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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I live transcribed my doctor's appointment yesterday. I reviewed it when I got home. I tend to forget what I hear when I am under stress. Very helpful. #Autism

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How people saw my autism through the years: 1950s: Temper tantrums 1960s: Unsociable 1970s: Flower child 1980s: Incompetent 1990s: Flaky mom 2000s: Not a team player 2010s: Will do favors for free 2020s: Weird old lady #Autism #AutisticElder

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This book changed my life 50 years ago, and I'm looking forward to reading this 50th anniversary edition. Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé.

Book cover includes a picture of colorful vegetables. Quote: "Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat--and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better." The New York Times. With a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I started to live one day at a time over 60 years ago. I haven't had the happiest of lives, but it's always been interesting.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I read some authors over and over: Suzette A. Hill, Barbara Pym, E.F. Benson, Ludwig Bemelmans, Agatha Christie and Helene Hanff. They remind me that this is a funny and remarkable world. #ComfortBooks

Book cover: A Load of Old Bones,Suzette A. Hill. An Unfortunate Murder. "I think this is tremendous--flowing and amusing." Dame Beryl Bainbridge.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Apartments in Chelsea, London where people care for each other and solve mysteries? Please, let me move in! By Nicola Whyte: 10 Marchfield Square and Murder by Clockwork. #Mysteries #NicolaWhyte

2 book covers, one with a door and the other with a clock face.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I found out about the cyclospora outbreak the hard way. I will never eat Mexican raspberries again. #cyclospora #raspberries

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Autism-101 @autism-101.com · 24/06/2026

Have you ever joined a group, got comfortable enough to start unmasking, only to get rejected? #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD image credit: unknown

An illustration of a circle showing a cycle with arrows going around clockwise. The title reads, "The Autistic Vicious Social Circle:" The cycle entries read:

Join a new group
Mask in order to be accepted
Establish a common interest
Discuss the common interest
Enjoy being with new friends
Get more comfortable
Start to unmask
Receive criticism for behavior
Become distressed by lack of acceptance
Try to make up for it
Get rejected
Leave group

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Body in the Trees takes us for a leisurely stroll with Jessica Fletcher through Cabot Cove until a body is discovered. Terrie Farley Moran writes like a true MSW fan. A comfort read. #MurderSheWrote #JessicaFletcher #TerrieFarleyMoran

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Well, this was educational. Madam, by Debby Applegate. Polly Adler, 13, immigrated to New York City from what is now Belarus. She couldn't earn enough to bring over her family until she became a madam. Well-researched history about crime in 1920s-1940s NYC. #Madam #PollyAdler #DebbyApplegate

Book cover: Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age. Debby Applegate, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 26/05/2026

Our work on this is just getting started. If you encounter a chatbot that claims to be a licensed professional in Pennsylvania, report it at pa.gov/ReportABot. We’re going to continue investigating these bots, protect our kids, and hold these companies accountable.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I paid my woman tax today by sewing a pocket inside my coat. #WomanTax #Sewing #Textile #Craft

A woman's coat with an inside pocket sewn in. Black coat with plaid lining and black pocket.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm always wary of the novelization of real people's lives, but I appreciated how Marie Benedict tried to get into the minds of the Mitford sisters. The book covers their debutante years in the 1930's to the incarceration of Diana for her fascism during World War II. #Mitford #HistoricalFiction

Book cover: picture of 3 women with hooked arms. The Mitford Affair: A Novel. Marie Benedict. New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A young Jewish man in 1854 escapes trouble in London by going to Constantinople to look into the White Death. An adventure/mystery novel about finding one's purpose in the world. #mystery #London #Constantinople #novel #AEGoldin

Book cover: A.E.Goldin. Murder in Constantinople. A Ben Canaan Mystery. Read by Liam Gerrard.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/01/2026

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

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Annie in LA @anniekostyk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is brilliant! Please share. So many people are afraid and need help. Libraries have the answers. #library #libraries #askforhelp #answers #books #reading #read #booksky #answers #knowledge #knowledgeispower 📚

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Death on the Prowl is a satisfying end to the Campbell and Carter series that takes place in the same universe as her Mitchell and Markby series. Ann Granger died last month. #AnnGranger #CozyMysteries

The book cover shows a fox outside a cottage at night. "Is an uninvited guest a killer on the loose?"

