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Today December 13th is the birthday of this guy named Chris who I dated for 3 months in high school. Do I remember what I just went into a room sometimes for? No Do I remember a random dude's birthday from high school? Yes Brains are WEIRD

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We've been to the circus and to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

“Avoiding high-fat foods and eating lots of nutritious foods, like fruits, vegetables and whole grains, helps strengthen your gut microbiome and lower your chances of having a gallbladder attack...” #health #gutmicrobiome

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Leo High School Choir captured our hearts this year in their incredible performance on America’s Got Talent. When President Obama met them this week on his trip in Chicago, they captured his heart, too, with their infectious enthusiasm and an impromptu performance of "U Will Know”.

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HOPE YOU ARE FEEDING HEDGEHOG, BIRDS, CAT AND YOURSELF.

"Before cancer I used to confuse being nice with being kind, and I didn't know the difference. But through this experience, I came to understand true kindness," Kline said." #health #kindness

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"Her reasoning isn’t that these added sugars are directly fueling the growth of cancer cells. Instead, she said, “A high intake of added sugar adds another stressor to the body.”" #sugar #cancer #health

“Avoided deforestation”: boring, jargon, too technical or abstract for the average reader “They saved paradise, avoided a parking lot”: lyrical, tells a story, gives reader an earworm

My older daughter learned to ride a bike today. She was so happy. As she was riding, she said, “I feel free.” My heart is full.

music from my folks' youth #nostalgia #music

Happy Friday! 🎉❄️ Here’s a classic, French ’comfort food’ dish that comes together quickly. #ComfortFood #HomeCooking #cooking #food #foodie #foodsky #cooksky #TheOutpost 🍜🍽️ goodport.blog/2025/12/05/c...

Fabulous overview of the best 2025 fiction books. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

"...diets high in ultra-processed foods are usually lower in more healthy foods, like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and fiber—and those foods are linked with good gut health..." #gutmicrobiome #UPFs #health #cancer

You guys, check out this close-up of nurse shark skin! They have a reputation for being kinda dull brown, but it's really a beautiful sandstone mosaic pattern, and they range pretty widely in color! (That's me on the right in a neon shark print bathing suit during a research workup).

It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... 🎵🎵

Mornin', Glories! ❄️

So many stunning images from the 2025 hurricane season, but this pass into Category 5 Melissa's eye by Air Force Hurricane Hunters on October 27th might be the most breathtaking I've ever seen. (video via FlynonymousWX on X)

TheSunday Post — Week 48 ✨ #TheSundayPost #Food #Groceries #Cooking #Immigrants #Cuisine #Spokane #TheOutpost #foodie #groceryshopping goodport.blog/2025/11/30/t...

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

I went in for a sand castle contest. I received a ball point pen as a consolation prize.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:

hmmnn this doesn't bode well... 🧵

It is the worst holiday I have ever had.

#music #nostalgia

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LOL I took my elderly Mum to a hospital orthopaedic appointment a while back. When the specialist walked in he looked at Mum and I in our masks, backed right up against the far wall, and asked "have you guys got covid?" I just said "no, and we'd like to keep it that way."

Happy Thanksgiving from Sandy, the shark who lives in my office.

Not family, but one time in grad school, my now-husband and I hosted a holiday party for friends. There was an apple pie, and rather than cut a slice like a normal person, one of the guests took the serving spoon out of the baked ziti and--without cleaning it--scooped the *middle* out of the pie.

#health #cancer ❤️‍🩹

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This roasted cabbage is a site favorite because much more than it seems: A warm salad for cold weather. Starter Cabbage for people who are cabbage hesitant. Better from the tray than a serving dish, thus rewarding laziness, you're welcome. smittenkitchen.com/2019/11/roas...

“You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.” "...look in the “General” tab. There, you can do your first opt-out and unselect the “Smart features”... "Next, you click into the “Manage Workplace smart feature settings”...

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Social media from a shark's perspective: Facebook: I like eating seals LinkedIn: My skills include catching seals Yelp: This place serves pretty good seal Pinterest: Here's my family seal recipe, it won't look as good when you make it Twitter: Why do (((dolphins))) control the world?

I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher

The Sunday Post — Week 46 🍂 #TheSundayPost #Festival #Autumn #Music #TheOutpost #photography #humansofbluesky #Spokane #Crafts #multicultural goodport.blog/2025/11/16/t...

#nostalgia #music

Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet. “Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”

any berries in your yard this fall? 🌱💚 #feedthebirds

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

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COVID is not a seasonal virus. It circulates all-year-round.

Get ready to rock and roll! A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is on the way. In about two weeks, temperatures 12 miles up over Canada and Greenland are forecast to spike by 50°F or more. That’s a shockwave in the stratosphere — a rapid disruption of the polar vortex high above the Arctic… 1/