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Open Thread

This Weekend Open Thread Really Doesn’t Miss Living in Buffalo

I mean, holy crap.

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News

Friday News Bites: Marriage Equality in Montana + More

Yeah, I’m busy on Facebook liking every single positive mention of marriage equality in my state. My whole timeline is one big victory lap from everyone I know who has hoped for this moment.

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Life

Ten Memories of Snow and Ice

I’ve spent a childhood longing for snow and an adulthood running from it. Until I can move to Hawaii, snow, ice, slush, and cold will be a part of my life.

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Op Ed

Selena’s Shit List

Last week was terrible. 

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Science

A Few Things I Need to Get Off My Chest

Because I just can’t deal with this ignorant shit anymore. WHY are we still debating evolution?? WHY do people think that the recent snowfall in the South was fake and engineered by Obama/the NSA and contained nanobots or “chemtrails” and that it also negates global warming?? My head hurts just typing that out, but apparently […]

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Open Thread

Yet Another Snowbound Open Thread

Fuck this weather right in the polar vortex. 

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Open Thread

This Open Thread is Snowbound

Snow captivity, day #4. Still cold, with wind chills up to -40° F & C, still covered in snow we can measure in feet instead of mere inches. 

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Just for Fun

The Polar Vortex in Gifs

Because baby, it’s fucking freezing outside!

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Open Thread

This Weekend Open Thread Had a Snow Day

I got several extra days of break. Thanks, snow!

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Favorite Winter Games

Does sitting in a chair, reading Tumblr count as a game?

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Holiday Decorations

This week marks the first new snow of the winter for some of us. It was almost as surprising as having holiday decorations preceding the yearly Halloween deck-out at my local grocery store. It seems like winter and the holidays are coming early this year.

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News

News Appetizers Are for the Birds

It’s news! It’s not good! Life still goes on.

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News

News Appetizers: Mmm. Delicious!

Happy Easter Monday! That’s a thing, right? A day of crashing after all that chocolate on Sunday? The news is depressing to fit with the sugar-crashing. Thematic!

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Photography

Picture This: Poor Weather

So I confess: I didn’t make it out to take photos this past week. The weather was just awful where I live with rain and sometimes even thunderstorms every single day for the entire week. Expensive camera + water = not my favorite combination. So what do you do when the weather doesn’t agree with […]

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Perspectives

Determining the Best Winter

The weather person is always afraid of the “s” word. If none of the fluffy white stuff falls, snow lovers and school kids complain. If the meteorologist fails to mention the “s” word and flakes appear, snow haters complain. Poor weather guys; they just can’t win. Most of the time, the media takes the first […]