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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i can feel the spookiness in the air

Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my rush of applying to ten grad programs, I forgot to click the "opt out of being able to see letters of recommendation" box on one (1) of them and my advisor at the time was extremely pissed. I promised him in person I wouldn't request it.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We replaced two ceiling fan+light units last year (and a third we need to do), and none of them take normal bulbs anymore, they're integrated LED units. And we got the most basic ass ones: single switch on/off, pull chains for light and fan, no remote.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In many cases you can change which side the hinge is on if the factory default is inconvenient for you. Same with single-door refrigerators.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like sure, I'd love to be financially sound enough to garden and cook all day. But to pay the mortgage for my house and garden, and maybe dream of retirement, I need to continue to be paid as a mid-career engineer.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...suddenly without employment (e.g. paychecks, healthcare) and their career skills are suddenly worthless. Going from an early-/mid-/late-career salaried position to hourly "unskilled" labor (all labor is skilled labor) or gig economy work can be jarring at minimum and financially ruinous at worst.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The problem is "assuming I was financially fine" is an enormous assumption in this day and age. C-suite types get big dollar signs in their eyes when they think that they can reduce headcount through the use of AI. And if an entire industry does it at once, that's a lot of real humans ...

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Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Over two years ago I posted about this exact spot and how horribly dangerous this bridge is. When the bridge was planned neighbors lobbied heavily to make it safer. The city overruled. Now the city has failed to maintain the bare minimum it did install. They have been warned repeatedly for years.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If my 2014 PriusC were all electric it would truly be the perfect car. If they come to fruition, I'd love a Telo truck (5" shorter than my PriusC!) with their "camper shell" that basically turns the whole thing into a hatchback.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love when a medical professional walks in and immediately goes for the hand sanitizer. Would feel a little weird about it if they shook my hand first then went straight for the sanitizer.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 12/08/2026

I briefly awaken from my social media hiatus to share progress pictures of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble! It's a push your luck dice rolling game where you play as bears at the Katmai National Park trying to catch and eat salmon to gain weight for the winter. First up, the fish dice.

Three fish shaped dice stacked atop each other, they are the trans pride colors. First a blue four sided fish die, then a white six sided, then a pink eight sided on top.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

People working minimum wage jobs might need to walk through snow to get to their jobs though? Also "snow boots" are a stand in for any consumer good, not meant to be taken absolutely literally. Replace "snow boots" with "winter jacket" or "food storage containers" or "car" and my point is the same

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Right. You can probably do a bit of product research and get your fixed shoe/etc budget to stretch further, and price is no guarantee of quality, but the $40 snowboots from Kohl's aren't going to hold up as long as a $140 pair or Merrell's. There is an upper bound on quality at a given price point

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At the 1 minute mark, you can see the sun reflecting off the ocean and then the shot pans to the right revealing shadows going *toward* the sun's apparent direction.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Your entire reply history seems to be shitting on safer pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, why?

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And yet it houses over 81k people, making it the most densely populated municipality in New England and the 19th densest nationally.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Like yeah, definitely an easy weekend trip or even a dedicated day trip (especially if you park outside the city and take public transit in), but for a split venue wedding? No.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh yes, an "easy" 2.5 hour drive (without traffic) into the center of Manhattan

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Costco endcap salespeople (bathroom renovations, iirc) tried to engage me when I was there over the weekend. The central aisle was crowded! I returned their "Hello, how are you?" but kept on my way. One of them commented "Wow I've never seen a customer be so rude!" I'm still baffled by this.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Might I suggest: spare pillowcase. Been working great for me the last several years.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I get produce at their farm store sometimes! It's good!

