Mel

Blissfully -ishful... usually.
So many interests, not enough time. She/her.

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@wiickedinspurs @nathaliejacoby1 That's why there are professional epidemiologists.

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@PocketProgram @feliciaday Hah, 9 will be 13 soon and then you’ll get to meet an entirely new person all over again. :)

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@IndieStacks Orlando doesn’t (totally) suck…

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@paytmitch As a 5’10” plus size woman, I also feel your pain. Absolutely impossible.

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@RandyRainbow Great tweet or greatest tweet?

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@katoswife @kairyssdal ...gerrymandering in his corner of FL

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@hankgreen Nope

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@paulapoundstone See also: twitter, Facebook, tiktok, reddit… Not just games and not just kids. All of these things are intentionally created to be addictive.

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@AskingAmy Literally tearing up looking forward to my kids being grown.

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@IndieStacks It’s WILD to me that someone would look at those photos and find any flaws with it. Like, maybe her shoes look a little uncomfy… But augh, why are people so weird?

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@calvinprocyon If it helps, my kiddo had the stomach flu this week, we thought it was gone, and then it came back worse after 4 days. So probably not anything you did wrong, just a sucky bug that likes to make back to back appearances.

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@kikiorg @alfiekohn It's really sad.

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@shannonrwatts @lilserf Brevard County’s school board elections didn’t go well.

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@hankgreen 7000 minutes and 1000 plays of Encanto Piano Covers by Jon Pumper

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@hankgreen My entire top 10 was Encanto piano lullabies because that’s what my kids listen to at bedtime.

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@Scally43 @nathanialjg @hankgreen Certain types of people are more susceptible to superstition, though. Typically less intelligent/less educated folks can be fooled by unscientific or anecdotal evidence, if they don’t necessarily know how to apply appropriate critical thinking.

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@EricTheEpic0403 @nathanialjg @hankgreen Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a really well-known book about how people convince themselves and each other that they should be consumed by suspicion of conspiracies, magic, and other ridiculous things. It’s how people are. How crowd psych works.

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@EricTheEpic0403 @nathanialjg @hankgreen "We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable; the cup of life is not bitter enough to our palate, and we distill superfluous poison to put into it, or conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at, which would never exist if we did not make them." -C.Mackay, 1841

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@nathanialjg @hankgreen Might seem that way, but it's always been this creepy.

My college-educated grandparents were doomsday preppers in the 70s. Eventually they gave up and ate through their stockpile.

They weren't dumb, misinformation is just that insidious. Always has been.