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
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
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! 😱
