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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am back in my beloved Philadelphia once again, at the Met to see Tori Amos, using a ticket I bought on a whim on Wednesday. I love the freedom of spontaneity!

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Guess you got tix to see Much Ado on Broadway in November? Yeah, pretty happy girl over here!!!!

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🏒 Boys, I have a boob-squishing appointment before work even starts tomorrow. I need y’all to figure out how to get the puck in Carolina’s net so my blood pressure isn’t sky-high when I attempt to go to sleep tonight. (Kudos to TK for his recent efforts!) 🧡🖤

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/05/2026

FWIW: ‘parsec’ is a measure of distance, not time, but that doesn’t make the Millennium Falcon’s Kessel Run any less impressive.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Slightly less than 9 years ago, after buying my Wee Ruadh and discovering it did not have a cd player, I started listening to *all* the music I own on my iPod in alphabetical order. Today, on the way to work, ‘ZZ Top Goes to Egypt’ by Camper Van Beethoven came on and the saga is complete.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Let’s play two! @lhvironpigs won game 1 pretty decisively (mirroring the Phils’ score, but in a good way). I’m wearing lots of layers, so it’s kind of perfect out here! ⚾️

The grounds crew at Coca Cola park in Allentown, PA preparing the infield for game two of a doubleheader. The sky is blue with mottled clouds and the sun is shining.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’m at the Phantoms game (of course) and Patrick Sharp 😍 is behind the bench for our O line and I’ve been paying more attention to his slut strand than the hockey. Oops

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Happy Sheelah's Day. This feast, largely no longer celebrated in Ireland, commemorates either St Patrick's wife or mother, who probably didn't exist. So let's celebrate a similarly-named mysterious figure today instead: the sheela na gig!

A stone carving in a church depicting a bald figure who kind of resembles ET with a large, exaggerated vulva. The figure is holding the vulva open with their hands.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Once again, baffled by what on earth goalie interference is, if it wasn’t what I just witnessed. Cue the immediate ‘ref you suck’ chants. And, before I could even finish typing this, another instance of it. 🙄

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day to my Welsh friends, family and of course Mr S himself. Thus beautiful daffodil strewn late #1880s gown is a perfect tribute #AmericanMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The bodice of a pale yellow silk late 1880s dress embroidered either side of the centre with flowers and stem of daffodils

Full length view of the late 1880s pale yellow dress which cuts away to reveal a petticoat beneath. It has embroidered daffodils running the length of the gown and around to the train as well

A detail of one of the embroidered yellow daffodils worked in long and short silk shading stitch for a painterly effect

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Daily bunny no.3236 wishes for spring

Two bunnies throw pennies into a fountain, in the yard of a large estate. However, it is winter and there is snow on the ground. The fountain has frozen solid from the cold, so the pennies just sit on the ice

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Yaaasss - the @nhl-flyers.bsky.social AHL team Lehigh Valley Phantoms playing @wolfparade.bsky.social ‘s ‘I’ll Believe in Anything’ - welcome to the #heatedrivalry fandom, Phantoms! It’s great here 🙂🌈

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Ah yes, the “joy” of clearing your driveway six inches at a time. 🙄

An ice scraper wedged into the inch of mess we got overnight in my 4-car-wide driveway.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/12/2025

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Blessed Solstice, all. Alt text has a poem I share this time of year. TLDR: wherever you look/go today, it’s towards the light.

Upward shot of blue lights at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa 2023

Blessed Solstice, all.

Blessing for the Longest Night

All throughout these months
as the shadows
have lengthened,
this blessing has been
gathering itself,
making ready,
preparing for
this night.

It has practiced
walking in the dark,
traveling with
its eyes closed,
feeling its way
by memory
by touch
by the pull of the moon
even as it wanes.

So believe me
when I tell you
this blessing will
reach you
even if you
have not light enough
to read it;
it will find you
even though you cannot
see it coming.

You will know
the moment of its
arriving
by your release
of the breath
you have held
so long;
a loosening
of the clenching
in your hands,
of the clutch
around your heart;
a thinning
of the darkness
that had drawn itself
around you.

This blessing
does not mean
to take the night away
but it knows
its hidden roads,
knows the resting spots
along the path,
knows what it means
to travel
in the company
of a friend.

So when
this blessing comes,
take its hand.
Get up.
Set out on the road
you cannot see.

This is the night
when you can trust
that any direction
you go,
you will be walking
toward the dawn.

