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Steph_Alchemist

@steph-alchemist.bsky.social
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Microbiologist. Violist-in-training.

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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This morning was a beautiful morning for a trail race! It was the last race of a summer trail race series. Despite my misgivings about my race prep, I crushed it! I took 8 minutes off of my time from 2025. Looking forward to more trails. 👟
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Had a lovely 5.7 mile hike with a friend this morning. The weather was...mostly cooperative. It was hot and humid, but overcast, so still mostly gross. The trail was great (part of the MD Greenway Trail), the company was excellent, and I have a new-to-me trail. 👟
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 06/07/2026
a useless sentiment but whatever, you made the mistake of following me, I just live here - just want to express both gratitude and consideration for anyone who comes forward about being abused by a high-profile man and weathers the nightmare of being a political football afterward. Hero shit.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just like last night, some of my neighbors are setting of fireworks at 11:35 PM. Why? Just WHY?? I KNOW people feel a need to shoot off fireworks, but why so late?
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Wonderful. Some of my neighbors decided to start shooting off fireworks at 11:40 PM. On a Thursday night. I'm so not looking forward to Saturday.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.
theguardian.com
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Current mood
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a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .
Alt: a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched . Clearly trying to point out start should be obvious.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Keith Porter, another man killed by ICE. Keith Porter. Alex Pretti. Renee Nicole Good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A visual representation of the universal food: dough stuffed with tasty stuff. They all look delicious.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
NYE 2025 had a much better finish than NYE 2024. Last year, I had to go to the ER due to a monster sinus infection. No such issue this time. Now, I'm getting ready to start 2026 with a cute, little 5K.
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Curzon is home!!! Despite a night with below zero wind chill, he's perfectly fine, just a little muddy.
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving! May your butter dishes be full, your turkey cooked just right, and your pies plentiful! 🦃🦃
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Giant Work Project (TM) #1 is finally done!! Alas, Giant Work Project (TM) is still looming. I'm still gonna celebrate.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I opened a new carton of Icelandic Provisions plain oatmilk skyr to discover this:
Brown and white carton of light tan oatmilk skyr (similar to yogurt) with a large bluish mold colony.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If anyone else needs a bee/butterfly/pollinator break like I just needed, please enjoy this video.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Wishing I was back in France.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
After walking/ exploring Nice for the past few days, I only now remembered "marché" is market and Les Marché aux Fleurs is the flower market.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Had a good visit to Dublin, now heading to England.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I only had one drink tonight and I do not think I'm drunk enough to read through bluesky tonight.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Finally got around to submitting my taxes. Taxes are never fun, but with these bastards in charge, I was even less willing to send them in.
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 05/04/2025
And even if you don’t have injuries, getting things right results in incredible amounts of scrap and rework. There is just no way to get a complex line up and running from scratch in the US before the Midterms. That’s not a political statement, it’s a practical one.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov As one of your constituents, let me remind you that it is your job to do everything possible to prevent Trump from controlling the FEC. This should be one of many impeachable offenses.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Reposting per intent rules.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/01/2025
Snow blower season is upon us.
A person safely using a snow blower to move some snow. The snow blower has the face and body of a Great White shark. The text reads: Hands off! Never use your hands to unclog wet snow from a snow blower. Turn your snow blower off and use a cleanout tool or a long stick.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/01/2025
flush what’s left of 2024 while you can. we’ll take it from here.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat
pethelpful.com
Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know
Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It is ethicallye and logisticallye disastrous to run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys designed to make a profit. Educacioun ys designed to make the future.
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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: 

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."


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We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
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NPR @npr.org · 30/11/2024
Cucumbers shipped to the U.S. and Canada, and organic eggs sold in 25 Costco stores in five southern U.S. states, were recalled this week for potential salmonella contamination.
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SunFed cucumbers and Costco eggs recalled for potential salmonella contamination
Cucumbers shipped to the U.S. and Canada, and organic eggs sold in 25 Costco stores in five southern U.S. states, were recalled this week for potential salmonella contamination.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Pietro ★🏳️‍⚧️🩷 @cannibalgirlyuri.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 04/11/2024
Folks, I CANNOT stress enough how important it is to research your school board candidates for tomorrow. Most of them are often listed as non-partisan. You gotta drill down and find out who's for what and then vote out the Moms for Liberty worms that embedded themselves since 2020. It matters.
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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 22/10/2024
Hi Blueskyians, can y’all help our perfect, cuddly & sweet void kitties find their forever homes? We have many to choose from & haven’t gotten a single app for any of them. They’re growing up in our rescue & keep being passed over. It’s #BlackCatAwareness Month! Apply at: crits4cats.petfinder.org
Elias and Catarina, two young black cats, cuddling together on a couch with plush blankets. Clare, a young black cat, laying on a plush Sherpa blanket. She is wearing a black and purple Halloween collar with a bow and a spider motif.Agnes, a young black cat, laying on a plush Sherpa blanket. She is wearing a black and orange Halloween collar with a bow and a skeleton fish motif.Clare, a young black cat, laying on a grey blanket. She is wearing a black and orange Halloween collar with a bow and a pumpkin motif.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2024
UPDATE: The eye of #Milton makes landfall as a Category 3 Major Hurricane just outside Siesta Key and Sarasota. Ten foot storm surge at initial landfall. 6” of torrential rainfall. 2-3” an hour coming for Tampa. 700,000 households without power. Multiple fatalities from tornado in St. Lucie County.
Radar: Hurricane Milton makes landfall around 8:30 p.m
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,112,448! I'm also coming up on my one-year anniversary of being on this site.
I was the 1,112,448 user to join Bluesky.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Cecil County, MD: possible rabies exposure notice m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/1...
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BakersRelay (@BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org)
@easwatch #MDwx #EAS #WEA for MD Cecil County Department of Emergency Services: A feral cat near the Best Western hotel in North East has tested positive for rabies & may have exposed other people and...
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
🦊Competition time! Foxes! Tea & biscuits! To celebrate the high days of summer, I'm giving away my Reynard the Fox book, a copy of A Fox for All Seasons journal, a box of Fox's biscuits, a packet of Dorset tea & a charming fox companion! Like, repost & follow to enter! Winner picked on Sunday.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
We can see your posts. We can read them. Also womens sports exist because women kept beating men and men got in their feelings. Please read a history book before spouting off.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Rep. Jamie Raskin on MSNBC as he endorses Vice President Harris: "JD Vance has no convictions. But Donald Trump has 34 of them, so maybe he can share."
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
p6 the Dobbs decision is just the beginning. … push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America. In particular, the next conservative President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
p20 In order to carry out the President’s desires, political appointees must be given the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the federal government’s obstructionist Human Resources departments. More fundamentally, the new Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees.
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
p155 Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA's* counter-mis/disinformation efforts. * Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
p165 all civil liberties or civil rights complaints are sent to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for review. If the OIG chooses not to investigate, the CRCL Officer should only provide supportive information on possible courses of action for complainants.
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
p302 As for baby formula regulations generally, labeling regulations and regulations that unnecessarily delay the manufacture and sale of baby formula should be re-evaluated.
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Project 2025 @project2025.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
p319 the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
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Steph_Alchemist @steph-alchemist.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
For so, so many reasons.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.
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