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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seattle Times comes out against I-638. It s terrible law, based in bigotry, that hurts all girls who want to compete in school sports, requiring invasive sex testing. If you’re in WA state or know someone who is, please spread the word: Vote NO on I-638. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

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Seattle Times recommends 'No' on I-638, ban on trans girls in sports | Editorial

If this were a “Washington problem“ it would be worth studying as a pressing issue to be resolved by the electorate, informed with science. But it is not.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seattle continues its proud tradition of having holidays only on gray, darkly overcast days.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every time I see AU, I have to stop and examine the context. Among all possible meanings, I'm usually trying to decide between Australia and alternate universe. Apologies to inhabitants of either space for my confusion. I suppose it's age related.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In my weekend of cultural experiences, last night I saw live Shakespeare under the stars at a bougie winery. This morning I had popcorn for breakfast and watched coyote v acme. All after seeing Gillian cover the Dead. August was just reruns of my whole cultural heritage.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fucking supreme court, out to fuck civilization on yet another Monday

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saw Gillian Welch and David Rawlings do a 3hr Dead set tonight. Good gawd close harmony and virtuoso guitar are good for the soul. 🌹🧸 (There isn't a Truckin' bear in my keyboard, which doesn't seem right)

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I binged #TheAuditors (it didn’t disappear; look on Apple, Viki, Prime). I’m a sucker for workplace-competency dramas—bonus if they do *not* include romance. I came for #ShinHaKyun, playing the emotional opposite of his character in #FiftiesProfessionals. #JinGoo is A+ as the villain. #kdrama

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Materials experiment day. 1) Directions say you can make wheat glue in the microwave. 2) Add that to list of things I'll never try again. (No pics; I don't want to remember)

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ok #seattle, I think it's great that you came down to Pioneer Square for First Thursday. Did you think, while you spent 40 minutes looking for a parking place, maybe you shouldn't drive here next time? Please?

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hey, Seattle! Vote! Especially vote for the library!! (Do it by tomorrow, which is Tuesday, if you lost track.)

G Willow Wilson's famous character, Kamala Khan, urges you to do the right thing.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today at 2pm the Seattle Council is taking a big vote on SEPA reform, deciding whether to keep letting every major zoning change into the city get hung up by administrative appeals. I went on @citycastseattle.bsky.social to debunk misinformation around this proposal. megaphone.link/CC7532316216

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What To Know About the Seattle Center Shooting, SEPA Updates, and Good News When We Need It by City Cast Seattle

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I love Sarasa ink colors but dislike the slippery holder, so I move the inner pen to a Tul holder when that ink runs out (which it seems to do more quickly than it used to).

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Pic is metaphoric: my current life dilemma. I'm rebinding old books (my mom's). S/b easy; I used to do single "e" typo correx w/ xacto & wax. Alas, my essential tremor now interferes. The non drug fix: 0 caffeine. My treasured a.m. hours require *black as sin* tea. Hence, my mountainous dilemma.

Mt Rainier on a mid July day, coming into Seattle by boat.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hey typography afficiandos. Is FIFA using the ugliest font since TF Spermo? Wonder what they paid the designer. Enough to offset shame by 2 expansion points?

A FIFA banner in Seattle, announcing: "we use the ugliest font in the 21st century, so far"

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm so old school. I keep believing that when I click "Search," the cursor will appear in a search box, ready for input. And I'm irked every time I have to click again. More irked when I can't tell if the search box came alive after I clicked it. What do they teach in UI school these days?

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Went to the ocean; found the nude beach and swim hole for a flock of #pelicans

Pelicans flocking to bathe in Elk Creek, Cannon Beach OR

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

PSA because I'm tired of this 🧵

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The sad reality is that Xi publicly, and repeatedly, insulted Trump and insulted the USA. From giving Trump a shorter chair to citing the Thucydides Trap of a waning power going to war with a rising one, Xi broadcast that China is now in control. Trump is too dim-witted to understand.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's righteous that Lucinda Williams is on the nyt best living songwriters list (else they'd embarrass themselves). But Dave Alvin isn't. I'm perplexed, coz I have exquisite taste in songwriters. His absence damages the quality of their list.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I finished Platform Decay. Now what do I do with the rest of my life?

