Andromeda Yelton

Hello internet stranger, I love your living room decor

This post brought to you by my fourth Amtrak ticket in a week plus no coffee yet

1. Fairies are allergic to iron (common knowledge)
2. Life finds a way (Jurassic park axiom)
3. Variation + selection eventually results in adaptation to many niches (Darwin)
4. Fairies gain strength when people believe in magic (Tinkerbell theorem)

-> there exist iron-road-adapted Train Fairies

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

i'm not going to fall over myself complimenting them for adhering to their own policies, but i do think that choosing to hold the line forces this issue at a lot of other tech companies in ways the administration is unlikely to prefer

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

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Absolutely nothing, I beg of you (as a person with perfume allergies)

photo of a very cute black and tan young goat, looking at the camera with a smiling expression.

Cutest little Norma Jean! She looks extra cute in the winter when she got her thick winter fluff. 🥰

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

I have no idea but that sure sounds cool!

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”

Wise words

What a delightful human being.

Heroic Chicago trans comedian recalls saving infant from ice-cold Lake Michigan: ‘I guess I’m going in’ “The most important part of this entire story is that the baby is okay,” Lio Cundiff told The Advocate.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

Reading @sadieding.bsky.social ‘s book on faceblindness etc. (really quite good thus far), and it says neuroscientists with fMRIs have found visual perception first categorizes things as animate vs not and blobby vs spiky, which is to say, WE KNOW BOUBA/KIKI ON A CELLULAR LEVEL

My cat George’s front paws as he stands on my outstretched hand

share if you agree

AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities.

Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️

It’s my name, and people can deal with it or not. The “decaf latte for - (nervous, strangled gasp)” gets the point across too.

IYKYK, but it’s such a joy when the barista totally knows how to spell your name.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

Second, in order to get the amount of protein that RFK Jr. specifically recommends (1.2 - 1.6 g of protein per kg of body weight), a 150 lb person would need to eat 300 g of liver.

This would provide approximately 210,000 IU of vitamin A and would lead to vitamin A poisoning.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

That seems like it will make all their business travelers extremely unhappy and thus be terrible for their business

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Their scientists were so concerned with whether they could…

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!