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Jennifer Sherman Roberts

@jshermanroberts.bsky.social
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Novelist. PhD in early modern lit. History of science fan. THE VILLAGE HEALER'S BOOK OF CURES (Lake Union 10/23). Oregonian. Rep'd by Jen Newens/Martin Literary Management

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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Bruh
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Helen Shin @h-x-s.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Tapping the 1970s IBM training manual’s warning again:
Page from a late 1970s IBM training manual that says: 
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dutch Bros barista in Oregon: Hey girlfriend! How ya doing? What are your big plans for this beee-you-ti-fulllll day? Me: black coffee, please. **** Any barista in the UK: hiya, what can I get you Me: OMG, are you mad at me
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚
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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?
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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"All In Together" by Galway poet, Patricia Forde
We were not anchored to the ground once the shops had shut and the traffic slowed the streets were our playground then cowgirls galloped through bowling Green marbles rolled in the claddagh the neighbor's boys built their carts to clatter down hidden valley the winning goal for Galway was struck at the top of O'Gorman's lane while we turned ropes on market Street and our feet beat time to the rain
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m on p10 and love it already #historyteacher ‘Local history is the foundation of national and global history. When we can recover a story from the past that’s linked to places we know, it’s likely we’ll feel that history personally.’ Quite SHP/HAU, no?
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Can't say it any better than this
Meme reading "Just vaccinate the damn kids, give them free lunch, and let them read books, for ducks sake"
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the only eclipse post you need
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I feel like at this point you could just sub in "Lex Luthor" in any headline with Elonusk
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Elon Musk reveals SpaceX plans to build satellite factories on the moon
Musk outlined his vision to investors after SpaceX posted a $542-million loss from its space launch sector in its first quarter as a public company
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"a country that worries abt declining birthrates cannot dismiss the material conditions under which women are expected to give birth, recover, earn money & raise children...Before asking why women are...not [having] children, America should ask whether it has done enough to deserve their motherhood"
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every American should read this article
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The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026
Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My husband usually gets up before me and hangs out with Caribou, the dog we've been fostering. Yesterday, the dog slept in with me, and I found this note with some cornflakes. Apparently, my husband "accidentally" spills cereal every morning, and he didn't want her to miss her a.m. treat #keeper
A note that reads "4 the Dog" with some cereal
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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Public Service Announcement: Google "Jimothy" and he'll run across your screen 🦝 🦝 🦝 H/t @jshermanroberts.bsky.social
Screenshot picture of Jimothy, small raccoon from Seattle with spine deformity, running through a field
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Now that Lindsey Graham is dead . . . South Carolinian Stephen Colbert has the potential to do the funniest thing
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/07/2026
People of Clacton: you could be legends.
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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ken Paxton is a snake, And feet love Chacos Please fill my plate with
Black vinyl sign which says talarico's tacos r*dical Texas dot com
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/06/2026
pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph
But the tender sheen over the event quickly dissipated last month when a hodgepodge of musicians booked for live performances backed out at the last minute, saying they were not informed that the Freedom 250 festivities would have a political tilt. Several states also announced they would not participate. In the eleventh hour, the president declared he would headline the fair himself: He was introduced at a rally Wednesday night by transportation secretary Sean Duffy, who started by eschewing the "libtards that canceled on us." When Trump finally took the stage, he lauded America as the "hottest" nation in the world. "Nobody's laughing at us anymore," said the man filling in for Milli Vanilli.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is bombshell stuff.
Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This little metaphor greeted me this morning!
Sunflower blooming through rocky soil
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
World's Biggest Stitch-n-Bitch Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, sewers welcome.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Becoming exponentially more religious the more it becomes clear that god will no longer let this man throw a party.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A moment of silence for the MAGAts who were feverishly hoping for violence in NYC last night, and were instead forced to witness hours of unhinged delight, camaraderie, and effervescent weirdness of the sort they are much too squarebrained to ever conjure and much too pissbaby to ever be included in
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Tomorrow is another day” used to be something people said to encourage each other but now it just kinda feels like a threat.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/06/2026
Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Writers have a great sense of humor
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 02/06/2026
We're thrilled to see Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway and her beautiful "The Birds of Shakespeare" project featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! Dunaway's work depicts all 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare and was on view at the Folger this winter. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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Shakespeare Referenced Dozens of Bird Species in His Work. This Artist Has Made It Her Mission to Paint Them All
Missy Dunaway’s colorful illustrations combine natural history, folklore and literature to depict the Bard’s birds
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is something that someone who doesn’t want to pay his fair share in taxes would say. Tax the rich.
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Brilliant www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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'World’s smallest public statue' proposed for Cork mosquito linked to death of Oliver Cromwell
Green Party councillor Oliver Moran says the unusual proposal could become a quirky tourist attraction for Cork city
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Signs and portents? I've had this Easter cactus for 21 years, and this is the first time it's bloomed. Is . . . is IT about to happen?
Easter cactus with one pink bloom
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"Paradise Temporarily Misplaced"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
He’s running
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