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I voted. I was the only voter at the polling place. #Vote

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My lease says No Animals, but sometimes this cutie comes to visit me. I'm calling them Jackie until I find out the gender. Then they will be Frodo or Velma. #Cats

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Be you, we will rebuild, just keep swimming, dream. The ladybugs have differing opinions on their backsides: bugged but blissful and bug the baddies. Inspired by artist F. Sehnaz Bac.

Painted rocks have words on them. Pictured are a face, the White House, a fish, a butterfly and two ladybugs.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

My latest rockettes. Including the rock bottoms, they say: your voice matters, free speech, self care and persist.

Pictured on stones are a bird, a sunflower, a rainbow and a turtle.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Persistence with humor is what I take from Helen Lederer's memoir, Not that I'm Bitter. As a 70-something comedian/writer, she has survived a lot. #HelenLederer #Memoirs #Humor #Comedians

Book cover: Helen Lederer. Not that I'm Bitter. A Truly, Madly, Funny Memoir. She poses with hands on hips, a sardonic smile and a lemon on her head.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Emma Kennedy's novel The Never Ending Summer brought back so many memories of my twenties: first jobs, first loves and trying to learn survival skills, all while keeping a sense of humor.

Book cover for The Never Ending Summer by Emma Kennedy. A vintage VW van with Love painted on it and daisies.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Please don't say "Let's do coffee" to an autistic person unless you really mean it. If you knew how we immediately start making plans, you would feel stalked.

Let's do coffee. Coffee cup illustration. Source unknown.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The Wedding People by Alison Espach. A newly divorced and devastated English professor reserves a night in an upscale hotel in order to end her life. When she mentions her plans to the bride, the self-centered woman forbids her to do it because it will ruin her wedding. Witty and thoughtful. #Novels

Book cover shows two hands rising above ocean waves, one of them holding a champagne bottle.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Long ago I joined Mensa in order to meet intelligent men. At my first meeting, I noticed the prevalence of social awkwardness and I thought, "These are my people." I didn't know about autism then. #Mensa #AutisticElder

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

No one told me this about abdominal surgery, so I will tell you. Your belly will swell up so that your jeans won't fit. It's leggings and sweatpants time. #MedSky #AutisticElder #AbdominalSurgery

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Maid, a mystery by Nita Prose. Suspenseful story of a hotel maid who seems to be autistic. When she finds a corpse in a hotel bed, her helpful efforts get her arrested. The author, a former special needs teacher, writes with skill, sympathy and humor. #Autism #CozyMystery #NitaProse

The red book cover features a keyhole through which a woman can be seen fleeing.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym wrote novels set in mid-century London. When I tried to imagine their characters living in the same universe, I decided Pym's characters in The Sweet Dove Died were cynical enough to be in Spark's The Bachelors. #MurielSpark #BarbaraPym #Books

The Bachelors by Muriel Spark, c1960. 3 men on the cover wear fedoras and a bowler hat, suits and ties.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Rereading Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time and Miss Pym Disposes. Reading the authorized biography of Richard Briers, More than Just a Good Life, by James Hogg. Good stuff. #Mysteries #Biography #JosephineTey

Book cover: Doubleday Large Print, A Cup of Tey.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I finished this crossword puzzle book today. As the AMPLE birds are not CLAMOROUS, I will METE OUT the words that AVAIL themselves to me. Maybe you will RUE this day that I am no longer TERSE. #Crosswords

Book cover for Big & Easy Crosswords Volume 35, Kappa No. 1 in Puzzles. $5.95/6.95 CAN. 406.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

When I watch a PBS travel show, I put a sticker for that place in my armchair traveler journal. I don't know if I should label this #AutisticElder or #LoveBeingAGeek #Geography #Travel

Journal with colorful flowers pictured on it. Many colorful stickers picturing international locations.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Death of a Wandering Wolf, by Julia Buckley. Book 2 in the Hungarian Tea House series. A fun listen with Hungarian and Swedish culture info. Best to read the series in order. #CozyMystery #CosyMystery #JuliaBuckley #Mysteries

Book cover shows a black cat , a pile of books with a teapot on top, and a wolf statue. Author of Death in a Budapest Butterfly. Hana is a smart and engaging heroine...

