We were going to put away the clean, plastic salad spinner bowl until...🤣

This is what always happens at our house when we don't immediately fold the sheets after taking them out of the dryer. 🤣

T had an explody-shed. "Snake soup" fixed that right up. She was good to go and very hungry for a rat today. 🤗

A raw and a cooked shrimp. 🤣

Chatting with Hubs while cooking made me want to reiterate how lucky I know that I am. I'm an adopted kid, I hit the jackpot with MY Mom, Dad & brothers - MY family, the ones who fought to kept me. I also hit the in-laws jackpot. Family doesn't need to be defined by genetics.

My coworker-friend gifted me a bunch of Panda isopods. I think they approve of their upgraded, larger tank. The smaller one dried out too quickly for them.

Bavmorda got an Easter outfit today! Anyone recognize the pattern on her skirt?

How can this "rationale" be anything other than a lie when caught with your pants down? How can the layoffs be BOTH a mistake AND part of "the plan". It's nonsensical.

Mr. Not Helpful while I was cleaning the kitchen floor. It's now clean...with several spots of watermarked cat prints, LOL.

Using an old language (esp. one that's good at its job) isn't inherently bad or "outdated". Updating older systems can be good/necessary, but it's not as simple as having AI or teenage techbros (who probably can't code in COBOL) just migrate "old code" to a new language. 1/2

This person who used to be a QA software tester for a major online testing company HARD AGREES. This is pretty terrifying, shit will break...fast and very badly. 😬

Evergreen, lol.

Oh, the hypocrisy? This would be funny, if it wasn't so f*&^1ng stupid that this where we are in the the U.S. Dislike Biden's pardons - fine! But, come on. Trump can't own his own policies. "Little Marco", this is a big trial ballon to throw you under the bus. Good luck, I guess?

Bavmorda fell over and sustained some skeletal injuries during the second winter storm (the blizzard-y one). A little duct tape and zip tie shoulder/clavicle "surgery" and the full skele-crew are finally back out! 😁 🤣

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

@archeaids.bsky.social Question for ya - one of Hub's students picked up this piece of chert and brought it to him to "ask the geologist wife" if it's a tool. Looks like natural fracturing to me, but figured I should ask an actual expert. 😉

Hilarious. I wonder if the TVs were on an unsecured network and someone just cast their phone, which is why they had to turn them off to stop it? 🤔 🫡

Trump is SO not used to anyone directly standing up to him, especially in public. He immediately turns into a peevish, petty child. This should happen way more often.

n=2 (or 3?) on the list entitled "The Trump administration really has no idea what they're doing and how things work.

I find it absoflippinglutely ironically hilarious that the Elmo-stan trolls on the other site are posting parts of an OIG report to "justify" DOGE being really bad at both math and reading spreadsheets. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa... www.oversight.gov/reports/audi...

I'm a geologist. We tend to be a weird lot because we can think in deep time. Humans are mere blip in Earth's history and future. But, instead of feeling like nothing we do would matter, for me it's everything I can do while I'm the the tiny blip of matter on this planet that I am.

Moby Dick is quite serious about putting the "bristle" in Bristlenose Pleco. 🤣

Alice Cooper jumped on the counter (surprise, surprise) to "help" me clean it off. The cloth has Seventh Generation disinfectant spray on it....big weirdo doesn't gaf. It's moving...it's a TOY!! 🙄 😂

Bluesky has now caught up with Twit-X on the follow-bots who have big following numbers and no posts with profile pictures of young women. This is n=7 today. Sigh. Sad.

Obligatory big pot of chili on the stove in December in the U.S. Midwest. 🤣

Washer and dryer unhooked for sunroom reconstruction and hubs (who worked pest control) asked me to find the steel wool to plug the hole to deter mice from coming in overnight. He said, "We should stick a cat pee ball in there". I said, "Done, I'll go scoop boxes". 😂🤣

If you have a Samsung Galaxy, the latest update will add a ton of AI "services" to your phone, most of which will be turned on automatically. It also includes this deceptive toggle, which turns off the online collection of your data when you turn it ON.

Bavmorda got a programable LED strip upgrade for X-mas that includes a lights reaction to sounds and music setting. It's super obnoxious, but also HILARIOUS.

All three expertly written examples are my ADHD brain. I'll add my (and Hub's) description - I can be a ferret on amphetamines in full ADHD brain mode. 😂

The four cat pile-up, snuggle-puddle today! Todd (16 year old lady calico), Nessie (9 year old flecked blondie) and the "youngin" 5 year old boys (Alice Cooper the grey tabby and Iggy Pop the red tabby).

Novel Protein #2...T had an explody shed and needed a soak this evening in her food service bath pan. 🤣

My folks are coming to Larryville for Turkey Day. I pulled the roasting pan out for dry brining a turkey in the fridge. I walked out of the kitchen and back in 2 min later. I guess we're having a novel protein instead? 🤣

New Sharpie Friends Rock Adventures for this sote! I'm a geologist, the fake hide-a-key rocks ALWAYS look like fake. I found a little company (Funky Rock Designs) that drills holes for a key in actual, naturally varying in appearance rocks. Our rock is censored for social media because....duh. 😉 🤣

I've archived Sharpie Friend Rock Adventures from the other site to move here. Start w/ the latest - a custodian at Hub's building found this insanely cool rock in KS & sent it home w/ Hubs to ask the geologist what the heck it is. I have an answer. What do you think? How did this form?

THIS!

Pie crust for pecan pie is chilling in the fridge. My fluting always looks like inconsistent trash, but as Hub's says - this way you know it's all homemade. 🤣

Same here, it's the community of geology/paleo/archaeo/bio scientists and science-y "normies" I missed. Great to see Sophie many of those people here! 🤗

Tim Miller's (The Bulwark) rundown of the Sarah McBride bathroom "issue". 1.Women's bathrooms usually have stalls w/doors. 2.The rhetoric is REALLY reminiscent of segregation rhetoric/propaganda from the 20's-50's. 3.The point is simply to be MEAN. youtu.be/83l4AUc9qDQ?...

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Ok...so it was a scientist starter pack! I'll take it. 🤣

Um...this number is batshitcrazypants. I'm not an automatic re-follow person, I like to curate my digital environments. Peeps that I know on other sites, please send me a note to make sure I know who you are and re-follow you.

You know you're a nerd when: 1. Reorganizing the print cookbooks you actually use on the kitchen cart includes two non-cookbooks that you also frequently refer t. 2. There are several lovely rock samples on the cart shelf.🤣

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Life is but a day at most.” Roasted red potatoes are roasted. Traditional mashed neeps and tatties are mashed. Meatloaf mock-up haggis is in the oven. Happy Burn's Night a'bidy.

Hubs pulled out his kilt to wear tomorrow at WashU for Burn's Day (Night). I'll be making a meatloaf version of haggis plus neeps and tatties. 😉

My self-appointed job after being laid off is house org/purging. Found this photo I put in a cheap frame to have on my desk during my last year of undergrad. Hubs (yet to be) and I when he visited during my study abroad in St. Andrews, Scotland. Holy crap, we look young! 🤣

Stunning, snowy sunset

It is done....last day of current job today. A very weird, but not bad day. I raise my sazarac (or your non-alchololic beverage of choice) - Cheers to new, different, and better things in the future. Change can be very good.

Do y'all have a New Year's tradition? Last year, we started one I learned years ago from Scottish mates. Wasn't easy to do prior b/c mussles aren't the easiest thing to find in KS. But, we found frozen ones again, so we're having mussles and rye bread for dinner.