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MAGGIE I HAVE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

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I hope most sincerely that it moves in that direction for you and other folks as quickly as possible 🩵

My insurance has been great so far. But you know why? I have good coverage, yes, but more importantly, breast cancer is Very Common. (And Stanford clearly teaches their doctors how to argue with insurance.) I'm obviously super grateful but also so, so mad-- it should be like this for everyone.

Vinyl peel and stick is finally nice enough and now I am unstoppable So many botanicals So many fish

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As soon as I am not a horrible fever monkey let me treat you to something!!

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This post and any others featuring illustrations courtesy of my inability to do my real job because I've got a raging fever ✌🏼

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Dear fine purveyors of #fishmas, if I wanted to swap this made up angler fish in a board book I'm working on for a *real* species of anglerfish, which would be the *coolest*? *and ideally most colorful, because children

A hand drawn orange anglerfish in the deep blue sea, with the words "Twinkle, Twinkle, little fish" written in cursive around it.

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It really explains so much. Leaded gas and lead paint, my enemies

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When Helene dropped five months of rain in three days on Asheville, Asheville Food & Beverage United members checked on one another and organized their own relief, incl. a joint solidarity fund with @raiseupthesouth.bsky.social, @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reported: labornotes.org/2024/12/hurr...

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In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight

Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of Ashevi...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For your situational awareness, every $1 spent on NOAA yields $9 in benefit to the US economy.

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

And 2025 is the year we see just how fast the tech industry becomes enemy #1 when the base is angry

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Beware letting your toddler know that you can even vaguely draw or their requests will only escalate in complexity and copyright infringement

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you're trying to find out info about the earthquakes/tsunami, what questions are you hoping to find answers to first? And where did you look?

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is the content I needed today, thank you 😍

Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I realize all these questions have proven fruitless so far but...is anybody doing research on nanobots lichenizing?

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Once again, my family has underestimated my willingness to commit to the bit, and so now we are having matryoshka squash for Thanksgiving. (You'd think they would learn someday. They have not.) The real question: is the big blue and pink boy in back a Hubbard, a Queensland blue, or something else??

5 winter squashes of different sizes and colors

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware: - the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania - his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir - he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Eek not licensed! Lichenized!

Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Also if we believe the hypothesis that prototaxites were licensed autotrophs, what would be the most likely symbionts? And a bunch of fiddly details related to that 🫠

Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lots of questions about saxicolous crustose lichens, how quickly they digest their substrates, and under what circumstances they might plausibly grow very rapidly to be very, very big.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/11/2024

Okay folks, this morning we launched our Kickstarter campaign for our new *amazing* card game, One Billion Users. You can back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

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One Billion Users: The Social Media Card Game

A competitive card game to build the biggest and best social media platform

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ok, is this the kind of place yet where I could find an expert in either prototaxites or lichen who could answer some mildly absurd hypotheticals in service of some #soilpunk climate fiction?! It's a. (very unimportant but rather urgent) #fungi emergency 😅

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The English department's IT team trying to explain the password policy to faculty in language they understand

block of text from a book: "The relation of a strong password, taken as a signifier, to its signified is technically
arbitrary. Imposed for the occasion, it is no less purely relational than any signature,
since its function is not to be but to differ. A strong password is of course also conven-
tionally or historically arbitrary, in the sense that it is chosen at a particular place and
time, is subject to degradation in time, and requires renewal if it is to continue to perform
its function: that is, to differ. Yet such change is itself technical in character, a reconstruc-
tion of structural difference against temporal deferral, intended to preserve the security
of the immutable that authentication provides, defends, and presumes or requires all at
once. One changes one’s password to preempt its degradation in time, as storage follows
use, exposure threatens storage, brute force computational attack follows exposure, and
identity masquerade follows a successful attack. Even where it is a strong password and
thus nothing like a word at all, the password suffers the passing that time imposes on
language, and which literary language perhaps merely accents with constructed poly-
semy."

"the technical function of the password is to thwart time in the
name of security: to verify, by means of an invariant linguistic signature, that for the pur-
pose of access to resources, I am the same user I was yesterday. The password permits
me, the user possessing it, to pass, and serves as a pass or key, a promise that nothing
has changed."

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Ash Dylan @ashdylan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Elizabeth, I have included you in the Starter Pack, “People who have had the pleasure of my company.” You’re welcome, Darcy

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Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's baby carrots too, fellow toddler parents

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You are extremely invited over for a cozy printmaking afternoon any time!! I can provide some supplies (and more importantly tea and snacks!)

Also I did not know you were a linocut person?????

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Oh the unevenness is from using scrap watercolor paper, a piece of plexiglass to scrape off excess, and having completely forgotten how to do it and not bothered to look it up again 😅 the ink is prob fine though, it's bog standard speedball, albeit Very Old.

got a real hot date planned for this saturday night

The cover of a book called "A Mycological Foray: where the whippoorwill sound and morel lay | mushrooms et variationes. The book is grey green, with a background comprising a photo of a man crouching to examine the underside of a mushroom he has just picked.

The first spread in a book. On the left side, "Music Lovers' Field Companion" is written in large letters with "John Cage" written in small letters below. A paragraph written in a jaunty serif typeface, larger than you might expect, covers the right side. The book is on a grey comforter cover.

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Ooh I too would like this

Note: so far no one, professional or algorithmically elevated, has been able to break the steely grip of her need to eat exclusively rice for 80%+ of meals. Some things no mere mortal can fix.

"How come your kid doesn't purloin stones from neighbor yards like all other toddlers?" "Before she could walk, the algorithm sent me a random Midwest mom who suggested I start telling her that landscaping rocks are "working rocks" and she was right"

Say what you will about parenting advice from Insta, but my kid is 2.5 & just stopped *herself* from having a tantrum by explaining to her baby fox that it is "okay to be frustrated at your mommy or daddy sometimes". She is better at emotional regulation than most adults I know 😭

Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I was more relieved than I expected to see the extremely niche lit theory and medieval history ppl again 😅

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"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

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