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I cooked a Thanksgiving dinner for my kiddo to take back with them to college. Their very own dinner for leftovers, enough to share with roommates... if they want. As they drove away I felt lonely. So what did I do? I spent the day cooking. 🤦‍♀️

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild. Grizzly Bear Black Bear Moose Elk Wolverine (yes, I swear) Only 5?! What if I can name more?! Badger Deer Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Osprey Peregrine Ferruginous hawk Red-tailed h. Rattlesnakes Garter snakes Lizards Raccoons Bobcat

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

Tonight: *Chores done (...vacuum tomorrow). *2:3 pies done. Tomorrow: *College kid's "leftover" turkey goes in the oven in the morning. *Roomba. *Work. >>>>Kiddo!!!<<<< Errands Chores Dinner Prep a couple sides Maybe a movie?!

We have a new family member! I hope she's more sane than the rest of us. 🤣

Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.

My college kid is taking a journalism course and is required to use a chatbot to write assignments (which is driving them nuts). The current assignment is to write on anthropomorphic climate change as a hoax. I have so many questions. First, why? Second, can we have our money back?

We're all going to die a very painful slow death.

How much does the turkey have to contribute to your campaign to get a pardon? Are we talking $20 or do you require a plane? Will a tattoo of your logo do?

Kiddo called! Kiddo called!! Kiddo called!!! They'll 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ be home Wednesday!!! 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺 (WTF isn't there a non-binary flag in my emojis?!) This will be me...

Tyson is one of just a few companies that controls the entire meat market. Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices. Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.

I think someone switched my coffee to decaf.

“Kiki, time to RANK my 9 cats I’ve lived with!” “I hate AWARDS season, human! I never WIN!” “My #1 cat THIS year is the one who never LISTENED—“ “COULD be me!” “—who I could never PICK UP—“ “Toes CROSSED!” “—and who WOKE me up last night. The winner is…KIKI!” “Yay ME! Do I get TREATS, human?”

I've been rewarded. My favorite people at work are in this week, including one who has been out for an extended period. 🎉

Why didn't I take the next few days off?! Who allowed me to be this short sighted or optimistic?! They shall be flayed! I woke up before my alarm, realized the time and thought "No! No! No!" The bus is almost empty. Traffic is about half of normal. I feel cheated.

As I fall to sleep tonight I'll be hoping for no more nightmares of my leg falling off, which will probably guarantee it reoccurring. Pray for me.

Big yawn! Capt. Fuzzytail is not available for questions today. #cats #sunday

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IDK, why I don't have a Geiger counter. *Inherited family rocks *Paleontologist at heart *Loves geology too *Has a storage room of rocks *BF mother worked for USGS *BF Grandfather had a working mine *BF was a geek and should have had one I'm certain I need one.

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This new apartment is crazy. The thermostat is set at 66° & "Off." However, it's boiler heat, which means the unit still radiates a little heat. When I got home the temperature read 76°. I opened a windows all the way. It was 54° outside when I went to bed and the house only dropped 1°.

After getting a good night's rest, my takeaway from yesterday is 1. My work might think I'm a pyro and 2. My boss might also be a pyro. 4. There's a slight concern I'm going to start rescuing feral cats on the way to work and hoard them in my office.

Took me a second to work out the logistics here, Fred does like to fold himself into boxes in odd ways. Obviously I went in for danger tickles. #catsofbluesky

This $4 billion industry profits off of America’s school shooting epidemic. “Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers. Read Julianne McShane's full Q&A with the filmmakers here: http://bit.ly/43CZte2

Me: OMG. I need to go to bed early tonight. Also me: I can at least go to bed on time. ...Well, I'm only 30 minutes late. That's not bad. ...WTF? How did I get to 2 hours late again?! Wait. I need to... D@mn!t, what am I doing?!

So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible. But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.

Aurora Police are adding Flock surveillance drones to their Flock surveillance street cameras as researchers say Flock's system is incredibly easy to hack and manipulate. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vsc...

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Guy in front of me on the bus is eating. According to the rules that is not allowed. Usually, I don't care, but I'm hungry. Thankfully, it's some kind of boneless hot wings and my stomach isn't up for that or I'd lean over and help myself. 🤣

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

It's been the kind of day that requires a bubble bath and wine... or maybe pizza and whiskey. We'll see how the commute goes.

What a look!

I often tell people multitasking is a misnomer for what's more actually prioritization. That said, I think today is as close to multi-tasking as you can get. 5 minutes on this project, 5 minutes on this project, 20 minute meeting, 5 minutes here, computer restart/locker label project.

My boss called me to discuss some things brought up in the meeting. *already done *already done *I just hit send *Rachel did it *plan to complete by EOD He started laughing. I took the opportunity to let him know I've hit my anniversary. 😁 I need to start a summary for the next review. 😉

I might be my clinic manager's favorite person. She joined our research town hall and discovered I'd organized a presenter for clinic waste management. I'm just as tired of the issues as she is. 😁

Who saw that coming? Me. Utah has done it for decades.

Not one person at the White House yesterday came outside and fixed the flag on the ground. Not one. It was there all night. Just lying there. I guess the staff was too busy hanging frill fuck gold trim. Or fetching Diet Coke. Or cleaning the bronzer of his stained sheets.

Ded cat, Fritz

Lady Rowen #cats

Joaquin Phoenix in Eddington looks just like my cousin. My cousin might be more sane. I had the hardest time seeing Joaquin in this character because of the costume and beard, but the crazy came through in the end.

I walked into the kitchen and flipped on the lights to get some pain meds from my bag. I looked into the dark living room. A furry void stared back with hopeful eyes, in a "What's up? Do you have treats?" way. As if I'm supposed to believe he wasn't in the middle of some M.D.K. plan (toy/mate/bug).

I am deeply disturbed by animal abuse... including killing dragons. House of the Dragon is ripping my heart out and stomping on it.

Proof dragons can shapeshift.

Pretty sure this is the same woman who in order to launch her own political career gleefully publicly chased down and harassed a minor who was a victim of a school shooting. But yes, we should all do better. www.cnn.com/videos/polit...

Then they came for Marge, but I was already out of fucks to give.

So a law firm in Denver has a Kia for a Lyft car. I'm not sure how I feel about riding around in a lawfirm ad, but if the driver makes more money I'm all for it.

I might be up for an ice age.

I live in Denver. I take public transportation. I purchased a really nice winter coat. Please tell me I didn't waste my money. Where's winter?! It's mid November and 78 degrees in my apartment with the heat off and windows open. 🥵