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YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

Monday night ear worm: youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic?...

@pitytheviolins.bsky.social might also have recs?

bsky.app/profile/abdu... Abdul El-Sayed is running for senate. He ran for governor the cycle Gretch first won the nomination so I've never been able to vote for him 'cause I wasn't a MI voter anymore, but I would've.

@ac-f.bsky.social, I'm sure you've got more of a hookup than I do these days, especially for Southeast. Any recs?

Also, Ren meet Austen, Austen meet Ren. College friend and known-each-other-for-a-nebulous-forever-'cause-of-our-families friend. 😂

I understand they need to be loud to do their job, but I really wish there was a way to use the test button on a smoke detector without blasting my eardrums.

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other Gaza flotilla activists Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

the thing w/ bari weiss' extremely unearned promotion isn't that it's a reason for the rest of us not to have imposter syndrome, we'd also need to not have morals or ethics or any sense of pride in what we do lol

A street view image showing how there's no pedestrian crossing near a staircase that's poorly maintained.

A historical image of a pedestrian path leading up to the Girard Ave Bridge.

Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park has been engineered to remove most pedestrian crossings and amenities, to speed up traffic.

A thread with 8 examples of things that have been lost, with historical images. South to north.

1. A staircase from the river trail to the Girard Ave Bridge, and Brewerytown:

Every week I recruit more archaeologists and every week I run out of archaeologists again. Lol.

🎶Once again, fuck these ghouls!🎶

Y'know what's a fun way to start the week (said nobody ever)? A low battery chirping smoke detector at two something in the morning. 🙃

YouTube video by The Beths The Beths - "Roundabout" (Full Album Stream)

Monday morning ear worm: youtu.be/YjWbj8JT1w4?...

YouTube video by The Beths The Beths - "Straight Line Was A Lie"

Sunday night ear worm: youtu.be/vU0Q8DKWhQk?...

Hello Apollo!

Wait, cats... plural? I think I missed a cat acquisition somewhere! Marlow has a buddy?

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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still waiting for someone to explain in a way that makes sense why you can't use chemical agents against military opponents but you can use it with total impunity on civilians in your own community

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A physical representation of trying to stay positive in 2025

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

The class is half off right now!

Everything is a lot and I'd really like hugs from these specific people, but... see above.

Why must my best friends live ~300 and ~3,000 miles away?

THEORY & CRAFT SEMINAR: THE MODERN ROM-COM (PART 2) — I AM SPRING STUDIOS *Please note: You do NOT have to have taken PART 1 to take this class! Sessions run over Zoom Wednesdays October 29, and November 5, 12, and 19 at 5pm PST/8pm ET, for sessions that will go...

Do you like rom-coms? Do you like talking about them with other people who like them? You should take @alannabennett.bsky.social's Modern Rom-Com class (pt. 1 isn't a prereq for pt. 2)!

I've taken 2 classes w/ Alanna & both have been absolute delights.
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Literal lol, thank you 😂

I made an orzo glop for dinner that involves chicken sausage, spinach, grape tomatoes, and about half a package of garlic and herb Boursin. It's not bad!

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Happy weekend to me (because I have PTO to burn and a need for A Break!)

This is good and right.

(Nobody needs to remind me that other stuff Newsom does is bad, okay?)