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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Only drawback of taking the train to the fair -- Amtrak is blowing up my phone telling me how late the return train is running.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Diving into Rakesfell. 👹Confusing in the way many introductions to novel fantasy worlds are (with the hope that things become clear. Or is the book its own Show with reflections of us a shrouded Documentary within...?)

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Getting ready for my BSky Book club July read. Like the other selections, I'm going in to this book without knowing too much about it. 👹 (There is still time to join in!)

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Wind-Up Bird: I am glad the cat 🐾 is back. (And just like Creta, has a new name.) Favorite bit of this segment: "My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm going to read Rakesfall 👹with the Bsky book club 📖next month, and I'm already surprised, because when I read the description "science fiction epic", I was expecting a 600 page book, and didn't realize until looking at the planned schedule that this is a short novel. (Ebooks disguise length!)

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Continued odd parallels in _Wind up Bird Chronicle_ 🐾 and _Japanese Gothic_. Narrator in both books sit at the bottom of holes (a well, a six-foot hole dug looking for an old grave site), contemplating life. Food, too, is prominent, but I'm not sure if that's just _Bird_ priming me to notice it.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Wind-Up-Bird Chronicle 🐾, part 2, chapter 12: "I couldn't think anymore. I felt no urge to do anything." I dunno, Toru, tell me something I didn't already know. 1/

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I almost wish that today's reading of Wind Up Bird Chronicles 🐾 stopped at the end of Part 2, Chapter 9, because closing the cover of the well reminds me of closing the book. In any case, I am stopping here for a bit, leaving Toru in darkness between the covers. PS Still no sign of the cat.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

_Japanese Gothic_ is an interesting book to read alongside _Wind Up Bird Chronicle_. 🐾 I have encountered wells, strange dreams, and internally weird spaces in both.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#WellWellWell "I felt [...] that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal.". Help, he's on to us! 🐾

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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The great thing about book club is being assigned homework I want to do. 🤓

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#WellWellWell In today's reading from The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, we come across an actual (dried-out, boarded up) well. And perhaps Malta's mysterious (well)spring was a second. Does the hashtag mean I should be looking for a third? Still no sign of the cat. 🐾

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#WellWellWell 🐾 Chapter three, and we finally get our protagonist's name and description. I often notice the self-description moment, and keeping Toru an visual enigma until chapter 3 is an interesting choice.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

#WrllWellWell 🐾 Reading _The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle_. I am unsure of the unnamed protagonist. I'm finding that I like him less because of his offhand remark about Kumiko's cycle, and what seems to be an incuriosity about what's around him. 🧵

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I didn't read Moby Dick 🐳 with the BSBookclub 📖, but I had to share this cute children's book:

Book cover: _Call Me Moby_ by Lars Kenseth. An illustrated cheerful white whale does a backflip over a three-masted sailing ship.

Illustrations. Left page, a drawing of an angry man with a peg leg. "Angriest of all was this one guy named Ahab." Right page, Ahab yells at the whale's eye, which is very close. "Had we met before? Could I have done something to offend him?"

An illustration of the whale laughing, as he is tickled by Ahab's harpoons.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I didn't read Moby Dick 🐳 with the BSBookclub 📖, but I had to share this cute children's book:

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

After reading Catch-22 🪖during April, _Persuasion_ 🛁will certainly be a change of pace for the BSky book club. (I've never read this one either.)

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My favorite bit of today's selection from #catch22 is Clevinger saying that they aren't trying to kill Yossarian, they're trying to kill everyone. (It's amusing in context.)

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Listening to the backlog of the @friends-table.bsky.social podcast, and once again, @notquitereal.bsky.social 's music takes my focus so I need to rewind and listen to what people are actually saying. Makes me want to take up the clarinet again. Find his Bandcamp if you aren't into AP podcasts.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/09/2025

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Warping for the next project. First time for an indirect warp, but why make it easy? 350 ends, 12', with stripes. #weaving

A warping board with white, blue and green cotton, arranged in stripes.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23/09/2025

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It is once again the season to get angry at people who put DISGUSTING SQUASH into things labeled pumpkin spice. All I want is the warm spices, you morons.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Strap, woven using Baltic Pickup on a rigid heddle, for use as a lanyard. I want to work a bit on selvages and keeping a more consistent width, but it will do well for its purpose once I add the hardware. #weaving #rigidheddle

Handwoven strap in the colors teal, natural and yellow.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Wove myself some bookmarks. #10 and #3 crochet cotton, warp-faced pickup technique. #weaving

A pair of blue and gray woven bookmarks next to a ruler (front view).

A pair of blue and gray woven bookmarks next to a ruler (back view).

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Qualified for this year's sock madness competition, and am eagerly awaiting the round one pattern. #sockknitting #knitting 🧶

A pair of light blue ribbed and cabled socks on sock blockers.

Light blue ribbed and cabled socks nearly complete. They have been knit from the toe of one sock toward the toe of the second, and are attached at the cuff.

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Watching _Conclave_. My face blindness is worse than I thought, because the combination of a cast of balding white men with aquiline noses and identical costuming for all is going to be challenging...

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Keen Teal-sky Moniker @kayteeem.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Finished knitting a pair of "warmup" socks for this year's Sock Madness. Let the competition begin! 🧶 #sockknitting #knitting

A pair of gray, blue and yellow striped socks, with spots of red. They have some texture, but the details are obscured by the colors of the yarn.

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Lo T @rhymexreason.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A reminder to always bring your knitting, if not just to keep your hands and mind busy, but also give others an out from the party and "curate the vibe."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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