Gemma Sarracenia
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- www.tippitiwichet.com
Nature, science, and art are super cool. Terribly sorry for the stuff that doesn't fit.
She/they cishet.
Joined Nov 2022
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Help me, I'm writing a script for a video on Sea Monkeys for my six year old, why am I writing this script so hard that I'm bringing myself to tears when I get to the part where US astronaut Neil Armstrong steps on to the moon and declares, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind?"
Gosh, the twitter account I renamed "Elon Musk is a ninny" seems to have vanished for some reason.
So excited, though I'll have to wait a bit. Shopping for educational stuff for the six year old, found a kit full of wooden puzzles for science things, including a telegraph kit. The 20 yr old and I will steal the pair when it's done, so she and I can learn morse code from living room to her room.
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New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.
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🦉 OWL OF THE DAY🦉
Northern Saw-whet Owl
#Nature
#Environment
#Wildlife
#Conservation
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/northern-saw-whet-owl
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I hope everyone remembers that CoSo is crowdfunded. That means anything we don't make by the end of a month, J has to use his own money. He does enough for us; the least we can do is make a one-time donation or going CoSo Pro. I just added to the kitty, won't you?
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Just because something makes you feel better doesn't mean it's healthy.
It's a misconception that it's always better to get things off your chest than to bottle them up.
Fact of the matter is that people who run to the internet to angrily vent just become angrier -- they are their own worst enemy.
Have some Science → http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2012.0130
More Science → https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167202289002
More Science! → https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-21781-000
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Diogenes proved to the later satisfaction of the Stoics that happiness has nothing to do with a person's material circumstances, and held that human beings had much to learn from studying the simplicity and artlessness of dogs, which, unlike human beings, had not ‘complicated every simple gift of the gods'.
The terms ‘cynic' and ‘cynical' derive from the Greek kynikos, which is the adjective of kyon or ‘dog'.
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Algorithms for social media are not designed for truth, instead’the algorithms’ sole purpose is to make more money for the billionaires who own the social media platform.‘. Thom Hartmann. #politics #technews https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-the-greatest-threat-to-humanity
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I am extremely tired of paying taxes to cover for other people not paying their fair share of taxes.
If I had the money, I'd start a campaign that imitated the methods of political campaigns that target the lowest common denominator, like sensationalistic junk mail, but it would educate on logical fallacies and shady methods of persuasion, as well as tips on critical thinking in a time of deep fakes.
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Personal Covid update Part II:
It looks like I'm finally negative on the Covid test.
After an hour's drying time, I will be able to turn on my main and flush my toilets for the first time in about 5 days. (No, I didn't do it myself, apparently the threat of me doing so alone lit a fire under my extended family's collective butts until they found a family friend willing to do the work.)
Gemma Sarracenia
- webstuffs
- www.tippitiwichet.com
Nature, science, and art are super cool. Terribly sorry for the stuff that doesn't fit.
She/they cishet.
Joined Nov 2022