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Hi, Puff! Are you joining me for New Year’s Eve in the city?

Moose & Fluffy are staying in playing video games.
Feeling a little overawed is the hustle & bustle of Grand Central, Puff?
PSA: My wee dragon is explosives-free.
Ready to make friends with strangers in a bar, my little dragon?
I’m not sure how NYE works with time travel, Puff, but I am so down to find out.
Puff snuck backstage.
Ok, wee dragon. Cellphone is dying & your human is a bit fuzzy on reality, but we know the station name, analogue maps are everywhere, & 90% of women traveling solo willl reliably help us out.

we’ve got this handled.
I’m not entirely sure what Puff got up to last night, but my phone is full of pictures of my tiny dragon posing with strangers so apparently he was busy.

At least he made it home by morning!
What’d you think, Puff? Sufficiently exuberant start to the new year?
Fluffy & Moose are an attentive audience as Puff tells stories of our city outing
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It’s #NYE & nearly 2019 in my current time zone.

May you live in interesting times.
May you follow your curiosity.

May this year have fewer disasters than the last.
May this year not hold the Big One, whatever that looks like.

Take care of each other.
We’re all we’ve got.
Happy 2019, my science-loving kin. 💚

I’m in NY-ish until April.

Gimme a ping if you spot somewhere I should perform. I’d like to make the most of this stint in the northeast, and I have so much fun meeting you irl.
I’ve hit the champagne stage where my disaster mitigation training suggests I should log out of Twitter until I can navigate 2-factor authentication.

Be safe, tweeps.
At least partly because it would be a Very Bad Idea for me to do a talking news head catastrophe spot rn.
💚💚💚
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It's a busy, busy day for space with @OSIRISREx slipping into orbit around Bennu & @NASANewHorizons doing its flyby of #Mu69.

I'm not covering the stories (...sigh), but I can recc @elakdawalla @alexwitze @DownHereOnEarth @lorengrush
Hello, new tiny world. Ready for your close-up?
Hey, lil peanut! Nice to meet you, if only for a brief moment.
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