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Listening to music while swapping winter clothes for summer. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" plays, and I think, oh, time to flip the album. As if I were time traveling.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Passed my beta draft to trusted readers last night. Now checking email as if I were awaiting response from a submissions editor. After all this time, I'm still like...12?

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It should have kept on being spelled tyger in English.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/05/2026

BREAKING: A conservative court packed with Trump-appointed judges just ruled to ROLL BACK access to the abortion pill. This is a page straight out of extremist Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook. Let me be clear: the abortion pill is safe and effective. We must fight back.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

While writing I fell into an hour-long intense emotional craving for a friend, gone 5 years now. That’s not like me. But turns out, I’d played Lucinda Williams’ ‘Something About What Happens When We Talk’ in the background. “Lucinda often does like that to you,” my dinner partner said.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Should I stick with #filing... Everything every character is doing grates on me...like, in what world is it ok for people to do or think like this? Will it ever be funny like the tone (but not the moral[s]) indicates?

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

You have to read this. It's insane. Like All the President's Men on steroids.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A #pursuitofjade observation: The camera loves Xie Zheng even more than Fan Chang Yu does. In fact, the camera does more than half of ZLH’s job on a regular basis.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Cherry blossoms blowing in a gusty Seattle wind like we're in a drama but with no ML, no swords. And my hands are freezing.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My #pursuitofjade comment (no spoiler!) that I don't want to bury in replies: a major theme driving the plot is "don't do things to protect a capable woman that she didn't ask you to do; it will not work out well for you" (repeat every ep, every new situation)

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Who burns bodies in the heart of a military camp? Who sets off on a march without supplies or shelter? Who forges perfect blades but forgets to give them to intended beneficiary? Why so many production/continuity probs in 1 ep?

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I made the very adult decision not to drink tea after 7pm, even though a brand-new box of lapsang souchong is calling my name. And I finished the research for the chapter I will write tomorrow (how to raise goats with no capital investment). Such a day!

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I am here to advocate for #aboutlove. First, if you like romance, this isn’t it—instead, watch #loveBetweenLines or #TheBestThing. About Love focuses on issues related to ‘love’ that I haven’t seen in contemporary #cdrama stories (about which the MDL synopsis seems unaware). [long] 1/6

Liu Yu Ning as Bei Qi Yuan, shooting with a bow on a date in “aboutLove”.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Oh gawd (Applies for everything I've read so far today)

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A picture is with 1k words. So where did the tradition of adding 20 unreadable hashtags come from? Esp. with no alt text? (I'm not saying I hate it. But I dislike it immensely.)

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both. These presumptions, while not proof, provide solid lines of inquiry as we learn more about the war.” snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

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Why Attack Iran?

Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Compulsively read The Verifiers and The Rivals over the past 3 days, leaving me with 15 minutes of not knowing what next to do with my life, then flooded with a burning desire to write. Jane Pek is my new secret crush.

Cover art of The Verifiers and The Rivals by Jane Pek, Books 1 & 2 of the Claudia Lin mystery series.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/02/2026

Since we are losing review space left, right and centre, and Goodreads is making that worse, I'm now going to be doing regular romance review roundups on my blog. Get recs here! Share your own! kjcharleswriter.com/2026/02/25/r...

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Romance Roundup (Feb 26) – KJ Charles

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I read the news today. Hooo boy. I learned that I have sat in a room with (& had my work life negatively affected by) a man who met his mistress through Jeffrey Epstein. (And I likely can't read this post coz E is a muted word )

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I wrote a romance* centered on an alt[dot]country idol despairing over fans' usenet discussions about which way he tucked. Here I am, 1.5 decades later, soberly engaged in a discussion over why xz's clothes don't fit. What happened that got me here?** (*9 Volt Heart) (**cql)

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

btw, #thejudgereturns gets sorted in the "revenge drama' pile, but it's not a revenge story. It's redemption/justice restored. And fear not, (reverse spoiler) the time-travel trope doesn't crash and destroy the story at the end.

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Love seeing snippets from #asmalltownremedy ... But did they hire one of the most beautiful men in the world and then dress him in clothes 2+ sizes too big?

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