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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 6h

Another early morning denizen of Wawa and I were totally flummoxed by the absence of those little brown corrugated bands that go around the paper cup to protect your fingers from heat. Amazing, how a tiny disruption of routine unbalances one.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There have been less than 50 trans people in college sports (men and women) in all of history. There tens of thousands of women sexually assaulted on college campuses EVERY YEAR. But you’ll never see that in a campaign ad.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TIL that the city of Donetsk was founded by, and originally named after, a Welshman.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Behold my paper towel tearer. She seems to think I need the agility exercise of picking tiny fragments of paper.

Argyll, lounging on my pillows after shredding a 3rd paper towel in less than 36 hours.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stealthing is rape. Sleeping with a minor is rape. Drugging someone and having intercourse is rape. Coercing someone into bed is rape. Your wife or girlfriend does not “owe” you sex. If there’s no consent, it’s rape.

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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 27/09/2026

Black boys deserve to grow old. They deserve safety. Joy. Love. Opportunity. A future. Too many families are left grieving sons whose lives were cut far too short. Every Black boy deserves the chance to grow up, grow old, and become everything he dreamed of becoming.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is my favorite wall art at Argyll’s vet Canine Eye Chart

Eye chart for dogs:
Bone
Cat, ball
House, dog dish, fire hydrant
Etc

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gorgeous sunset sky here, just ahead of a 3 day nor-easter. No photo can do it justice.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My state not only has the country's biggest measles outbreak of the year, it now also a food-borne Hepatitis A outbreak (along with several adjacent states).

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An hour and a quarter to my favorite season!!

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Talarico has lost all my respect with this change. I agree, Paxton would be far worse. But I want senators who respect the rights of everyone, ESPECIALLY those that society wants to diminish. This man is unworthy of the office he is running for.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Argyll and I went to our favorite local trail half an hour before sunset. The season of gold and purple has arrived.

A field of goldenrod in bloom
along the walking trail.

A clump of New England aster tucked into the goldenrod.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

from The Unfolding by Rosemerry Wahtoula Trommer

How To MEET THIS DIFFICULT DAY

Some days when I forget how to pray,
if I listen with my whole body

the world reminds me how what is used up and spent
is also a vessel for the holy

as dry leaves become a nest, as bare branches hold the sunrise.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great article from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social “As they each emphasize, humans are the problem, and humans are going to have to be responsible for solutions.”

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very thoughtful thread here:

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Summer is a-goin’ out, cuccu sing “woo-hoo”. They would, if there were cuckoos here, and they sang in the rain. Signs of autumn: 1st breakfast of winter squash w/ cardamom & walnut oil.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Republican politicians who are not deranged are even more evil than the ones who are. The sane ones know Trump is a madman who poses an existential danger to all of us and they're happy to make a few bucks off of it.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you don’t like where the evidence leads, intellectually honest readers engage with it, and rethink their views. Others find one minor footnote they can misinterpret, then claim that means all the scholarship is off base. Sadly, the latter is so much easier than adjusting one’s viewpoint.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Read the book already? I did. Now I'm looking for a few people to discuss it with. If you need a little help with discussion questions, these are good.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you know voters in Montgomery Co. PA, be sure they know about this:

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He will not stop. Because this is his conquest of Washington. These are Conquest Monuments. Not "vanity projects."

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When pundits or politicians say "vanity projects," it sounds like he's getting a nose job or coloring his hair. He's not just touching up DC. He's demolishing it. Beating cherished monuments and public spaces to a pulp with a kind of cruel glee. He is destroying America's heritage landscapes.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shana tova to all who celebrate the high holy days.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...

npr.org

They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The most prescient news item I heard on 9/12/2001 was the advice to save one's copy of the 9/10/01 newspaper, so we could remember what things were like before we screwed up our response and destroyed all the things we cared about. "Screwed up" was not quite explicit, but clearly implied.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

House sitting for a few days. My friend has a Black Swallowtail caterpillar nursery going in her parsley. They’ve denuded 4 stalks in the last 24 hours. It’s why she planted paraley. My favorite native butterfly! This one’s going to town. #butterfly #garden

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am Argyll. My special talent is eating rabbit poop. #dogsofbluesky

Front half of a dog sniffing out rabbit droppings in a lawn.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

After 4 lovely “yes, fall will come” days we’re back in the land of “even my eyelids sweat”.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This will be excellent. Unfortunately, I’m not free then, but if they post the recording (as they often do), I’ll definitely listen later.

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LibrarianTracey @librariantracey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It took Mayor Mamdani 250 days to release 9/11 files the public has wanted to see. Yet, it has been 272 days since the DOJ has been ordered to release the Epstein files and we are still waiting... #releasethefiles #epstein

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Unlike a certain American, I freaking LOVE Canada. And I’d be so happy if my taxes paid for NICE agents. youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o

youtu.be

When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

YouTube video by 22 Minutes

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump can’t even be honest about 9/11

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Best description yet. I picture Shelob with a face like this.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a relief. I thought we were gonna go a whole week without a recall

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just had my first experience of white bitter melon. It was chilled and sliced thin. Not terrible, but apart from the cold and crunch, I’m not sure what the draw is. What am I missing?

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

More de-stuffing is happening. I clean the white fluff off the carpet. Argyll replaces it. How is it that dog toys have a bottomless supply? #dogsky

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Argyll is busy de-stuffing a toy she's not had access to for a while. I love the methodical approach dogs take to de-stuffing their toys. She usually starts with 1 of the eyes, which are usually daisy-shaped fabric patches in the anatomically correct part of the face. #dogsky

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S. Joel Garver @sjgarver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I can't make this, though I'll be there in spirit. But if you have a free hour on Tuesday morning at 10am, show up and let the powers-that-be know that the museum must not and cannot be closed.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I used to help support an incarcerated individual, so I recognize what an act of sacrificial generosity this is. Just wow!

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Made a flying trip to Carlisle to visit a sheep farm's yarn store. I'd forgotten how close the mountains are there--usually Carlisle was just a landmark on the trip to/from Gulfport MS. Here's what my future sweater got to see as it was growing into yarn.

View across grass, road, fields. Mountains line the horizon in the distance.

Rolling field of corn with trees in the distance.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Few surprises here. Mother from Pgh. Father from MS Gulf Coast—where I spent best bits of childhood. Live in Philly area. I’m only surprised that 9 years undergrad/grad time in western MI & Chicago left so little mark. Also, Delaware? Seriously, they think I sound like Delaware?

US map color coded to reflect similarity to my self-reported pronunciation and terminology.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just got voicemail addressed to “Grace” w/ regrets for not being able to come to s.o.’s shower. Given the email invitation scam, & the similar name, I’m wondering if this is a legit error or a new version of the scam.

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