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Leah Shaffer
@leahshaffer.bsky.social
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Science writer, mostly puttering about the garden.
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My Dad's art porch is one of my favorite places.
Holding a green marble in foreground, in background is a porch full of pottery and photos. A sign that reads Make Our Democracy Stronger is in the background Porch of photos, art, pottery, political signs such as Sic Semper Tyrannis
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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God speed ye taco bell scientists 🌮 🧪
Screen shot of newspaper article. It reads: A Team at Taco Bell has been working for nearly a decade, to invent a taco shell made entirely of cheese....
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I feel sorry for you if you didn't grow up in a town with a secret street leading to a fairy dimension. A sorcerer lives in that cottage, he drives combine in the summers to pick up some extra cash.
A street sign leading to a sidewalk and copse of trees? DON'T FOLLOW THE TINY LIGHTS. You will be lost to the prairie fae. A stone cottage next to a gnarly tree, a sorcerer lives there.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Dave is King
and pie.
A ginger cat sitting on a cat bed that looks like a pie. The retail sign says "Today's special: Cutie Pie. It's Dave, the cat of wonderfaire
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Cursed object in the highway mists.
A black cyberpunk on I 70, it looks like an ice machine rolling down hill
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Whoa, ancient time capsule unearthed, my bat mitzvah, in Wichita. Everyone had a good time because I can hold a tune. I still remember all the songs!
A brown haired girl at the podium in a synagogue next to the congregation president as he congratulates me on becoming a woman.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Bluesky, the last couple days.
A captioned scene from Zola where Zola yells at Stefani "This is messy! You are messy!" Zola, our heroine in gorgeous makeup and hair, yells at Stefani "what the fuck is wrong with you!"
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Can we come up with funny nicknames based on the t cells' most annoying features? #ImmunoSky
Cells at Work characters made official?
Something to make this jingle more catchy?
Memory T cell from cartoon Cells at Work it's a dude in a black uniform (as all T cells wear) with a hat that says Memory
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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counter argument : The argument meme
The classic American Chopper meme, any nerdy argument can use this meme. 5 photos stacked on top of eachother depicting a scene from reality show American Chopper mustache asshole yells from his chair: "I'm so tired of hearing people ask why the hobbits didn't ride the giant eagles to mordor" hat asshole yells back: It's a plot hole! why wouldn't they ride them. It would have saved time and lives! mustache asshole YELLS FROM CHAIR: THE EYE OF SAURON WOULD HAVE SEEM THEM COMING FROM MILES AWAY AND SENT HIS WINGED HELLBEASTS TO DESTROY THEM AND GOTTEN BACK THE RING then throws his chair at hat asshole who yells, "YOU'RE JUST MAKING EXCUSES FOR POOR SCREENWRITING. mustache asshole points and yells: THE EAGLES WERE THEIR OWN PROUD RACE AND NOT A TAXI SERVICE FOR HOBBITS.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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@ecarlen.bsky.social is the keeper of such things
Here are my puffed up hardy Chicago pigeons. 🪶
three Chicago pigeons, hunkering at a train stop on a frosty morning, puffy grey and black birds
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I'm pretty sure drinking a second pot of coffee will fix me. Pretty pretty sure
A percolator about to be filled with Kaldi grounds, mmm good coffee
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I actually bagged all my leaves one year, we ended up with 70 bags! Now, I just mow over it a couple times. Doesn't have to be perfect.
A bare magnolia tree having recently dumped its leaves, yard is mowed and still pretty crunchy but good enough.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Indeed
A bunch of college kids holding a crawdad fight. The crustaceans are battling and everyone is yelling and every person and crawdad is labeled "leftists"
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Weird ass new normal warm November. Atleast the kale is happy 🌱🥬 #GardenSkt
Fresh dwarf kale out of the ground, bright green
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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My son insisted we purchase this singular velvet bow tie with a bell for the lady of the house. I guess I am doing parenting right.
A tortoise shell cat with a velvet green bowtie standing in a carpeted living room. She resents the bowtie and plots revenge.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Evergreen mood
a smol crab holding a smol steak knife
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Includes photos from Olah et all!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
a giant "spider" at the center of a web Ha ha! Tricked ya, a tiny spider just made a giant spider puppet from the bodies of its prey, as you do
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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ain't no money in this soap dispenser #AI
"legacy software companies adding an ai chatbot to their product" and it's a picture of a soap dispenser standing uselessly on a bar of soap.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Anyways, maybe this meme will help.
A photo of a crying little girl coloring with a crayon: Some days, I just want to reply to emails with 'ok' and this photo
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I've already written this fanfiction. James Bond will be played by Rose Byrne who goes by both James Bond and "Katie" (if ya nasty). Her CIA contact is played by Melissa McCarthy who will channel her character from Spy. The title of the movie:
The Immortal James Bond: AntiFa
Rose Byrne looks like a evil "Dolphin Trainer" to quote Spy
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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puffy vests never go out of fashion
Marty McFly in the classic orange puffy vest
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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whimsical egg sac
illustration of spider egg sac of Charlotte's web
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Frosty ass pigeons in Chicago, doing their commute
A frosty L train stop in Chicago, tall buildings, tracks Fat fluffy Chicago pigeons, 3 huddled at a train stop
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Funny detail from one of our #SciWri25 sessions on bridging the editor/writer divide. On the page of "frustrating editor behaviors," an edit.
Pages of handwritten notes. One says "Frustrating Writer Behavior" and another says "Frustrating editor behavior" A writer complaint: asking a question that is only answerable with a 5 second Google search. And there is an editing mark on that comment fixing the grammar.
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Chicago giving science writers a big cold wet kiss. #SciWri25
Snow flurries in Chicago, thanks Lake Effect!
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM