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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hi, is there a Providence No Kings Vote Early rally?

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Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to those who celebrate.

There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!
In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling,
, "in the city of
Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr.
Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is really important. The US government wants to end independent scientific and medical research. Please comment and push back on the sweeping proposal that would give the White House veto and clawback power over Federal R&D funding. Here's guidance

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The Silver Eggheads (Fritz Leiber, 1963) is about writers rebelling against books reduced by machines.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Such an important point. In addition: VoteRiders has done a lot for state by state voters with new id challenges. They will certainly need more donations and volunteers if Congress passes the passport/birth certificate bill. Check out voteriders.org

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Happily I found it's an ebook on Bookshop dot org and I'm starting to read it now. Thank you to both of you.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Gish Jen, more than five great novels, plus story collections, non-fiction. Current novel is Bad Bad Girl.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm glad you shared. I like donating boxes as the actual cookies are too tempting with me mostly working from home. Donated 8. I hope they get to the goal and a great trip.

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Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf.org · 16/01/2026

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

That was a terrific meeting! Those who missed it should catch the video later.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Thank you for keeping this going. I was meaning to donate to the Capital Area Food Bank and this was a very useful ping! Someone could match the extra I added...

Receipt for donation to Capital Area Food Bank

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Southern Rhode Island, two small towns with high energy No Kings protests...

Person in inflatable crab costume with "Tyranny Makes Me Crabby" at a morning No Kings in RI

Person in tuxedo cat inflatable costume holding sign "Antifa Since 1776"

Crowds at No Kings lined six blocks of road in this small RI town

Waterfront crowd of several hundred for No Kings in an even smaller RI town this afternoon

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Looks like a perfect read for the season and the times. I'm glad you posted. I'll be diving into the ebook on Bookshop this evening.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

These two are brothers and they discovered a new way to be nearby each other but (probably) avoid getting into a scuffle

Two seated tabby cats with a glass porch door between them, with wary postures.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/07/2025

8️⃣ days until Good Trouble Lives On. On July 17, we’re honoring Congressman John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all. Make a plan to march in peace and act in power.

goodtroubleliveson.org

Good Trouble Lives On

On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH! We have 1 day to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

text: 1 day left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 14/04/2025

Deadline extended to 29 April 2025 – still time to submit your papers

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Why don't all the Democratic Senators throw sand in the Senatorial gears? Are they clueless or complicit?

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One senator can block the confirmation going to vote. Yes, they can't do anything once it goes to vote. We need our senators to get in more good trouble (for months now)

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Why don't Senators block these confirmation votes?

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I see Schiff is blocking the DC US Attorney. But they need to block more

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Internet Research Task Force @irtf.org · 15/03/2025

The ANRW paper submission deadline is in one month – please consider submitting your best applied networking research results!

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I hope it was the happiest of parties, so well deserved. I can't enumerate all the ways that NLnet Labs works and people have mattered to me, there are so many, in DNS standards, DNS privacy, stacks used, friendships...I hope this just the first quarter of an NLnet Labs century (at least).

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Lazy question: could you share a link to where the exhibit is traveling? Thank you!

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please apply if you are early career or in graduate studies in networks/security. It's a great program, a way to interact with researchers who like you want to have broad impact. Help us grow and diversify the Internet Research Task Force #iRTF with your coolness. Do apply, by March 21. #IETF123

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Academics of all stripes should actively oppose the illegal order to reduce indirect cost reimbursements. This order violates both federal regulations and the Administrative Procedures Act. Implementation would hurt scholarship throughout all disciplines. samwang.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

samwang.substack.com

Indirect costs: not just for science

Three ways for scholars to fight the illegal attempt to undermine higher education.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

More chaos it looks like. But look at archive.org. Many people archived the site. I didn't check how deeply the links are archived or whether there are also attacks on the data in the National Archives

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Quad9 @quad9dns.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Interested in #privacy AND #security? You need to read this: How Quad9 Handles Your Data Spoiler Alert => we never even collect it 😅 Tell all your friends! www.quad9.net/news/blog/ho...

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have one of these and it's great for many occasions and temperatures

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

FWIW close to Bourbon Street, along the Mississippi, there's a weatherworn statue dedicated to immigrants. That's the thought: person of marble, white because, duh, they're marble. People have draped the statue's raised hand in dangling bright party beads. I took this photo a couple weeks ago.

Androgynous looking weatherworn classically draped statue with one arm raised. Blue sky background. Location is on the Moon Walk in New Orleans. The raised hand is draped with bright metallic Mardi Gras beads in silver, green, purple...dangling down, clearly more recent than the statue because there is an older necklace that has mostly broken apart and the others look quite new

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I've seen some sign panels are ongoing but maybe it's not yet fully enacted 📌

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

They are competent to get $$$$$$$ and steal from the people - there is only that, I'm afraid

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Wishing a quick and complete recovery to him! You both are wonderful. Bought a bundle (this just completed my resolve). Take care.

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Quad9 @quad9dns.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

First blog of year! Why You Should Be Using a Privacy-Centric DNS Service in 2025 www.quad9.net/news/blog/wh... #DNS #privacy #security

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Your drawing is so lovely. I hope you get back the inspiration. Here are a few photos I took: a live oak, a very premature magnolia, and a halo around December's full moon

Large live oak tree with large branches growing along the ground - park bench and path in foreground. Greens, greys and tan, not a sunny day

In early January on a mild and sunny day, here is a magnolia tree showing some buds and one hot pink nearly open flower. Background wall is pale green.

The December full moon with a 360 degree halo. It's quite bright inside the halo and at least one bright star is visible to the lower left. Power lines cross the lower right of the photo, sparkling a little from the halo brightness

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Check close-in Brookline hotels like the Courtyard at Coolidge Corner (CC). The Green Line T stops just outside and they're normal priced a lot of the time, comparable to other work travel. CC has lots of inexpensive eateries and Brookline Booksmith.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

People post 100% photo feeds on Mastodon - it works well I gather as a reader (not a poster). And now you can connect your Bsky and Mastodon feeds.

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Allison Mankin 🐾🕊️ @allisonjmankin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Blackbeards delicacies and tea lights - mmm

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