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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Two hours of squinting and getting things wrong later I finally FINALLY have the sewing machine setup
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Omg this trend for book edges is such a moment of delight. Makes me want to sit with a cup of tea and a cozy blanket and curl up and read
Non-spine edge of a book printed with fancy black and gold decoration
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I went to sleep at 1:30am and woke up at 8am, instead of the 4 hours I’ve been getting the last couple days Jet lag is conquered. I DEMAND VALIDATION
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In that annoying portion of jet lag where I’m going to bed around normal time but then waking up after 3-4 hours refreshed because I just had a long nap Send help
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The magical age of 6 and a half. Kiddo just begged me to let her scrub toilets to prove that SHE COULD (I gave her the sinks. I did the toilets. She got to flush them after at least!)
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Me, an adult: okay the 6yo has been sick for the past week. She wasn’t fully recovered yesterday I’m sure she’ll want to stay home one more day. Let me sleep in Said 6yo at 7:55am, bursting into my bedroom: mommy my temperature is GREEN. I got ready for school. WHY ARE YOU STILL IN BED
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Anecdotally: every other month I go through a busy intersection where people have been protesting Tr*mp. I always honk to support. Most times, and last time, I’m the only one. Last night, it seemed like every car did. Just a constant stream of honking from all directions as they went through
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The 6yo loves the #3dprinter and sings it to sleep and cheers it on saying “good job”
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/10/2025
I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful. Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Jesus said love your neighbor. So of course the catholic jd Vance response is “okay they won’t be my neighbors”
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Ugh okay so I was hopeful and clicked. Big mistake The problem isn’t with screens in and of themselves. Big glass slabs. Whatever The problem is that the ubiquity of screens constantly pulls us away from living in the moment I don’t want a screenless future. I want a distractionless one!
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
So apparently my 6yo knows the 6-7 intonation. (I did not know this intonation before today)
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2025
This whole thread, especially the part where the reasonable videos are the start of the pipeline. I have mentioned the struggle I am having as I get into freeze drying & pantry organization with the algo always trying to get me on the crunchy -> alt-right pipeline. But they rarely start crazy!
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I have given the 6yo power to put stuff on the shared grocery list. This may be my best or my worst idea ever
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
After ten years of making this one particular cheesecake in a water bath, I figured out how to keep it from getting soggy (bend the foil over the top rim so it doesn’t condense inside) This is now my (one, single, twice yearly) superpower. Feels amazing
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I taught people board games last night and one of them told me it was a good teach. I’d been intimidated for so long and sort of waiting / hoping someone else will teach. This is going to unlock so many of those board games I’d have been too shy to get to the table otherwise.
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
That was sweet customer service. I’d just missed backing Food Truck Race, reached out to the creator to let him know his marketing worked, I was just too slow, but keeping an eye out for when it comes to retail He reached out personally to send me a preorder link How could I not? #boardgamesky
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I put eyes on her PBJ _once_
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut out in the shape of a gingerbread man with red jam and candy eyes slathered on top
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I’ve gone from hesitantly playing Minecraft with my daughter only because she wants me to, to spending my whole evening exploring / fishing / mining iron to fill up a chest with goodies for my daughter when she wakes up
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The 5yo and I just started playing #minecraft survival. Mistakes have been made
Journal page, on the left “I’m sorry I killed you in Minecraft” in adult handwriting. 

On the write “I will not axsept the sorry hmph. I’m mad at you so much” with a big drawing of an angry girl in kid handwriting
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Took four tries and many false starts but finally beat The LOOP solo! Great game, great solo. Just flows from one action to another Also funny artwork and tongue in cheek humor. Curious how it plays with more people Only bad thing, think it’s OOP. I got lucky and found a copy randomly at my LGS
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My 5yo has learned to trash talk my husband over Wordle 😂
Screenshot of chat message “In Wordle today, I got it in two guesses, and it was all my own words that’s so wicked I will beat you because I beat everyone else”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
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What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Loving the naming pattern of these cozy books. Keep em coming!!
