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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey if we want to encourage people to build more community, maybe a piece on how community is connected to contracting lice multiple times is NOT the way to do it. slate.com/life/2025/11...

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I’ve Had Lice Five Times. I Secretly Love It. Hear Me Out.

I wouldn't trade away my lice for anything.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Susan Collins is on my bitin' list for her voting record and for always pretending to be a swing vote and they're doing WHAT for her?

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

15 movies to get to know me 1.RomanHoliday 2.Jaws 3.The Mummy 4.O Brother, Where Art Thou 5.Ghost World 6.TheTenCommandments 7.Gladiator 8.The Straight Story 9.BlueVelvet 10.TheThing 11.MuppetChristmasCarol 12.Monty Python & the Holy Grail 13.Gone w the Wind 14.TheSilence of theLambs 15.TheSubstance

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm not a fan of Gavin Newsom, but I'm a fan of Democrats fighting back aggressively and creatively against fascism instead of playing the same tired game of hoping things just work out. I wish others with a national profile would have the guts to fight back aggressively and creatively, too.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Is there already a cute genre term for witty British literary fiction? If not, can we make it Brit wit lit? #booksky 💙📚

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

May Wrap-Up! Even though I didn't rate all of these 5 stars, my faves this month were Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, Hild, and Slewfoot. Maeve Fly was the most disappointing read of the month (and, so far, of 2025). Also, would not have found The Dance of Rotten Sticks without #booksky ! #booksky💙📚🩸🖋💡🪐

Screenshot of book covers with star ratings from Storygraph. Books and ratings are:
Night by Elie Wiesel 5 stars
Slewfoot by Brom 4.5 stars
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede 2 stars
The Dance of Rotten Sticks by JC Vande Zande 4 stars
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer 5 stars
Knock Knock Open Wide by Neil Sharpson 3.75 stars
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett 4.25 stars
The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase 4.25 stars
Dawn by Elie Wiesel 3.5 stars
The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 4 stars
The Fisherman by John Langan 4.5 stars
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie 4.5 stars
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 4.25 stars
Hild by Nicola Griffith 4.25 stars
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa 4.25 stars

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6... Less than 2 weeks to go and KHJN is less than $6K away from their fundraising goal! Donate if you can! #abortion #abortionishealthcare

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Kentucky Health Justice Network 2025

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here is a thing you can do to support trans people today. Find your reps' info at reps.fyi or 5calls.org.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Medicaid work requirements will cause people to lose their coverage, not because they aren't working/volunteering/going to school, but bc of the admin burden of proving it. This is a feature, not a bug.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Asking my bf if he's ready to start building our empire together by which I mean investing in Chi-Chi's with me.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I've fallen off doing weekly #nonfiction recs due to, idk, depression? While I gather the spoons to resume, let me update this one w The Island of the Lost by Joan Druett. Fascinating read on 2 groups of shipwreck survivors. Impressive ingenuity w some interesting group contrasts. #booksky💙📚💡

Cover of the book Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World, by Joan Druett, author of In the Wake of Madness. Per the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blurb on the cover, "An amazing saga...rarely are the two opposing sides of human nature captured in such stark and illuminating relief." The cover image is of a sailing vessel being tossed on rough seas. The cover has been set against a background image of sea lions on a beach.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

What are your sick day comfort binge watches? Mine are LOTR and nature docs narrated by Sir David Attenborough, but I'm gearing up for what looks to be a whole sick, isolated weekend, so give me your recommendations please. #filmsky

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It's Letterboxd Friday time! #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky I was sick this week so I binged LOTR. I was not quite sick enough to pull out the big guns (the Extended Editions).

Covers of all three Lord of the Rings movies, all with 5 star ratings, and cover of the movie In the Mouth of Madness with a 4 star rating

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This was worth the read. Somewhat reminiscent of early King (particularly the loving, flawed, alcoholic father), but shorter. The tension between Isaac and his MIL is well done. Quick read but a slow burn til the end when things escalate dramatically. 4/5 stars. Full review is linked. #booksky📚💙🩸

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Songs for April's reads, based on...you know the drill. #booksky 💙📚 #musicsky Link to the full playlist so far: open.spotify.com/playlist/5C0...

List of books paired with songs
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Greene - Lungs by S.G. Goodman

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer - All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix

Come Closer by Sara Gran - Legs by PJ Harvey

A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House - High on a Mountain by Ola Belle Reed

Ghost Story by Peter Straub - Heebie Jeebies by Three Keys

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White - Keepers Creepers by Frank Sinatra

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman - Mother Knows Best by Donna Murphy

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent - Prelude and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Vikingur Olaffson

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister - The Bog Body by Viagra Boys

The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns - Bird Set Free by Sia

Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones - Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Apparitions: II. Alleluja-O Virga Matrix, by Hildegarde von Bingen, Oxford Cammerata, Jeremy Summerly

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken - Crow Song by Haley Heynderickx, Max Garcia Conover

Briardark by S.A. Harian - A Forest by the Cure

Autism is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare - Roots by Grumpster

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - I Am Woman by Helen Reddy

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

April Wrap-Up! #booksky 💙📚🩸💡🪐🖋

Screenshot of book covers of books read in April 2025. Book covers also have star ratings. The books are:
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Greene, 5 stars
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer 3.5 stars
Come Closer by Sara Gran, 3.25 stars
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House 5 stars
Ghost Story by Peter Straub 3.5 stars
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 4 stars
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman 2 stars
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent 3.75 stars
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister 3.5 stars
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns 4.75 stars
Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones 4 stars
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken 5 stars
Briardark by S.A. Harian 3.5 stars
Autism is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare 4 stars
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3.75 stars

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you've ever given birth, think about going through *all of that* from conception through age 5 knowing that the chance of any baby making it to kindergarten was basically a coin flip.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A bra isn't just a garment you sew, it's an entire structural engineering project.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Chuck why are you such a little bitch?

