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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 22/07/2026

How about "what has most definitely happened is CDC made cyclospora FoodNet surveillance optional - under the pressure of being underfunded"?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 22/07/2026

In today's rubric "Kate's talking to newspapers" How about "there are no other options available for two income families without any relatives living close by"?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 11/04/2026

How on earth it's 10 business days to unsubscribe? What kind of eventual consistency is that?

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 31/01/2026

Universe delivered a Lego set of Notre Dame that no one in our household bought. My current theory: our 9,223,372,036,854,775,808th purchase triggered a bug in Amazon.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 21/01/2026

I feel embarrassed. And I lived through having Yeltsin as a president.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 23/11/2025

Only those who finished their last year's advent calendar can get a new one. @thewoobles.bsky.social

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 02/07/2025

I wonder who escalator oncall is and what their mitigations are.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 20/06/2025

7yo and 6yo boys' math. "3-second farts make 5 people pinch their noses. 11-second farts make 8 people pinch their noses". I suppose the question is how many people pinch their noses in how many seconds. Me, I wonder what does one eat for an 11-second fart.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 15/05/2025

Finally watching Instagram paid off.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 11/05/2025

I love Wallace the Brave.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 06/04/2025

Still don't really understand Fahrenheit and always wished something like this existed: displaying both F and C next to each other in a weather widget so that I could learn over time, have a feeling for what it is/means. I present to you Sunday morning vibe coding.

An HTML weather widget showing both Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures in the hourly forecast.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 15/03/2025

Kids' math school celebrates hard.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 31/12/2024

Happy bucket of salad day to those who celebrate!

A big bowl and a large pot with Soviet style New Year salads.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 28/12/2024

Local playground gave up on the plastic shovels and someone bought a bunch of metal ice scoops 🤘🏼

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 25/12/2024

When you get a 3D printer for Christmas.

Photo showing the Catan board with a 3D-printed Grinch for a robber.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 11/12/2024

I even asked ChatGPT to help me understand branches -- it generated this picture -- if you see weird stuff happening on GitHub, you know why.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 26/10/2024

Isn't that true of pretty much every toy though

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 16/07/2024

I struggled to find a working system to describe how effective an engineer is - so I came up with one. I present to you SQUAT.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 29/03/2024

Why is the washer supposed to be on the nut side? It looks better if it's on the bolt side.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 18/11/2023

Nice try, Trader Joe's, nice try.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 15/10/2023

Netflix and chili. Thank goodness there's AI available to make my jokes come through.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 14/07/2023

Found on Facebook - I trust its author is most likely on Bluesky.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 08/07/2023

I was putting off for 7 years closing my German bank account dreading writing a letter but then ChatGPT came around...

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 29/06/2023

4yo drew "Mama climbing up a mountain" and it pretty much sums up my daily life.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 28/06/2023

Nothing like being patted on the shoulder by a chatbot to start a day.

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Dr. Kate @radkat.fitzpat.com · 09/06/2023

They could've fixed period tracking that they rushed out in 2022 but no, let's slap a social network on top of the app that absolutely doesn't need it.