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My very first question was "Do you mean electrons and positrons?" and the answer was "no". Very firmly meant protons. Truly my most bizarre experience from grad school.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

... from which we could explain the answer to his original question. Turns out he hadn't actually taken any physics classes yet, but *had some theories* and refused to hear otherwise. I think "fractally wrong" was applicable.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A college freshman wandered into my (grad student) office in the Physics building once. Asked why electrons and protons don't annihilate. Easy enough I thought. Proceeded to waste an hour and a half of my and my officemates' time as we kept trying to dig down to some sort of base level knowledge

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

There are/were voice training classes in Boston to help locals reduce or shed their accents youtu.be/ketrhWr58wA

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Class helps locals lose their Boston accent

YouTube video by The Boston Globe

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If the normal supply lines obviously aren't getting to the Tripoli, why would anyone assume care packages would make it?

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You recommended Rainbow sandals at some point, and I needed a new pair of flip flops. They're great now that I've broken them in, which didn't take long at all.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My employer doesn't even pay for us all to have Acrobat, just Reader, so the one time I was curious enough to click the AI button I just got hit with "Upgrade to Acrobat to use this feature!"

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Like, I hate to hand it to the Engl*sh, but they sure can make most any noun derogatory if said in a derogatory fashion, i.e. "you absolute cabbage"

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I haven't tried it (yet), but I have heard tell of people grafting a tomato stem on top of a potato root system. Tomatoes and potatoes from the same soil column.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/02/2026

there is no punishment adequate for these beasts.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I spent a lot of time listing to Behind the Bastards when driving back and forth 9 hours at a time during the homebuying process for an interstate move. Not exactly uplifting. If you haven't listened to Til Death Do Us Blart, that'd be a fun one to listen to in sequence.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I was helping my grandfather with some computer stuff and saw an email about some plane tickets wherein my grandmother's name was spelled "wrong", but apparently that's just her government name.

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c t @whatulysses.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

it's actually very cool that the band I used to listen to as an emo teenager is now the band I listen to as an enraged middle aged Midwesterner.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The pile of plow-snow between my car (2WD PriusC) and the road means I have basically sworn off driving between now and whenever enough of the snow has melted.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're a mushroom enjoyer, might I suggest this Mary-Ann Esposito recipe from 90s-era PBS. I've really been cranking the mushroom dial up on this over the years, I think most recently I did a pound of cremini and half a pound of shiitake. Have also used assorted other mushrooms with great success

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Fried Penne / Pennette in Padella | Ciao Italia

SERVES 6 TO 8 FIRST-COURSE SERVINGS Pennette is a type of macaroni that resembles small quill pens. They are either ridged (pennette rigate) or smooth, and vary in length. For this dish...

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I first saw it years ago in a Blaseball discord, of all things, because I supported the Ohio Worms, and it's lived rent-free in my head ever since.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

About to blow this whole thing open

Conspiracy-style meme asking "Sandy Loam: Who is she?"

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

springtime seed-ordering season reminder that baker creek seed co are chuds who pal around with the bundys and you shouldn't give them your money

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ahh right, sorry, I missed that it was a rate

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

You did that conversion factor backwards, 1 MWh = 1000 kWh

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

He grew up in a Cincinnati suburb, on the opposite side of the state from where the Appalachians are

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I did drunkenly make me and my friends a bunch of pizza one night during our first year though. Mostly because pizza is the perfect drunk food and I was upset about the lack of late night slice shops having recently moved from New York State. That one good place was not close to my apartment, sadly.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Even when I lived in the Midwest for a decade, there were serviceable local spots to get a whole pie, considerably better than chains. The college town where I went to grad school even had a good by-the-slice spot.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I assume you pick up your grains by the bundle and thresh/winnow them yourself, then?

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Are we Blueskis supposed to still be upset about the "Good [jeans/genes]" ad? I mean, I guess I've been boycotting AE since then, in the sense that I haven't bought anything from AE since I was in college.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Some of the AI images hallucinate air ducts that would cost 5-6 figures to retrofit into a dwelling of its size.

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Weeshtable @weeshtable.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There's a house for sale in my neighborhood where half the pictures are normal pictures of the place as is, and the other half are those same pictures run through an AI rendering of "what it could be".

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