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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Apologies for the delay! I missed the notification. You’re in now.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hi, you’re in! Welcome!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’m extremely nosy when I visit. Expiration dates on meds? Expiration dates on food? Food storage? Broken stuff, weird fixes, volume settings, font sizes? Walking gait, balance, personal care?
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
You’re in! Apologies for being so slow. Add the green test tube emoji to have your posts show in the main feed. 🙂
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“It’s a shell for under my recommended business casual blazer, I mean business casual labcoat.” (That person is an asshole who should not care what’s under a labcoat.)
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you want to sit outside, many herbs grow well in pots and can be started from very cheap seeds. Having nice smelling plants is pleasant for evenings when you can’t see pretty flowers as well.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please enjoy (or not) photos from House of Leaves for comparison.
Photo of an open book with manic typesetting. Photo of a book with minimal type and aggressive page breaksPhoto of a book with diagonal text
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Required to volunteer s/b required to serve.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Not mad at older volunteers, but cannot imagine coordinating folks required to volunteer for X hours to be eligible to retire!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Heaven help the poor volunteer coordinator, too.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No cats? Unacceptable. Please accept these two, who are very much in love. Left tabby is Eric, right is Frankie.
A brown tabby snuggling with a grey tabby. Their heads are smushed together.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wow, congratulations!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Radiochemistry is hard to explain for this reason. Stoichiometry of a reaction can be like 1,000,000:1 and it breaks people’s brains because units are like 1500 mCi which seems big but it’s also picomoles.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hi! Welcome! I’ve added you to the feed. Use the green test tube emoji to have your posts show up there. 🙂
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I would like one that sends bajillions of follow-up emails at progressively shorter time intervals and then adds my boss and the recipient’s boss to the chain. It would save me so much time and annoyance.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Impressive! I’ve added you. Happy posting!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
All the volunteers are mystified about why she hasn’t been snapped up! She IS perfect.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
She has opinions about decorative gourds.
A small orange tabby knocking an orange mini-pumpkin off a cardboard cat structure.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
She supervises volunteers closely.
A small orange tabby with immense green eyes sitting in a stainless steel utility sink.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Kibble terrorism.
A small orange tabby at a kibble dishA stainless steel kibble dish with about 1/3 of the kibble spilled out onto the floor.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Absolutely correct. She also rides on shoulders!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
From the cat café where I volunteer. She is a wee terrorist when awake. 6.5 lbs of chomps snd destruction.
A small orange tabby curled into a tight ball, perfectly circular, in the lap of someone wearing jeans.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I kind of love the genre of ICE vs ice.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I am old enough that I remember taking so many film shots to be sure I got one decent one, and I’m no one’s idea of a good photographer. It’s still kind of amazing to me that digital is so good and easy.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It’s hard to tell, but this is three black cats snuggling together. Two daughters named Inky and Pinky and their mother, Pac Mama. Son Clyde is elsewhere, and son Blinky was adopted. The girls are very protective of their mama, who needed a lot of vet care.
Three black cats snuggling close on a futon covered with a bright yellow blanket with cartoon cats on it.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This fine fellow is named Pedro Pusscal. He went home with his new humans late last week. I hope they keep his name.
A brown tabby with a tuxedo type pattern - white blaze and ruff, pink nose, sitting as a cat loaf on a light wood table. The cat is smiling and looks absolutely content.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Ours is for serving cat food.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy eating!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
You’re in, welcome! Posting rules are pinned at the top of the feed.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Kitty? This guy isn’t an adorable little one. His name is Bullseye. He came to the rescue after being shot in the head with a dart (it narrowly missed every important structure). Needless to say, he’s got some trust issues, but he’s a survivor, and he’s beautiful.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
We went to buy a dishwasher a few years ago, and the first two or three we’d planned to buy were backordered for like 8 months so we basically closed our eyes and pointed at one. It seems fine! I hope you have an easy time with happy outcomes.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
3: if you can afford a little extra $, I recommend SuitSupply for custom measurements. Got a high schooler a suit there for senior year things, and they got good use out of it.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We have a rule in our house: Always rent the bigger dumpster.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
That is such hard work. I’m sorry. I have one or two reminders of my grandparents but there was so much stuff. Dad downsized aggressively when Mom died, so I’m not expecting too much to sort. (Technically his new wife gets all belongings, but if he outlives her, it’s back to his kids.)
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The Texas Carbon. (A honky-tonk, of course.)
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The Kugelrohr Café.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Surely the Rotovap Trap?
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
And eyebrows! What a lovely shot.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A coworker uses a LLM to draft protocols and estimate risks for new processes in a lab setting. She then gives it to me to check as a technical expert. The LLM makes assumptions that render its estimates useless for our purposes, but it does correctly state the assumption, at least.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sometimes just the last two sentences.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I had it stuck in my head for the past week that I was done (or just had one or two more purchases), so I kind of stopped working on it, and wow am I glad that timing of family gatherings buys me a few more days.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I just completed my favorite gift buying excursion: books for the niblings are all acquired! To my delight, one is the right age for “Blueberries for Sal” and another for “Midnight in Chernobyl.”
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Eep, that’s go grear that you’re on a better path! My partner has a similar story, and we seem to have stemmed the tide.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
14.7! Thank you, green leafy veg!
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
One of the best and saddest compliments I got years ago was that I “talk to kids like they’re actual people.” So messed up.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
But yeah, I did sound like I was pushing past common sense. Just more thinking out loud that I should make sure to eat iron-rich food to make sure I’m acceptable.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Aw, it’s not actually low - I missed by something like 0.2 and 0.4 on 2 of the last 4 appts so it’s more like “make sure to get plenty of green leafy veg that week.” I have been donating for years on a 12 week recall without issue, so I just need to be a bit more thoughtful.
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Next week! (Got to figure out how to get my iron higher but this is a quick and easy good deed!)
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My takeaway from this and many other adventures, was that I’d never be very good at any of the womanly arts. Yours is lovely.
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