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Claire Gilder
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Montana grad student. I like rivers, baseball, cats, and legal podcasts.
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how do I have all this filament and yet never have the color I want?
A metal rack designed to hold spools of 3d printer filament. It is completely filled with almost 40 rolls of different colors.
November 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The chaos
An overhead shot of our kitchen table with my oldest son staring at a laptop on the table with a huge open computer case on its side on the floor. It’s connected to an ancient tiny monitor and spare dusty keyboard and mouse while we get everything set up.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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It’s *finally* oversized hoodie-blanket time. It’s been way warmer than normal, but we got a cold front that seems to have reset us to regular winter this week.
A white woman wearing a massively oversized microfiber-ish light blue hoodie with a Sherpa fleece lining.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I like colors! (Also, who knew you could get filament to do this? It’s so cool!)
A 3d printed Christmas tree done in a green-yellow-pink shiny gradient filament. It’s about 8” tall and has zero purpose other than being pretty. The printing technique makes the filament strands radiate out from the center and clump together to look like an actual evergreen.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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I have a photo like this! Probably from 1982-1983, taken at my grandparents farm in Minnesota.
A very blonde, chubby-cheeked toddler is hugging a tiny orange tabby kitten to her cheek. She’s sitting in front of a flower bed with bright pink & white petunias.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I made these from raw SST satellite data for my 101 lab on energy transfer In Earth systems. (where did the hurricane pass?)
Two side by side contour maps of sea surface temp in the Gulf of Mexico (before and after the passage of Hurricane Dennis in 2005).
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Omg omg omg we have a romance bookstore now!
Small store front called FMC for “Female Main Character
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I even added other colors of vegetables! It’s healthy-ish potatoes & oil!
Bowl of potato skillet containing potatoes, onion, carrot, parsnip, pepperoni, and spinach. Plus fajita seasoning.
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Case in point. My youngest was part of part of the four-kid Team Montana last year for MathCounts.
Teenage boy on the metro with his coach, heading to a national math competition in DC.
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Pomegranate ?
$50 receipt screenshot
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Screenshot of a $50 donation
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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does this mean I’m a hipster? I’m eating stew before it’s cool?
Wide bowl of ground beef & cabbage stew, perched on my knees as I sit on a stool in my kitchen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Correct
Half eaten sandwich on a potato roll with vegan deli slices, lettuce, radish, and red onion (plus Dijon mustard)
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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So much.
Elderly tabby and white cat laying on a blue comforter, with one hanging slightly over the edge and her eyes looking angstily off into the distance.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I am prepared! (I already ate the other one)
Small sandwich on a potato bun with vegan deli slices, watermelon radish, red onion, and lettuce (all veggies courtesy of our winter CSA!)
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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step 1: label the label maker. Step 2. ????
The underside of a small wireless blue label maker, with a round white sticker on it. It says “Frank” and has an icon of a derpy cat.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I fed this cow cookies and got to pet her ridiculous toupee.
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Hog farming also made an appearance, so this map became our pre-talk slide.
An old map from World Geography 1948 showing hog population in the US. “Each dot represents 5000 hogs.” The problem is that the US is displayed as a white object against a solid black background and black state outlines. The comments include “Untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean,” “Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall of swine. We are trapped.” And “We’ve lost Canada and Mexico to the hogs already”
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I can print ~60 of these at a time. They‘re about 85-90db. Would that be helpful to send to y’all?
Tiny green whistle from my 3d printer. It’s about 2” long and 1/4” wide
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I pet this ridiculous cow named Winnie. She let me pet her because I gave her cookies.
October 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I have met a celebrity.
Jeremy the huge sulcata tortoise looking supremely unimpressed with me.
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Snuggle bugs.
Seal point kitten and orange & white kitten laying together on top of a cat tree. The photo is taken looking directly down at them. The seal point is looking back over his shoulder at the person who is rubbing his belly, and the orange kitten is looking straight up at the camera with wide eyes.
October 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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This is Xan. She’s 19, and the belly is 100% a trap. but she appreciates that we turned the heater back on.
Old lady brown and white tabby cat laying in a round fleece basket pushed up against the heater vent in the baseboard. She has one front paw delicately stretched out to rest directly on the vent.
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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So perfect. Hopefully y’all don't mind being bombarded with kitten pics :)
Close up of an orange and white fluffy kitten on my la, curled up playing with the pocket on my black sweatshirt. He has excellent ear tufts
October 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Also handsome, but definitely captures his super chill lap kitten personality.
Orange and white fluffy kitten sitting calmly on my leg, resting his head on my knee and looking at the camera with a relaxed expression.
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM