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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/11/2025

Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/11/2025

Josephine Johnson wrote Seven Houses: a Memoir of Time and Places (1973) when she was in her sixties. It’s a memoir constructed around the framework of the seven houses in which she had spent most of her life to that point. (Not all innovation in the memoir is recent.) neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My accomplishment this week has been not dying in the heat dome.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Grateful to the Key West Literary Seminar for hosting me as their June writer in residence for my novel in progress. What a gift! (View from my KW studio)

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 24/07/2025

H. L. Davis's Winds of Morning (1952) is a western in the same sense that Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It is a western: yes, there are cows and cowboys in Davis's book, but fundamentally, it's about how people come to ways of living in a land so much bigger than us. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 01/07/2025

Back in 2021, I read a 1966 novel about a young woman on a remote ranch in Nevada that had never been published in the US. Luckily, I tracked down its author, Joaquina Howles, and arrange to republish No More Giants with @bhousepress.bsky.social before she died last year. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Joaquina Ballard Howles holding a copy of the new edition of No More Giants from Boiler House Press in November 2023

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My interview earlier this evening on #BBC #WorldNewsAmerica about the closing window for averting dangerous planetary warming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DU...

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Michael Mann on BBC World News America Discussing Closing Window for Limiting Warming Below 1.5C

YouTube video by Michael Mann

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/06/2025

A milestone: the first electric aircraft has landed at JFK. "...the flight from the airport in East Hampton to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport took 45 minutes with a pilot and four people" and cost ... $8 worth of electricity.

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First electric aircraft lands at JFK — General Aviation News

According to Beta Technology officials, the ALIA can fly 250 nautical miles on a single charge. He told reporters from Reuters that it cost just $8 to power the 45-minute flight.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My residency workspace at the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for this opportunity.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/06/2025

A plague a’ both houses!

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JoseKerstenProtectAnimals @josevoordieren.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Entrance to my residency cottage in Key West, with the generous support of the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for the opportunity.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂 📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955 “Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ” - David Thomson

Marilyn in a subway station, under signs:
Uptown Local - Grand Central

A passer-by watches

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Brianna Craft @briannacraft.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Climate memoirs are special. They’re how my storytelling journey began. @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social was the first writer to ask me for an endorsement. Melt ❤️ Literally 😭 Barbara’s story centers her Peruvian family & her time with an Andean glacier. I so enjoyed returning there through her words.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thank you, Brianna, for featuring MELTED AWAY as this month's climate read. So honored!

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Remembering Rachel Carson on her birthday 🎂 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine, 1962 That was the year Carson published her classic book Silent Spring

Carson sitting by a stream with a pair of binoculars

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ACOG @acog.org · 27/05/2025

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today is #WorldDraculaDay because Bram Stoker's classic novel was first published #onthisday in 1897. It's also worth remembering that if Stoker hadn't come across the name Dracula in a book while researching in a LIBRARY the main character was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛‍♂️

A section of Bram Stoker's notes where the name Wampyr is crossed out and replaced with Dracula

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

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Ryan Ray @ryanrayfla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My favorite road sign

A sign designating a canopy road in Tallahassee, Florida

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

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Did staffing cuts at weather service affect Kentucky’s tornado response?

Due to staffing shortages, the National Weather Service in Jackson no longer has overnight staff. But NWS and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear say the office was staffed Friday night and early Saturday.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss

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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

👏🏽👏🏽 Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms, etc www.latimes.com/california/s...

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COVID-19 tests, other health supplies provided free at 51 kiosks across L.A. County. What you need to know

Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms and fentanyl test strips.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My exchange with someone at NSF today.

Me: Are you still at NSF?
Them: Yup. House emoji + fire emoji

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

What a day to have studied Latin in Chicago.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The insurance companies know. Follow the $. “The health trajectory of increasingly younger adults has changed dramatically since COVID-19… More Americans in their 20s, 30s, & 40s are developing serious conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, & heart disease…” insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/p...

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Partnership formed to confront rise in illness, premature death in young Americans

GoMo Health, ICSL form ForwardLiving Partnership to better support policyholders before they become critically ill.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The America I love is being decimated -- the arts, literature, the sciences, freedom of expression. I urge Washington to reconsider this broad-scale dismantling of institutions that uplift humanity and our nation.

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

FYI. Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. www.savensf.com 🧪🌎🦑

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Home | Savensf

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"“As an individual, the more severe your primary disease, the more likely you are to get long COVID. It’s a dose dependent issue,” Professor Crabb says. This is why prevention efforts focus on reducing viral load." archive.md/C4PMM

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Vaccine scientists and medical leaders are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government, called the Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP). www.science.org/content/arti...

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Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation

Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 25/04/2025

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

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Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” ― Brian Friel

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