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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s tough to describe how annoying it must have been for my husband to watch “Nope” with me (yes we’re late) because all I could do was focus on the animal behavior aspect throughout

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What are the odds of getting a jury duty summons for the same day I’ve got a medical appointment scheduled? Maybe I should buy a scratcher at the gas station (with my luck, I’d owe more than the face value of the card somehow)

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Was wholly unprepared to learn how much lotion I could put on my surgical incision area and still have it absorb fully (four whole pumps). This should be part of The Talk they give to all breast cancer patients. I’m only half joking.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Taking out my frustrations with everything else on my ethernet connectivity, like an adult

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Currently experiencing covid again because even though I mask everywhere in public, I didn’t mask at home, which is an obvious hole in my defenses

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

me sowing: it’s genius to stack all these doctors’ appointments into one week and get them all taken care of quickly me reaping: two waiting rooms and handsy exams in one morning? who did this to me?

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

By the way, I would have voted for Stevenson for a first term if I could

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Lifting/restraining echidnas for veterinary exams. Would definitely do again if it came up, of course. I was very good at it.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Stood in line an hour to pick up the local smokehouse thxg meal and it better be incredible tomorrow. I’ll make pies for tomorrow and Friday, when we gather as a multi-household family. If you’re also gathering this week, may you have a successful visit!

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

That darning/mending loom thing that gets advertised to me endlessly on IG helped me fix a hole in my favorite sweater! Not very WELL, but it’s at less risk of fully unraveling now, lol

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

There is some pest that bites me and only me? and lives inside my house and, yadda yadda yadda, I’ve just disassembled and rebuilt a cabinet that’s been standing in my house since idk when and definitely does not seem ever to have been infested with bugs after all 😒 but at least it stands square now

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Not loving the palpable tension online, offline, and specifically in my home once my kid learned we’re having salmon for dinner (it’s currently disfavored)

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thrilling to reread The Handmaid’s Tale because it’s what my kid is studying in AP English right now and to realize that Offred appears to be GenZ based on timeline hints. What a time to be alive

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Well, the wait was worth it—my kid enjoyed Blazing Saddles and needed only a few references explained, like ptomaine poisoning 🥴

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Local elementary school is back in session today which can mean many things but one predominates: it’s scream season (from now until after Memorial Day)

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Husband just got himself some fresh glasses frames, and now we both look like old timey NASA types—I’ve got the Katherine Johnson browline specs; he’s got nerd frames like fictional administrator Tom Paine in For All Mankind. Let’s get that Apollo program going, folks!

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Google just locked me out of my account bc I tried to access my account from the phone I’ve been using to access my account 👍

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I would like one of these shirts and I don’t even live in New York

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

So many things, so many! But the most amusing is The Princess Bride (book). He’d always elided and summarized parts I might find boring, so when he read it to me I thought that was what he was doing…and then I saw the two-toned text that read exactly the same. It was a dad joke years in the making

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%.

The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751.

Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations:

Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%"

Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%"

Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%"

The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Of course, that’s why it didn’t repost for me over there

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Definitely near the top was The Philosopher Kings opening for G. Love & Special Sauce; both bands were promoting their first albums, and I remember hearing them use a TPK song (“Charms”) during US Women’s Gymnastics in the Olympic broadcast that year

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Really glad to see hospital staff wearing masks again at today’s blood draw, but I fear that means everyone needs to be masking up, and there’s no communication about that anymore 😷

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My household has flown too close to the sun (exceeded provider-allotted internet usage for the month at 4:30 on the last day of May)

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Mulch Madness! (no special sound; shot from inside)

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Took the kid for prophylactic rabies vaccination prior to study abroad this summer. The travel health clinic was a weird combo of helpful + scaremongering with a little gift shop of DEET lotions and Imodium on the way out.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is. I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need. We told you this was coming www.advocate.com/politics/ant...

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BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care

The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My kid has completed the last finals of junior year and is plotting a course for the last calendar year of secondary school omg omg

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“Want to go to the farmer’s market but a little alarmed by how gross it looks out there after the dust storm” is not something I ever thought I’d have occasion to say

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I remembered how to bake! HBD to my Dad 💞

A 6” diameter cake with vanilla-speckled buttercream frosting sits on a white plastic cake plate atop a kitchen counter. The cake is chocolate, two layers; the top is covered in rainbow sprinkles, and rainbow candy stars are sprinkled at the upper edge of the cake and also on the frosting where it meets the plate.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Chasing the high of Le Poisson Steve with random French EDM is officially not working; LPS is perfection

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Somehow in the midst of all this I’m planning to send my kid on a study-abroad this summer. Can someone with experience break down prepaid travel cards vs. using one’s own debit card vs. Apple Cash? It’s a heavily visited (if somewhat remote) destination, if my friends’ FB posts are any indication.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Well, I finally tried the gabapentin I was prescribed at ⅔ the daily recommended dosage and now I know why your pets look like that when they get it for vet visits. It’s just like being drunk except there’s no buzz and there’s no flavor and there’s nothing enjoyable, only wrecked gross motor skills.

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hey folks, I know I don’t have a huge following, but please get the word out and tell the government that it’s really important to have a 2025 Novavax formulation approved for this autumn. The other vaccines have brutal side effects for me, but not Novavax. Lots of other people have this experience!

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today’s morning medical visit has me check in three different times online, then gave me a barcode to scan at a kiosk when I arrived; kiosk told me to check in with a receptionist, who misread my first name as Veronica, and then after I sat down ANOTHER receptionist called me over to fill out a form

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Victoria Landau @victorialandau.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Charles Yu out here slinging foundational text from my first college major across the years into the now like a horoscope ripe for interpretation

Screenshot excerpted from ebook of Interior Chinatown:
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer of the same show.
Erving Goffman

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