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In a few short weeks (months?) kiddo has gone from randomly putting cake everywhere to building structures + blowing up rocks with TNT to make gigantic waterfalls Oh also almost burning down her house in Minecraft
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Trump on Day One: Your costs will be lower immediately. Trump on Day 100: Your kids will now have fewer toys and also you're going to pay higher prices.
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Coming up for air after reading Fourth Wing Oh look there are *two more books* #booksky
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So I slept last night at 1am instead of 12:30 and frankly I am a wreck today. The one thing I really miss about being a teenager tbh
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New avatar 🥰 Started with this drawing my 5yo made of me. Adored the expression. I really wanted to make this my avatar but it wasn’t working as is. So I looked through the promos feed on Bluesky I think @countslimeula.bsky.social did a fantastic job of capturing the mischievous energy!
Child’s drawing of mom in purple marker with big eyes, big smile, jagged teeth, and a huge heart in her chest
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Also wow he’s still going and pretty lucid after 17 hours? I can only talk straight for 17 seconds
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I’m not good at this but I just called my senators for the first time to express my support for what they’re doing and to ask them to stand with Cory Booker Messed up the first one (voicemail) and didn’t leave my zip code. But for the second one a lovely staffer picked up the phone and took my msg
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Honestly same
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
5yo and I have been playing a lot of rhyming games back and forth 5yo: Daddy rhymes with Maddie! Me: and Dommy rhymes with Mommy! (I shut up after that)
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Husband is out of town. We’re in breakfast of champions territory now
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Played some Santorini with the 5yo. Huge hit — surprised me how much! She did not like it when I domed her tower. But once I showed her she could do it to me too, all bets were off #boardgames
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I just want to tell everyone how proud I am of myself: I managed to finish a box of tea before its best by date Instead of sitting in the pantry for ~10 years
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/03/2025
The Filipino authorities arrested Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, on Tuesday, days after the International Criminal Court secretly issued an arrest warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity. Here's what to know.
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Why the I.C.C. Arrested Duterte Despite Questions Over Jurisdiction
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. But questions of jurisdiction complicate the matter.
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 11/03/2025
Currently #1 on Flightradar24 is #RPC5219, believed to be carrying former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, who is being flown to the Netherlands via Dubai after being arrested on an ICC warrant. www.flightradar24.com/RPC5219/396f...
The flight path of RPC5219 as seen on Flightradar24
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Standing in the airport and overheard an older dude confidently assert the US has the best healthcare in the world And I’m like: ???
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Listen, this is high praise
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The 5yo woke me up 30 minutes early because I’ll be away for the weekend and she wanted to spend time with me And it’s both the sweetest and the most “omg please no” thing (I got up)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A lot of America, including much of the media, acts like Trump doesn’t mean it, he’s just trolling, it’s a show, and doesn’t really matter anyway, like this is reality TV or an influencer beef, not real. But Europe, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, etc. do not. They take it very seriously. And are right to.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I noticed I was going to break my streak freeze Me: I need to do Duolingo! 5yo: Mommy (long suffering voice) that’s a want not a need
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Currently reading Frostbite. And somehow a book about the history of refrigeration has become one of the most compelling nonfiction books I’ve ever read The way she draws together disparate threads across the globe and puts things in context is compelling #booksky
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Don’t judge me for the season, when the 5yo says let’s play a board game you set it up and play In unrelated news managed to play some Santa’s Workshop today! Family rules and we got halfway through (and tied) which was cool Then the sled had to take off and deliver presents, as you do #boardgames
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So apparently for story writing time 5yo has just been writing one giant story detailing the times she got sick / threw up and how sad she was And now I’m worried about what her teacher thinks of us as parents 😂
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Athena @qupinaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I played Catan for the first time this weekend! I… may have played Catan for the last time this weekend #boardgames
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Those are just a few of the proposals I’ve put forward to save real money WITHOUT looting programs that serve working people. Read my full op-ed on how to make it happen:
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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Trump, Musk and I agree on something important. And I've got 30 ways to get it done
We can bring down the deficit by cutting spending, but we can also improve our financial position by making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.
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