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Currently reading Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915) and have just read that in Herland the women "had pockets in surprising number and variety." Because of COURSE and all-female society would place a huge emphasis on clothing with functional pockets. #booksky💙📚

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three women are standing in front of a box that says a3 on it

Alt: three women are standing in front of a rack of clothing and looking at a dress one woman says it has pockets and another woman claps her hands, points, and exclaims pockets!

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

A pen and ink drawing of a girl saying Two hours til I can safely dissociate

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

There was this Seinfeld-themed sandwich shop in Louisville called Joe Davola's. Every sandwich I ever had there was fantastic but my favorite was the Psycho Savory Roast Beef, which had horseradish mayo, caramelized onions, tomato, lettuce, and provolone on wheat berry bread. I think of it often.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Aside from the fact that anyone could get sick at any time, healthy people actually DO consume healthcare resources IN THE FORM OF PREVENTIVE CARE which includes VACCINES

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Please fuck all the way off.

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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Songs for March's reads, based on subject, vibes, in-story mention, author-included playlist, or soundtrack from a movie adaptation. #booksky 💙📚 #musicsky Link to full playlist so far: open.spotify.com/playlist/5C0...

List of books paired with songs. Each pair has the book and author listed first then the song and artist.

The list is:

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Love Song for a Vampire by Annie Lennox
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen - Little Girl Blue by Janis Joplin
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo - Paloma Negra by Chavela Vargas
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner - Season of the Witch by Lana del Rey
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward - In the Woods Somewhere
How to Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman - Greensleeves by Henry VIII, The King's Singers
The Ruins by Scott Smith - Mean Green Mother from Outer Space by Levi Stubbs and the Little Shop of Horrors Chorus
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay - all the good girls go to hell by Billie Eilish
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende - Swamps of Sadness by Giorgio Moroder
The Elementals by Michael McDowell - Home by the Sea by Genesis

List of books paired with songs. Each pair has the book and author listed first and the song and artist listed second.

The list is:

Cold Moon Over Babylon by Micael McDowell - Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele - My Oh My by Adia Victoria featuring Stone Jack Jones
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum - I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time by The Andrews Sisters
Love In A Fallen City by Eileen Chang - To Be Such a Man by Li Wei
A Beleagured City and Other Tales of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant - Ghost Towns by Haunted Like Human
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw - Water Witch by The Secret Sisters and Brandi Carlile
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Saga by Michael McDowell - Deep River Woman by Lionel Ritchie

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

March Wrap-Up! #booksky 💙📚💡🩸🖋🪐

Screenshot from Storygraph showing book covers for books read by the poster in March with star ratings. The books and ratings are:
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 4 stars
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, 4.25 stars
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, 4.5 stars
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 5 stars
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, 4.25 stars
How to Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman, 5 stars
The Ruins by Scott Smith, 4 stars
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, 3.25 stars
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 4 stars
The Elementals by Michael McDowell, 5 stars
Cold Moon Over Babylon by Micael McDowell, 3.5 stars
Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele, 4 stars
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, 3.75 stars
Love In A Fallen City by Eileen Chang, 3.75 stars
A Beleagured City and Other Tales of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant, 3.25 stars
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, 3.5 stars
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Saga by Michael McDowell, 4.5 stars

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6... No foolin', the NNAF will match your donations today 4x up to the next $2K. Donate today at the link and help support abortion access and gender-affirming care for Kentuckians. #abortion #transgender #nonbinary #genderaffirming #abortionishealthcare #mutualaid

We ain't foolin around, 4 times your donations today

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#TheWriteWomen challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you've read. It has to be a book you've enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky 💙📚 💡 #books #womenshistorymonth

Cover of book Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Cover of the book She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh, with a black and white image of Dolly Parton playing the banjo and singing into a microphone on the cover

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One of my holds came through on Libby today and it's 900 pages long. This may take longer than my average 2 days. 💙📚 #booksky

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not only is this true, I think people can learn here from how Josh starts by rejecting the premise. Not just "kidnapping is still wrong." It's "kidnapping is wrong and your excuse for it is BS." We need to do BOTH. You cannot fall into their debate traps.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

They lied to you knowing a reporter had the full text chain. They lied even though they knew you'd find out. They even lied to Congress. That's because their only plan is lying.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Cover of Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang translated by Karen S. Kingsbury.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Cover of the book All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes by Sue Black.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Book cover of A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Call me when you get a chance." - text message from my mother

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The lesson, @chuckschumer.com, is when you can’t beat the majority and all you’re able to do is make the gesture YOU STILL MAKE THE GESTURE.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

1/It's time for this week's #nonfiction recs. Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel with #7: Creature Feature Part 2. Rats by Robert Sullivan The Mosquito by Timothy C. Winegard Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey #booksky 💙📚💡

Book cover of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan. Cover image is of a map with a city street plan laid out in the shape of a rat

Book cover of The Mosquito A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C Winegard. The cover image is of a mosquito.

Book cover of Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey. The cover image is of two horseshoe crabs seen from below so their legs are visible and two velvet worms seen from the side facing each other, with some decorative scrollwork.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6... Where do your donations to KHJN go? A $25 or $50 donation can cover a range of gender-affirming care options. Click the link above to donate. All donations go to KHJN and are matched by NNAF up to $50K. KHJN provides direct support for #abortion and #transhealthcare

Impact of your donations. Twenty five dollars covers a gaff, tucking underwear, or packer. Fifty dollars covers stp, breast form, or binder. Logos of the National Abortion Access Fund A Thon and Kentucky Health Justice Network.

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Holly @holly-pop.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Cover of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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