July 24, 2026
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Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
July 17, 2026
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This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.
July 10, 2026
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Ursula Vernon’s grandmother was fascinating.
Oh, have I not told this one here?
Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
July 3, 2026
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Couch Couch Couch Couch!
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June 26, 2026
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1. Entirely by happenstance, we got to spend time with friends from the East Coast AND from Alaska, both passing through the Bay Area. That was great fun.
June 19, 2026
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1. While I’d like the dang app to just show me my friends’ posts, Instagram has learned to show me very cute animals and I love that bit.
Comment replies since the app is buggy:
@Beth: Great minds! I did start looking at some philanthropic foundations. No traction so far but definitely an area to continue exploring.
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June 12, 2026
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1. I cooked a stir fry and that’ll be good for two meals: Dinner and a day of leftovers.
I’m very proud of myself for including two veggies (green beans and snow peas) and two proteins (pork and tofu). I wanted to add more veggies (napa cabbage, bean sprouts, carrots) but I would have to go much further afield to shop at a produce place that lets me control the volume of veggies. The place we went to prepackages normally loose veggies. While that probably reduces waste for them, it locks me into 1+ lbs of each veggie which means 5 veg types is entirely too much to make a single dish. I couldn’t even fit all the green beans in this one.
That means either I buy more types and some of it goes to waste OR I have to figure out how to use it all up in more than just one stirfry, fail, and then it goes to waste. I settled for only 2 veggies and not wasting.
It’s been hard to find the time to cook in the past 2 years of hellishness so these are baby steps back to a routine that I feel better about.
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