My dominant hand continues to be a literal pain, so I decided to try painting with my left. The first time was mostly for shits and giggles. But now it is - going surprisingly well?

I missed that this was already going around this year (it’s sure been some kind of year, hasn’t it?). But if anyone has some extra love rattling around, my thread at the holiday love meme is here! gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

I’m a microbiologist with additional specialization in toxicology and making computers do things Just going to wave vaguely at the Everything Everywhere at the moment

Artists! Quote with your yellow art!

I do not have a sweet treat to reward myself with for climbing a mountain, and I am disappointed in me

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “Turns out it’s BSL3.”

I really underestimated just how long full recovery from breaking my dominant hand would be.

If your website has to be an app, you’ve made a shit website.

Libby removing the ability to deliver a book later at an interval of your choice - and replacing it with a blanket hold suspension with no future reminders - is going to result in my reading less. Judge me if you will but I do not have the Brain to actively remember and schedule all my holds myself

Things I learned tonight: 1) Parmesan cheese WILL explode if shaken too hard 2) Getting grated parm out of your ear is a unique experience 3) Clearing a liberal dusting of cheese from every surface in your kitchen is somewhat hampered if you only have one hand, on account of the other being broken

Look, there are plenty of roles for "owner of AI company" in romance novels! The villain, the murder victim...um, the other villain...

Today’s bit of joy: stone fruit season. I just had a platonic ideal of an apriplum.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Fun fact, you’re less likely to break your metacarpals if you are (checks Cleveland Clinic’s notes) under 10, or a woman between 40 and 50.

It is extremely adhd-coded that I did not break my hand doing the relatively more dangerous and interesting thing (paddle boarding on a fast river) but instead doing the safer and much more boring thing (trudging along with my 50lb bag on the way back home)

You don’t even notice how many things you use both hands for until you break the dominant one.

Outdoor pool season is my favourite time of the year! But I do admit to some frustration with the the one-two punch of “needing to book lane swim several days in advance” and “not issuing weather-related refunds, even when intermittent lightning and thunder prevents you from entering the pool.”

Me: explaining how I set up custom autocorrects because of the very normal way letters in the middle of words (especially long or new words) vortex & swirl & rearrange themselves, which doesn’t matter when you’re reading because of course I never read LETTERS, I parse chunks of text Friend: … uhhhh

Yesterday I finally managed to channel a hyperfocus episode into cleaning and organizing! … Friends, I spent most of the day with the fabric shaver and my laundry. I fabric shaved my socks. Fingers on the monkey paw curling back, etc.

That dial goes all the way to 11? Well so does this air quality health index!

It’s happening! My Hoya Krimson Queen is blooming for the first time! Smells like tootsie rolls!

B. Vampire media I was exposed to as a child left the bite marks as two pin pricks. That looks like a snake bite or two needle sticks, so inverse snake bite=siphoning it up through the fangs. Or blood draw=siphoning. You can’t get enough blood from that kind of bite to slurp!

My Hoya krohniana continues to bloom heavily, the only downside of which is that it constantly poops all over the floor. My Hoya Krimson Queen and Hoya sigillatis are both trying to flower for their first time!

This is so cool!

I was a whole-ass adult before I realized that Elvira was not, in fact, Elvis’s daughter. (At some point, as a child, I assumed the “mistress of darkness” thing was because she was sad her dad - who she was obviously named after - had died.)

Arrange your space in a way that works for you, not the way you’re “supposed” to. Cans or bottles accumulate somewhere? Put a recycling bin down. Socks and sweaters pile up by the couch? That’s where a laundry basket lives now.

Apparently these grabby assholes LOVE trellis jail.

Note to self: when doing in-town things like interpretive walks at the bird sanctuary it is not a bad idea to check to make sure you removed the bear spray from your hiking bag before repurposing it

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I have a week off work and no idea what to do with it, because all my hobbies cause carpal tunnel and I’m trying desperately to avoid surgery. It’s too “bear waking up” to go solo hiking. $ is tight. Any and all suggestions are welcome! (Assuming they don’t worsen carpal tunnel.)

Legitimately the best thing I’ve ever done to increase the amount I read is to give myself permission to DNF at any time, for any reason. A DNF isn’t a moral failing on my part. It’s not being mean to the author. It just means it’s not clicking for me atm. So I get to go and enjoy something else.

I only had 67 chickens left 😭

This isn’t going to mean anything to anyone, but I have to toot my own horn. I did my first few sets of RNA extractions, and I’m getting concentrations over 500ng/uL and a bunch of RINs *over 9.* 9.3!!

It is our first truly nice day of the year (despite remaining piles of snow) so I am ignoring the many things I need to do today in favour of sitting out on my balcony and reading a book in the sun.

thrips THRIPS 😭😫😤

One of my least favourite games: is the nausea because migraine, or are the migraine AND nausea because need to eat

Plants who refuse to stop being grabby assholes get sent to trellis jail.

I need the direction I’m facing to be up on a map, or I’m going to be going in circles for an inordinate amount of time.

Dachshund #10. I'm drawing a dachshund every day until THE LISTENERS comes out on June 3rd. This one's my favorite so far, an homage to the Scottish painting "The Skating Minister," attributed to Henry Raeburn. #dachshund

Well, that’s not an ideal configuration for vision correction.

Does anyone have any idea what kind of melon this is? It showed up in my ugly produce box, so it’s potentially slightly off-model. It’s about 8”. (I know that the colour of the flesh would help, but I don’t want to cut into it until it’s ripe, and knowing what kind of melon it is would help that.)

Today I noticed that I’ve used up a half litre of concentrated hydrochloric acid, so I sent a message that said “I’ve used SO MUCH ACID in the last 10 months” and it took me a good 10 minutes to realize how that probably read to non-scientists.

Here is my parent’s barn cat. Her happy noise is a sound I have never heard come out of a living creature before. (Her name is Brenda.)

What are your favourite food to freezer prep? Outside of chilli, what foods do you find reheat well? (General recommendations or specific recipes both welcome!)

I didn’t write any words this year (it’s a thing, I’m having feelings about it), but here are four of my favourite paintings I made in the last year

Today, in things that shouldn’t irk me as much as they do: The fact that I have 12 out of 14 of the Oz novels in the same edition, and the remaining two in dramatically different formats.

I am doing the thing! All of you should also do the thing. gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/313971.html?...

My most kudosed fic on AO3 is So we all are growing young (Adventure Time, Bubbleine.) This is it, the fic that throws off my statistics distribution. It was written early in the show’s run, and a surprising amount of the lore and speculation held up.

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe