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2,000 students, staff and faculty at #BrownUniversity attended a ‘family screening’ of “Man on the Run”, a biopic about Paul McCartney, whose granddaughter is currently an undergrad at #BrownU. https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/paul-mccartney-morgan-neville-man-run

#Beatles #Music

https://youtu.be/D1ziJv2Duu4
🛑🇺🇸Will July 4th be America’s final birthday? Millions of American’s come together under multiple grievances to protest government (PBS NewsHour VIDEO) #Ukraine #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Texas #Florida #USA #US #America #BrownU #Press #California #Media #News #Democrat #Independents #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

It might be the middle of summer, but football season is coming!

This bear is all set to run the ball into the end zone...

https://pixels.com/featured/football-bear-red-college-mascot-designs.html

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #CollegeFootball #Football #Potsdam #MissouriState #LenoirRhyne #BrownU #EverTrue #BarclayCollege #BridgewaterState #WUSTL #WashU

Extended Profile

Synopsis:

• a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
• social media girlboss
• actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
• time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
• Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

Truisms:

• Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
• I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
• That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

Personal sites:

• creative: https://woozalia.com
• technical: https://wooz.dev

I also run https://issuepedia.org and https://htyp.org but nobody knows why.

Details

My legal name is:
Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
(...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

Things I sometimes do:

• post original music
• write about #JennyHypertwin
• escalate the War on Bullshit
• write lots of unfinished software
• administer TootCat
• complain about tech (mainly software)
• feel inadequate
• take photos of clouds

(If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

(I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

(* exited from Windows)