Stacey Berg

@staceyberg.bsky.social

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Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her.

Black and white cat curled up asleep on a pillow
Ad saying “Music will never sound the same once heard through vinyl. Polk audio will help you get started.”
Photo of black and white cat sitting up looking wide eyed and startled
Close up Picture of orange spider with triangular black spines in web
Portrait of black and white cat with black heart on his nose
Photo of black and white cat on decorative pillow.
Photo of toilet with text saying “This smart toilet attachment helps you better understand your digestion and health trends Ever look inside the toilet bowl and wonder what your gut is trying to tell you? Now, thanks to Kohler Health, you're able to gain valuable insights into your health to make real change to your bathroom routines.”
Chart saying: All Australians at the age of 12 years should be able to: Table with 2 columns and 8 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable) 1 Understand and respect safety rules for a range of aquatic environments 2 Enter and exit the water for a range of environments 3 Float, scull or tread water for 2 minutes and signal for help 4 Swim continuously for 50 metres 5 Surface dive, swim underwater and search to recover an object from deep water 6 Respond to an emergency and perform a primary assessment 7 Rescue a person using a non-swimming rescue technique with non-rigid aids 8 Perform a survival sequence wearing light clothing
Black and white car stretched out on a pillow
Screen grab saying “more than half of the areas renter households – about 51% countywide and 53% in Houston – spend more than 30% of their income on rent.”
Black and white cat stretched out on his side across the entire length of a decorative pillow.
Piece of toast shaped roughly like a Fender Stratocaster guitar with double horns.
Picture of black and white cat 99% asleep on a pillow
Screen grab of two sequential BlueSky posts, first showing network of Elon Musk and next 9 richest people; next saying “Over 92,000 Illinoisans have lost or could not afford their Affordable Care Act health insurance.”
Photo of large beautiful green grasshopper with gold spots
Graphic from Houston Chronicle showing trend of increasing number of 100 degree days in Houston as well as walker and later first and last 100 degree dates.
Clipping from Houston Chronicle article saying “Grimes County officials approved a tax break for a SpaceX chipmaking facility on Wednesday, supporting a $55 billion project that could create 1,800 jobs and transform this to rural area outside of College Station.”
Photo of stadium banner reading “official potato roll of the Houston Astros.”
Screengrab of headline “ultraprocessed food scientists say Americans are fed up with industry and government inaction”
Black and white cat lying in a ceramic basin, looking like he has been poured from the faucet
Headline saying “Quadruple Amputee Professional Cornhole Player Jailed on Murder Charges”
Black and white cat lying alertly across a threshold.
Photo of two green Carolina anoles intertwined mating.
Photo of a white bird with a yellow beak and some Buffy orange on its head and back, standing in a patch of bluebonnets.
Tree pollen count meter showing 2037 grains per cubic meter and legend “very high.”
Photo of airplane seat back pocket labeled “737-MAX8” and “Literature Only.”
Photo of a small adorable cream colored cat with dark points and a small adorable black and white cat with a black heart on his white nose.
Photo of text saying Runner wins closest LA Marathon race in event history
Headline says “new social hub aimed at brining the community together.”
Photo of round screw with a square hole.
Black and white cat lying under faucet in bathroom sink
Screen grab of wearable activity capture with suggestion that the activity is “downhill skiing.”
Aerial photo of high rise building towering over neighborhood houses.
Powell McCormick, Meta's new hire for president and vice chair, moved from Cairo, Egypt, to the Dallas area when she was 4 years old, adjusting to life in the United States as her father drove a school bus and ran a convenience store, according to CNN. In the following decades, the Texas-raised immigrant has served in two White House administrations, became an executive at Goldman Sachs and will now lead one of the biggest tech giants in the world. Her American success story began with her family's journey to Texas and continued to take shape in the Lone Star State, where she grew up and attended college at the University of Texas-Austin. Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted her experience when the company announced her hire Monday.
A large white and black cat lounging on a person’s lap.
Photo of nut pick being held in front of a menorah that has wax stuck to it
Photo of 3 large gray bell shaped devices at the roadside, with depressions in them that look like eyes and nostrils.
Photo of a black and white cat lying on his back with his feet in the air and a pathetic expression on his face
Photo of beer can label miles in the Sun with cartoon mole surfing, cartoon of periodic table element Su^N 6.02x10^23
Photo of Meta privacy notice stating “We process the names, phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses in the address book to see if any of the numbers or email addresses belong to users. If a user’s contact is also on Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram, we can suggest this contact on Facebook as someone to send a friend request to in the Facebook user’s People You May Know or as a suggested account to follow on Instagram. Users can also invite Non-Users to join Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram via text or email. Contact Uploading also allows us to suggest a Non-User who joins as a user of Facebook as a friend to add for the user through People You May Know or as a suggested account to follow on Instagram. Finally, we will also use the address books uploaded to investigate suspicious activity on the Meta Products and keep our platform safe and secure. We also conduct business intelligence and analytics using the address books uploaded to accurately count people and users of the Meta Company Products. Meta shares information we collect, infrastructure, systems and technology with the other Meta Companies. We share Non-Users’ data with other Meta Companies to be able to provide the contact import feature and for the purposes set out above.”
Photo of goldenrod blooming, with honeybee)
Photo of a yellow flower with purple veins and purple pistils
Photo of football coach with headline “James Franklin’s $50,000,000 buyout turn some heads after Penn State‘s recent cost cutting.”
Photo of an inside out pair of line running shorts that appears to have one continuous surface between the lining and the outside fabric, a structure hypothetically, only possible in four dimensional space.
Sign with Universal symbol for women’s toilet and labels that say “women,” “femmes” and “1000W”
Photo of container full of rocks labeled “Rip Rap.”
Article text says “There are very few groups I can think of that collectively have taken the little spotlight they now have (thanks to one player whom they all hate) and turned it into a disaster. This league was better off when nobody ever had to hear from any of them as they are the most miserable, narcissistic, entitled brats on the planet. The commissioner should assign only about one or two of them to be allowed to speak. All they do is complain, whine and act as if they are owed something, and it is just a miserable bunch of people to have to deal with. As for their shirts, I mean, if they they are owed relative to what the league makes, they are in for some sticker shock.”
Photo of a dairy cow wearing an udder support device
Chart showing that over 25% of construction workers, including more than half of drywall workers and plasterers, and over a quarter of masons and carpenters, are immigrants. Meanwhile the constructions industry is short between a quarter- and a half-million workers.
A cream colored cat upside down with tongue going “blep.”
Black and white cat snoozing calmly on a patterned pillow
Photo of headline HISD has just 23 librarians for 274 schools after move to turn libraries into discipline areas.
Texas Longhorns will spent 35-30 million on their football roster for 2025
Picture of a possum whose face is lit white in night-vision game cam photo
A headline showing an endangered whale and “protections for endangered Rice’s whales in Gulf removed per President Trump’s order.”
Photo of a black and white cat sound asleep on someone’s lap
Picture of a cat similar looking to the one in the prior post
When cow wants to be milked it goes to a gated stall where a transponder on their collar is scanned. If they have not been milked within the last few hours, the gate closes behind them, a feed bucket pops up, a robot milking machine latches on, and the cow is milked while it eats.
30000 Tons of us grown wheat stuck in Houston due to trump usaid cuts
Very large black and white cat sitting up