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Stephanie
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Personal finance 🤑, STEM 👩‍🔬, parenting 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒, baking 🍪🎂
Go Bills 🦬
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A chance for some minor snow Sunday, especially toward the South Coast. Ensemble odds of 1"+ shown

I'd say a coin flip at the moment whether Boston gets anything measureable

Running out of time for snow chances before Christmas. No opportunities next week.
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
TW: body image

Really don’t think I was prepared for the aging process. Was used to having a body I could trust to keep up with what I want to do, staying in the shape I want without effort.
Now I get exhausted easily, aches, pains. My body has extra “curves”; I don’t know how to dress.
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In honor of BRAINS being the GRAND PRIZE WINNER for the MICE Mini-Grants, I have made it pay what you want on itch for the next week alexandragallant.itch.io/brains so you can snag a digital copy.

Print copies will be available to purchase in January!
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Today’s the 67th day of school. And yes school decided to embrace the nonsense and celebrate.
6️⃣7️⃣
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s only Wednesday?!?!!?!?
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Seasonally appropriate science! ❄️⛸️🧊🏒🧪
In computer simulations, as an object slides along the surface of ice, a structureless, "amorphous" layer forms. Materials scientists at Saarland University in Germany argue that this process may be the cause of ice’s slipperiness. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-s...
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.

Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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In this case, "possible health risk" means salmonella - which no one wants. If you shop at Wegman's and have recently bought their mixed nuts, check the batch number here.
Mellace Family Brands California, Inc. Recalls Wegmans Deluxe Mixed Nuts Unsalted, 34 oz and 11.5 oz Packages Because Of Possible Health Risk
Mellace Family Brands California, Inc. of Warren, OH has issued a recall for Wegmans Deluxe Mixed Nuts Unsalted 34 oz Tubs and Wegmans Deluxe Mixed Nuts Unsalted 11.5 oz bags because they have the pot...
www.fda.gov
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Oh no I have to go to work again today?
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I’ve hit that point in December where I know I’ve gotten plenty of gifts for people but I want to buy more?!?
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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On this National Christmas Card Day we are pleased to share, from the Library's special collections, a copy of the first commercial Christmas card. It's from 1843, the same year “A Christmas Carol" was published. Both helped establish the Victorian concept of Christmas. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/12/...
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I am tired of being lectured about "breast is best," especially by men. Some people can't breastfeed. Others might be able to, but we don't need to be "encouraged" by the government to do so.
We need healthcare, we need paid leave, we need true legal protections to breastfeed in every kind of job.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"I wasn't going to breastfeed because my job won't give me breaks to pump milk and I only have a dirty storage closet to do it in and I can't afford the pump...but now I am going to do it, because the government 'encouraged' me to" -- no one
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Other humans exist! Baby books exist! How does he think humans have managed to survive this long without his plagiarism machine?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I recorded this podcast 7 years ago, but every year it goes viral because people are still discovering the deranged weirdness of Victorian Christmas cards!
It's #ChristmasCardDay 💌

Explore weird, dark and wonderful Victorian Christmas cards on the Art Matters podcast 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-weird-dark-and-wonderful-victorian-christmas-cards

📷 BBC
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Good morning, my friend! Very happy to share with you an interview a comm (journalism) student at Boston College (my alma mater) did with me. The article was for the school newspaper, The Heights. Kudos & thanks to freshman Celine Bell for choosing me to be her intvu subject!📰
shorturl.at/71JPj
How Laura Carlo Became a Boston Radio Icon and Built Lasting Connections With Listeners
“If I can’t heal an individual, maybe I can heal the world,” Carlo said.
shorturl.at
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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New episode in your podfeed: I read all of A Christmas Carol, with musical backing from @martinaustwick.bsky.social. It’s a banger! theallusionist.org/christmascarol
Allusionist 222. A Christmas Carol — The Allusionist
Today, we read the novelisation of The Muppet Christmas Carol , also known as the 1843 festive lit hit A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
theallusionist.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Fed is best, we already have been over this countless times.
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
On a zoom meeting and someone wanted to wait until the top of the hour as scheduled for the next presentation. ”Okay, we’ll resume then”
Or did he say “Okay, we’ll re-zoom then”?
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Let's be sensitive to our language choices this week!
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What jerk decided we should go shopping this afternoon?
Me. The jerk was me. Changing plans because my heating pad and bed seem like better choice than losing my temper in a bookstore.
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Saw a male colleague posted a selfie of him and his baby as his LinkedIn profile photo and I need more of this.
No polished professional photos! More reminders that you can be a parent with a career (and dads should be actively involved dads!)
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
HHS went out of their way to deadname Admiral Rachel L. Levine.
Blatant bigotry.
😡🤬😡🤬

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM