Saavik Pie Ford 🥧

(I mean I also wanna come talk to all the fabulous scientists and also see the country… but, um… pie?)

So far nothing… but it’s the Wednesday before TG… so I’m nervous! 😂

Omg. I really need to visit Aus. I make pie my middle name for November for a reason—I love pie in literally all its forms!!!

forgot to share my research with the rest of the class, but she was married for some time to a Jeffrey S Waldbillig & her full name for a long time was Iwona Beata Horyn Waldbillig.

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An image featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early this month, showing not only a white dust tail trailing off to the right but its blue solar wind-distorted ion tail trailing off to the left. Far in the distance on the left is the magnificent central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, featuring dark dust, red nebula, and including billions of Sun-like stars. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is already fading as it heads back into the outer Solar System, while the Himalayan mountains will gradually erode over the next billion years. The Milky Way Galaxy, though, will live on - forming new mountains and comets - for many billions of years into the future.

Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

Credit: Lin Zixuan (linzx23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn), Tsinghua University

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

As a newly elected department chair… why am I thinking of this AO3 entry today? No reason, I’m sure…

(It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.)

Wild Turkeys Went from Almost Gone to Millions Strong Wild turkeys once nearly disappeared, but today they’re thriving.

We talk wild turkey (their decline, and resurgence) on today's episode of science quickly.

Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).

By the way, note that the description of Biden as being "in obvious mental decline" was left in the speech, while the description of Trump as the "most openly corrupt president in American history" was removed:

They’re not terrible or anything but I kinda liked the idea of turning it into art—I’d been thinking about a big black Celtic knotwork tree connecting & integrating all the scars. 🤷🏻‍♀️

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf - Medievalists.net Although the Persian Gulf was not as prosperous or influential in the Middle Ages as it is today, the region boasts a fascinating history. This book delves into its communities, exploring their…

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-... #books

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation

This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas

God-fucking-dammit!!!

I had been planning to tattoo the fuck out of my leg with all the surgical scars… but since I already have an autoimmune condition, this study is giving me serious pause. 😭

Anyone with UC & tattoos got any experience?

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"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social

The last stitch usually turns out a bit loose. If you seam your knitted piece to another, that won’t be a problem. But for “free-standing” pieces there is a fix:
Knit to last stitch, lift the stitch below the last stitch onto your left needle and knit the two stitches together 🧶 #knitting

I can, unfortunately, confirm.

LMFAOO

Apparently McSweeney’s is just publishing normal women’s work emails now?

(I’m not cringing in recognition of those tics, YOU’RE cringing in recognition!)

Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...

Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:

Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn. First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.

Elite capitulation continues.

Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.

myeu.uk – see what the EU has done for you The EU invests around £5 billion a year in the UK. Search by your address or postcode to see some of the investments near you.

Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...

www.myeu.uk

Your car reminding you not to forget your baby in the back seat is woke

Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Steak and mushroom pie is DELICIOUS but not for dessert!!!

We have empanadas and Jamaican patties (at least in my part of America) which are pretty close to eg Cornish pasties.

But I would absolutely love to see more savory hand pies here.