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I’m a chemistry professor & a hearing person learning ASL (so I can support D/hh students). I like cats and playing Destiny 2 an unreasonable amount. I only RT images with alt text. If I like your un-alt-texted art I may add a description in a reply (she)
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hatstand4510.bsky.social
On my way to an appointment and I passed a place called Encore Surgery and honestly not 100% sure “encore” is a word I would want associated with surgery 🤔
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
This is one of the many reasons I hate AI: It diminishes our emotional reactions to the REAL interesting/beautiful/horrifying/amusing things all around us. The real world is an amazing place and AI is the opposite of amazing.
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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effies.bsky.social
Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.
alt-text: screencap from a dropdown menu with "English" selected, beneath it is "English, middle (1100-1500)" and "English, old (ca.450-1100)
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
hatstand4510.bsky.social
I had to long divide polynomials for statistical mechanics in grad school and while I got very proficient at it, I’ve never had to do it since

Probably also identifying chrysanthemum varieties by leaf shape only, from HS summer job
rwb22.bsky.social Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social · 3d
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
mrmaresca.com Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 4d
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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thecathive.bsky.social
HOLIDAY SALE! 🐈💖

Everything in store is 15% off with coupon code HOLIDAY15

thecatpod.xyz/discount/HOL...
T-shirt featuring a pixel rpg cats design inspired by final fantasy. The text on the shirt says "Nine Lives Reborn" and it looks kind of like the box art of an old NES game. T-shirt featuring a sad looking black and white cowboy cat and the text "Nobody told me cowboys still get tummy aches."
December 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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theindigodingo.bsky.social
Last night’s finished project. Bossman let us know there would be a white elephant Christmas exchange at our work party next week with a $10 cap. Hubby had the lightening bolt idea of a goldfish bowl.

Who wouldn’t want this for their office. No muss, no fuss, & hopefully brings a bit of a smile. 😅
Crocheted goldfish in a glass fishbowl.
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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smadin.net
"we have to be more culturally normal." shut the fuck up, you sniveling coward. we absolutely do not.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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novicsara.bsky.social
The Four Seasons Total Landscaping Peace Prize.
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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dansheehan.bsky.social
Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
oops it's her again
a drawing of a cute cat making a statement about ai (it sucks)
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
hatstand4510.bsky.social
In lab, explaining how soap works to a student who is washing NaOH off their hands

Student: so is that why soap tastes bitter

Me: how do you know what soap tastes like

Student: 😐

Me: 😐
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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billbarnwell.com
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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merriam-webster.com
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
hatstand4510.bsky.social
It’s been two months since I submitted my sabbatical application and I have heard exactly nothing about it since and it’s not stressing me out at all!
a cartoon character from bob 's burgers wearing a pink bunny hat says this is fine
Alt: a cartoon character from bob 's burgers wearing a pink bunny hat says this is fine while her eye twitches
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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adampottle.bsky.social
Looking for Deaf-centred stories for the reader in your family? Check out these authors:

@novicsara.bsky.social

@sageravenwood.bsky.social

@rossshowalter.com

@ilyakaminsky.bsky.social

Keep an eye on this page. I’ll be recommending Deaf & Disabled authors & artists throughout the month. 🤟🏼
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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haykebyr.bsky.social
You have hibernation sickness 🥶

if we're doing destiny but star wars and freezing drifter in carbonite (stasis) then I'm allowed to imagine soggy trembling drifter getting rescued by eris #Destiny2 #Destiny2Art #drifteris
Digital art set up to kind of look like fake screen caps from a movie. Scene referencing that in Star Wars Episode 6 when Leia saves Han Solo from his carbonite block. Two panels: the top shows Drifter and a hooded figure, Drifter looking soggy and confused, saying "I can't see." The second panel he looks toward the hooded figure, touching their masked face, and asks "Who are you?" Two more panels in the same style, a continuation. The top panel shows Drifter and the hooded figure, who took her hood and mask off to reveal herself as Eris. She answers his question, "Someone who loves you." The second panel is them doing a big smooch.
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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kotorimochi.bsky.social
Late Patreon B-day shout out!
Happy late B-day Carrie M!

I hope your birthday was a great one and that you like this portrait of Cayde-6 from Destiny 2.

Thank you again for your patience!
#artist #destiny2 #fanart
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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aproustian.bsky.social
We reorganized the (doorless) linen closet but never fear, the cat-specific shelf remains
Valefor, a tiny grey cat, loafs on a blanket that was folded and put on the shelf just for her
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
“I would say we both worked equally hard during those years and had common goals, but Roger ended up with an engineering degree and I ended up with a husband who had an engineering degree.”

from the narrative my mom’s divorce lawyer asked her to write, which I’d never seen until this weekend
February 1967 - June 1971 I worked full-time as a secretary for $400 per month while Roger attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and worked part time. I became pregnant in September 1967, and our daughter Stacey was born in May 1968. I took four weeks off work and then continued working full-time until Roger received his degree in mechanical engineering in June 1971, by which time I was making $750 per month. I attempted night school for a while, but could not manage it while working full-time and taking care of a baby. In fact, I wound up in the hospital as a result of overdoing it, and my doctor told me something would have to go. Obviously, I could not quit work or get rid of the baby, so I quit school. Roger's reply to this would be that he made as much money as I did during this time with the G.I. Bill and working part-time, but it was not because he was more talented or skilled or worked harder, but because the gross disparity between "men's work" and "women's work" allowed him to make as much money driving a dump truck in the summer as I did working all year as a secretary. I would say we both worked equally hard during those years and had common goals, but Roger ended up with an engineering degree and I ended up with a husband who had an engineering degree.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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stirpicus.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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benmce.bsky.social
Autumn’s Waning 🍂
A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM