valerie

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Academic librarian @CUNY | Web Services | LibTech/EdTech Specialist | ND AF | In my Molly Grue era | GLAMS feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66

Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price
A white lady strapped into a giant weird-looking helmet that is part of a transcranial magnetic stimulation machine)
A screenshot of a NY Times guest opinion essay, titled: Stop Patholigizing Ordinary Life (dated July 26th, 2026)
It's OK to feel hurt about this but mostly as a reminder not to touch the hot handle of the pot.
Me, a middle aged white lady in a red top and grey glasses, drinking tea out of a fancy cup, on an old fashioned train
Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things
A small floofy grey tabby is laying on my lap, having his head washed by his brother, a much bigger, less floofy grey tabby
A long piece of wood on a beach.
A little front yard area, with 2 freshly-pruned bushes, and various native plants in fuchsia and magenta and chartreuse. In the front is a variegated pink-tinged abelia.
An open car hatchback showing a trunkload of plants
You think I'm soft Because I always have been Because you don t understand You've never had to I needed to create some give To sunive And because of privilege You've only ever had to interact With the soft parts of me But the inside my friend The bones of this joint Push on me And you’ll see I bend but I don't break Too many have lived too soft a life You have no idea what people look like in the inside But you will learn Good god will you learn
My hand holding a cute little glass jar of green powder with “ramp salt” written in black marker on the silver lid.
Two middle aged shore ladies selfie-ing in a river. We look very happy.
Tehela 17.75 inch wide utility sink in black and white
Two tabby cats laying on my outstretched legs (on a white fleece blanket with black cats on it)
a list of books about brains including: Knowledge as a Feeling by Swanson, The Biological Mind by Jasonoff, The Elusive Brain by Tougaw, How We Learn by Dehaene, The Gist of Reading by Elfenbein, and Thought and Language, Proust and the Squid, and Reader, come home, all by Wolf
A black mortarboard with “Let them speak!” written in cursive with sparkle white puff paint
Me holding up a copy of The Biological Mind by Alan Jasonoff that Bronx Community College kindly lent me through interlibrary loan
Two floofy grey tabby cats on the back of a couch, one in profile against the window, showing a twilight sky, the other with a prominently dangling paw. It’s giving indie rock duo album cover vibes.
Wikipedia blurb for the British tv show “The Good Ship Murder”. It has 6.1 out of 10 stars and the blurb reads: The Good Ship Murder is a British television crime drama series created by Paul Matthew Thompson and Mike Benson, set on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. It follows a retired detective-turned cabaret singer solving murders on board…
June 2025- May 2026 Desvenlafaxine ER 100mg Bupropion XL 30 mg Escitalopram 5mg Bupropion HCL 75 mg Lamotrigine ER 25mg Lamoțrigine 25mg Fluoxitine HCL 20mg Clonzapam 1mg Fluoxitine hcl 10mg Bupropion HCL SR 100mg Trintellix 5mg Ropinerole HCL 1mg
My legs outstretched on the couch, under a teal blanket, with a small floofy tabby cat on my lap and another, larger tabby to the left of my legs
A disheveled blond lady sipping from a handmade ceramic mug with an image of a haunted house and the words: mentally I am here.
A headline from New York Times‘s The World newsletter that reads: Anti-Trumpism Unites Europe
A smiling blond lady in black cat eye glasses, in front of a view of the sea
I’m leaning on the edge of an infinity pool, watching a gorgeous sunset
A screenshot of an app forcing me to give a review, which reads: I'm not ready to answer this, but the app won't let me proceed without submitting something. Maybe talk to the company who provides the app, this is a design flaw that will cost you reviews, since I was tempted to click one star just to get past this screen because it annoyed me so much.
Space potato man floating around
Cat prints in cement
An orange cat under my table at a restaurant in Greece. I am petting, he is err-ing.
Me doing a selfie with a calico cat. The mountains of Santorini are in the background.
A white lady in a straw sun hat waving, in front of a beautiful ocean view
A potato-like creature in a space suit floating in space next to a satellite. He does not look happy about it.
A view from a street-level bar in Athens, Greece. There’s taxis and stores in the background
A middle aged white least with blond hair and black glasses and a kn-95 mask, sitting on a plane
A fluffy grey tabby cat is on my lap, looking handsome in profile, with another grey tabby shoving himself into the side of the couch, fast asleep, and looking rather like a roasted turkey
A tiny floofy grey tabby cat laying on my lap, looking up at me with the coolest possible anime kitten face ever
Another in my apparently endless series of Ollie and Mylo (two grey tabbies) keeping me stuck on the couch by never getting off my lap
A big fat grey tabby cat curled up sleeping on my lap. He’s a giant of a cat but he has a scraggly little trail. Oh and white mittens on his front paws.
Two grey tabby cats laying on a blue and white crochet blanket on my lap
Two grey tabby cats sleeping on my lap. Again.
2 tabby cats passed out on me
2 tabby cats sprawled out on my lap, fast asleep
A middle-aged blond white lady holding a Cue Cat with the cord still wrapped up to the camera, because I never even set it up on my computer
The microwave being propped up by towels and pillows and a crate and a board and two ceramic canisters
An over the counter microwave that has come detached from the wall and is perilously hanging forward, threatening to fall completely off the wall and onto the stovetop
A post from Reddit’s one orange brain cell with two cats sitting on rocks, a tabby all pepper and loaf-like on top of one and an orange with his torso propped up on the rock and his legs dangling down touching the ground, looking silly
Screenshot of a Facebook post by me, which reads: If you start excluding groups from society, the box in which you yourself have to live in just gets smaller and smaller. The list of rules governing just how you are allowed to exist gets longer and longer. Eventually they will take away something you love, and THEN you’ll understand the folly of it all. But by then it will be too late for all of us. Anyway. This is what I want you to know. This is what I’ve been trying to say for the past long while now. I just want us all to be able to find peace and joy on this miracle of a fucking journey we’re all on. The sheer genius of our existence is too enormous for us to choose to be so small.
Article snippet: "This is more complex than it may at first appear, as references can be detailed by authors in a variety of different ways, often do not include DOIs, and simple tools to identify hallucinated references can produce false positives," Graf told us by email.
Article snippet: Hallucinated references are an area the publisher is "actively exploring," added Chris Graf, research integrity director for Springer Nature. Last April, the publisher announced the launch of a new in-house AI tool to check submissions for irrelevant references.
a screenshot of the interface that you use to search your downloaded "x" archive, which still has the twitter bird and refers to posts as tweets
The “delete my account” confirmation dialog box, with my reflection visible on the black background screen, giving the peace sign
A bunch of cacti specimens at a xeriscaped botanical garden
A very phallic cactus, complete with little cacti balls
A sprawling paddle type cactus that seriously looks like an Alexander Calder piece
Screenshot of article, where it says: She frequently highlights that, much like athletes or musicians train until success becomes second nature, failure during practice sessions is not a defeat but rather a rehearsal. Her strategy thus reflects Julie Andrews' well-known adage: experts practice until they can't make a mistake, while beginners practice until they get it right.
My hand holding the crunchwrap supreme I ordered earlier this evening
A one star review that reads: I'm pretty annoyed that I drove an hour to do an extended interview only to be told that a condition I disclosed UP FRONT was disqualifying. One of the people there even tried to convince me that maybe I DIDN'T in fact have the condition after all, which felt wildly inappropriate to me. I have serious mental health conditions, I don't need to be messed around with.