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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 5h

I’m all for different analyses about 2016, but people seemed to have memory holed that Joe didn’t run in 2016 because he was still mourning Beau who died in 2015.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 5h

There’s a meteor shower tonight & Youngest took me for a drive to find some dark sky. Saw 3 meteors before I got too cold. Fox count was 4.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Honestly good questions from the mods, too Ossoff gloves off has been fabulous

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 10h

I managed to squeak into town just in time to catch their very last performance of the day. Oldest and his quartet from UNR performing for sr high band. They also played for both schools in Portola. Tomorrow is northern Plumas.

Four college students dressed in jeans and blue shirts on a high school band room playing alto, tenor, bari, and soprano saxes.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 15h

At the dealership 80 miles from home having the clear coating fixed after a botched install. It’s a 2 hr curvy drive each way. They’re supposed to fill up my car since I’m spending $6/gallon to get here and home and this is their fuck up. *quizzical head tilt from service dept. *

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 16h

Oldest is touring the county with his saxophone quartet from school. Of course I am currently out of town doing stupid car errands.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 16h

This was 💯 about disenfranchising Black voters by changing which crimes are considered felonies to cover more minor offenses and then over policing Black people. Jim Crow masquerading as tough on crime. I hope they manage to fix it.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 20h

I do know someone who did this bc she works in an office where it’s a job expectation & she was tired of always being last. I find it deeply weird that there’s peer pressure in work settings for this, but that part is apparently true.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gavin Newsom was married to her for 5 years. Just saying.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m in the fuck it, it’s soup season mood even though the weather is not cooperating. Chicken and wild rice soup tonight in the IP. But using rotisserie chicken. I bought it at Sam’s and it makes me incandescently angry how much Safeway rips us off here.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Knowing that he lacked serious military experience and had a documented drinking problem should have been enough. He is unqualified. He was unqualified then, too.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My SIL won the family’s first eggnog of the season contest weeks ago. Nevada always puts their eggnog out so early. Unfair.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone know a good quick reference book for Latin roots? Youngest is struggling with his taxonomy class bc the instructor is just throwing dozens of plants at them without context. I think knowing the roots of their scientific names would help.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CA is not the Jefferson weirdos. It’s people tired of paying taxes to have our piece of shit president block our fair share of revenue for things like FEMA.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m one of those weirdos who do answer text polls, so they are at least sometimes counting this rural voter. Granted I’m not a normal voter in terms of info but they do always ask for zip code, so they know who is rural

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Slow clap, Gavin Newsom. You got precisely…dick for caving

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Am in Reno with Mom for a haircut and a trip to Walmart. Send good thoughts.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta caused those other AGs to fold. Cowardice and complicity with moneyed interests as usual.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I liked the Coho better, but not enough to try to find it on the regular. We paid Whole Foods prices which is definitely not sustainable for us.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why do Californians sometimes screw up their votes on Propositions? Because our voters guide is 176 pages long and full of legalese. Seek out the civics group you most closely align with to find out what their yes/no suggestions are.

The big ass voters information guide for the Nov 3 General Election

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m making baked salmon (Coho to see if I like it better) and air fried cauliflower for dinner. I broke down and ordered buckwheat so I can try it because that doesn’t seem to exist in any grocery store in the region.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw Fourth Wing costumes in Spirit the other day.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We got some lightning overnight and have already had 2 starts. Looks like they’ve hopped on both, but not looking forward to the warm up where more lightning fires could crop up. They can smolder for a week or more.

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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ballots are on their way! Make a plan to vote on November 3. Find resources and track your ballot at sos.ca.gov

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Woke up to the patter of rain on the roof quickly marred by the grinding squeaking cacophony of thinning machinery on the hill by the house. So I went walking.

Dark clouds with the sun trying to peek through

Clouds and some showers a k e a mountain ridge

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October Halloween Movie Thread October 4: The Monster Squad (1987)

The Monster Squad movie poster
With illustrations of classic universal monsters including Dracula, mummy, werewolf, Frankenstein’s monster plus a group of kids

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bette Davis in the Watcher in the Woods

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spent a good hour + on our way home from Bend at a logging museum Hubs has passed dozens of times but never been able to visit. He nerded out so cutely.

Collier State Park Logging Museum sign carved from logs and placed on old equipment

A McGiffert Log Loader which is a huge machine on railroad rails. Hubs is tiny compared to it

Hubs explaining how the big yellow machine works while I nod along pretending I’m understanding anything

A green Fresno grader with leaning wheels

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The lunch Hubs’s company provided consisted of fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, and teriyaki pork. All stuff not on our diet. Thank goodness for a hearty breakfast. He had 3 pieces of cauliflower and a fistful of lettuce for lunch. I had jerky and some mixed nuts we brought from home. 😂

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Discovering how difficult it is to find restaurants that accommodate for whole grains. Lots of gluten free options these days, but those are mostly refined rice flour. Good luck finding whole wheat anything.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hubs has decided on Thai hot pot in place of the pizza they’re planning for tomorrow evening because I can’t have the pizza crust and he can’t have the dairy. Cannot wait for the commentary about cooking his own food. (No, we’ve never done hot pot for precisely that reason)

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s ok to throw something at him if he joins me on the balcony to take calls on speakerphone, right?

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The room isn’t fancy, but our view is lovely and we have a small balcony. Plus I got a zero sugar added Iced Cocomo, so I’m fully caffeinated and ready to spend some time reading. Hubs has meetings starting at noon.

A Dutch Bros clear cup with my iced coconut mocha and trees blurred in the background

A view of the river partially blocked by some trees and the rest of the hotel across the way

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Up in Bend waiting on breakfast. Eggs Benedict because it’s mostly things I can eat. Hubs is getting avocado toast. I’d have never figured him for an avocado toast kinda guy, but here we are. (On the phone bc this is a business trip and he’s answering emails 😂)

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Evening walk cut short because there was an escapee on the path. Didn’t want to startle it.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not to add to the discourse, but I chose to stay home with my kids 90% because childcare would have eaten up all of my paycheck. And once they got old enough, reentry into the traditional workplace was pretty unforgiving for applicants without a recent work history.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She put flunkies and processes in place that will continue to undermine trust. The brand is dead.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A reminder that the only people who know who Jack Smith is are chronically online or stuck in the Fox News ecosystem. The average voter doesn’t GAF.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of all of the so-called healthier whole grains, the only one I can stand is quinoa. I do not like the chewy texture of them all. I didn’t think I had this many food texture sensitivities, but nope. I did.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Tire Light season! Mine went off this morning for the first time ever on this car, so I’m at Les Schwab having it looked at. Chances are I picked up something in the road construction

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It was more expensive under Biden. “ no it fucking wasn’t. September 2022 from my FB memories. The gas is the same or higher. The diesel is $2/gallon higher.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The iced coffee thing is definitely generational. I would never show up to an interview with a beverage of any kind. But I know local employers struggling to find applicants who don’t show up in pajamas.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve seen maybe 5 of these. Explains a lot about my cultural disconnect. Also a lot of recency bias.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Instagram comments dragging GNewsom made me smile today. Gavin Newsom is trash. He’s always been trash, but he’s been lurching rightward for six years now.

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