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Mianaai

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Statistician; co-host on the Babylon Podject and Compleat Discography podcasts; lover of genre fiction, science, crafts, and cats. She/her. Icon by @jonrosenberg.bsky.social

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I joke to my husband that I’m scrolling until something good happens…

09.03.2026 04:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

06.03.2026 04:02 👍 1439 🔁 331 💬 22 📌 8
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By Your Command: A Cylon-coded fundraiser A fleetwide announcement involving worthy charities, whistles and very tiny Cylons

HI! Please share! I am running a new fundraiser with Cylon whistles. 4 great orgs benefit. I explain the whole deal here, but basically if you donate $25, I'll send you one of these BSG-coded whistles. You can email or DM receipts & the more you donate, the more u get! www.moryan.com/by-your-comm...

05.03.2026 18:32 👍 148 🔁 121 💬 6 📌 4

What a handsome ruff!

02.03.2026 19:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now.

Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working!

(hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!)

http://thebrokencirc...

02.03.2026 18:14 👍 290 🔁 122 💬 4 📌 10
A holographic plate wehre someone is printing heart whistles themed after the American flag

A holographic plate wehre someone is printing heart whistles themed after the American flag

our beautiful guerilla whistles shaped into a heart, and inside the heart are tons of heart whistles

our beautiful guerilla whistles shaped into a heart, and inside the heart are tons of heart whistles

a close up of a ton of holographic whistles printed in shimmery white and black

a close up of a ton of holographic whistles printed in shimmery white and black

a hand picking up whistles from a box and letting them fall. the colors are a gorgeous pearl and split between flame orange and a ton of really fast rainbow stripes

a hand picking up whistles from a box and letting them fall. the colors are a gorgeous pearl and split between flame orange and a ton of really fast rainbow stripes

Ending this thread with one of the photos from our inbox, because the variety and diversity of whistles gives me joy.

26.02.2026 04:48 👍 56 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
a box of whistles in beautiful colors: sparkly silver, a sweet aqua, black with vivid sparkles, and gorgeous dark reds

a box of whistles in beautiful colors: sparkly silver, a sweet aqua, black with vivid sparkles, and gorgeous dark reds

a plate of whistles in a ton of different colors and designs, all of them vivid. especially a gorgeous blue gradient!

a plate of whistles in a ton of different colors and designs, all of them vivid. especially a gorgeous blue gradient!

more SPARKLE colors, because really I don't know if anyone does vivid glitter like protopasta. especially the depth in these blacks!

more SPARKLE colors, because really I don't know if anyone does vivid glitter like protopasta. especially the depth in these blacks!

this time it's gorgeous glitter printed on holographic plates!

this time it's gorgeous glitter printed on holographic plates!

Also, shout out to @protopasta.bsky.social who has begun to deliver us gorgeous spools of filament at a TREMENDOUS discount, because every time you give them $20, they send one of their VERY high quality spools to our printers!

proto-pasta.com/products/the...

26.02.2026 04:54 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Oh she’s beautiful

24.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m so sorry 😭

23.02.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@babylonpod.page or @compleatdiscography.page might be able to answer this 😂

20.02.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Check out my list on Amazon

For the last 2 weeks or so, I've been a small piece of a giant team 3D printing tiny safety whistles for folks all over tge US. If your organization wants to distribute whistles, LMK. And if you'd like to help me with materials, consider a purchase ftom my wishlist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

19.02.2026 21:27 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Keep Minnesota Housed!
Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.
Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

19.02.2026 15:32 👍 1635 🔁 1171 💬 21 📌 50

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.

WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

19.02.2026 02:37 👍 1740 🔁 501 💬 11 📌 77
WhistleWishLists | Linktree We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!

Y'all, tomorrow we are going to cross 500,000 whistles shipped in February, which is just a staggering and bananas thing.

We have a few printers under our "HELP SEND FILAMENT" wishlists tonight, so if you want to keep the ball rolling...

linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

19.02.2026 04:45 👍 97 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 2

And a reminder that everyone can request whistles. We send out 100 to church groups and classrooms and people who just want to give them to their neighbors.

And we'll send out 18,000 to Marie! 💓

19.02.2026 03:36 👍 123 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 0
WhistleWishLists | Linktree We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!

Hey friends! Probably my last whistle post for the night, but our Wishlist Fairy @unburntwitch.com has just updated our wishlists to put everyone who has the greatest need at the top!!! If you were thinking you wanted to send some filament to a printer, NOW IS A GREAT TIME!

18.02.2026 03:26 👍 74 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 2

If you haven't read Terry Pratchett

Please

*I beg you*

Do so.

And this is the best deal I've ever seen for his work.

18.02.2026 14:34 👍 42 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0

You can arrange them like a parquet floor to get 4 colors on a tri-extrusion filament too!

18.02.2026 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
WhistleWishLists | Linktree We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!

Into the shadowy cabal of whistlesmiths that 3d print and ship free ICE watch whistles around the country (750k and counting)? Wanna support our efforts? A couple of our printers are running low on supplies - if you feel like helping out, here's who needs a hand! linktr.ee/WhistleWishL...

18.02.2026 03:33 👍 123 🔁 52 💬 1 📌 0

What a sweetheart 😻

14.02.2026 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...

ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

13.02.2026 00:30 👍 496 🔁 184 💬 20 📌 75
Gonzo

Gonzo

Jason Mantzoukas

Jason Mantzoukas

I am putting two images side by side and I need you to consider them for future Muppet televised programming

12.02.2026 21:46 👍 439 🔁 70 💬 18 📌 13

But folks in undergrad wouldn’t be taking stats-for-lawyers classes? Obviously this depends on university offerings but there’s generally a range of stats classes at various levels, taught by statisticians, that they could take. I don’t think painting stats classes as all badly taught is useful.

12.02.2026 15:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Large purple drop pendant wrapped in criss-cross silver wire.

Large purple drop pendant wrapped in criss-cross silver wire.

Large purple drop pendant wrapped in criss-cross silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Large purple drop pendant wrapped in criss-cross silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Just one new pendant up tonight - a lepidolite showstopper:

oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4456...

All wrapped and ready to travel.

#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy

12.02.2026 00:30 👍 20 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2

This is far from universal, yes there are some bad stats profs/classes but most of the many stats professors I know try to have a lot of emphasis on interpretation and intuition. Statistics classes taught by non-statisticians tend to be worse on this front.

11.02.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wowwww yikes. I’m so sorry.

11.02.2026 17:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As much as I rationally understand that he was a misogynist asshole and all that reflects on him and not me… “idiot incapable of learning” has been so hard to shake entirely and it still is a frequent intrusive thought if I’m feeling down.

11.02.2026 17:07 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

The women were also forced to solve their own questions on the board timed and unassisted - the men never were humiliated like that. The same prof told me, the day before the final exam, that I was an “idiot incapable of learning” and set 2-3x length exams so he could grade on a “curve”.

11.02.2026 17:04 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Some friends and I ran an experiment on a misogynistic prof in uni. We’d noticed discrepancies in grades and treatment in general and devised a set of questions to be asked by single-sex subgroups. Same qs; men were told they were smart and insightful, women told they were stupid questions

11.02.2026 17:03 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

I legitimately narrowed my PhD school applications to only ones without the GRE, because I’m not good at math standardized testing and i didn’t want that to be a mark against me as I was applying for a stats degree

11.02.2026 16:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0