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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh wow, never knew those existed--they're so cute!

Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have to remember to get more next year. We still have hydrangeas and other late season color but when these lil beauties decide to wake up just as fall sets in, it always brings me such a happy!

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First toad lily of the season today 💜 #Gardening 🌿🌱

A flower about 1.5 inches across, at the end of a long, low, arching stem with alternating leaves. The flower looks like a purple-spotted orchid got miniaturized. A fuzzy pod sits next to it, waiting for its turn to bloom.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, if you wanted to drive across the country say from Chicago to San Francisco and back, you just... did it. You could do that solo & camp along the way.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A bit of Hookland has arrived here in central Maine. The trees are whispering one to another soft & intense, shivering free of their leaves. @hookland.bsky.social

A human hand holds up the paperback book Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell. The image on the front is a linocut showing a bear throwing long bones in an arc over its head against a starry sky, with a Mari Lwyd skull at bottom right.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paper maps. If you were going on a long trip & had AAA you could go into their office and walk out with a TripTik, which consisted of top-bound pages that mapped out your trip in segments. But for getting around town, you just picked it up gradually.

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today through Sunday is the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco). If you can’t be there is person, you can listen to the live feed here: hardlystrictlybluegrass.vhx.tv/browse

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HSB TV is the home of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass productions in your living room. Join us here to experience twelve episodes of our 2021 production

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh my, this is a great batch. Went with chicken this year which really lets the complex layers of the different peppers come through. A little smoky, on the sweet side, w/enough heat to highlight but not overpower the flavor. #Chili #FoodSky 🌶️❤️🌶️

An orange ladle full of thick, delicious chicken chili that's just been scooped from the full stock pot below. I wish you could smell this photo.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hi Bird! We sure were and I'm glad to see you again. I like your new handle! 🤓

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's Common Ground Fair weekend in #Maine, and you know what that means--the season's 1st batch of chili is underway! Here's a Before pic w/pepper IDs in alt text. #FoodSky #chili #MOGFA 🌶️🔥🤤🔥🌶️

A shallow 11" ceramic bowl sits on a grey deck railing on an overcast day. It's filled with a multitude of chili peppers in shades of green, orange and red. This year's bounty:

-Poblanos and green & red jalapenos
-One or two Anaheims might have snuck in?
-Kashmiri (mild flavor & heat)
-Chile de Arbol (smoky flavor, hot, used in Cholula)
-Calabrian (sweeter w/smoky undertones, mild to medium heat)
-Pequins (flavorful, also used in Cholula, brings some heat)
-Aji Limon (bright yellow, citrus undertone, med heat)
-Habaneros (orange, hot hot hot)
-Paper Lanterns and Scotch Bonnets (habanero heat but a bit sweeter)
-Cherry (jalapeno-esque heat)

Found at the booths for Nettie Fox Farm and the new-to-the Fair Spice Hounds!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 1 It’s a rich red start to the quarterfinals as two components of brass face off with zinc ore #Sphalerite is up against copper-rich #Cuprite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a glossy ruby-red chunk of sphalerite, slightly rounded, amongst smaller clear crystals and a gleaming ruby-red cube of cuprite jutting from a yellow matrix.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just ventured a peek at the first page--just a peek, I can't be up reading half the night! And I think I will be up reading half the night. 😁

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the end of a long day near the end of a long week, a real treat to find this waiting in my mailbox. Perfect reading for the nor'easter this weekend! 📚💙 cc: @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

The cover of the paperback novel 'Everything Will Swallow You' by Tom Cox. A linocut-style image of great vertical cliffs like ramparts under a blue sky, with reddish hills rolling down from the right (a sturdy 2-story white house w/2 chimneys nestles between two of the hills). At left, a dark sea rolls in toward a single silhouetted figure standing on the strand between it and the hills.

The author's name (Tom Cox) and the title are in all-caps print on the wall-like cliffs over the scene below.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Skye, it's weird lighting I will admit, but this may be my best ever first-of-the-season chicken soup. Soooo much celery and thyme!

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Let the seasonal Soupening begin! (A ladleful of freshly homemade chicken soup, and once again I wish we could divert all the AI bilge money into creating smell-o-vision for social media.)

Looking down into a stock pot, with a red ladle of shredded chicken, carrot slices, celery, red potato and onion. Beneath, a vast soup of deliciousness with savory spices floating atop.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎶 We're on Godot to nowhere, Come on inside 🎶

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It could not, in any of our wildest most magic-infused dreams, disappoint, my friend. 🥰

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hookland Fragments, Volume One is even now making its way to my doorstep across the vast & restive waters. I'll rest well knowing this. 🩶

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Matt Dunlap @dunlap4congress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Throwback Thursday, LePage Edition: in 2014, LePage's own administration called Social Security "welfare, pure and simple." As governor he also fought and then blocked funding for senior housing that nearly 70% of Mainers voted for, and backed the largest Medicaid cuts in history. Mainers remember.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.mainepublic.org/health/2026-... The Maine CDC has confirmed a case of measles in an unvaccinated adult in Somerset County. State health officials say it's the first reported case in Maine since five measles cases were confirmed in February….

