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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Realizing interred is not the right word here. Interned? Imprisoned.

Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fun fact about Kemper Freeman: His family wealth comes from his grandfather developing land confiscated from interred Japanese-Americans, a policy he also loudly advocated for as the founder of the Anti-Japanese League of Washington.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer is one of the best books I’ve read in years. I also have a limited tolerance for trauma/pain in fiction, and the book touches on dark topics but is very hopeful.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lots of nice scenes about sharing apples with friends!

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

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On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era

Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Because I spend Too Much time looking at Jet Pens, I can tell you, these are gelly roll shadow pens! They come in gold shadow and silver shadow.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Come to the PNW coast with all the warning signs about sneaker waves and tsunami zones and being crushed by giant logs tossed up on shore by the sneaker waves and tell me space is the bigger threat!

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've been part of periodic "are you more afraid of the sea or of space" discussions, and my position is, however much harder space will kill you, you have to try really hard to get to it. The sea can come FIND YOU, even when you're minding your own business!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is getting beyond my knowledge, but I can tell you the rulemaking attorneys I worked with took addressing comments very seriously. Superficial responses are prob not an easy APA violation, but could still be a basis for slower litigation.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’m not an expert tho, just someone who has been tangentially involved in a rulemaking, and has gotten guidance from APA experts on making comments on proposed rules.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If comments aren’t addressed, that’s a basis for violation of the APA. If an agency says they don’t believe harms warned of in the comments will happen, and then they do happen, that’s potential evidence that the rulemaking was “arbitrary and capricious.”

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Administrative Procedure Act requires public comment on proposed rules, and also requires that all substantive comments be addressed in the final rule, either by modifying the rule to mitigate possible harms, or explain why the agency doesn’t believe harm will result.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

so to be clear, the city didn't "give up." the last time they painted over the mural, sitting city council members alexis mercedes rinck and joy hollingsworth personally helped scrub the paint off, effectively rendering hot rat summer an official city monument.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Number 2 seemed briefly familiar, and then I realized I was misreading Eric as Erin, the name of someone I went to high school with.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 28/05/2026

when i wrote The Death of Mountains, i just wanted to write a book with a talking mountain and a talking death (many). and ask this: "what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" a finalist for: the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the L.A. Times Book Prize

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The Death of Mountains

Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

See you think I’m a monthly supporter of Skype a Scientist for the science communication work but no. I am paying you for the slutty drawings of the creature from the black lagoon.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

this one's going right next to "holy fucking shit, it's a dinosaur" in the old mind palace

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

by the way, do you need national park sled dog puppies on your timeline tonight?

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Even the most rustic homemade whole wheat bread is made with ingredients that have been ground, physically kneaded, chemically altered via leavening, and then baked. Meanwhile potato chips have been: sliced, and cooked.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026

Every time people ask me where I stand on Pluto as a planet, I advocate moving beyond the human desire to categorize and recategorize things and instead appreciate Pluto for the incredible body it is. The idea of Pluto should never be more powerful than Pluto itself!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026

As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/04/2026

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Jello salads can be good, actually

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I will only marry a woman who is: - At least 5'9" - Always dressed in eveningwear - Able to read my mind - Daughter of the Fifth House - Holder of the scared chalice of Rix - Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude is conscious: why do you have a slave

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I went to one (1) Seattle Torrent game in December and now I would die for both Hilary Knight and Hannah Murphy

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That’s the Way That the World Goes Round, with honorable mention to Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Both the Puritans and Huguenots are on my mom’s side ~400 years ago and I only know the prominent stories, I’m sure along the way they married people who came for approximately every other reason a Western European might emigrate.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

- religious nuttery (Puritans, Huguenots) - poverty - poor agricultural management by absentee English landlords

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/01/2026

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I saw The First Thousand Trees face out in the sci-fi section at Elliot Bay Books a few weeks ago, I should have taken a photo!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Abuse of powerpoint comes as no surprise

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

and I thought, I can't believe you're telling on yourself in print like this.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

When I read Lolita, the writing was brilliant but I could only handle being in that monster's head in small doses. My edition had an afterword from some dude like, "Isn't it amazing the way Humbert draws you in and then after you finish, you start to think, was he the bad guy??"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2025

I extremely do not want to live in a Years of Lead country, it’s bad on many levels, murder is wrong. and yet few have done more to make that happen than this guy bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“I’m against a politics of hygiene” I say as I continue to cook in an ancient nonstick pan, teflon visibly crumbling into my food.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 07/08/2025

The thing is, protecting women from imaginary rapists lets you control women. If you were protecting them from real rapists you might also have to alter the behavior of men

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

No, I know this one. you put both of them in the rowboat together and then sink the rowboat halfway across the river.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The vorkosigan saga is good, you should read it!

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

it just, you know, pops in my head now and then, unprompted. no reason.

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Lorelei @ielerol.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Been thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold. "about cynicism...the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace."

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