merryjane 🎄white
@marijane.bsky.social
ask me about the blanche devereaux mortification scale
wilhoit's and murc's laws rule everything around me
anti-conservative | librarian | enginerd | cat lady | adhd | gen x | pdx
she/they
rdfs:seeAlso: @marijaneWhite.bsky.social
wilhoit's and murc's laws rule everything around me
anti-conservative | librarian | enginerd | cat lady | adhd | gen x | pdx
she/they
rdfs:seeAlso: @marijaneWhite.bsky.social
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merryjane 🎄white
@marijane.bsky.social
· Aug 17
I have one needy cat and one kneady cat.
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your ride is here
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
your ride is here
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
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Nurses at Legacy Emanuel hospital are raising alarm bells, saying hospital policies accommodating immigration enforcement agents violate the code of ethics they swore to uphold.
Legacy Staff and Nurses Union Say Hospital Policies Harm Immigrants
Jeremiah Hayden
www.portlandmercury.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nurses at Legacy Emanuel hospital are raising alarm bells, saying hospital policies accommodating immigration enforcement agents violate the code of ethics they swore to uphold.
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🎵
car is over
if you want it
🎶
car is over
if you want it
🎶
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🎵
car is over
if you want it
🎶
car is over
if you want it
🎶
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For my friends in #WA and #OR who are looking for #earthquake information - see the newly designed Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) website:
pnsn.org
With information on earthquakes, volcanoes and much more.
A great site for those of us in southern #BritishColumbia and northern #CA also!
⚒️🧪
pnsn.org
With information on earthquakes, volcanoes and much more.
A great site for those of us in southern #BritishColumbia and northern #CA also!
⚒️🧪
Home
pnsn.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
For my friends in #WA and #OR who are looking for #earthquake information - see the newly designed Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) website:
pnsn.org
With information on earthquakes, volcanoes and much more.
A great site for those of us in southern #BritishColumbia and northern #CA also!
⚒️🧪
pnsn.org
With information on earthquakes, volcanoes and much more.
A great site for those of us in southern #BritishColumbia and northern #CA also!
⚒️🧪
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Image of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Image of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda
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"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
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in honor of our centennial man, my favorite dick van dyke show fact:
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
in honor of our centennial man, my favorite dick van dyke show fact:
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
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A Skeptic's Guide to AI
I wrote "How to AI" both for everyone who is dabbling in AI, or wants to avoid it and know what they're up against.
It's as much about where AI isn't appropriate as where it is.
Out 1/27. Updates and newsletter here:
mimsical.beehiiv.com/p/a-skeptic-...
I wrote "How to AI" both for everyone who is dabbling in AI, or wants to avoid it and know what they're up against.
It's as much about where AI isn't appropriate as where it is.
Out 1/27. Updates and newsletter here:
mimsical.beehiiv.com/p/a-skeptic-...
A skeptic's guide to AI
Introducing the one book you might want to read about AI -- even, or perhaps especially, if you're not a fan
mimsical.beehiiv.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A Skeptic's Guide to AI
I wrote "How to AI" both for everyone who is dabbling in AI, or wants to avoid it and know what they're up against.
It's as much about where AI isn't appropriate as where it is.
Out 1/27. Updates and newsletter here:
mimsical.beehiiv.com/p/a-skeptic-...
I wrote "How to AI" both for everyone who is dabbling in AI, or wants to avoid it and know what they're up against.
It's as much about where AI isn't appropriate as where it is.
Out 1/27. Updates and newsletter here:
mimsical.beehiiv.com/p/a-skeptic-...
The right to distribute a work is held by the copyright owner alone, and it is automatic upon creation of the work. If you did not give them permission to post it, they are infringing your copyright. Protections for unregistered copyrights are limited but you can tell them to take it down.
December 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The right to distribute a work is held by the copyright owner alone, and it is automatic upon creation of the work. If you did not give them permission to post it, they are infringing your copyright. Protections for unregistered copyrights are limited but you can tell them to take it down.
