hubs (yet to be) and I when he visited during my study abroad in St. Andrews, Scotland. Holy crap, we look young! 🤣

Hubs and I on the pier in St. Andrews, Scotland.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

It is done....last day of current job today. A very weird, but not bad day. I raise my sazarac (or your non-alchololic beverage of choice) - Cheers to new, different, and better things in the future. Change can be very good.

A sazarac mixed drink - rye whiskey, absinthe, simple syrup, bitters and lemon/orange.

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Do y'all have a New Year's tradition? Last year, we started one I learned years ago from Scottish mates. Wasn't easy to do prior b/c mussles aren't the easiest thing to find in KS. But, we found frozen ones again, so we're having mussles and rye bread for dinner.

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