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i have one phone charger cable that the cats are interested in chewing on, does anyone have suggestions for how i can make it less interesting/rewarding for them to bite?
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social
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It is delightful that the tense space adventure has turned into an IT help desk call
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stefa @stefapie.bsky.social
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DUDES! HERE'S AN EASY WAY TO BE AN ALLY: TELL US WHAT YOU MAKE (anonymously, for a survey, she's legit)
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown. This Ace Books edition was illustrated by World Fantasy Award winner Kinuko Y. Craft
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social
3d
to all who celebrate...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
10d
rip to your land war in Asia but I'm different
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social
10d
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social
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A freylekhn pesakh! Today the @UCLAIRLE Memory Work Research Initiative is officially launching our new and improved public history website, "Power from the Past." In the spirit of liberation, I want to share some highlights from the project here: 🧵
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hooray, it’s here!
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Amy is a lecturer at UC San Diego. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org/
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y meddwl dros y mater?
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i have a calendar with different inspirational statements for each month, and i’ve been adding the welsh translation or equivalent to the best of my ability, but the april one is “mind over matter” and i really don’t know how to get that into welsh without being too literal or just nonsense
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It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course
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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
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why are you posting screenshots of terfs and nazis when you could be posting screenshots of absurdist YMCA parodies
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based on this photo, how would you attempt to open this door?
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Jennifer is a lecturer at UC Riverside. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Amy is a lecturer at UC Irvine. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org
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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social
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Carter: Colonel!
O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say?
Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years...
Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Erika is a lecturer at UC Davis. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org
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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social
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Sometime in the future, when I’m feeling despair, it will help if I can remember that somewhere there is a warm and humorous woman who possesses institutional knowledge on the best ways to feed baby beavers.
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i haven’t figured out the rest of the verse yet but “beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks” absolutely fits into the tune of the battle hymn of the republic, and there might be something there
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social
23d
Not now, millions of scorpions.

www.newsweek.com/millions-of-scorpions-emerging-early-sparks-warning-11703988
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the jungle book (1994) by basil poledouris
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Cam Clark is a field work supervisor at UC Berkeley Law and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Cam’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org/
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Hat Full of Sky @hatfullofsky.bsky.social
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This new rural Knives Out movie looks like fun!
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why does this pardon parchment look like it’s about to ask to be moisturized, is my question
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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social
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If you have a couple of hours for some theatre and queer joy, go watch Ncuti Gatwa in The Importance of Being Earnest. Today’s the last day you can see it free on YouTube.

youtube.com/watch?v=obX-HGs-PS8
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Oh look, it’s what we put on my dad’s funeral invitations. (His birthday is in 2 days, he would be turning 79.)
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By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog:

wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p=1892

Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️
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