Anna McDuff
@annamcduff.bsky.social
Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in embroidery, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
I reject the claim that air travel was better 40 years ago because 40 years ago you could get lung cancer by riding enough planes
I’ve said this so many times. Wood pigeons, too.
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.If gulls were rare, people would never stop talking about how beautiful they were.
If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 20h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Cars are so much better. They're so much more durable, they get vastly better gas mileage, and most of all, they are SO MUCH SAFER.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
A few hundred miles north of me the Big Grass Fire has burned 350,000 acres. Coleman Creek Fire, 278,000 acres. Tartar Fire, 138,000 acres. The world is on fire, indeed.
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21h agowe managed not to die in a nuclear fire... but the world is on fire all the same short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
Timeline cleanse: This is the best photo I’ve taken this week - a monarch butterfly on a dahlia in the flower field at my CSA farm, which has a pick your own add on. Getting to pick my own bouquet each week heals me.
Happy #OwlAwarenessDay! 🦉 Shredding coconuts is one of 21-year-old Eurasian eagle owl Forrest’s favorite enrichment activities behind the scenes, and he wants you to know about it. As one of the largest owl species in the world, Eurasian eagle owls are very impressive!
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w agoA friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?
Weird 3m aura fun fact—you can tell when you have a counterfeit if a fresh mask does NOT smell like pickles. The real ones smell pickley. Masks can set off metal detectors.
PSA: when someone asks if you're being mean to a toddler, under no circumstances should you answer with "not according to the court appointed reporter"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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The other day I put into a checker a paragraph from a document that is a decade old at this point, and it said that 2/3 of that paragraph was AI generated. The detection tools are garbage.
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The reason your parents and grandparents overcooked vegetables and meat isn't because they were bad cooks
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Holy shit this is Blackheath. I have never seen the common be other than green before. This looks like the land where I’m from in Aus - which has been mostly in drought for 30 years.
Madeleine Cuff@tinymaddie.bsky.social · yesterdayTruly startling - across swathes of England and Wales, dozens weather stations recorded ZERO rainfall in July, for the first time in their history www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
Eyes have something called Alloimmunity, basically isolated from the rest of the body. Why painkillers don't help much and eye medicine goes in the eye. I thought it was so cool I did a whole thing on it for my masters. Eyes are cool af was basically the title.
If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
I have been so stressed all day and watched this 3 times and it cured me
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d agoI need Thames Water to understand that the hosepipe ban is having the exact opposite of the intended effect in our household specifically. i am wasting twice as much water doing the garden
Panera must be so pissed that they had to get rid of the death lemonade before deadly food became trendy