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julie
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KAD. stationery collector. open source scientific computing superfan. views are, of course, my own.
If I were a product person on a picture platform I would have mute image feature so I personally could mute anything with images of bugs or clowns.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Resolved to do a frozen dinner thxgvg to be low key this year but everyone can request that things be home made. So far the requests are:
Stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato pie, cranberry sauce, duck instead of turkey (that’s been rejected). At this point the only thing left is like the rolls.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is why the teen was never allowed to have messenger kids, Roblox, minecraft. Basically anything with shared UGC.

Except her explanation is “my mom once spent a summer ranking tweets in the order of likelihood that they violated Twitter’s terms of service”
Big kid has had to explain to friends why they're not allowed on Roblox and it goes a bit like "because my dad works in tech"
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
When I was pregnant with the Teen in Austin there were so many ppl I knew who were anti-intervention, so I went to a midwifery practice that committed medical malpractice by not intervening and then overcorrecting to the point that her day of birth is one of the worst days of my life. We took a
Please hear me when I say that

1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements

2) they pre-date the age of social media

3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The teen said my new haircut is very gay, which I think is maybe the biggest compliment she has ever given me.
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Finally some normal news
The officer was "heading for duty" Wednesday night when his "weapon discharged and he accidentally shot himself in the testicles" in the station's parking lot, records show.
Off-duty Chicago cop accidentally shoots himself in groin outside police station in Gresham
chicago.suntimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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They do not want the public to see how people were treated in there and the lawsuit I'm sure is only the tip of the iceberg of information of what people experienced in there.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest.

It is the original form of protest.

To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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me: are you a baby or a big girl?
toddler: no
me: are you a potato?
toddler: yes a big potato
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"Heck of a job, Bobby."

"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."

(gift link)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Teen: what is technetium, a metal?
Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal
Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Y’all having a teenager is fucking wild. The craft room shares a wall with the teen’s bedroom and I’ve been listening in on her conversation and the brain rot is real.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:

“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”

“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”

“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”

“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”

“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Princeton didn’t allow women to get a PhD in astronomy until 1975.
a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know "
Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words "the more you know "
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The teen learned about quick sort, bubble sort, and selection sort in her CS class today. THEY GROW UP SO FAST 😭😭😭
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
new art idea: create a tarot deck filled with things that sound plausibly tarot to me, a former astronomer, who knows nothing about tarot. current list of cards:

sword of strokes
throne of anaphylaxis

what next?
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
All I want to do is linocut, but instead it's a little too late stage capitalism outside for that.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
BRING BACK CRAIGSLIST I BEG 😭😭😭
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
one of the IEP goals for the toddler was for her to be able to sing 2 songs and I'm not saying that it's ruining my life, but if I never hear the tune of the ABCs again, i will not complain.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I understand that avoiding Target can be hard (we still do), especially in some areas. Like for whatever reason* no one has cheaper ground pork and eggs around here. THAT BEING SAID, I DO NOT understand if you cannot avoid Starbucks. Like y'all, just don't cross that picket line.

*bizdev
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
setting up a race condition between evicting AWS pods and pre-k dismissal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I really dislike a lot of things about this coffee shop (e.g., the coffee, the food, etc.), but all of a sudden The Get Up Kids started playing, which almost makes up for all the other issues.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Have these boots been inside the state of Texas? No.
Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions.

P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM