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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today PandaBear decided to protect - with serious bark and intent - our two significantly big renovators, whom she’s not sure she actually likes or trusts, from a FedEx delivery person whom she trusted even less. I am considering this a breakthrough of sorts.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

None of us will be remembered as complex individuals navigating shifting political realities. We’ll be remembered as Nazis or resistance. Everything else is a footnote.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Knicks to WH? Ew. That’s it. Just ew.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A sampling of what I’ve come to in these bizarre & troubling times: making sourdough bread- a discipline and act of (rare) patience; drawing/water-coloring with major skill deficits; fretting on behalf of, well,(nearly) everyone. I’m bargaining. If I can achieve equilibrium, maybe the world can, too

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Finished, as much as I am going to (skill issues) yesterday’s watercolor prompt, sketched my curved sidewalk, pots of petunias and rosemary, and spicy scented dianthus, colored it in a little, walked the dog, and sat out back in the shade and had half a beer with my husband. A good afternoon.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Despite many years of bread baking, I may not be cut out to be a sourdough maker. I have purchased the fun tools, all with lovely photos, and ambiguous (at best—where were the editors?) directions enclosed. There has been much ranting. I will persist, though, as our darling DIL gave me the starter.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat & a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She shared the #Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 (w/A. Robles) "for their work for disarmament & nuclear and weapon-free zones." #WHM It's International Day for #Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.

Black-and-white formal portrait of Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), the Swedish diplomat, sociologist, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is photographed against a dark background, resting her chin thoughtfully on her left hand, which displays a large, ornate ring. Her expression is calm, wise, and slightly introspective, with deep-set eyes, fine lines of age, and a gentle smile. Her silver-gray hair is styled in a soft, voluminous updo typical of the mid-20th century, and she wears a dark tailored jacket or dress with a simple collar, along with a distinctive metal wristwatch on her left arm. Alva Myrdal was a pioneering figure in social policy, women's rights, and international disarmament. With her husband Gunnar Myrdal, she co-authored the influential 1934 book Kris i befolkningsfrågan (Crisis in the Population Question), which shaped Sweden's progressive family and welfare policies. She served as Sweden's Minister for Disarmament and Church Affairs (1966–1973), headed UNESCO's social science department, and played a key role in the United Nations. In 1982, she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso García Robles for her lifelong work on nuclear disarmament and peace advocacy through organizations like the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Pugwash Conferences. Known for her intellectual rigor, feminist principles, and commitment to global justice, she remains an icon of principled leadership in diplomacy and social reform.#AlvaMyrdal #NobelPeacePrize #Disarmament #SIPRI

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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Watch this, it's astonishing.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Attempting resuscitation of long dormant drawing interest. Bought pencils and a sketchbook. Ehhh. My mistake: telling a results-oriented friend. He sent me a book & a new pencil set, and sat with me as I did the drawing exercise he selected for me. Slightly annoyed to report it worked. It was fun.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One year and seven months after adopting her at 7.5 years, Panda requested to come up on the couch, snuggle in, and allow me to offer comfort from the wild thunder and lightning storm. We were stunned and honored.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

There is pleasure in returning to a familiar place, filled with familiar things— too many things, really, but still. I’m wallowing in its comfort.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Well, crap. The Ugly Bill passed. I expected the Rs would be craven to the last, but I apparently hoped against all reason. It is crushing, this despair.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I officially HATE looking at the news app and seeing daily several fresh Hells from the Supremist Court, or the spineless R Congress.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Is all the money from closing agencies and shutting down programs and cutting great swaths of staff and defunding research going to this vanity parade we are hearing about?

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Horrible things are happening, the wheels are coming off, everything is on fire, and I’m immobilized, staring at a photo on my phone, muttering, “Why? Why so orange?” It’s part of the distraction conspiracy, I’m certain.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

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Tokyo Sand @dhstokyo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Here’s my ask of you today: I want you to engage with EVERY article/post you see about Signalgate. Like, comment, share. Every one. The reason why the media kept talking about Hillary’s emails was because every story & post about it got massive engagement. Sound good?

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

People genuinely don't know. Spread the word. Tell your friends, neighbors, colleagues, people on the street. Put up flyers and stickers (a roundup here): bsky.app/profile/pron...

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

And here I thought it was an actual depiction of his ugliness that got him so riled up...😂🤣😂

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Filmmakers! Musicians! Actors! Illustrators! Artists of all kinds! Please take 5 minutes and make your voice heard

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Mexico News @mexiconews.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

He is a Columbia University graduate and does nothing to defend his Alma Mater.

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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This thread … wow

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I read before attempting to go to sleep: 1. Celebrate the joys as they appear, and 2.Things are worse than we realize. I’m not sure how to hold those 2 things at the same time. Yo-yo style? Jekyll/Hyde-ish? On the inhale, then the exhale?

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The layers of joy in this are delicious.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 11/02/2025

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Irritated that the (so-called) president, not musk but the other guy, wanted screen time at the SuperBowl. uuuuuuugh. But yay for Jon -and Suleika’s- National Anthem moment. (The piano she painted for him was beautiful.)

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Duchess Goldblatt has arrived on Bluesky! Whimsy, kindness, sly, sweet humor abounding. Please follow and enjoy. I am delighted at her royal entrance.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 24/01/2025

This has been an exceptionally difficult and frightening week. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

Post from John Perricone
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Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:
"Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

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Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Job one? Understanding that there’s a fine line between being informed and taking in too much. Everyone’s line is different. Your own line may vary from day to day. Keep figuring out where it is and guard your peace.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’m feeling particularly glad I’m an confirmed Apple user today!

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Sanity Plans: Working on getting comfortable with being insular, as in being isolated, as on an island. Also, experimenting with using the second pronunciation to describe myself over the next 4 years, “ in-syu-ler,” maybe simply to annoy others with its particularity.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I know it’s hopelessly naive of me to wish the incoming guy had respect enough for the office of President to insist that the Capitol’s flag remain at half-staff to honor Jimmy Carter.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Gulf of America? Like all the Americas? North, Central, South? Gulf of the Hemisphere?

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 01/01/2025

a lot of people don’t realize that mountain time zone is for every mountain in the world, it’s the same time on every mountain due to their distance from the earth’s core

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What’s up with people getting super duper giddy about x number of Followers? Is there a contest I missed reading about? Am I lacking in social media savvy? (I mean, I know I am, but not in the sense of “Ooooo. Followers.)

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Prepping for few days visit to friends’ home for Thanksgiving; dog invited. Dog needed bath. Only option in our leased house for this year-long gig was a glass-door shower stall with hand sprayer thingy. We both survived; Panda looks/smells great. Me, not as much.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Much needed rains tonight came with strobe lightning and rumbling percussion. PandaBear tried the closet but found wriggling under the bed a safer refuge. Sad little Bear will accept no comforting.

One glistening dog eye peers out from her crunched furry black and white sprawl under the bed frame.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pandabear. Our hilarious, opinionated mini-Aussie, rescued at age 7.5 yrs. She’s doing great and is learning how to dog. Please enjoy the little glimpse of tongue almost always sticking out a bit. #dogsofbluesky

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

On this wonderful year-long sojourn with David’s job in the Philadelphia-Wilmington area, I’m totally loving my home area all over again, but realized I’m not a diner girl anymore. Relegating them to breakfast only, and infrequently at that. Growing up is hard.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I actually don’t understand what “an elite” is meant to mean as a pejorative for Dems. It’s surely not about money or position. Help me out.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

When our rescue Panda sleeps, at night she softly burbles and moans— for hours. I assume it’s dream-talking, and it’s not just intense enough for me to wake and comfort her, but I’d sure like to know what’s going on in that dreamscape.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The hand-wringing and outrage over the commercial reminding women that their vote is their own absolutely underscores Maga/Fox patriarchal conservative attitudes of women as second class citizens. I recall my stay-at-home Republican mom 50+ years ago stating her vote was her own.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I’m at the extreme exasperation point. How can people who are seemingly good humans turn minds, eyes, ears off and be okay with Trump? Don’t tell me, “Oh, that’s just him; he doesn’t mean all that nonsense he says.” How is that be acceptable for President of the most powerful country in the world?

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Intentionally, a favorite mug is there with our ballots for our freedoms & democracy. It says,“Go ahead, underestimate me, that’ll be fun.” It took me into my twenties to learn how to use that underestimation based on gender, looks, manner, age(both when young and now, older) to stealth advantage.

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Gwen J. S. Aber (she/her) @gwenaber.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Josh Shapiro just did Pennsylvania (and this suburban Philadelphia girl) proud with a terrific speech.

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