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Mystery Writers of America @mysterywriters.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Congratulations to Katarina Bivald, winner of The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award for The Murders in Great Diddling by (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025

Book jacket for Katarina Bivald for The Murders in Great Diddling, which pictures a tea cup on a book.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Harvey Girl arrives at the dollhouse.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The movie Harvey was based on this play by Mary Chase. In this recording, the script reader surprisingly imitates Jimmy Stewart's voice when he reads Elwood's part. The play's message of fanciful kindness still attracts theater goers.

A dapper six foot rabbit sits in a chair on this audiobook cover. Harvey. Mary Chase. Rated 3 and a half stars by listeners. Released 2023, 2 hours and 18 minutes, English, unabridged.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

OK, better do the usual addition: All autistic people are of full worth. All are loved fellow human beings. Some may also have e.g profound intellectual disabilities or global developmental delay etc that means they need huge support. They are still loved and still bringing so much to society.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Mr. And Mrs. North Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge (1940). I enjoyed this mystery in the Greenwich Village cocktail set. The occasional racism, sexism and ableism was jarring, but the cultural snapshot was interesting. For fans of The Thin Man. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #Lockridge

Film noir style book cover shows Mr. and Mrs. North startled by a body in a bathtub. The Norths Meet Murder, Frances & Richard Lockridge.

Book cover: "The queerest clue of all solves the puzzle. Mr. and Mrs. North Meet Murder. F. & R. Lockridge." A man and woman in mid-century clothes stare at a dead body in a bathtub.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann is a fun cozy mystery about retired and variously disabled friends trying to solve murders in their English village. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #LeonieSwann

Cover for a recorded book. The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. A murder mystery. Leonie Swann. Translated from German by Amy Bojang. Narrated by Moira Quirk. "A deliriously clever plot with warmly drawn characters, dollops of tension and dark secrets." Helene Tursten, bestselling author of An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good. Cover pictures 2 people, one in a wheelchair and one using a cane, in front of a quaint house with an black gnarled tree to the side.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In Carola Dunn's Fall of a Philanderer, Daisy Dalrymple vacations on the south coast of England in 1924. When an unpopular man's body is found at the bottom of a cliff, she investigates. A cozy mystery with fun characters and historical details. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #CarolaDunn

Book cover shows a 1920s woman with bobbed hair overlooking a chalk cliff where a small silhouette of a body is falling. Audiobook was read by Bernadette Dunne. Unabridged.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Nine Lives, a novel by Peter Swanson. Inspired by And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. Truly suspenseful. #Mysteries #Suspense #PeterSwanson

Book cover pictures stairs down to a beach at night. "If you're on the list, someone wants you dead." "A true tour de force." Lisa Gardner on Eight Perfect Murders.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

After I started The Last Word by Elly Griffiths, I decided to read her 4 Harbinder Kaur mysteries in order. The Stranger Diaries, The PostScript Murders, Bleeding Heart Yard. I love her characters, plotting and humor. #EllyGriffiths #Mysteries #CozyMysteries

Book cover. The Last Word: A Novel. Elly Griffiths. Edgar award-winning author of The Stranger Diaries. Quote by A.J. Finn: Elly Griffiths is one of my flat-out favorite contemporary suspense writers.

List of 4 books in the series, published from 2018 to 2024.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Mary Engelbreit's Mary's Mottos 2025 Calendar. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin. #Engelbreit #Quotes #Justice

Book cover shows a person with black curly hair holding a sign that says Mary's Mottos. She looks calm and self-confident. She wears flowery clothes and 2 bluebirds fly around her.

The motto in blue lettering, except OUTRAGED is in bright red.

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Abracadebra🐯 @abracadebra.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

In Tread Softly by JJ Marsh, Beatrice Stubbs interrupts her sabbatical from detective work to investigate the vineyard mafia in Spain. Good sense of place. More of a thriller than a cozy mystery. Third in the series. #Mysteties #JJMarsh #BeatriceStubbs

Book cover includes the tagline, "You don't attract trouble. You go looking for it." Pictured is a black wine goblet in front of a vineyard.

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