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Maine CDC reports measles case in Somerset County

State health officials say it's the first reported case in Maine since five measles cases were confirmed in February.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seemed to be a phalanx of suits between him and the nearest cameras, best as they could finagle anyway. I'll just wait to hear from him at his triumphant-return press gaggle tonight. Wait, I've just been handed a note...

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

went outside to get some daylight and already saw THE dan Sullivan

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

4.50 at the closest station to our place. 😵

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...

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Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle

Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2026

It's time to clean the catbox It's time to shovel crap It's time to sift used litter While the kitties take a nap

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 12/09/2026

All regular Effin’ Birds tees are $12.50 until Monday at 5PM CT. eatf.art/tees

a t-shirt featuring a woodcut of a starling above the text "I am a goddamned delight"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I grew up w/it and now live in a place where if I ask at the deli for braunschweiger I get confused looks, so "liverwurst" it is. On dark rye toast, thin skim of mayo, and thin slivers of onion is how my gram and I ate it & it's still a comfort food for me.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Immediately recognizable! I thought giant crab for a moment but then saw the forearm behind the trees. 🦖

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had been sitting with my back to the trees so this was exactly the effect when I turned around! 😂🦖

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It had been an oddly warm day in Central Maine, the wind gusting humid & insistent all afternoon, when the cloud T-rex surfaced above the treeline.

A pale blue early evening sky, framed by dark backlit trees at left and bottom and the forbidding peak of a dark house at right. Behind the trees, a t-rex shaped cloud emerges, just the chest and neck, with its giant mouth open and ready to chomp down on the roof of the house. A short pink-lit cloud arm reaches forward behind the scrim of leaves and branches.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been seized with an urge to draw barnacle geese after seeing The Wild Robot (which I enjoyed very much), and remembered that I drew this in 2014 after seeing a documentary about how barnacle goslings have to simply hurl themselves off their cliff nests to join their parents at ground level.

Single-panel comic drawn in black ink of a pair of barnacle goose parents at the bottom of a cliff, regarding their dazed and confused gosling, who looks up at them with a plaintive 'why??'

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

he's a brick ᵇʳᶦᶜᵏ H.O.U.S horse of unusual size

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

i once fell asleep drunk with a frozen pizza in the oven, woke up so many hours later that it was past “smoky” & into “inert carbonized disc,” but when i went to take it out of the oven, the friction (i guess?) ignited it, & i got to urgently whip a flaming disc out the window over the fire escape.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10/09/2026

Chat is this good gasprices.aaa.com

AAA gas price webpage screenshot. At top, a color-coded U.S. map labeled “National Retail Prices” shows state-by-state price ranges from red for higher prices to blue for lower prices. The legend ranges are “5.8992 to 4.4878,” “4.4868 to 4.3068,” “4.3058 to 4.1490,” “4.1480 to 3.9509,” and “3.9499 to 3.5623.” A large red circle at left reads “Today’s AAA National Average” and “$4.2770,” with “Price as of 9/10/26.” Below the map, a headline reads “NEWS: National Average Jumps 13 Cents in One Week Read more »”. A table titled “NATIONAL AVERAGE GAS PRICES” lists Regular, Mid-Grade, Premium, Diesel, and E85 prices. “Current Avg.”: $4.2770, $4.7778, $5.1650, $5.9773, $3.2650. “Yesterday Avg.”: $4.2245, $4.7316, $5.1200, $5.9424, $3.2278. “Week Ago Avg.”: $4.1436, $4.6543, $5.0335, $5.7832, $3.1370. “Month Ago Avg.”: $4.0091, $4.4997, $4.8900, $5.2996, $3.0645. “Year Ago Avg.”: $3.1938, $3.6817, $4.0418, $3.7060, $2.5933.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

did any major news orgs send a push alert about a gunman trying to attack the democratic candidate for governor in ohio?

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🎃 Will Porter 🥐🐺🦇 @dinosaursheriff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reading The Veiled Prophet by @devintoshea.bsky.social Hard not to read about the appropriation of anarchic revery and counterculture by terrified capitalists and the great losers of the unpunished confederacy without seeing the smug faces that have seized and remade the internet in my lifetime.

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Becky D @bexrousse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watch the movie that plays within the flames of the fire pit.

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