The six year-old complained of boredom. She did not appreciate her parents congratulating her and telling her how great this is for her brain.
This morning, the elder child replied, “ok, science guy!” in conversation with his dad. This advanced degrees are finally paying off, @mtnsnark.bsky.social
And now we begin the gauntlet of fall kids activities, school, etc. The meal-planning logistics alone are a tactical challenge that will require maestro-level execution. Hope we can fake it!
Turns out that literally the whole world is ready for a takedown of the Mercator projection of the globe in 2D rfi.my/D1FG
Africa bigger, US smaller - UN adopts new map
The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington.
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Hey, remember that time that I decided that leaving a lucrative career as a software engineer to be a ski instructor was a rational idea, because an active job in natural outdoor light would eliminate so many migraine triggers from my daily life? Those were good times.
Decades before Dolly Parton helped fund research supporting Moderna's Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, she raised money for people with HIV and AIDS and joined the 90s "Break the Silence" campaign promoting AIDS awareness, sex education & condom use - at a time when doing so in country music took courage.
Corporate masking is not gushing over the most excellent pro-social behaviors displayed by my interns and evaluating them solely on “technical skills” and “leadership”
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Mice May Drive Lyme Disease More Than Deer
For more than three decades, researchers have been tracking ticks, mice, oak trees and other wildlife in a New York forest to better understand what makes Lyme disease more likely to spread. Their lat...
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Bought a cute shirt with an owl print on it at the local arts festival. I told the artist that to many Native people, the owl is a potential harbinger of death. She said, "I always saw them as a good omen." I smiled and said, "They can be. Someone shitty could die!" She looked horrified.
So glad I bothered with the feed this morning, so that I could stumble across this gem
Louisa Radice@louisaradice.bsky.social · 4w ago@mtnsnark.bsky.social found these at Costco, and I am both excited and kind of offended that Lays has been holding out on us American suckers with their whole potato-based chip identity
There have been a handful of moments in my time managing people where I am awestruck by the lack of workplace trauma that has settled into the people who have been working for me for pretty much the entirety of their burgeoning careers. I am at least doing a few things right. Sometimes.
I haven’t seen what modern elementary kids turn to for hilarious math problems backed by wacky stories. Surely, it’s not still Sideways Stories From Wayside School, is it?
An anthology of Indigenous voices, published by Utah publishing house Torrey House Press, just won a 2026 American Book Award.
This book from a Utah publishing house won the American Book Award
"Beyond the Glittering World" was published by Torrey House Press in 2025.
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The workplace AI declared me an adversary today (in the best way, it claims), and it was honestly the highlight of my day.
Retailers should rebrand their furniture assembly fees as quantifiable amounts of recycling that you don’t have to deal with. I like assembling the furniture. Might have paid money to not deal with the cardboard, though.
It’s time for my annual rant to the grocery stores that I’m far more interested in knowing if the peaches are freestone or clingstone varieties than I am in knowing the color of the flesh of the fruit.
Went with: This document, if for some reason critically necessary to enrolling a 6 year-old in intramural soccer, will be shared via secure link upon demand with relevant parties. I do not have enough information about the security profile and data handling standards of your website…
Jazz@coyotesdaughter.bsky.social · 2mo agoSigning my 6 and 8 year olds up for youth soccer apparently requires uploading their birth certificates. Thinking of uploading a picture of my handwritten, “I don’t trust your data security posture enough to upload this to your system,” instead.
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing
A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.
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Signing my 6 and 8 year olds up for youth soccer apparently requires uploading their birth certificates. Thinking of uploading a picture of my handwritten, “I don’t trust your data security posture enough to upload this to your system,” instead.
Children’s Science Centers have some of the best cautionary signs
What does one even do with the undiscerning baseball card collection their younger self amassed in the mid-nineties?
We drove by an orange sign warning of “damaged guardrail ahead” on the highway, and I’ve spent way too many brain cycles trying to figure out what drivers are supposed to do with this information.
Others: let’s try these instant oats to see if they’ll be a good quick breakfast for busy mornings! Me, rereading the instructions I always use for the “traditional” rolled oats: microwave for 90 seconds… I still don’t understand instant oats
Parent PSA: some of the most exciting presents my newly-eight-year got for his birthday were mechanical pencils, and a pile of rocks. Don’t overthink it.
The irony of the frustration of trying to figure out how to reactivate my Headspace account to use my new “organizational benefit”…
Remember, if you’re ever setting up a self-service food line, put the least inclusive options at the beginning of the line. Plenty of people without food restrictions will just take the first palatable option they see, so whatever comes first will naturally run out sooner.
I definitely spent some time horrified by the new Doritos flavor, before I squatted down and realized it was “FL” and not “H” at the begging of the word…
Chronic illness (or maybe just hypermobile) delight: that regular prompt from your fitness tracker to log that workout that got you heart rate all bothered, but there’s no tag for “shower”.