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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Flowers from my oldest son (for my birthday earlier this week).

Photos of a small bouquet of flowers - a bunch of deep red and some light purple flowers, two yellow roses and a purple rose, in a green mason jar.

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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 29/08/2025

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This was such a satisfying read. Runaway Jury is one of my favorite movies and we agreed on the best adaptation. 💁🏻‍♀️

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Bought myself a puzzle for the last weekend before my next semester of school starts.

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Abby Norman @abbynormansays.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I have a classroom wish list! If this would bring you joy that's great. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If we met on Twitter, you may remember that Katie, my youngest daughter, had a rough couple of years in and out of the mental hospital. Today she turns 20!! 🥳

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Hey, poetry lovers! I have PDF arcs of Unrivered, and if you're interested in reviewing, I would love to send you one. Send me a message if you might be interested... I know reviewing is time-consuming labor, so thank you.

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

As @dlmayfield.bsky.social and I discuss in this interview, many of the harmful beliefs and practices that we see in the U.S. today when it comes to childcare and parenting have their roots in the white evangelical, religious authoritarian parenting model.

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Interview with R.L. Stollar

a conversation about creating safer communities for children

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I’ve not been online a whole lot but in the past week I have heard three separate dates for a blackout and my level of exasperation at the lack of solidarity (and organization) is at an all-time high.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

On the way to open house yesterday we were doing some math to figure out how long it has been since my oldest started high school and we figured I was 8 months pregnant with my youngest, who is now about to turn ten.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I don’t know if there is a name for the depressive drop that hits you after you take your last final of the semester but it is so real and hits hard.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/07/2025

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Kiddo number five has his high school open house this afternoon. My baby got so old (and so tall!!) so fast.

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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"All I’m saying is, I could not say, I could not see whose mouth it was carrying me." "Please Hang Up & Try Again" by @johnpauldavis.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/07/28/p... Art: "New Song" by Sarah J. Sloat

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Please Hang Up & Try Again

by John Paul Davis

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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2025

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

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Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Fried Deviled Eggs - at a burger place in Greenville (helping my daughter get settled into her new apartment!) surprisingly good, would try again.

Plate of five deviled eggs that have been fried and are garnished with slices of jalapeño

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My youngest just and I watched the KPop Demon Hunter movie on Netflix and he has been blasting the soundtrack as much as possible. Now here I am listening to “Free” on my own time. 😂 But seriously, the ending gave me chills. Plus they understood what makes the “hand flex” scene in P&P work.

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think about this story a lot "Shit Cassandra Saw That She Didn't Tell the Trojans Because at that Point Fuck Them Anyway" Title alone does so much work, characterization, setting, tone. Plus, I'm just a sucker for list stories. An older story but worth a read! www.smokelong.com/stories/shit...

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Shit Cassandra Saw That She Didn’t Tell the Trojans Because at that Point Fuck Them Anyway - SmokeLong Quarterly

Lightbulbs. Penguins. Velcro. Claymation. The moon made out of cheese. Tap dancing. Yoga. Twizzlers. Mountain Dew. Jello. Colors she can eat with her eyes. Methamphetamine. Bud Lite. T-shirts. Thin an...

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The more I see about Shiny Happy People Season 2 the angrier I feel about it.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Ugh, trauma responses just do not care about logic or your feelings or anything. The just suffocate you for little while (or whatever) and then (hopefully) pass.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

You don’t get spared just because you don’t pay attention to it. In fact, inattention is how you guarantee it.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Every time I log into this app there is some new and horrific and previously unimaginable reason to scream into the void.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I don’t know what you were doing at 2am but I was dying rice and honestly, I have zero regrets. Midnight craft time is top tier.

Rice that has been dyed blue, green & yellow.

Close up of the multicolored grains of rice.

Multicolored grains of rice in a clear plastic bottle.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Just noticed that the Mr Clean concentrate and the Listerine mouthwash, that are both currently on my bathroom counter, look way too much alike.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Today I ran into someone from The Before Times™️ at a community event and remembered why my social anxiety is so bad. That was so awkward.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

The opening of my chest to them, not violently, but like the flowers at the top of the mountain mint. Oh my deep heart. My shallow body. Han VanderHart (in Raleigh Review)

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PARTIAL LISTING OF MY KINKS

Kindness. The red flowering bee balm.
The coach who offered both their hands to me, lying on the gym floor. Twice. Oh and the usuals: fingers and silicone, leather and rings. Nipple clamps. Us being penitential with each other. When I opened my arms to you, yesterday, and you looked at me, entered them. Hope. Which is like, sometimes, a stick with feathers, filling the body with anticipated life. The white and purple morning glories appearing in the yard. The flowering dill. Not making it to the end of the movie. Losing our clothes, the children asleep upstairs. Any deep kindness. Any small kindness. The person who has come through a great pain, or is still there.
The opening of my chest to them, not violently, but like the flowers at the top of the mountain mint.
Oh my deep heart. My shallow body. Feeling yours lift into me through your clothing.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I was not prepared for how relatable this still feels.

Black and white cover artwork of a band walking along a city street, for the song How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox Twenty

Lyrics to the song “How Far We’ve Come” by Matchbox Twenty “I’m waking up at the start of the end of the world
But it’s feeling just like every other morning before”

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Seems like a good time for a Sunday night meme dump.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Anybody else wake up feeling like they’d been hit by a truck? Good grief.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Berton Lieberman

I feel
it would be easy
to hold you
to warm you
it would be so easy
just to say
I like you near
or to say
you've made me happy
and sad too
it
really would be
easy
to look at stars
with you

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This morning I noticed that the last word of each line is repeated in the first word of the next and listened to it like ten times in a row. So very satisfying.

Lyrics from “Glad You Came” by The Wanted
Turn the lights out now
Now I’ll take you by the hand
Hand you another drink
Drink it if you can
Can you spend a little time
Time is slipping away
Away from us, so stay
Stay with me, I can make
Make you glad you came

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

That Thing You Do has aged amazingly well - such a classic.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Introducing my boys to Oceans Eleven

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I was not expecting much from Taco Bell chicken nuggets but wow - I’m impressed.

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I can’t say I have ever seen this type of bird before. So beautiful!

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Faith Ann Raider @faithannraider.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I’m over here setting my plants outside like a nervous new mom taking her child to the park to socialize, hoping the bullies don’t pick on their child.

Tomato plant with a couple tiny yellow flowers

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Brooke @bkuhnhaus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

So grateful for a wealth of book portals to bring us into deep interconnected presence with the living earth, our belonging to the more-than-human world and a sense of reverence and responsiveness. These six are some of my favorites and most read ❤️‍🔥.

The covers of six books: Finding the Mother Tree, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, Soil, Braiding Sweetgrass, Black Earth Wisdom, and Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals.,

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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“Poetry, for me, is the answer to how does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?” ~Lisel Mueller #poetry

Lisa Mueller‘s brilliant poem “There are mornings.” Audio file here: https://shows.acast.com/words-that-burn/episodes/there-are-mornings-by-lisel-mueller

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