Miscelena 🌳🧬
@miscelena.bsky.social
Anita M
Family & social history, stitching, plants, design, cats.
Y'all means all.
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not-entirely-neurotypical woman of a certain age.
Please buy my gently used books, so that I can buy more? https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/anitamcp
Family & social history, stitching, plants, design, cats.
Y'all means all.
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not-entirely-neurotypical woman of a certain age.
Please buy my gently used books, so that I can buy more? https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/anitamcp
Reminder that *every* day is a good day to vote with your dollars.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder that *every* day is a good day to vote with your dollars.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
Every day is a good day to boycott big companies that donate to political causes you don't agree with.
Every day is a good day to donate to your local food bank and other charities.
Today, yes, but *also* any other day.
FYI: these are my neighbors. The "healthy aging" bar is very high here.
Someone asked me the other day if Marin "ran leaner" than Sonoma.
Um, yes. My doc informed me that there's a 'Marin BMI' they use here that's different from the standard BMI. (Both are nonsense but srsly.)
Someone asked me the other day if Marin "ran leaner" than Sonoma.
Um, yes. My doc informed me that there's a 'Marin BMI' they use here that's different from the standard BMI. (Both are nonsense but srsly.)
I was cheering friends at the Dipsea trail race and saw a smiling 90-year-old reach the top of Mt. Tam.
I tracked Lloyd Kahn down to get his secrets about aging. He answered all the questions ... then took our @sfchronicle.com team skateboarding.
Gift link! 🎁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
I tracked Lloyd Kahn down to get his secrets about aging. He answered all the questions ... then took our @sfchronicle.com team skateboarding.
Gift link! 🎁
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
He’s 90. He’s still skateboarding. Advice on aging from Lloyd Kahn
Our reporter saw a 90-year-old competing in the grueling Dipsea trail race earlier this year, and had questions. This Bay Area super-ager has answers … and took us skateboarding.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
FYI: these are my neighbors. The "healthy aging" bar is very high here.
Someone asked me the other day if Marin "ran leaner" than Sonoma.
Um, yes. My doc informed me that there's a 'Marin BMI' they use here that's different from the standard BMI. (Both are nonsense but srsly.)
Someone asked me the other day if Marin "ran leaner" than Sonoma.
Um, yes. My doc informed me that there's a 'Marin BMI' they use here that's different from the standard BMI. (Both are nonsense but srsly.)
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PHILLY!
I have an event for YOU.
The Last Minute Market on Sat 12/6!
Some of my favorite local artists will be there with me selling ART!
It's in a big indoor space, nice and warm & super easy to access by transit (by Berks Station).
Also this bar has good espresso martinis. Just saying.
I have an event for YOU.
The Last Minute Market on Sat 12/6!
Some of my favorite local artists will be there with me selling ART!
It's in a big indoor space, nice and warm & super easy to access by transit (by Berks Station).
Also this bar has good espresso martinis. Just saying.
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
PHILLY!
I have an event for YOU.
The Last Minute Market on Sat 12/6!
Some of my favorite local artists will be there with me selling ART!
It's in a big indoor space, nice and warm & super easy to access by transit (by Berks Station).
Also this bar has good espresso martinis. Just saying.
I have an event for YOU.
The Last Minute Market on Sat 12/6!
Some of my favorite local artists will be there with me selling ART!
It's in a big indoor space, nice and warm & super easy to access by transit (by Berks Station).
Also this bar has good espresso martinis. Just saying.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
Meant to spend about 4 hours at the pottery studio...turned into nearly 8.
Halfway through someone else there said "Best Thanksgiving ever."
Not sure that's true for me, but certainly wasn't the worst, that's for sure!
Used a bunch of new glazes, carved a wonky plant pot, picked up ornaments!
Halfway through someone else there said "Best Thanksgiving ever."
Not sure that's true for me, but certainly wasn't the worst, that's for sure!
Used a bunch of new glazes, carved a wonky plant pot, picked up ornaments!
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Meant to spend about 4 hours at the pottery studio...turned into nearly 8.
Halfway through someone else there said "Best Thanksgiving ever."
Not sure that's true for me, but certainly wasn't the worst, that's for sure!
Used a bunch of new glazes, carved a wonky plant pot, picked up ornaments!
Halfway through someone else there said "Best Thanksgiving ever."
Not sure that's true for me, but certainly wasn't the worst, that's for sure!
Used a bunch of new glazes, carved a wonky plant pot, picked up ornaments!
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Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
OMG I'm sorry I'm dying 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
OMG I'm sorry I'm dying 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.
Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
Possibly of interest to all my fellow material culture geeks. 😉 (Also: #genealogy #familyhistory)
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Possibly of interest to all my fellow material culture geeks. 😉 (Also: #genealogy #familyhistory)
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
DYK that having a kidney stone will get you fentanyl from your local fire dept?! (Not me, someone else.) I'm honestly surprised they stock it, but there ya go.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
DYK that having a kidney stone will get you fentanyl from your local fire dept?! (Not me, someone else.) I'm honestly surprised they stock it, but there ya go.
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Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
FWIW it appears that my "half-drunk guy at the end of the bar who just wants to talk to anyone" characterization still holds...
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
FWIW it appears that my "half-drunk guy at the end of the bar who just wants to talk to anyone" characterization still holds...
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"People have been using herbal remedies for thousands of years"
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
www.embopress.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"People have been using herbal remedies for thousands of years"
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
"Yes, and people have been dying of liver failure for thousands of years too"
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
('Global hazards of herbal remedies: lessons from Aristolochia')
It is not closed minded to believe in science. Fuck.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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if elected officials are happy to see them, they’re not journalists
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
if elected officials are happy to see them, they’re not journalists
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
if elected officials dive under the furniture like it’s an earthquake
that’s a journalist
Posted this (on Flickr) 20 (twenty!?) years ago yesterday.
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Past
News story - Murder Mystery .... Saw his face on the TV last night, and said in surprise "I know him..." Went and dug out my h.s. yearbooks. He wasn't in there... but when I found my eighth-grade ...
www.flickr.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Posted this (on Flickr) 20 (twenty!?) years ago yesterday.
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)
Life is weird.
Remembering Brian/Neil and Merri today.
www.flickr.com/gp/miscelena...
(I found another, much closer, remembrance of Neil here: www.bmoreattorney.com/post/honorin...)