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Maggie Koerth@maggiek.bsky.social |
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Editorial Lead at Carbonplan. Nieman Fellow '15. A mom, allegedly. Previously: @maggiekb1 on Twitter. Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
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Maggie Koerth
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Calling all journalists! I'll be co-leading this along with my colleague, research scientist Grayson Badgley. We're going to walk reporters through the basics of how the carbon offsets industry is structured and how to use our OffsetsDB tool to aid your reporting!
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It’s very funny when kids run into memes without understanding the backstory. My oldest today informed me in a dead serious voice that she isn’t really sure about her sexual orientation yet, but the witchcraft sounds great and she would rather do that than church.
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Hey, kinda sketchy Chinese clothing company! Why does the package I received display a lower price for the item than what I paid? “Oh, because we are absolutely lying to customs! Have a nice day!” This is on the company FAQ page, you guys.
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I’m the city!
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I too thought they were tropical and had to google it before trying to shoo him outside
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On my enclosed front porch. The cats offered to help. I turned them down.
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Hey, did you guys know there are two species of flying squirrels native to Minnesota? I just found out.
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My children are 10 and 8. I found a Duplo down there.
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Spitz via DoorDash.
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Weep not for me. I am beyond weeping. I have entered a fugue state to bathe in hot water and order donner delivery and think on the fact that someday we all must die. Mr Kurtz, he dead. A penny for the old guy.
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I have seen horrors today. I think I have vanquished those horrors. I think. But I do not wish this for you and my advice is to brave this journey now, when you think you do not have to, lest ye be met by a horrible fate at some undetermined date in the future.
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Parents of small children: My hot tip for you today is to figure out what you have to do to clean beneath the backseat. Not just on the floorboards. But down in the space beneath the cushions … where the seatbelt buckles stand sentinel over the entrance to the dark realms.
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THANK YOU
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I bootched too close to the sun. Turns out, cardamom is not a fun addition to a fruit punch kombucha. Deciding whether to dump it out or give myself Stockholm syndrome this week.
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I had a friend who split me off part of her scoby. She grew hers though. Have you tried buying unflavored off Amazon maybe? I agree it sounds real dang hard to find.
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Seriously, this is pure chaos flavor goblin hobby and I love it. Make some kombucha today!
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The current batch fermenting under the stairs is an attempt at fruit punch. We will see how it goes. I threw in frozen cherries, frozen strawberries, a yellow kiwi, the contents of one of my kids' pineapple tidbit cups, some cardamom and some ginger.
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So far, I have made a cherry-basil (refreshing, light, yum) and a cider version with honeycrisp apple, cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves, maple syrup and ginger. That one is also really good, just less guzzleable.
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I get to open up my third batch of homemade kombucha this weekend, and I just gotta say this is going great as a hobby. It's very simple to do. I get flavored, fizzy, tart drink every week. And I experience the ADHD dopamine joy of picking a new rando flavor weekly for the next batch.
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For some reason she will only read the graphic novel version of the dragon books so they do not last long.
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Thankfully, she has not expressed an interest in this yet.
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Oh friend. Oh no. Imagine, if you will, the Wheel of Time books except there’s about 2 dozen of them and everyone is feral cats.
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Okay I take it back I will keep feral cat Wheel of Time.
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Please recommend a video game
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Why do I know more about the star crossed time travel love affair of Jayfeather and Half Moon than I do my own love life?
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God help me, I am so tired of hearing about the deep lore of the Warrior cats. I’m gonna find the committee that writes those books and do something I regret.
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The advanced reading group at the grade school made a movie of The Nightingale featuring the teacher’s very specific comedic vision, one of my kids singing off key Beatles songs, and my other child as part of a Greek Vocabulary Chorus.
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Oh fuck yes I am so excited about this
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Wait what? I didn’t know. What changed?
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No burger will ever be as perfect and good as the Wendy's Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger was when I was heavily pregnant.
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Oh my god
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Lightfoot wrote, presumably edited, and sang in front of millions of people the line “as big freighters go it was bigger than most”. No one will ever top that wordsmith quality differential. Such things should be measured in Lightfoots.
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Also i made a car load of people crack up by pointing out what is probably one of the most obscene disparities in writing quality to ever happen within a single song … I am speaking, of course, of Lightfoot hitting the high of “does anyone know where the love of god goes” where mere minutes before..
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Last week I introduced several coworkers to Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by describing it as “America’s greatest folk song/wikipedia article”.
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Exactly. But the kids got one of those “here’s all the cat breeds” magazines and so they’ve been trying to identify where he comes from 🤣
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He is very cute and is quite large. But he defo is not 1/864th Norwegian Forest Cat. (Shown with bestie roommate for scale.)
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He is very cute and quite large but also definitely just some rando stray cat. He does not have a Norwegian Forest Cat princess in his family tree.
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My children talk about our large, long-haired cat’s ancestry like some white people talk about a mythical Cherokee great-grandmother. “Look at his ears. He is obviously part Norwegian Forest Cat,” they say, about a cat that literally came from under a broken motorcycle in an alleyway.
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Well that is just absolutely depressing
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Among the many things that upset me about online casino advertising … is the way one brand frames its ads as testimonials from a fake DJ who talks as if I already know who he is and must be excited to hear from him. I cannot explain why this tactic makes me as irrationally furious as it does.
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I need to go find this podcast now
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Some personal news: I have a September reservation at Les Grandes Buffets.
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I mean, I don't know that FOR CERTAIN. But that was the point of the new line ... to reduce/end delays.
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Yeah. I thought about that, but the Empire Builder is just notorious for being late everywhere it goes. And no on-board wifi. I have planned it out with the idea that we are just gonna spend a couple days running around Chicago. Wed and Sat are travel days. It's fine.
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I am so excited to go somewhere for MEA, not have it cost an arm and a kidney, and not involve me driving forever.
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Sure, just stick me >somewhere< in the Driftless for less than the cost of a beer.
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WHY DON'T I JUST GO TO LA CROSSE ALL THE TIME NOW
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SAM IT IS $7 TO GO TO LA CROSSE.
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MAY 21 MY BITCHES
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The new Amtrak Borealis service is gonna allow my family to free ourselves from the MEA Weekend Industrial Complex and travel to Chicago for $176, round trip, TOTAL. That's three people to and from Chicago and I don't have to drive. On board wifi. No airport nonsense. LOVELY.
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