Amanda

My dad is actually a good cook and they normally shared the tasks! But my mom had always made gravy, and after that year she continued to be the one to make gravy

one year my mom was away, so my dad was in charge of thanksgiving. My grandpa was newly celiac, so my dad wanted to make gravy with cornstarch, instead of flour. And he kept adding cornstarch, because the damn gravy wouldn't thicken. By the time it had cooled, you could stick a spoon upright in it.

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...

Let me just say to Mass residents following along, your legislative leaders on the Advanced IT committee are absolutely standing up for your privacy rights and we truly do love to see it. They're taking their responsibility very seriously and sticking up for us regular people.

My roommate is a professional Irish dancer and she says they all think "professional whimsical skedaddler" is hilarious too

We won! Good job everyone. bsky.app/profile/angu...

My girlfriend, while editing and asking me about cholesterol:

you're my favorite desk reference. Well, for science questions that social scientists are likely to use/misuse as metaphors. Garner's Modern English Usage 4th ed. is also pretty foxy tbh

Butter River: Cleaning up Madison's largest commercial fire On May 3, 1991, a massive fire engulfed Central Storage & Warehouse (CSW) and created a burning river of melted butter in Madison's streets.

Today I got to tell my housemate about the Wisconsin butter flood www.madsewer.org/news-resourc...

30 seconds after this photo was taken she decided she better just stand on my wrist after all

A determined long-haired cat is poking my arm with her paw, because I dared to stop petting her to do my computer work

They are very persistent

Well. Speaking of typos

I used to correct typos *constanty* as a kid until my English teacher in high school graciously taught me that people generally don't like that

I once lived with a longhaired white cat. She got diarrhea once. I was the only one home

Commendable effort

What a sentence

Good reminder that I have boxes of fabric from my grandmother to drop off there

Skid is the lizard being folkposted, yes. The destinations of the lizard and the two lesbians are in three separate states but the plan is very elegant

Time to write another verse to the lizard song I suppose

My brilliant plan for folkposting a lizard across the state involves two lesbians visiting their girlfriends and skid just along for the ride

Thank goodness for the @smittenkitchen.bsky.social blondies when you want to make something for a party in under an hour and without needing to look up the recipe

You have crocs?

one of these days I'll have a garden, but in the meantime i'll just enjoy the interesting plant things i learn

it's also still interesting for people who are read up on this topic! I learned way more about the sports world and how gender testing has changed with new medical technologies but has been fundamentally the same for over 100 years

Still thinking about Agatha All Along and I wish Bitch Magazine still existed bc the way I would read some longform feminist analysis of those characters

My parents' elderly cat with her face smushed between two hands. She was caught licking the pie and shows zero remorse

A hole eaten in the top crust of an apple pie

The face of a guilty cat

Tasty and not annoying to cut!

Check out this dark fucking reality of the biotech bust. 16M square feet of vacant lab, with a demand for 1/8th of that.

You know those buildings that are just -stopped-? This is what that's about.

18/?

Killing time until my housemates are out of the kitchen so I can heat up my leftover lentils and make pudding without giving them the flu