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Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.
a man in a striped jacket is walking with three penguins behind him
Alt: Dick Van Dyke, dancing with penguins in Mary Poppins
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.
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Now that we've coalesced the Iowa farm house price discourse around the fact that that house is, in fact, unlivable, maybe that will have an impact the next time "there are actually eleventy bajillion empty houses for people, they just don't want you to have them" comes across the hopper again.
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Now that we've coalesced the Iowa farm house price discourse around the fact that that house is, in fact, unlivable, maybe that will have an impact the next time "there are actually eleventy bajillion empty houses for people, they just don't want you to have them" comes across the hopper again.
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[softly] what the fuck
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
[softly] what the fuck
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The Custom Oregon Plate LOGOUT was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #LOGOUT
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Custom Oregon Plate LOGOUT was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #LOGOUT
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Absolute banger comments about the need for bus lanes on 82nd Avenue from TriMet board member Tyler Frisbee at their meeting Wednesday. I clipped it up for your convenience youtu.be/5UwEepFnoYI
What the Bus Lane Debate on 82nd Ave is Really About
YouTube video by BikePortland
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolute banger comments about the need for bus lanes on 82nd Avenue from TriMet board member Tyler Frisbee at their meeting Wednesday. I clipped it up for your convenience youtu.be/5UwEepFnoYI
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It is literally life and death if you speed
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It is literally life and death if you speed
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#MSH45 | Dec. 12, 1980
Circle the lava dome. Watch it vent. Land anyway.
Inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, USGS scientists treat the dome like a living instrument panel.
Measure gas fumaroles, check temperatures at the hottest reachable spots, and lay tape across cracks to track growth.
Circle the lava dome. Watch it vent. Land anyway.
Inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, USGS scientists treat the dome like a living instrument panel.
Measure gas fumaroles, check temperatures at the hottest reachable spots, and lay tape across cracks to track growth.
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
#MSH45 | Dec. 12, 1980
Circle the lava dome. Watch it vent. Land anyway.
Inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, USGS scientists treat the dome like a living instrument panel.
Measure gas fumaroles, check temperatures at the hottest reachable spots, and lay tape across cracks to track growth.
Circle the lava dome. Watch it vent. Land anyway.
Inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, USGS scientists treat the dome like a living instrument panel.
Measure gas fumaroles, check temperatures at the hottest reachable spots, and lay tape across cracks to track growth.
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It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.
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Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
The deeply personal reasons why many Indiana Senate Republicans said no to Trump | CNN Politics
Jean Leising spoke at a breakfast this fall at her 8th grade grandson’s school. Hours later, when she was set to give him a ride home from basketball practice, he bashfully told her that his entire te...
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
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Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
The Attack on Somalis is Hate Politics
Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota
www.unpopularfront.news
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
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The National Water Center has issued an updated Key Messages for the ongoing Catastrophic flooding impacts this week in Washington. More info: water.noaa.gov #flooding #wawx
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The National Water Center has issued an updated Key Messages for the ongoing Catastrophic flooding impacts this week in Washington. More info: water.noaa.gov #flooding #wawx
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OpenAI’s Sora just made a deal with Disney. Over 200 Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars characters will be available to use in Sora videos. Disney will also use OpenAI APIs + ChatGPT at work and invest $1B in OpenAI.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
openai.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OpenAI’s Sora just made a deal with Disney. Over 200 Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars characters will be available to use in Sora videos. Disney will also use OpenAI APIs + ChatGPT at work and invest $1B in OpenAI.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
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Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
How Tennessee 7th’s 13-point Democratic shift would look across the nation for 2026
Last week, Republicans won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by 9%, and it has them scared shitless. That’s because the margin was 13% worse than the previous representat...
heartlandsignal.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
this puts me in mind of Conway's Law
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
this puts me in mind of Conway's Law
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One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
retractionwatch.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...