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Jesus. Wheelchair users deserve real walls! And a ceiling!
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Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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Jesus. Wheelchair users deserve real walls! And a ceiling!
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Oh, interesting!
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The speaker just made an Oganesson joke that KILLED. Where’s @funranium.bsky.social when you need him?
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Lise Meitner deserved a Nobel, according to this slide. Damn straight! It was a travesty! I know absolutely nothing about it!
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I am living the nightmare where the elevator doesn’t work and you show up late to class and haven’t done any of the homework and don’t understand what’s going on. I’m wearing pants, though, so I got that going for me.
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Diagram of fusion now, and—oh, now we have alchemy! Or Nykyajan alkemiaa. Copper + silver, a snake eating its own tail.
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I suspect this guy is a good speaker, because there was just a quiet ripple of amusement, which is the local equivalent of loud laughter.
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There’s a list of synthetic elements from 104 to 112, and an illustration of ships on an old-timey ocean labeled SEA OF INSTABILITY.
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I suspect it’s true, bar some weasel wording in the article, but we have our whole lives ahead of us to be disappointed.
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Oh, I know this one! Amerikium 95, something something…uh, map of Africa with Gabon highlighted…shit, I bet this is really interesting…
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It’d send a claustrophobic clawing through the wall, I expect!
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Thank you!
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Someone tell me what “Anzehl Protonen” means?
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We stumbled out, late for opening ceremonies, and I am now listening to a presentation on supernovas that I suspect would be absolutely fascinating if I spoke any Finnish. However, since the elevator spit us out in the front row, I am too embarrassed to leave.
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Had the walls been an open grid, like in industrial buildings, it would not have been claustrophobic, but the white metal walls sliding downward and the sight of the ceiling approaching ever closer would make an unbelievable horror movie set piece.
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You have to hold the button down on a central panel to move the floor, until a door appears in one of the walls and slides into position. If you lean or exert too much pressure on the panel, this apparently activates the emergency stop.
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I have just had an experience with an elevator that confirmed all my guide’s loathing. It was a platform inside a metal shaft. No walls. No ceiling. Push button, floor goes up or down, walls slide past.
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This building was designed by a great Finnish architect. My guide loathes it. “When you use the bathrooms, you will see why I hate him. You must back in while lowering your pants, then close the door. There is no room.” The loathing of a Finn is deadpan but powerful.
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Aye, there’s the rub!
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Mostly I have the nightmares, then try to share them because misery loves company.
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Yay!
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I have been informed that Finns are solar-powered.
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Certainly nothing to worry about!
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The corollary to this is that in the evening, it looks like it’s about 6pm forever. You yawn, wonder why you’re tired, glance at the clock, and it’s 10pm.
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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The only time I’ve seen whooping cranes, two flew over the road and when I started frantically looking up reports to see if I’d seen what I thought I saw, they were all “That bird was the size of my Buick!”
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I have one, but it’s going on over a full-face C-pap, so it’s got poor coverage over the nose.
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What is throwing me the most in these discussions is the speed at which people think a suit can be filed. Do you have even a rough estimate of how long it takes to file a suit in a case like this?
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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”
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As long as it’s not moving weirdly…
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Yeah, I’m sorry, there’s been a LOT going by and I am missing individual bits.
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Good morning, Finland! The 20 hours of light is messing with me. Woke up at 3:30 and my brain kept screaming it was time to get up, look at the crack of light at the edge of the blackout curtains, UP UP UP!
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Oh jeez, definitely. In the wild? Cassowary. Eurasian Eagle Owl. Condor. Harpy Eagle. And I lose my shit every time I see a new kingfisher.
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I didn’t know if I liked it, so I kept trying it. I think that’s how it gets you.
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Which is why I’m glad that there’s now a transcript and it doesn’t require downloading an app from a skeezy site.
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…shit. You’re right.
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I’ve been saying this over and over again, but it never seems to make a difference…
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100%!
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I strongly doubt it’s entirely fabricated. The dancing around what Gaiman said vs their “understanding of his beliefs” is what’s setting off all my alarm bells. I want to be sure the podcast isn’t based on similar dancing about what women said.
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Very much agreed.
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I…hmm, you know, I don’t know? Maybe water jetting out of the mantle? I feel like they might make glorp noises, but that could just be because I want them to.
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*makes squid noises*
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Today, I’m a writer. Tomorrow, I’m thinking that being a badger sounds nice. Or a giant squid.
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I can go one better! bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Is creosote a new flavor?
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I am loving my trip! The bees are great, I got five new life birds, and I have eaten many unusual foods!
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I’ve got a trophy and everything!
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It’s all a little surreal, but that’s the internet for you.
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Yes! It’s the ice cream version. I feel like I just ate a cold sweet piece of firewood.
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I am hoping to get to the transcript tomorrow!
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