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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.

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

That's what it looks like 😬

Zoom in on the image showing the zucchini stem.

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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 · 15/04/2025

Thanks so much! I'm sure I could have found it. But, the scientific researcher in me always figures it might be easier to simply ask the expert (who probably has the doc at their fingertips).😉

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Can you link to the full source document for the screenshot? I might want to use this for an upcoming educational program.

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

Yup! It's a specific state (the one I'm originally from). 😉

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

When you look up "antics" in the dictionary, there really should be a picture of our Alice Cooper, lol.

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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

I was laughing pretty hard the first time he "ambushed" my cloth around the kitchen corner. 🤣

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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

It can be done, but it takes time to understand the nuances of each system itself including any legacy code fixes/changes, how old code links with newer languages etc. "Move fast and break things" WILL break things, and likely break them badly. 2/2 (two refs containing other refs below)

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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 · 09/03/2025

Thank you! The bit of provenance I know is it was found on a gravel road next to the Kansas river. My guess was typical river dredge used as aggregate on the roads around here. 😉

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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

I love blennies, they are SO goofy. They're on the list for tank 3. 🤣

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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

Same here, friend. Same here. When adults told me that every part of you will just hurt when you get "old", I thought they were exaggerating. Nope, they weren't. 🤣

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

Sadly we are. But only in body, not our spirit. 😁

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

Yup! I'm old (Gen X) and a former software tester who saw the peak and decline of Twit-X and understand why it happened. This platform has a mod choice to make. It will succeed or fail based on a robust understanding of the user base coupled with economics.

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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 · 14/12/2024

I make mine fairly spicy, the low end of quite spicy (way too hot for some, not hot enough for others like Hubs). I also have homemade hot (very hot) sauce he can add as necessary if he wants an extra spicy bowl. 🤣

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hey, @darthbluesky.bsky.social, lover of all critters - here's a multigenerational four cat pile-up. 🤣

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Juli Emry @parodyite.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I do like Texas chili! But, for me, it's also a very thick textured, meat-sweats/coma inducing gut-bomb. 🤣🤣

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

We don't usually serve it with rice, but have on several occasions when requested by folks. I did often make a pot of rice to bulk everything up when we were on Geo field trips. 😉

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

I also make a veggie version(kidney, pinto, and black beans, garbanzos, quinoa, red/green peppers & mushrooms with my base.) Developed when I had several vegetarian Geo collegues/students for field trips. All the meat eaters liked it and didn't mind it was vegetarian. 🤣

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