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Donna 🪺

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•Please pardon my southern accent •Lifelong North Carolinian •I do a thing called- what I want

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Leigh Booker @leighbooker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you remember? 💕 #September21
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nobody tells you about how surreal it feels to come out of living in survival mode for years and get to just… exist.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thinking of mom today. A real lamp lighter if ever there was one.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” GEORGE CARLIN LIFE IS WORTH LOSING (2005) My joint favourite Stand-Up of all time (along with Richard Pryor).
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Donna 🪺 @dlweaver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is probably my favorite scene in any movie. The actors are exquisite, the dialogue is wonderful, the scenery is lovely, and the music is, literally, pitch perfect. #ARoomWithAView
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The Kiss in A Room with a View
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 1987, Ms Magazine gave Dolly Parton its "Woman of the Year Award" and Gloria Steinem wrote this about why..../1 msmagazine.com/2026/08/27/d...
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 01/09/2026
The September 2026 playlist is here. And it’s all about doin’ it.
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The September 2026 Playlist: Songs About F%king
We’ve gone from ‘sex sells’ to ‘rage sells’ and it sucks.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jon Batiste with a gorgeous rendition of "I Will Always Love You" for Dolly Parton 🥺🙏
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Art by Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 26/08/2026
Good morning. ☕️
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Donna 🪺 @dlweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this song makes me jam every time
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
JCO FTW 🔥🔥🔥


Joyce Carol Oates
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with furrowed brow, troubled mien & a pretense of being  conscience-wracked, the conservative apologists at the NY Times pondered through 500-plus words how by never mentioning the insurrection of Jan. 6, never hinting that the Republican president has been deeply mired in corruption & embarked upon a continual onslaught against US democracy, never so much as hinting that he & other powerful cronies might be implicated in sexual crimes recorded in the Epstein files, not to mention this same Republican president's cynical selling of portions of our national parks & forests--all this & more, taking care never to mention--these conservative columnists (Douthat, Brooks) could come to the identical conclusion: "both sides, right & left" equally at fault but probably the left is more at fault, because--not-right.
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Who Are the Good Guys and the Bad Guys? I’m No Longer Sure. https://nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/obama-trump-biden-enemy.html?smid=tw-share
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I really wanted to make this video about why the reflecting pool controversy actually matters and the people at @ms.now helped me do it
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’m going to tell y’all’s kids that this is Charlie Brown & Friends.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” MTV goes live 45 years ago today. 🤘🏼 🎸 $VIAC $TWX $PARA
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In the age of Trump, Reform, Restore and the rest of the bad faith actors, @asharangappa.bsky.social explores how "we develop moral muscle to stand up for #democracy" open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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Will Todd Blanche Get Confirmed? Ask Stanley Milgram
What the psychology behind "just following orders" tells us about changing course once you've already started down the wrong path.
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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This looks DELIGHTFUL.
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Coyote vs. ACME | Final Trailer
YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme
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Windhorse @windhorse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This thread has revealed that the biggest divide in our society is between the normal people who like sunlight in the evening and the sick freaks who want it to be dark at 5pm so they can get up to god knows what nefarious activities
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Eileen Oz @eileenoz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Stones release “Honky Tonk Women” 57 years ago today — a country/western vibe inspired by the cowboys who worked at the Brazilian ranch where Jagger and Richards were vacationing. Richards said it was “one of those tracks that you knew was a #1 before you’d finished the mother—er.” 🔥
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Top of the charts today in 1980: “Coming Up”, in which McCartney played every instrument — even in the video. “.. Apparently, [it] was the one song that got John [Lennon] recording again,” he said. “I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too.’ I thought that was a nice story.”
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’d love to read, say, 1200 words from a really good writer on why exactly the reflecting pool thing has turned into the durable embarrassment across media that a lot of other, equally public scandals or screwups could have been in the previous 18 months
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Remembering Brian Wilson on his birthday 💙🏄‍♂️🎹 In 2006, Carole King was invited by legendary songwriter / producer Brian Wilson to his recording studio. One of the songs they recorded that day is “I’m Into Something Good,” the Goffin/King song originally made famous in 1965 by Herman’s Hermits.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
thinking about the gould quote again
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Stephen Jay Gould
evolutionary biologist and author,
died May 20, 2002
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The confluence of stupidity and mean spiritedness is breathtaking.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/08/2025
Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.
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What Are Dreams For?
Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 27/08/2025
Eric Williams writes that a simple act of self-denial forced him to admit that a major source of his life’s problems was his lack of self-discipline.
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I Changed My Violent Prison Life in a Random Way: I Quit Drinking Soda
This simple act of self-denial forced me to admit that a major source of my life’s problems was my lack of self-discipline.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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It's Winter from twitter 🌬🤍 @lda-farmgirl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Trees communicate with each other. Everything is connected. Everything.
A picture of a group of pine trees.
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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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WKRP: Johnny Fever
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