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Boomer. Semi-retired clinical psych & college instructor. Liberal, tree-hugging feminist & inveterate poker of bears; Buddhist. Jazz, a democratic 🇺🇸, photography, dogs, fog, silence, dawn chorus. Polio, cancer survivor: tough old bird. Talk/write too much.

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WastewaterSCAN @wastewaterscan.bsky.social · 13h
📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data: Respiratory & Gastrointestinal Weekly Update: Nationwide, SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, EV-D68, and Rotavirus are in the high category. Norovirus is in the medium category. HMPV, RSV, and Influenza B are in the ‘Low’ category.🛟😷🧪
Respiratory & gastrointestinal weekly update: Dials showing that SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, EV-D68, and Rotavirus are in the high category. Norovirus is in the medium category. The other pathogens (Influenza B, RSV, and HMPV) are in the low category.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 12h
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“I don't think that Sam's politics are relevant to my job, and they're certainly not relevant to my ability to do the job that they hired me to do.” —Nikki Golomb, who was fired by Emory Hillel over her fiancé’s criticism of Israel jewishcurrents.org/emorys-hille...
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Emory Hillel Fired its Rabbi Over Her Fiancé’s Criticism of Israel
Hillel cited fear of right-wing donors when it fired Rabbi Nikki Golomb.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 13h
Online Teaching Boot Camp What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken? View all responses When COVID hit during Spring Term 2020, we all had to pivot to online teaching. Classes were all synchronous, of course, at that time, and almost none of us knew what the hell we were doing. The ed tech…
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Online Teaching Boot Camp
What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken? View all responses When COVID hit during Spring Term 2020, we all had to pivot to online teaching. Classes were all synchronous, of course, at that time, and almost none of us knew what the hell we were doing. The ed tech department cobbled together some last-minute thing (a course to be completed online, natch) for the early weeks of summer break to prepare us all for fully online courses Fall Term, and it was a bitch.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Groucho Marx eyebrows!
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣 💯!!
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NYers know what time it is. ⏰
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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What energy?
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🎃 Ryan S. Pumpkins 🎃 (Any Questions?) @ryanwritesgood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An actor or a stand-up comedian. So basically drugs.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Air Force pilot
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good grief nobody wants to see that!
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Love & belongingness are on Maslow's needs pyramid right after physical survival/safety needs: Later theorists call them prerequisites. Book bans trigger belonging uncertainty in targeted groups - LGBTQ+ kids, girls, racially minoritized kids all suffer mental/physical health effects. #FreeTheBooks
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Book Bans Trigger Belonging Uncertainty
Some of the links in today's post are affiliate links. This means if you click on a link and purchase a book, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. Love and belongingness are on Abraham Maslow's famous needs pyramid, right after physiological survival and safety needs (Grison & Gazzaniga, 2022). Maslow's work pre-dates evolutionary psychology: An evolutionary theorist would say it is a…
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Potential" is doin' a lotta work there.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2028?
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kids learn best if you can build a learning community (adults, too) and yanking books for and about them, by people like them, ain't it. This is so well said I keep coming back to it. May I quote you?
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Actually I think they're deliberately locking the door in hopes that folks will quit knocking on it.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if #Belongingness is a matter of life and death, then reading, as one of the primary means of identifying with our communities, whatever they may be, is also a matter of life and death. And this is #BannedBooksWeek, a week when attention is drawn to the kids who are not being allowed, never mind…
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Heck, Reading Is a Matter of Life and Death!
Today's links are affiliate links. This means if you click on these links to purchase a book, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. Remember how I said last week that "belonging--or not-- is a matter of life or death"? How we band together to survive physically and psychologically, and how communities are what we form?
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Final note: My God Transatlantic was good. Not an #HATM movie! I know, but 10/10 would recommend. I'm bad to not pay attention to the TV but I was riveted to that one every night for a week. 4/4
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like the boys in In Memoriam (I know, not an #HATM movie, but bear with me here please), I naively thought Oh how exciting and never gave a thought to what it must have been like for either of them. 3/4
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Side note: we were raised on the histories of white men at war but I realized, lying in the dark (it's 5am here) that the only two people I personally knew growing up who were in WWII were women: one a WAF who flew bombers, the other a French Resistance fighter. 2/4 #HATM
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#HATM peeps, horror--even comic--is not my thing. So I finished Transatlantic last night instead. Woke up with the characters on my mind. Am now looking for good books on the Resistance and seeking recommendations. 1/4 Needs to recognize Africans' and women's roles please, if such books exist.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did I miss the announcement? What's the #HATM selection for the 4th?
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ableist slurs are a real turn-off for me.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.mainepublic.org/business-and... They're not going to make it through the winter," Hinkley said. "There's some who are on extremely low incomes. There's no way they could afford even 100 gallons, and that's really the biggest concern."
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As heating oil prices hit record highs, Mainers are eyeing winter with growing trepidation
At the Farmington Fair, western Maine residents said they're taking a hit from higher prices, and some are worried how they'll make it through winter.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thought the parts about memory and reality sounded intriguing but it's a Colleen Hoover, so 🤷‍♀️
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well that's depressing.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is outrageous and I hope college students are communicating to their parents what is happening. Our universities were the envy of the world and they are trying to kick them over into the dust. 👀💵🎓
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seen "Transatlantic" on Netflix yet? www.netflix.com/us/title/814...
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Watch Transatlantic | Netflix Official Site
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone #HATM watching Transatlantic on Netflix? Also WWII, also resistance, spies... and a party. Marvelously well-done and also based real people and events.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
man, some of y'all have the patience of a saint, making suggestions courteously and from a place of good faith with people who deserve neither; meanwhile I'm over here deleting draft posts that say "eat a bag of dicks"
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't feel bad me too. #HATM
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Depending on socioeconomic class. Mom and grandmother carried wee purse guns.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guaranteed. I'm old enough to remember buying matching lipstick and polish (it was sold that way in my day) and yes, we did our feet. #HATM
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh of course! Good catch! #HATM
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've got behind. No blackout curtains! #HATM
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🦇 screamenarist / Chris @scenarist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#hatm A special message from Mr Ritchson.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My father in law served in the pacific, med, & Atlantic at one time or another. My mother in law always claimed he was traumatized but we took him to see... something. Don't even remember what now. He was on the edge of his seat, pointing out his ship in the newsreel footage, explaining everything.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesss!
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sarah Bernhardt was a spy, wasn't she? Different war obvs.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Except of course.... 😆
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Reachers are most excellent
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Used to read lots of them, being a Boomer (rafts if the pubbed in thev50s an 60s), but too long ago now to pick one out. 2. No idea. I don't do podcasts 3. Fish taco earlier, popcorn rn.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are people really this dumb? Where's the fraud if you're not using it? I have truly woken up in hell this morning.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently it's deer week everywhere. We had one strolling up the street this morning like any neighbor lady out for a morning constitutional. He r e she is coming up my driveway.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm at the end of the first week and can tell you, it's worth your time. Mingyur Rinpoche is loving-kindness personified and an excellent teacher.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Moron" is an ableist slur.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, he did. And just look how that turned out. And still is: Over 20,000 Americans died of it last year. That's more than five 911s in a single year but we don't bat an eye.
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Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This was really interesting. Detailed (thorough) and well-explicated. There's a lot more to ethical eating than you think! You may already be doing some of this, as I was, but it can still give you a framework to organize your thinking and actions around. It did me.
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