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  Women only! Do you wear a bra:

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  Huh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8NT23gelI

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  Ever wonder what ruminant/bird you need to sacrifice for your sins and impurities? Well wonder no more. This handy table makes it easy to atone! https://ninapaley.com/2026/08/14/sin-offering-table/

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  There are very few photos of me actually riding a recumbent bike, because I usually ride solo and can’t photograph myself from a distance. Here's a rare one taken by a friend yesterday evening.

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  I'm performing an unscientific experiment called "How much homemade ice cream can I eat before I get literally or figuratively sick of it?"

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  Ever wonder how to punish a sin? Do you investigate, bring before elders, or just start stoning? or burning? or by the sword? Whose blood is upon whom's? Well wonder no more! This handy reference chart explains all. https://ninapaley.com/2026/08/18/sins-and-punishments/

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  Sometimes I despair of aging. Other times I think, I'm looking pretty good for 58. Helps when the camera is at a distance. Malnutrition from "Exercise-Induced Gastrointestinal Syndrome" also plays well to the camera, but like Crohn's disease is quite painful and life-impairing so I do not recommend.

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  Just re-listened, after many years, to the late David Rakoff speaking on the musical Rent: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/our-friend-david It's so good. Listen! (Go straight to Act 6.)

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  Look closely and you can see the fang punctures George leaves on this stool he regularly attacks.

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  Ira and George playing under/on the "Cat Panic" quiltlet.

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  3 days ago I biked 106 miles and felt pretty okay afterwards. Yesterday I rode 109 miles and felt kinda sick afterwards. 2 centuries with only one day in between is apparently too much for me. https://strava.app.link/rbDpwYcms3b

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  Astoria, Queens, 1929. Don't know how I'd never seen this Bessie Smith musical short film before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAchCljBr_Q&list=PL0L3vf6TzXf7p6lOZ6YJ6WgUxjFdy2IL6&index=57

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  Why does this fecebook commenter think this is a win or gotcha?

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  New (old) Heterodorx podcast! Episode 196: The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Avocado Oil https://heterodorx.substack.com/p/episode-196-the-squeaky-wheel-gets Heterodorx is on indefinite hiatus while one of us goes through some Life Stuff He Can’t Talk About. But here’s a recording from early April, released today, June 5. So much has already changed! For example, Nina’s favorite nutrition shake, Soylent, is no longer available. SAD! We also discuss vegans, vegetarians, having to eat meat when you don’...

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  Rural America be like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU

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  Paris, Illinois. (Yes I've biked there. More than once.) https://youtu.be/zSgrOvMLWsY?si=6WiORaZVM71dtQPF&t=260

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  Listening to the latest Informed Dissent podcast: https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/p/turban-and-karasic-at-the-apa-the I sure got this 2023 portrait right! https://store.ninapaley.com/product/gender-wars-playing-cards/

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  Ira says hi.

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  George and Ira quality cat content

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  Today I used up the remains of a 40-year-old bottle of Chambord by adding a few tablespoons to a raspberry syrup I was cooking. Contents of this same bottle flavored a ricotta cake frosting when I was 17, and a few other dessert experiments. It continued living in my parents' house after I moved away for 23 years, and during my parents' stint in Malaysia in the late 1980's to early 1990's. It was still there when I moved back to Urbana in 2012, following my father...

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  I have had eczema in my ears since my late teens. Doctors have prescribed OTC cortisone cream, calendula cream, and eczema cream, which helped maybe 10% at best. Recently a fellow sufferer told me ocean swimming seemed to improve her symptoms. I had leftover 3% saline solution after switching to 7% for treating my Bronchiectasis (lung condition) so started swabbing my ears with it twice daily. It works. So much better now. Wish I hadn't had to wait until I was 58 to learn this. Wish doct...

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  Ira

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  Bought myself an ice cream maker and made ice cream. Also made warm fudge sauce, since I was already working with chocolate (TERFfles). The two together are AMAZING. Sometimes the things I produce in the kitchen are so good I feel sorry for the rest of the world for not getting to enjoy it.

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  My house was built in 1956. It's in a "new" part of town that freaked me out when I was a child in the 1970's, because its trees were so small. Just over a decade earlier it was still farmland. I grew up in an older neighborhood, in a house built circa 1910. It was about 70 years old when I was a kid. My "new" house is now 70 years old. The tiny trees around it have grown big and are starting to die. This is the second one to fall on my prope...

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  Another 100+ mile bike ride yesterday. I needed to work off the stress of more trees falling on my property and the daunting costs of maintaining/preserving this house. https://www.strava.com/activities/18625818510

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  George & Ira

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  Oh lawdy, my second century in 3 days. Now I'm ready to rest. https://www.strava.com/activities/18653553563

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  Put empty ice bin on the counter. Seconds later:

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  Surely there are more than 14 women here who can answer my Very Important Bra poll! Please share. Let's get some data! RT: https://spinster.xyz/objects/a76a66e2-df76-4ece-9e77-c23cca78bfeb

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  Filed my taxes, a task that fills me with dread and anxiety. Glad it's done. Yay me.