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Aunt Hoolia

@aunthoolia.bsky.social
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Editor. Interests: linguistics, movies, literary fiction, . . . and too much to name.

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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 20h
Where are you, approximately? We're getting many of the same in east central Illinois, although I think fewer than last week.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 21h
C'est le Sausage Walk. lol
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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mickwoodydweller.bsky.social @mickwoodydweller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If any of them studied the bible, they'd know this already
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
VERY good characterization. Jimmy Carter vs. Jerry Falwell. I grew up in a very religious home, and our religion was about love, not exclusion. Plus, I had no problem believing in evolution, a round earth, and science in general.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is our Ella Coaltrain. She can be one crazy-looking cat, indeed.
Gray and white cat with crazy eyes and slightly gaping mouth.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nope
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October 4, 2026 The information should never have been linked to the internet, the expert said. “It belonged on our internal system and some dumbass moved it all” to a system connected to the internet. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-4-...
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah, trailing the finger/feather tips in the water as you float along. What bliss.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it
Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rosa Parks on Breonna Taylor Way in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No. No, we cannot.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whenever you start thinking, wow, W wasn't that bad, remind yourself of that war he lied us into. He wasn't mistaken about WMD, he used that to take us to war for reasons we knew nothing about. Yes, Trump is worse, by far, but that doesn't make Bush right.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep, fire.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"This is your brain on drugs" I was in my 20s then and I didn't remember the other one.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💯♥️
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congrats, and well deserved!!
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😆🥳
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meet the Siberian long tailed tit, a tiny adorable fluffball with double eyelids. Original post
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And Kennedy just chewing his dentures the whole time like he's enjoying the incompetence?
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But they also have the most beautiful fluty whistles!
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hawk and a handsaw, by jove!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/09/2026
I know this is beyond the point but these people once controlled the most advanced intelligence apparatus in the history of the world and today they threw the full weight of their movement behind a conspiracy theory, that unraveled in real time, because they don't know different sports teams.
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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who calls it Superior Intelligence is a meat proxy.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lolol
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MTG has really been going after her own.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had a variegated fritillary yesterday! Such a beauty.
Spotted yellow, black, and brown butterfly with wings spread, atop green ground weeds.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Wonderful! Investigating tens of thousands of incidents! Now there's no reason to panic, and we can all relax! Right...
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Rest assured: AI companies say they're investigating tens of thousands of rogue bot incidents
They're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very best wishes to you.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh good grief, it took me a minute! Lol, my guard's been down today as I've been offline.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is just crazy. Intentionally incompetent at what we elected them to do.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow! Less than a week ago I went to a screening of this doc that has a strikingly similar theme, but from over a century ago. ourmrmatsura.com So my husband got me this book about the artist: www.abebooks.com/Frank-Matsur...
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Our Mr Matsura
A documentary feature film
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SO much crazy bad going on. It seems enough to turn off many former fans, but I noticed that the complaints of Republicans running for re-election mostly stem from his hurting their chances, NOT because he's doing anything in particular that's, you know, like, actually bad. 🙄
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even my "subscription" to software I used to be able to buy and own isn't working. MS Office, of course. All I really want is Word. I use Excel a little but could do without it. And probably could do what I need in Word.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know why this passed so overwhelmingly? Clearly a lot of Dems voted for it. Is it just corruption, or is there a legitimate rationale proffered? I'm sorry, I just don't have the energy to dive into this mess! Everything seems to be a mess these days!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To me, this seems like bad timing, considering the Cornell news today. But maybe that's the point? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Trump Officials Revise How Title IX Sex Discrimination Rules Are Enforced (Gift Article)
The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest piece about SCOTUS' anti-voting decision was originally exclusively for Democracy Docket members. Based on the reaction, earlier today, the team decided to drop the paywall. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...
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Justice Jackson found a bright side. I am not sure I see one.
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can resume using its voter suppression database to help Republicans remove voters from the rolls, I called it what it is: a te...
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lolololol
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Thank god" is all I say to that.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, this was Dolly's last recorded vocal performance! U2's new album 'Carnaval De Luz,' out in November, will feature Dolly Parton on a song
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U2's new album 'Carnaval De Luz,' out in November, will feature Dolly Parton on a song
U2 is set to release their first full-length album of new material in nine years, titled “Carnaval De Luz.”
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ed sheeran brought an iced coffee to the lesbian bar
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like you were right!
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, why on earth does everyone have to listen to radio? I gave up on music stations long ago and just leave my car radio tuned to NPR.
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Aunt Hoolia @aunthoolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtu.be/FGZYWSfiYbM?...
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Stevie Wonder ~ Love's In Need Of Love Today
YouTube video by Chris McCreedy
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