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@precatlady.bsky.social

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(they/she) Average social science doer, DIYer, cat lady, and occasional poster of frustrated local politics comments. Some know me as a digital public archaeologist. Personal account. Very tired, as portrayed by Muffin the foster cat.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is where I'm gonna put my garden photos that seem likely to bring others joy (as they do me)

K @precatlady.bsky.social · May 28

IDK how to post on the garden feed but here's some cool flowers from this week, starting with PEONIES!!!

Side view of ethereal fluffy pink peony petals accented with bright white light reflecting off them

A mostly open pink peony flower very ruffled and densely packed with petals

A fully open pink peony flower with loose outer petals and a dense middle almost like a baseball made of little flaps

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 1d

Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration

Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 1d

(they usually don't live the inside the house as far as I've seen but still)

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed my point was also that a lot of Muslim people and people countries governed supposedly according to that tradition keep dogs as pets!

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

If I can offer anything, cat supplies for example, please do hmu, I'm doing okay and would be happy to

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

I am glad for spirits rising, hope being grasped, humane ideas becoming less marginalized, but i have never been a person who gushes over someone who does a really good job interview, even if their job duties impact my life. Not when Obama played that role as a candidate and certainly not now.

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 2d

Yay we passed the Parks Levy! Great job Portland!!! 🛝🌳

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 2d

Tonight is many things, but it is among other things, vindication for Lindsey, for being brave and speaking up about Cuomo's abuse towards her and other women.

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 2d

I’m very superstitious of election night, but not today.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

Also the total lack of cross cultural experience

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

The degree of racism and religious bigotry is truly absurd

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

I knew of course but "dogs are banned because the Muslims find them offensive" still got me slack jawed

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

I usually say I support queer people without caveats but this guy is the exception that makes the rule

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 2d

I will try! It was fine previously but I am skeptical it made it yhru that last month of summer heat, frankly I think that site may not be doable and a whole new tree not in hellsttip may be necessary

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

As if to say, made of puff pastry

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

Hey... You... Set up regularly scheduled backups of your hard drives. Yes YOU.

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 3d

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

I bet their router password is admin

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot say for sure when the neighbors' trees fruit but I know there are at least two within a half block, and 1 directly across the street that fruits in early season

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

He has a theory that he might be able to graft one onto my sad but established rootstock that I left in the ground after removing the unfortunate jonagold fungus situation but I suspect he shan't make it here to try it in reality

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

Remember to drop off ur ballots people (me also)

K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

He talked about ashmeads kernel at length

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

That friend i connected you with in the other app has been nerding out about grafting for a couple years and I bet has an opinion, we just did their annual cider press a few weeks ago

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 3d

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 3d

Internet archive can be used for this right now by anyone

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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste.
sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

The federal government wants to crack down on left organizing. A century ago, it largely succeeded.

Socialist labor leader and presidential candidate Eugene Debs upon his release from federal prison in 1922.

sufficienttotheday.substack.com

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 4d

The complexes in far North Portland and their community center and garden plots are pretty cool imo

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 4d

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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