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Stacey Berg

@staceyberg.bsky.social

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Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 18h

Appears to be airfyer, you know, the thing you add air with 🤪 But pretty sure the air fryer would work too. Nice crispy little okra wheels, some gochujang for dipping, mmmmm….

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 18h

Has a very #ModestyBlaise (comic strip version) feel, which is always a good thing

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 20h

Steelers, Bengals to meet in the #IcyHotBowl

Rodgers, Flacco happy to be part of 'Icy Hot bowl'

In Thursday night's Steelers-Bengals matchup, Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco will become just the second pair of opposing quarterbacks 40 or older in NFL history to start a regular or postseason game ag...

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 22h

If only he were here we would gladly give it to him.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 22h

Airfyer works too!

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 1d

Where okra comes from

Photo of a yellow flower with purple veins and purple pistils

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 1d

“Innocent bystanders” implies a degree of helplessness that seems too easy an out. “We’re not in politics?” They need to be.

Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 1d

“We are not afraid of our own ideas” should be every Democrat’s approach.

At raucous rally, Mamdani argues he’s leading a movement beyond the NYC mayor’s race | CNN Politics

Declaring that he is leading a “movement that won the battle over the soul of the Democratic Party,” Zohran Mamdani used a raucous rally with over 3,000 supporters in Manhattan’s Washington Heights on...

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 2d

Penn State football coach’s contract buyout would fund the budget for SIX YEARS at one of the campuses the school is closing due to cost concerns.

Photo of football coach with headline “James Franklin’s $50,000,000 buyout turn some heads after Penn State‘s recent cost cutting.”

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 5d

I’m declining to make all kinds of topical political double entendres.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 7d

Someone should put together a video of all the times he’s said he’s not aware of a major national issue.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 7d

I’m very very frightened!

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 7d

Dudes, I’ve lived in Houston since 1994 and we’ve been in traffic purgatory since then.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 11d

Has anyone else noticed that lined running shorts are actually a Klein bottle?

Photo of an inside out pair of line running shorts that appears to have one continuous surface between the lining and the outside fabric, a structure hypothetically, only possible in four dimensional space.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 12d

We need to stop viewing our age as exceptional. People (including scientists) have been passionately wrong about the natural world for at least the history of the western world. As long as inquiry persists error gets corrected. What we need to advocate is continuing inquiry with minimum quackery.

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 14d

But it’s just for practice.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 14d

A lot of things are terrible but here is a small wonderful kindness.

These hermit crabs are using trash as homes. He’s fixing that | CNN

One night while documenting wildlife, photographer Shawn Miller discovered hermit crabs living in trash. Now, he’s on a mission to swap their plastic homes for proper shells with his conservation proj...

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone who heard about Project 2025

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 15d

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun”

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 15d

It’s not that no one cares, is that’s everyone knows. But the funniest part of this news is the idea of asking Ken Paxton to investigate someone else’s corruption.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 19d

I don’t think so, because you know where the glutes actually are.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 19d

Was just looking up an exercise (not with an AI search) and the AI results summary told me to focus on my front glute. I don’t think I learned about that one in anatomy class.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 21d

“Sapphire coated Jolly Ranchers” wins the science communication award of the week.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 23d

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 25d

That sets a new standard.