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@whetstone.bsky.social
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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever. Signal: whetstone.54

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 8h
most unserious people imaginable i say this as an unambiguous “it’s a genocide and we should cut off all military aid” person just all-around embarrassing behavior
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 11h
exactly! if you like niche romance you'll read more; if you read a biography and it was interesting you'll be more interested in another. there are very few books i've read that have obviated the need to read anything else like them. maybe only intros-to-technical-things.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 12h
I was thinking store brand Luke Wilson, but I see both of yours.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 12h
it's oddly focused on tortillas. nailed the brand i usually buy even though i, too, have never bought anything except weird specialty stuff like The Good Cocktail Cherries or whatever from amazon
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 12h
man if this were lipstick i would be buying it *so fast*
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ogre-g 👹 @libidinalspaces.bsky.social · 15h
she's got that joie de leave
A thin, red leaf on concrete. It's on its side such that it looks like a pair of lips
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
she’s a terrible person and a very good politician, is how it’s always looked from far away seems like troy’s campaign is giving her full respect as an opponent for the latter and undermining her by pointing out the former she’s not giving up the seat and he knows he has to destroy her to take it
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this i would like to see
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
that book is incredibly upsetting. highly recommended
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GUYS look at this fugly pumpkin I grew. I love her
Photo of a bunch of pumpkins on grass. Bird's-eye few. There are a few different kinds in varying shades of orange. The big one in the center is pinkish-orange with big corky warts all over.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The search engine I use lets you make little targeted search groups, so I made a list of 10 sites that actually have trustworthy recipes and limit my recipe searches to just those sites. It's wild out there.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
amazing! idk what the surgery equivalent of “break a leg” is but i hope it is soon and surprises you both with how easy it is
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you know shit’s gotten extremely real when surgery starts sounding like a good idea i hope your symptoms ease and that if you decide on surgery that it resolves them entirely
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.
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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
was going to say, i think both of those images are ai looks like the same kid but the cord on the headphones switches sides
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Or maybe set it, say, a few months before the end of the term of the impeached politician so if you vote to impeach and the vote fails they will no longer be in a position to punish you.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
somehow seeing this concept for the first time and it’s *so obviously* essential
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The teens who ran the after-school program when I was in elementary school showed us Poltergeist.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not scalable but very laudable. I congratulate you on your persistence and ultimate success.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...
My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
confused about the daylight savings + pga thing granted trump *might* be stupid enough to think he can legislate the number of daylight hours, but my guess is that it has something to do with tv broadcast times.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes. Essential in childhood and remarkably durable, but not perfect lifetime immunity. We had (what felt at the time like) a bunch of measles going around in my state a few years ago and I was not playing with that, so I got my doctor to order the test. Really grateful to have re-upped my immunity!
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
… probably. Sometimes the immunity does fade over time, so it’s worth getting your titers checked sometime in middle age. For me my measles immunity was still there but mumps was completely gone, so I got a booster.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
… yup www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
poynter.org
The Atlantic tried to artistically show gender dysphoria on its cover. Instead it damaged the trust of transgender readers. - Poynter
A 2018 Atlantic cover story about families with transgender teenagers misgendered its cover model and crossed ethical boundaries in the process.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i heard that, too
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Radically Healthy Masculinity
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It got worse jfC
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That is infuriating.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think a lot of us truly did appreciate the people in essential jobs like healthcare and food prep/sales/distribution/harvesting in a way we never had before. Sadly “us” did not include the bosses.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fuck. Seeing Cosby‘s face is always like a kick in the teeth now. I didn’t have a dad growing up and Cliff Huxstable sort of formed my ideas of what a good one might be. Knowing what was actually behind that face turns my stomach.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It hurts to remember how much hope the very early reaction to the pandemic gave me.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My kingdom for a culture and politics of “no human is disposable.”
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the job is awful, dangerous, boring, and a machine can do it? A machine *should* do it. If a machine can’t, then the humans who keep society going instead should be paid enough to allow them to retire well before the work ruins their bodies.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Manual labor isn’t romantic but it’s *actually* essential in a way that mine is not. I wish we spent less time on soft-focus paeans and more on making these irreplaceable jobs as safe and physically undemanding as possible + remunerated in proportion to how screwed we’d be without that work.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gmail marks unimportant things as important and sends important things to spam. Incredible technology.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm still completely unsold on this tech doing anything that requires accurate information, and therefore, for me personally, there isn't a purpose. I don't code and I only want programs that produce data/information that I can trust without double-checking. But now I do get why he's enthused.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can determine the minimum and maximum duration between calls; the birdsong generation is based on a dataset of Japanese birdsong, and the calls are identifiable. This is a delightful, tiny thing, and it fulfills the purpose we envisioned for it perfectly. So it's not that there's *no* use.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The thing about "AI" is that it does have some genuinely convenient uses, primarily in coding for people who already know how to code. A friend just made an awareness timer for me based on a conversation we had a couple years ago: it plays AI-generated birdsong at randomly-determined intervals.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
audiobooks i’ve already listened to and enjoyed, slowed down to 70-80% speed depending on the reader since i already know what’s going to happen, there’s nothing to keep me awake
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes. I'm a fan of extremely limited use for speed enforcement, and you can design the laws well to make sure they can't have a secondary use as general-purpose surveillance devices.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If I'm understanding correctly and it's a general ALPR ban, that'll catch Axon too.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i’d never hear the butch thing but hot wheels definitely made me mistrust her
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my ps5 pro has been randomly turning on for days and i was getting kinda stressed because they’re very expensive to replace now but it turns out that this criminal has decided that the cables/old peripherals/misc. bin in the closet is her new bed and she was turning it on via a spare controller
a fluffy white and gray tabby cat perched up on a man’s seated thigh exposing her chin and neck for scratchessame cat now flopped chin-down on the man’s leg for back of neck scratches
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
oh, that makes more sense but even then it would be less a comparison than “crazypants shit didn‘t stop me back then, to say nothing of being a totally unremarkable non-mormon religion” nice to join you in the community of the blockèd 🤝
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one of the guys with the giant electric menorah in union square once gave me a box of candles to bring to my jewish roommate he was like “oh she mentioned maybe picking some up? here!” it‘s an extremely different vibe from other forms of proselytizing
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she’s saying she used to be mormon and proselytize, and that “i’m a jew” would not have made past her go away not saying that jews are like mormons
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