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Lily M. Frenette

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Writer and wanderer; Founder of Alba Writing Club lilymfrenette.wordpress.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.
A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The Free Library of Philadelphia said it had its biggest summer in years after a huge participation boost in its reading program and other engagement activities." Philly needs to adequately fund its libraries and pay library workers much better. www.phillyvoice.com/free-library...
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Why the Free Library says it just had its busiest summer in a decade
New weekend hours and special programming helped attendance for lectures, clubs and activities jump 57% in a year, officials say.
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mural Arts is helping you use SEPTA to ride to 35 Philly parks. Its new card deck can show you how to enjoy these spaces. billypenn.com/2026/09/04/p...
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Mural Arts map shows how to get to Philly parks using SEPTA
‘Getting to Green: Routes to Roots’ has updated its map and made a new card deck to guide SEPTA riders to 35 Philly parks.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History
Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. In reality, it didn’t go far enough, and the backlash to it has been brutal.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The way indie music is seen as 'cool' and indie films are seen as 'embracing the craft without selling out' while indie books are seen as 'didn't get trad published' gives me feelings. Really crunchy feelings. The snobbery makes zero sense and instantly tells me someone isn't worth listening to.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.
Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.
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Mamdani Opens Office of Worker Power - The American Prospect
The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1987. Bowie was a voracious reader all his life, & travelled with a 'capsule library' including old favourites & new books. Marilyn Monroe had done similar
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy #LaborDay. Thank the workers who came before you and give the oligarchs hell.
A group of female labor activists protesting in Chicago in 1975.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 06/09/2026
I am the target for this.
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Philadelphia Gay News @phillygaynews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The community has rallied around local drag performer and designer Chantal Waldorf, an immigrant from Nicaragua also known as Manuel, after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). epgn.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Philadelphians rally around local drag performer detained by ICE - Philadelphia Gay News
The community has rallied around Chantal Waldorf after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”
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NPR @npr.org · 20/08/2026
Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Abdul-Mateen found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects. n.pr/4zoKPFH
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has a theory about Marvel's 'Wonder Man' cancellation
Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Abdul-Mateen found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I just heard about this from my agents, as translations of my books were among those destroyed. I'm relieved that apparently no one was hurt, but this is awful. Donation details to support publishers here: fond.ranok.com.ua/yak-nam-dopo... according to this article: english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...
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Як нам допомогти – Благодійний фонд
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Persephiroth @persephiroth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Help us climb. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tow...
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tell Your Legislators: If Transit Stops, We All Stop. www.congressweb.com/ppta/2?frame...
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Tell Your Legislators: If Transit Stops, We All Stop.
Tell your lawmakers: PA can’t afford to stall out. If we want to grow, compete, and deliver for our communities – transit has to stay on track. Add Your Voice Transit keeps Pennsylvania mo...
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the Hyperscale AI Data Centres . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Stop the Hyperscale AI Data Centres
Sign our petition to call on the Scottish Government to put a moratorium on hyperscale AI data centres Hyperscale AI Data centres use huge amounts of energy and land, require backup generators that u...
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a psychic medium is conducting a seance at a table with a small group of people. With his head lowered, the medium says, “we will now attempt to contact the spirit realm.” Panel 2: a wraith-like ghost is sitting on the toilet in a well-lit bathroom, idly scrolling on its phone. The phone is ringing. Panel 3: displayed on the phone screen is an incoming call 
 from “Creepy Psychic Guy”, whose default contact photo is one of those fuckin bitmoji emoji faces - i can’t stand those things. Anyway the ghost declines the call.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. 

