✊ Marissa 🌊

@marissarae.bsky.social

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Brain of a mathematician, soul of an activist, body of a chocolate-lover. (Pronoun: she.)

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A man in a lab coat in the second-story window of a high-rise looks down at the crowded street below, upon which he has dropped a jar that is now lying broken on the street. The sign on the building reads CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF VIRAL PATHOLOGY.
A receipt of a $146 gift to the Human Rights Campaign
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Brianna: ALSO someone asked a question and I thought he looked familiar - turns out it was Scott McCloud who’s like a very famous comics creator & scholar Me: I KNOW WHO THAT IS Me: THAT'S HOW FAMOUS HE IS Brianna: OH WOW
A woman who looks a lot like me but cooler, giving an answer at SDCC
A shelf of books by Diane Duane. INTERIM ERRANTRY is circled.
A Bernie Bros Facebook group plays the "well it's just an accusation" game
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a drawing of Guybrush Threepwood looking horrified
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A poll question asking me to rate on a scale of 0 to 10 how important it is that a county executive candidate "understands the importance of the conflict in Israel and Palestine." (I have selected 0.)
A Facebook user named Angus Mason-Penny has posted a FB comment that reads: "IM: Does the white smoke over Tel Aviv they picked a new Jeffrey Epstein?"
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Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin dancing together
A still from the PBS show-within-a-show Mathnet
Postsecret that says, "I feel uncomfortable when I open the dishwasher and it's still running because I feel like I am walking in on someone changing"
Waow based based based meme
a gray tabby sitting on a blue couch right next to a black wireless Nintendo controller
A red horse (??) blob thingy with what looks like Trump's hair
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A Hallmark card in a display that indicates you can "personalize with pronouns"
A part of the same novel in which the POV character says, "Now that I've said my peace." The idiom is "say your piece."
The movie poster for NOTORIOUS. You can see Ingrid Bergman's face as she embraces a man and tries to palm a key.
"Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers"
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Exercise watch output showing 253% activity today
A boy in a red snow suit sitting on the ice and brandishing a hunk of ice, with a yellow snow shovel in the foreground
Attempting to shovel a walk of ice
A photograph of a sleeping gray tabby cat
An overpass protest over I-95 on Gorman Rd in Maryland. The protesters' sign says ICE IS THE NEW GESTAPO
Google AI overview: The phrase "sharks bite beasts" is a palindrome—a sequence of characters that reads the same backward as forward. It is not a factual statement about shark behavior, but rather a linguistic curiosity.
2026 Less Republicans [charmingly misspelled] More Democrats [also charmingly misspelled] Less apples in my lunch More applesauce in my lunch Less pollution More greenery By Avi
angry Uncle Vernon from Harry Potter
"After the End" by Amy Plum (paperback cover)
A large crochet blanket with 48 granny squares. Each square has a daffodil in the center, surrounded by a white square. Each square is stitched together with darkish green yarn. The entire blanket is edged with spring green yarn. The photo is overlaid with text: "Don't steal this image"
I think this is accurate but I have a "yes and". I think the real sin of COVID for people was that they were forced to deal with their own children. I think people would have been a lot more tolerant of all the other stuff if only they were able to escape/foist onto others the hellions they created.
My kids in the snow and at the top of the sledding hill
The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.
(Me) The era of autotune and all its related technologies have totally killed our ability to have a movie like Sister Act 2 I know this is completely out of the blue BUT IT IS TRUE The whole point of SA2 is to showcase the amazing voices of the cast, and nowadays they would cast some already-famous people and autotune their voices and it would NOT BE THE SAME RYAN TOBY HITTING AN E-5, YOU HOLLYWOOD ZOMBIES GIVE ME THAT IN 2025, WAIT YOU CAN'T (Brianna) Lauryn Hill and her friend singing His Eye Is On the Sparrow!
A Kirkland brand half gallon of milk that expires 2/8/26
Me petting my chubby gray tabby cat, who's settled on my lap
The Muppet known as Sherlock Hemlock
Me grimacing while Cookie the tuxedo cat climbs over my shoulder. (I am a middle aged white woman wearing a Hogwarts rugby shirt today.)
A handwritten poster hung in a hallway. It reads "DON'T YELL 6-7"
HEARING & VISION SCREENING INFORMATION: All 8th grade students and students new to the state of Maryland will be screened at the [redacted] Hearing and Vision Clinic on 12/5/25. The rescreen date is 12/11/25. Parents may OPT out of screenings for religious reasons. Please email the school nurse stating you would like your student to opt out of the Hearing and Vision Clinic. EMAIL: [redacted] If your student wears glasses or contact lenses, please make sure your student wears them on the screening day. Thank you, [Redacted], Nurse
A selfie in which I am wearing a beige and gray patterned hooded shawl and sitting on a blue couch
AI Overview I have created a recipe for a dessert and named it "Peace." This dessert is designed to evoke a sense of calm and comfort through gentle flavors and a smooth texture. Dessert: Peace This dessert combines the delicate, floral notes of lavender and the light sweetness of white chocolate for a truly tranquil experience. Prep time: 30 minutes Chill time: 4 hours Ingredients For the White Chocolate & Lavender Mousse: 2 cups Heavy Cream, divided 4 oz Quality White Chocolate, finely chopped 2 Tbsp Dried Culinary Lavender 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 2 Tbsp Powdered Sugar For the Berry Compote (Optional, for a touch of vibrancy): 1 cup Mixed Berries (blueberries, raspberries) 1 Tbsp Granulated Sugar 1 tsp Lemon Juice For Garnish: Fresh mint leaves A few reserved lavender buds Instructions Step 1: Infuse the Cream In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup of heavy cream to a gentle simmer. Remove from heat, add the dried culinary lavender, cover, and let it steep for 15 minutes. Do not boil the cream. Strain the cream through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing gently on the lavender buds to extract the flavor. Discard the lavender buds. Let the infused cream cool completely (you can place it in the fridge for faster cooling). Step 2: Prepare the Mousse Base Place the finely chopped white chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl. Gently warm the strained lavender cream again until just hot (but not boiling), then pour it over the white chocolate. Let it sit undisturbed for 2 minutes, then whisk gently until the chocolate is fully melted and the mixture is smooth. Whisk in the vanilla extract. Set this mixture aside to cool until it is just lukewarm. Step 3: Whip the Mousse In a separate large, chilled bowl, combine the remaining 1 cup of cold heavy cream and the powdered sugar. Using an electric mixer, whip the cream to medium peaks. Gently fold the whipped cream into the cooled white chocolate mixture in two stages until just combined. Be careful not to overmix; you want to ke…
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In a parent comment, someone says that they are okay with what happened to CK. In a reply, someone else says that CK was assassinated by Mossad.
A gray tabby cat sleeps next to a pair of human legs (attached to an unseen person, a.k.a. me). One of her back legs is flung atop my left leg.