Mare Serenitatis's Avatar

Mare Serenitatis

@mareserenitatis.bsky.social

Opinionated nerd. Professor in STEM. Love humor and cute animal pictures. Hobbies include collecting rocks and photography. So very tired. I ❤️ data. Pseudonym of Cherish Bauer-Reich.

173 Followers  |  180 Following  |  288 Posts  |  Joined: 25.07.2023  |  2.1261

Latest posts by mareserenitatis.bsky.social on Bluesky

I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like he probably has a lot of interesting stories.

09.12.2025 20:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
a woman says i can 't say i didn 't see this coming ALT: a woman says i can 't say i didn 't see this coming

As someone who worked my tail off to the point of illness and was basically met with a shrug when I decided to leave, it’s really annoying to see a higher up from my previous job make comments online about how too many people talk about burnout when they should talk about perseverance instead.

09.12.2025 15:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bbe...

OMFG THIS IS HYSTERICAL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

07.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Happy Friday!

05.12.2025 12:07 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Yeah, I had a shopping trip last week when I realized all I had was jeans or leggings. 😬

30.11.2025 01:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can imagine! It has to be a relief to have that dealt with.

29.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sorry. A friend just went through that but he had his first transplant 30 years ago and it held up great for a long time. I really hope you can find a donor.

29.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh man. Sorry to hear that. I hope everything goes well. 🤞

29.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh no. I am sorry to hear that. Can they do anything?

29.11.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was hoping to spend Thanksgiving there but this storm is dropping several inches in IL and I wouldn’t have gotten home. That being said, I was there for Tuesday’s storm. 😁

29.11.2025 20:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s mostly going well. I am feeling better and can already move around but I can’t lift anything over 8 lbs until Christmas. Also got put on antibiotics because one of my incisions looks infected but starting to look better.

29.11.2025 20:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What happened?!

29.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We saw my family last week but came home early because of bad weather. Also, I yeeted my gallbladder.

November has been an unnecessarily eventful month this year.

29.11.2025 01:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Picture of huevos rancheros on a plate.

Picture of huevos rancheros on a plate.

Had no energy and didn’t want to do a bunch of cooking and was just going to make scrambled eggs. Then realized we had made fajitas the other night and had everything ready to go for huevos rancheros. Best tasting lazy dinner ever.

15.11.2025 00:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No one will be able to retire so they can use that as an excuse to get rid of social security.

12.11.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
YouTube video by Zeezy "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)

youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

10.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
50 years later, the legacy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...

Fifty years ago today www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

10.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am not happy about the CR agreement, but it was a good showing. It reverses the federal layoffs. I am annoyed they didn’t hold out for an extension on the ACA credits, but I honestly think Rs were never going to budge. And this forces the House back into session. I understand why they did it.

10.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Layers on top (shirt, sweatshirt, and winter parka), so that I think my ribs didn’t get it nearly as bad as they could have.

But yes, they hurt. And the longer I sit here, it seems like more body parts are starting to hurt.

But things could have been much worse, so I’m thankful.

09.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The one good thing is that I had been carrying my purse on that side, and when I was trying to put my hood up because of rain, the strap got caught inside the hood and caused my purse to ride a bit higher. (I had been feeling stupid for dragging my purse with all night.) I was also wearing three

09.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Joe Bonamassa. It was a really great show.

09.11.2025 15:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had a green light, they always have to yield to pedestrians. “We didn’t see you, though!”

Then maybe you should obey traffic laws and not turn wide.

Anyway, it felt like they were blaming me and she got exasperated when I said we needed to call police.

The whole thing sucked, and l am so lucky.

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

license. They did pull over to check on me. It was a couple and the husband had been driving. He didn’t say a word. His wife was saying they had a green light and the car in front of them had pulled into the next lane. I was running on adrenaline and started yelling that it doesn’t matter if they

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Started to slow down. I heard someone, maybe someone on the sidewalk yelling, and I turned head just before they hit me. I flew about dix feet and then slid on the (fortunately wet) pavement for a couple more feet.

The worst part was how they reacted. I started yelling at my husband to get the

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the car in the turn lane turned into the street behind us. The problem was that the car behind them had gotten impatient and wasn’t paying attention and turned wide…right into the lane I was currently crossing. Husband was five steps ahead of me, and best we can figure is that they saw him and

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I looked to make sure that the person in the turn lane was going to give me the right of way when their light turned green and the pedestrian crossing turned to walk. They weren’t moving, so we started walking. We were crossing a one way with four lanes, and after we got past the first lane,

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was at the ER until 4 this morning. I am achy and probably going to bruise up, but they couldn’t find anything wrong with me. I appear to have no broken bones or anything like that. Keeping fingers crossed that it stays that way. The right side of my rib cage is hurting.

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s the spousal unit’s birthday tomorrow, so for his present, I planned a trip to a nearby metro so he could see a particular guitarist he really likes.

The concert was last night. It was great.

And then, walking back to our car, I got hit by a car while crossing in a crosswalk. I am fine.

09.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

This was annoying Wordle 1,602 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

07.11.2025 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“WEAPONS OF MESS DESTRUCTION!”

Call Cheney.

Oh.

04.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 84    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

@mareserenitatis is following 20 prominent accounts