B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nothing like a dog park on the first rainy day of the season to test whether your waterproof jacket is still waterproof. (It is not.) 110
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"When does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?" – Fox Mulder, The X-Files, S1:E2, 1993. The more things change... 000
Reposted by B.Z.Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone. 570562101
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Seriously, I hate the Google Health app so much. It literally encourages people to upload their medical records so the damn chatbot "coach" can make recommendations based on them, while also trying to cover its ass with language like "these features are not for medical diagnosis or treatment." 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I think my first R-rated movie in a theater was Legends of the Fall (1994); I was 14 and obsessed with Brad Pitt, so my mom took me. A year later I wanted to see Seven for the same reason, so my parents bought tix for me and a friend and dropped us off. We were NOT old enough for that one. 😅 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I just realized that the episode last season where Carmy gets an apology was harder for me to watch than the Fishes episode. 020
Reposted by B.Z.WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026“Happy to jump on a call….” Let me stop you right there, bucko. Just answer the question I wrote to you in Teams and we can take it from there. 66631
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I never want to hear about the OKC Thunder ever again. EVER, do you hear me? 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I foresee that I'm gonna stop wearing my Fitbit over the shitty, AI-infused Google Health app. 030
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The new Odyssey movie trailer helped me decide what to read next: I'm going to (re)read @madelinemiller.bsky.social's Song of Achilles and Circe. ❤️ 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I finally finished the 7th and final book in the First Man in Rome series. I could only handle one of these beasts every couple of years, so it took me over a decade...but I did it! Now, do I stay in-era and revisit I, Claudius next? Or take a break from the Roman Empire? Decisions, decisions... 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Good.theguardian.comUS millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephantsErnie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured 011
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I'm outside at a lovely coffee shop. Several seats away is a guy in a video call on his laptop. No headphones: just using the built-in speaker and mic. I feel like there should be a number I can call to report this. 030
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I follow BBC Mundo on YouTube as a way to practice my Spanish language comprehension. I was just scrolling through my feed and saw this. NOT NOW, BBC MUNDO. 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Rick and Morty. I can't deal with their wavy, irregular pupils. 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Six years ago today, my office told us to work from home "for at least the next two weeks." Six years later, I'm still working remotely—and I'm so grateful for it. I miss *many* things about my pre-COVID life, but working in an office ain't one of 'em. 040
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This (+ immunocompromise) is a big reason why I'm still so cautious, lo these many years into the COVID era. I have enough health issues; I don't want to add premature cognitive decline to the mix if I can help it. 040
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Every time the NBC Olympics hockey commentators mention Jack Hughes, I hear "J'accuse!" 000
Reposted by B.Z.Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads. 9379311219
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 06/02/2026This was a big reason why my own "maybe I'll get a PhD" journey was cut short. The person whose lab I wanted to join clearly only wanted *me* because I was already a skilled data analyst; she bristled when I talked about my own research interests during interviews. 🚩 0111
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but Anne Frank's diary isn't a children's story; it was *written by a child*, and it wasn't a "story." It would be more accurate to say that some traumatized, doomed Minnesotan kid is already writing the next Diary of Anne Frank. 210
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to. I'm going to list some artists I've seen more than once: - Allman Brothers Band - Ben Folds ± Five (once each) - Thom Yorke ± Radiohead (once each) - James Blake (twice) - Dave Matthews Band (20-something times; don't hate) 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026If these fucking Democrats don't stop emailing me to ask for money...FOR WHAT, assholes? You don't need my money to get on camera or go out in the streets with your constituents and say "abolish ICE." If you won't do that, then leave me the fuck alone. 061
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 14/01/2026"Are these the men with which I am to defend America?" What an absolute joke. 020
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Hell of a day to start with a 9 AM meeting about firearm injury prevention. "Hey, here's an idea: Abolish ICE." 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 02/01/2026I'm guessing it was genAI that produced this atrocious "artwork" of sideways knitting on what appear to be wood screws? So my 2026 resolution is to never, ever use AI mode. Thanks, Google. 030
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Newt Gingrich once smiled at me as I passed by him in an Atlanta steakhouse. I did not smile back. 130
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I wish this a-hole had stayed retired. (And I hope he catches a nasty case of flu and/or COVID, since he's so anti-masking.) 040
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Department Store Christmas has been my holiday comfort station for many years. somafm.com/deptstore/ 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 27/11/2025We adopted Olive 15 years ago today! (These pics are from a recent "senior portrait" session by a talented photographer friend.) 160
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Gotta love auto-generated captions on knitting tutorials. Twerking around = to work in the round. 151
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I've spent the last five and a half years thinking, "It will feel safe to fly again soon, right?" And it just keeps getting worse. 😮💨 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 22/10/2025This whole thread and the replies give me anxiety even though I don't have kids and graduated from high school almost 30 years ago. I was an overachieving nervous wreck in the halcyon pre-email days of physical textbooks; I might really lose it in this environment. Poor kids (and parents). 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This is the second weekend in a row with a hailstorm in Seattle. Very strange. 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Dr. Planey, thanks for posting this earlier; I'm tuning in from the west coast. I appreciated you sharing your work and insights (and masking up). 💜 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I grew up hearing conservatives talk derisively about UNC, e.g., calling Chapel Hill "the land of nuts and flakes." And now the assholes are destroying it. I hate it so much. (My parents called it that, too, but they sure did jump at the chance to send me there instead of a private school. 🤡) 020
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 06/10/2025At a brewery playing 90s rock. That "she is everything you want, she is everything you need" song was on while I was ordering. The bartender remembered the artist, but I was stumped—and mad about it. Me: "I'm gonna remember in 10 minutes, you watch." ... Me, 10 minutes later: "VERTICAL HORIZON!" 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I just arrived at a busy medical clinic with a full parking lot. Two different cars were parked badly, taking up two spaces each. I noticed one of those cars had a driver inside, sat playing on his phone. I parked in the lane, went up to the window, and asked him to move his car so I could park. 100
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 24/09/2025For the first time in 25 years of online shopping, I received a box with my packing slip (in a plastic sleeve on the outside) and what was clearly someone else's entire order inside. Papercraft supplies instead of yarn. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, honestly. 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This is one of my favorite Brooks Falls bears, 820 Wallflower. He's so handsome. 010
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I'm going to have to turn off autocorrect. "Ducking" was funny, but it just changed "marks" to "masks"—no idea why. Some kind of predictive text algorithm run amok, I'm sure. Still can't fix half my actual typoa (like that one, which seems obvious) but swaps out whole words. Over it. 000
Reposted by B.Z.Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025If you think Wuthering Heights is a romance novel you need to seek the help of a professional 818417
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Whenever I buy something online, I *always* say no when asked whether I want to receive future emails from the company—and every single company starts emailing me incessantly anyway. What a stupid f*cking marketing approach. I tried unsubscribing for a while, but now I just report them all as spam. 000
B.Z. @ziebra.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Welp, I enjoyed the break from constant Sw*ftie content while it lasted. 010
