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Welcoming the Year of the Snake 2025: Symbols and Traditions 2025 Chinese New Year approaches, we prepare to celebrate the Year of the Snake, symbolizing grace, wisdom, and mystique in Chinese culture. Let's explore its significance.

Well this does sound like an auspicious year: "The 2025 Snake Year is expected to be a year of reflection, strategy, and growth. It encourages individuals to take a step back, assess their lives, and take measured steps toward achieving their goals." Sounds great! 🐍
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Here's where to find your electeds. Maybe put those numbers in your speed dial. Call, email, write. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Screencap of the Windows 11 screen where you can reduce the blue light in your display.

FYI: In Windows 11 you can prevent the blue light in your display from ruining your sleep. ^_^

Packing tape. 🙄 Odin loves to munch on it. 😬 We have to strip it off of boxes and dispose of it before he notices it. It does not digest well. 😅

Gorgeous! 😻

Why winter makes you more vulnerable to colds – a public health nurse explains the science behind the season Cold and flu viruses often circulate more in the fall and winter, but there are some time-tested strategies for avoiding them, such as vaccines, handwashing and staying active.

Why winter makes you more vulnerable to colds – a public health nurse explains the science behind the season

Hugs!
Writing “grief fic” sounds like a great idea. ^_^ I hope it brings you some peace. ❤️
And no need to apologize!

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt

For children's books about girls & women who refused to be silenced, visit out blog post "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Girls & Women Who Fought for Change" at www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364

What a cool lady! 🥰

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FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history Over 35 years after the first study linking Red 3 to thyroid cancer in rats was published, the US is beginning to wean it out of foods and drugs.

FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history

Wow. 🥰

This article notably omits harm to LGBTQ+ folks, but it nonetheless has some good advice.

Awesome! 😻

This is surprisingly charming.
Cat pictures foster inter-cultural communication. 😊
And folks from China and the West actually talk to each other to get misinformation sorted. 👍

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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It me. I know enough about how AI works to be skeptical. I think it’s brilliant for pattern recognition tasks, and I’m excited about its potential in medical diagnostic tech. But it damn sure isn’t magic. 🙄
Also - Garbage In, Garbage Out 🤷‍♀️

“Middle-class leisure, unlike the aristocratic kind that greeted one at birth, required shifting gears, from a full-steam-ahead search for one’s place in the world to the relative stagnancy that came with having found it.”
For myself, I’m looking forward to Part 2: Life After an IT Career 👍

Engraving-style print of Medusa’s (living) head in black on a weathered red t-shirt, encompassed by the words “Female Gaze” and “Petrify the Patriarchy.”

I wanted to wear my new t-shirt today, but it would be buried under multiple layers of sweaters. 🫤

Super helpful! Also, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a white paper about comprehensive privacy legislation. www.eff.org/wp/privacy-f...

Aww! Good luck to you and the critters! 🍀🤞

It is amazing how watching TV too close to bedtime messes up my sleep. 😵‍💫 And I keep doing it! 😖 I need to treat myself like a little kid - No TV after 8:00 on a school (work) night. 🙄
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Yikes! 😱🙁

Well this is interesting! And complicated. My concern is that people will find a way to get their fix, and we have plenty of illegal drugs inspiring violence already. And there are unanswered concerns about alternate nicotine delivery methods.
(I’m a former smoker, btw.)

I am so angry about the low voter turn-out. What the hell, people?! 😡 I hold those who didn’t vote at all just as responsible as those who directly voted for him.

I’ve never read Don Quixote, and since I’m learning Spanish, I’m giving it a go in Prismatext. (It’s mostly English with some words replaced with Spanish ones. You tap the Spanish word to see the definition - and hear it pronounced.)
Anyway - the Author’s Note is a doozy. 😵‍💫

🤔 It had not occurred to me that there are childless-by-choice movements elsewhere in the world.

After being horrified by things people did with radium in the early 20th century, I sometimes wonder what substances will cause future people to exclaim “OMG, they did what with what?!” Maybe alcohol? 🤔😮

Gray squirrel munching on sunflower seeds scattered on snow.

Carolina Wren perched on snow, deciding which sunflower seed will be their next victim.

A few of this morning’s breakfast guests. I counted 7 squirrels at one time! 😱