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Only fellow Olds may recognize this epic souvenir I got at the New York Public Library…
A set of pins, one featuring an old fashioned date stamp and the other featuring an old fashioned card that used to be in library books to tell you when they were due. #librarysky
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WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two Philadelphia music lovers and concert goers have teamed up to create a venue accessibility guide. xpn.org/new-venue-ac...
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New venue accessibility guide helps music fans better enjoy live performances - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart
Music is the universal language, and that means people from all walks of life should be able to enjoy concerts. To ensure fans who may require certain accessibility accommodations can best enjoy live ...
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Forests are not the backdrop to our lives—they are part of the living systems that make life possible.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/08/2026
This could be YOU. You could come see a Tiny Desk Concert in person! Enter the giveaway for free, and pick up some merch or make a donation for even more chances to win 👉 n.pr/4nu9Ppg All donations go to support the NPR Network and make a difference for local stations across the country.
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Finally in my apartment and some stuff is unpacked. I have a bed! So I’m going to mark this day a success.
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 05/08/2026
Finally
Screenshot of Kermit the Frog in a tuxedo, from a Muppets Christmas special
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is it even writing science fiction if you're not teaching Word to stop putting red squiggles under an entire world's worth of new vocabulary?
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Holly Casio @hollycasio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
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Xander @xanderelliards.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fantastic news out of Harris this morning, where a huge swathe of the isle (as well as numerous others and hundreds of crofts) are set to come under community ownership Story: Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
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Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
A HUGE Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured ...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great work here; ‘many designated long-distance walking trails are named after rivers they cannot follow’ including the Test Way that begins where I live, ‘a 44-mile (71km) walk named after the chalk stream [that] does not follow the river itself.’
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 02/08/2026
A new collection of poems sheds light on women’s poetic voices across Wales, Ireland and Scotland between 1400 to 1800
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New anthology shines light on centuries of Celtic women's poetry
A new collection of poems sheds light on women’s poetic voices across Wales, Ireland and Scotland between 1400 to 1800. The new anthology is a collaboration between academics at Aberystwyth, Connectic...
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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!
Ceramic baby bottles in the shape of animals or mythological creatures. Bronze and Iron Age (1200–800 BCE). Found in Vösendorf (Austria).
Wien Museum. Vienna.
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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 01/08/2026
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 01/08/2026
Another fantastic benefit shirt for the Prairieland defendants! 🤩 black-lodge-press.teemill.com/product/read...
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Read Zines! Destroy Fascism! Prairieland Defendants fundraiser
This is a benefit shirt for the Prairieland Defendants, for more info see https://prairielanddefendants.com/ All profits when made available will be d...
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Nightmare time - can’t actually move in to my new apartment and have to figure out storage for my stuff and a place for the cat and I to stay until I can actually get into my apartment.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You do NOT want to miss the Hugo-award winning @snarkbat.bsky.social teaching Disability Justice lessons that can and should help everyone thrive. Elsa will share strategies for community care, sustainable leadership, living interdependence for real + much more: www.mobilize.us/educateus/ev...
Collective Care Better: Disability Justice Lessons for the World We Need with Elsa Sjunneson August 5, 8pm ET / 5pm PT Learn visionary ways of approaching community, sustainability, and leadership with transformative lessons for everyone. These ideas and strategies help groups create long-term impact.
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Just saw someone driving a Subaru with a bumper sticker that said “not a lesbian” and excuse you, rude.
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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
A gravestone marked as follows with a picture of a semi truck above it and a small black dog to the left of it.

SPEARS
LEONARD

MAY 2, 1943 KAZABAZUA, QUEBEC
MAY 3, 2013 OTTAWA, ONTARIO

BORN ON A MOUNTAIN RAISED IN A CAVE, TRUCKIN' AND F___IN'S ALL HE CRAVED
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Lily M. Frenette @journalingirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/petitions/te...
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Tell Congress: stop the censorship & defend the public servants who protect our 433+ national parks
America 433+  is a national public education campaign and civic call to action responding to the growing attack, erasure, and distortion of our shared American story. Our national parks are more ...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 A couple embrace in a wheat field under a full moon.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Another group that Project NIA seeded and continues to do great work is Liberation Library. They can also use financial support and they always welcome volunteers: www.liberationlib.com
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LIBERATION LIBRARY
a nonprofit organization that sends books to incarcerated youth in Illinois
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Scabbard guard from the St. Ninian’s Isle Treasure - an C8th hoard of Pictish silver which was discovered in 1958 on St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, by a 15 year old volunteer during excavations. Now on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh 📸 My own #FindsFriday
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here are 10 recently released or soon-to-be released YA books from Indigenous authors! You can discover more on the Indigenous Reads Rising website, where we provide online resources for teachers, librarians, and readers to learn more about Indigenous books 📖🧡 📚 indigenousreadsrisin...
Graphic with a photo of thick white clouds against a bright blue sky as the background. At the center is a light blue box with rounded corners containing the title “2026 Indigenous Young Adult Releases”.  Underneath the title text is an illustration of an open book, and inside the open pages is a blue buffalo running through a field of open grass. There is a gold ribbon wrapping around the buffalo that says, “Support Native Creators”. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos for We Need Diverse Books and Indigenous Reads Rising.Graphic with a photo of thick white clouds against a bright blue sky as the background. This slide is titled “What is Indigenous Reads Rising?” followed by this description: “IndigenousReadsRising.com is an online resource where teachers, librarians, and readers can learn about books written by Indigenous authors. Indigenous Reads Rising includes a variety of best practices articles and resources for where to find more books by Native authors and illustrators, as well as extensive book lists organized by age category and topic. We also provide resources for Native writers and illustrators interested in honing their craft and applying for grants and mentorships!” Beneath the body text is a mock-up image of the homepage of Indigenous Reads Rising displayed on a laptop and a smartphone.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 31/07/2026
The Arkbound Foundation are looking for volunteer mentors to join their Writing Within Walls programme, which pairs volunteers with young people & adults in prison who want to develop their creative writing @societyofauthors.bsky.social @writersscotland.bsky.social volunteer.scot/search/a0gQD...
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Creative Writing Youth Mentor – Writing Within Walls with Arkbound Foundation - Volunteer Scotland
ABOUT ARKBOUND Arkbound Foundation is a charity publisher (SC045788) based in Bristol and Glasgow, dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices through literature and creative mentorship. Founded i...
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