Miscelena 🌳🧬
@miscelena.bsky.social
Anita M
Family & social history, stitching, plants, design, cats.
Y'all means all.
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not-entirely-neurotypical woman of a certain age.
Please buy my gently used books, so that I can buy more? https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/anitamcp
Family & social history, stitching, plants, design, cats.
Y'all means all.
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not-entirely-neurotypical woman of a certain age.
Please buy my gently used books, so that I can buy more? https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/anitamcp
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Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
OMG I'm sorry I'm dying 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
OMG I'm sorry I'm dying 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
Possibly of interest to all my fellow material culture geeks. 😉 (Also: #genealogy #familyhistory)
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Possibly of interest to all my fellow material culture geeks. 😉 (Also: #genealogy #familyhistory)
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
DYK that having a kidney stone will get you fentanyl from your local fire dept?! (Not me, someone else.) I'm honestly surprised they stock it, but there ya go.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
DYK that having a kidney stone will get you fentanyl from your local fire dept?! (Not me, someone else.) I'm honestly surprised they stock it, but there ya go.
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Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
FWIW it appears that my "half-drunk guy at the end of the bar who just wants to talk to anyone" characterization still holds...
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
FWIW it appears that my "half-drunk guy at the end of the bar who just wants to talk to anyone" characterization still holds...
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"People have been using herbal remedies for thousands of years"
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
www.embopress.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"People have been using herbal remedies for thousands of years"
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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if elected officials are happy to see them, they’re not journalists
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
if elected officials are happy to see them, they’re not journalists
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
Posted this (on Flickr) 20 (twenty!?) years ago yesterday.
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Past
News story - Murder Mystery .... Saw his face on the TV last night, and said in surprise "I know him..." Went and dug out my h.s. yearbooks. He wasn't in there... but when I found my eighth-grade ...
www.flickr.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Posted this (on Flickr) 20 (twenty!?) years ago yesterday.
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
In addition to the age issue: There are men who know how to shop for women they love & then there's guys who just want to decorate their possessions.
In my late 20s I dated a guy who wanted to buy me a diamond tennis bracelet. I told him I'd never wear it; not my style. We didn't last much longer.
In my late 20s I dated a guy who wanted to buy me a diamond tennis bracelet. I told him I'd never wear it; not my style. We didn't last much longer.
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In addition to the age issue: There are men who know how to shop for women they love & then there's guys who just want to decorate their possessions.
In my late 20s I dated a guy who wanted to buy me a diamond tennis bracelet. I told him I'd never wear it; not my style. We didn't last much longer.
In my late 20s I dated a guy who wanted to buy me a diamond tennis bracelet. I told him I'd never wear it; not my style. We didn't last much longer.
There's small/local options for skincare and makeup, too, folks.
May I suggest:
surabotanicals.com/collections/... for lip balm, shimmers, and tints.
www.moonessence.com/shop for serums and moisturizer
and you can almost certainly find your local soap maker!
#shopsmall #shoplocal
May I suggest:
surabotanicals.com/collections/... for lip balm, shimmers, and tints.
www.moonessence.com/shop for serums and moisturizer
and you can almost certainly find your local soap maker!
#shopsmall #shoplocal
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
There's small/local options for skincare and makeup, too, folks.
May I suggest:
surabotanicals.com/collections/... for lip balm, shimmers, and tints.
www.moonessence.com/shop for serums and moisturizer
and you can almost certainly find your local soap maker!
#shopsmall #shoplocal
May I suggest:
surabotanicals.com/collections/... for lip balm, shimmers, and tints.
www.moonessence.com/shop for serums and moisturizer
and you can almost certainly find your local soap maker!
#shopsmall #shoplocal
I am still giggling. WTF? How did it even?
One of my senior citizen volunteers sent me some "research" that he had done via copilot that included this cursed map.
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I am still giggling. WTF? How did it even?
I bought a car on the same day as the July No King's protest. I experienced nothing that would contradict this statement.
The primary fascist base is not rural whites. It is your local car dealers.
Hendrick Motorsports sold dozens of SUVs to ICE, records show
The $2.25M contract was for 25 Chevrolet Tahoes
www.wbtv.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I bought a car on the same day as the July No King's protest. I experienced nothing that would contradict this statement.
While yes, it's easier than ever now, the term 'airbrushed' is literal - photographers have been altering photography nearly as long as there has been photography: invention.si.edu/invention-st...
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
While yes, it's easier than ever now, the term 'airbrushed' is literal - photographers have been altering photography nearly as long as there has been photography: invention.si.edu/invention-st...
This has a long long *long* and fairly uncomplicated history, so it's unlikely that someone speaking on this topic didn't know about white supremacist bullshit, and I think we're now well beyond giving people the benefit of the doubt on this topic. If you're genuinely ignorant, catch the fuck up.
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This has a long long *long* and fairly uncomplicated history, so it's unlikely that someone speaking on this topic didn't know about white supremacist bullshit, and I think we're now well beyond giving people the benefit of the doubt on this topic. If you're genuinely ignorant, catch the fuck up.