—Jan Richardson
from The Cure for Sorrow

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Guess who finally finished decorating the tree today? 🎄 and of course, I hung the Snowdonia (aka 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Eryri ) ornament from @drakesflakes above the Mari Llywd

A closeup of a handmade clay Mari Lwyd bedecked with ribbons and holly. There is a silver ornament to the upper left made by Drakes Flakes in the Poconos that is called ‘Snowdonia’

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In all seriousness, if you’re not watching this, you should be.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I finally got my hands on one of those whiskey advent calendars. Tonight’s dram is a Chinese one, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I like it. Other things I have discovered: 100 proof is too strong for me and wheat whiskey isn’t my jam.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Back at the boy aquarium! Praying I don’t get LDBed at Melvin’s Christmas party. @littledrummerboychallenge.com

Center ice face off between the Utica Comets and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, with Hunter McDonald 😍 in the foreground.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Bobcat Porcupine Great horned owl Fox kits* Black bear *only if my back garden counts as ‘the wild’ - if not, sub in any raptor from this list: red-tailed hawk, black vulture, Turkey vulture, bald eagle, sea eagle, golden eagle 😉

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It's TRANS AWARENESS WEEK and that means it's a great week to ignore the hysterical nonsense of bigots and understand that Trans people are awesome and deserve respect and love.

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a cartoon drawing of a bear holding a heart

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bear holding a heart

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

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DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments

“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

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The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

A traumatizing home run to left field in Toronto? Join the club

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Spare a thought for your Philadelphia peeps tonight. We lost a singular human today, and I personally lost the radio voice of my childhood. Rock on, good citizen Pierre Robert.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/10/2025

Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Today’s project. So. Many. Leaves. 🍁 🍂

A picture of my back garden, with the lawn area completely covered in silver maple leaves. There are pops of red in the border provided by an oakleaf hydrangea, blueberries, grey dogwood and a pineapple sage (we haven’t had a killing frost yet).

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/10/2025

QUEEN GERTRUDE (places her hand on HALL’s chest) Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me Of your distant City of Brotherly Love, That we may, as they say, get to know The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts. HALL I can’t go for that. OATES No can do.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates

ACT II, SCENE II Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants. KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, gentlemen; our...

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Still not giving Disney my money. Haven’t yet, don’t intend to start.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Algarve is amazing. I may never leave. Loving Portugal 🇵🇹

Sandstone carved out into sinuous curves by the waves on the beach in Salema.

Salema’s beach, looking west. The water is deep turquoise and clear.

Cliff face in Salema. Sandstone for sure. If I were a better geologist, and could identify more.

Intertidal zone on Salema’s beach. Huge rock in the foreground, with clear turquoise water in the middle and far-off cliffs in the western distance.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

When your watch notifications come up with one from Nextdoor (an app I never use) and the headline reads ‘live music and folklife demons’ and you consider checking it for the first time. (Reader: it was demonstrations 🫤)

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

*This* is what I was at the Michener Art museum to see. Had read about it the day prior in an alumni mag, and saw it was the last day for it. It is truly amazing. For more info, check the artist’s website www.judithschaechter.com/super-natural/. #biophilia

The installation graphic of the Super/Natural show. More info at the artist’s site: https://www.judithschaechter.com/super-natural/

The outside of the pod. It’s 8 feet high and 6 feet wide and finished with wooded panels on the bottom, topped with panels full of fantastical plant and animal life and a geodesic dome of blue.

The lower panels are reddish, with skeletons and underground life.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Just said Go Birds to a guy in the EWR TSA line wearing an Eagles t 💚

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Nothing like deciding on a last-minute museum visit whilst you’re in the midst of a packing panic to calm you down 😬 Not what I came here to see, but this fireplace is *amazing*. #michenermuseum #doylestown

8. Fireplace ca. 1956-58
Philip Lloyd Powell (1919-2008)
Walnut
Museum purchase funded by the Mandel Society for Art Acquisition, Beveridge Moore and Henry Morof Trust, and George C. Benson in honor of his friend, John Horton. 2008.6
Philip Lloyd Powell moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, just after World War II and built his home, studio, and shop along Route 202. By 1951, Powell was selling modern furniture by Herman Miller and Knoll, George Jensen products, and Isamu Noguchi lamps, and he began designing his own line of lamps and wood, slate, and metal furniture inspired by George Nakashima and Wharton Esherick.
From 1955 until 1966, Powell shared a showroom in New Hope with artist Paul Evans (1931-1987), where this fireplace was located. Tall and shaped like a tree trunk, Powell's fireplace surround features what is considered the artist's finest and most sophisticated carving technique, where he gouges the wood to exaggerate the grain pattern and the material's irregularities.

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Jo Solliday @jossaladdays.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Guess what’s back??? Well, sorta. Rookie series means Phantoms in Flyers’ unis for the most part, but still good to hear and smell and see this again. #hockey

The “Flyers” and the “Rangers” hockey teams prepare for face off at center ice at the PPL Center in Allentown, PA. Perspective is just to the right of the red line, a couple rows behind the home bench.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/09/2025

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin

Loch Lochy in sunlight with blue skies above

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