Becky D ❄️🌲❄️

Don't be! They are going on their own adventures and that's good and right. Your work is so beautiful. ❤️

Nora there are two red & white mini hearts that I'd love as a pair of stud earrings w/ the medium heart at 11 o'clock as a pendant...

Folks! We did it! The Onion has 60,000 subscribers!

We're that much closer to reaching our goal of beating The Washington Post's print circulation by the end of next year. (They were last reported at 97k, but it's probably lower now.)

Thank you all. Democracy died in darkness but we're still here.

@thetraecrowder.bsky.social we need you to come visit Maine! 🦞💖

Enjoy, and cheers! 🍷🧀

So in order to encourage creativity, I told my genetics students they needed to have more than a standard PowerPoint for their final project

Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets

I'm holding up the novel Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer. The center of the cover features an embroidery of praying hands with threads hanging down from the wrists (it's a real piece of embroidery art created by a friend of the author), and the title is written in red all-caps that look handwritten & a bit hectic, arched around the praying hands. Jenny Kiefer's name is in the same font but blue, across the bottom of the cover. In the background, an Xmas tree w/multicolored lights.

Went on an absolute tear in the library & emerged with five books. I'm about to settle in with Mr. Moo, a bit of Malbec, and Jenny Kiefer's Crafting for Sinners...
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Amazing before & after (also, check out Nora's shop omg) 💖

BREAKING on MS NOW:

A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.

A sign advertising 07949020598 wasps £50

absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Starting over is not scary. It's rather exciting, actually.

It's not being able to go back to familiar routines and places that's scary.

But a reset requires letting go of progress once made.

You'll build it again, don't worry.

Mr. Moo, a lorge tuxedo cat, is crouched down in blankets & a quilt on the couch, hunting the elusive Hoodie Sweatshirt String. Only his big green eyes & alert ears show above the edge of the pink & pale blue quilt.

Mr. Moo hunts the elusive Hoodie String (Voted Best Toy 2025 by Mr. Moo). He's hiding so it's mostly just his eyebrow whiskers for #WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfBluesky

OMG 🚨 HECTIC EYES
#catsofbluesky

Me in school, finishing writing projects at the last possible moment & slamming SEND seconds before 11:59:59pm: WTF what good is this ever gonna do me when I grow up

Me now, finishing grant submissions at the last possible moment & slamming SEND: Oh. OK, well, yeah but

Sorry, my friend. 💚

My typical Kroger cart is up over 10% from 2024. That's only because the things they think we're watching, like eggs, bread, and milk have been slightly down or stable. Many other things we need are over 20%-25% higher AND smaller. Any analysis has to take shrinkflation into account!

An explanation of how to say this horrible little vowel that is so stunningly beautiful—including that it doesn’t have an equivalent sound in any western european language—don’t worry about reading it because a video with an example of this sound is coming

But what makes this sound so hard to make? It literally doesn’t exist in any other western european language. When I have been coached on Russian, I was told that this one vowel is THE dead giveaway that you’re not a native speaker if you don’t get it right.

Not for nothing: on a subconscious level, if nothing else, they know this. So imagine how bad the economic data they’re not letting us see must be if they’re trotting out the “you have too many of everything“ argument *10 days before Christmas.*

I really did pick a hell of a year to launch a 5-year journal. #KeepingTrack

Another title on my TBR 2026 list! 📚

Office roomie says they'd just got back from lunch break when the snow began & it got really dim, and the lights were "so cozy and perfect" & then we sent each other ❤️s & then we engaged in ritual disparagement of the overhead lighting. #Success #TheLittleThings

I love that major Dem congressional policy appears to have just broken in Bluesky user GOLIKEHELLMACHINE’s replies

ME: [seven days into the Twelve Days of Christmas, showing up at the bird store again] hello, I would--
BIRD STORE GUY: no. you have to tell me what you're actually doing with all these birds before I sell you any more.

Daily totals for 4 days include 50-75mm per DAY between Mon to Fri.

Like, seriously — HOPEFULLY this changes, but if this doesn’t, this is alarming — there’s potential for over 200mm of rain in 4 days next week.

And this is for Victoria, not Vancouver. Vancouver is even worse.

Making sure all tour drains remain clear, etc, is important for the next 2 weeks. #yyj

1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging.

In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease.

There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵

By no means thriving. Battling the gloom by contriving a small happy for a friend:

Ok to bed soon, bc tomorrow morning we visit the Snow Tire Fairy who will take our money & make the car driveable for the next 6 months! ✨

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